Downtown Disney and Typhoon Lagoon in One Day?

[ParrotBill]

If Disneyquest is your main plan for DTD then mid day is fine. Go to TL at opening, get on some slides while lines are still short. Stay there about 3 hours, then leave for DTD and have lunch. Then DQ for a few hours then to Ohana for dinner. We do TL and DTD in that order all the time. I do not know what direction the bus at TL is going when you want to leave TL - toward resorts or toward DTD? If it's toward resorts go to SS and walk over. If toward DTD you are all set.

 

[kmdrago1783]

DTD at the hot part of the day sounds like a miss to me. If you already have a busy dinner planned, I'd make a fun water park day out of it, sit in the lazy river until the afternoon, and then clean up and go to dinner. An early water park day, as exhausting as that is, and then walking around DTD (I'm not sure exactly what for if no dining or nighttime entertainment plans?) Sounds like you would be wiped out all night for your big Poly dinner. Id skip DTD and either spend part of the day at TL or a park and have a great Poly night! By the time you park your car and walk down the block, you will have to come back... Unless you have something really specific in mind, like a movie DTD or a specific store or BBB, I wouldn't bother with DTD at 2pm in the afternoon.... Just my thoughts...

The Main thing that we want to see at DTD is Disney Quest. We will be using Disney transportation...

 

[TwinPrincessMermaids]

Hmm...... I actually think you will be done with DQ pretty quick then. Assuming the lines aren't horrendous and at least you will be inside. I think that's doable. How ever, I haven't done TL (would love to!) But I have done DQ. If you get to TL and find that you are loving it and find it hard to leave, I guarantee we didn't feel that way at DQ. We bailed before we got to the highest level. We had to get out of there...It'd be very hard for me to leave a great wave pool and lazy river for a claustrophobic glorified arcade... (With a few neat things but many very outdated...and the lines were sooooo long...) We went to Raglan Road instead! (Which was great.)

 

[kollerbear]

Thanks for the tips! Which inner tube slides are you talking about?

I think the best for that age are Gangplank Falls, Keelhaul Falls, and Mayday Falls, in order of intensity. They are inner tube rides and are located together (I think to the left as you enter.) The Storm Slides are body slides that are also fun, but a little more intense (and let out, I believe, in a deep pool). If you or DH wants to try the Humunga Cowabunga, try it right at park opening, it's usually walk on the first fifteen minutes of the park day or so. The inner tube rides will pick up, but should be low wait for many rides if you hit that up next.

 

[kollerbear]

Crush n Gusher is also fun, but a little hike from everything else. Probably fun for you and DH, but requires a little more time investment than Humunga Cowabunga. Also, I'm not sure about height restrictions for these so obviously double check!

 

[kollerbear]

I'm sorry, out of curiosity I looked and the height restrictions for all of these is 48 inches! I wonder if they changed because I think my sister was shorter than that when we rode these as kids. Your 5 yo should still love Ketchikiddee Creek and the lazy river and the wave pool! They are so beautifully themed and a lot of fun!

 

[kollerbear]

Sorry, last post! Gangplank Falls, the family raft ride, is open to everyone! It's not as good as Teamboat Springs, but definitely worth it!

 

[nherbert]

Last time we went we had a DS 5, we did TL first thing, the park is virtually empty so no queues, lots of walking uphill, we were done in two hours and had done our favorite things many many times and even had tons of play time in the big open water areas. We would be heading for DTD around 12:30.
They do allow strollers into TL. They do NOT allow strollers inside DQ. There are a lot of stairs but some slow elevators.
When we were last there they had lockers down near the dock in marketplace where the boats from POR land. But this is as far away from DQ that you can get. There might be lockers at the other end I just don't know.
You can actually get food inside DQ or grab a quick service meal outside. Wolfgang Puck is nearby.
Inside DQ there is one floor with lots of games that your DS will love and there are some interactive type rides on other floors he might like but they will be hard with baby. There are many floors your DH would enjoy. I always hang out with DS the kiddy game floor and let DH explore (this floor is also the one with the food). The hardest thing you will find with DQ is there is limited seating on each floor and holding the baby the entire time might be tiring after waterpark.
We did what you are proposing to do many times, water park morning, DTD afternoon back at resort around 4pm.
Have fun,

 

[Jadyreen1282]

Nope. Not enough time. Do Waterpark till 3. Eat. Go to DTD at night till closing.