Flagger said:
Tell me what you think of this plan:
We arrive on Friday so our first plan is to go in at 9AM (lining up early) and going straight back to TT because it is important to me to get that picture with "the" Mickey Mouse in his house. I will head to BLAB to get FPs for us and meet up with Ms. and DD. Depending on how much she wants to do in TT, we head our way back to BLAB and if the time has allowed, I will go off for the next FP I can get on a ride DD can go on. We work our way around the park until about lunchtime where we go out of the park for lunch/nap.
Head back in the late afternoon for Parade and then more attractions and then parking at the HUB 90 minutes before fireworks. If we have time for other attractions we do them after fireworks or back to hotel to plan for getting up early.
Hit the parks Saturday at 6:30 for 7AM EE. And if we have not done the FL rides do them in the order you put in another thread. We then either head to CA at 10AM or just hang out in DL until our GK character breakfast at 11AM on Saturday. From there we go to CA. We will be sure to do the Block Party at CA.
With a two year old, are there any CA must do's that I would need a FP for? I could use either Friday or Saturday for that. Otherwise we do CA in the morning on Sunday before we have to head back home around noon Sunday.
The Red Hat Society is there this weekend, so that will be fun for us.
1. It is my understanding that TT opens
one hour after regular park opening, or 10AM on a 9AM day. I always go when DL opens at 8AM, and TT always opens at 9AM on those days. I am pretty sure that goes for 9AM DL opening days as well. If you are planning to do FL during EE on Sat, then on Friday morning I would focus on things such as picking up FPs, and rides such as Jungle Cruise, Star Tours (which has a height limit), Astro Orbiter, StoryBook Land Canal Boats and Casey Jr. Circus Train (these last two are not open during EE). In case you did not know, DL and DCA accept FPs anytime during the one-hour window or afterwards on that day. Don't rush back to the FP ride during the one-hour window. I especially would not do that during the morning when the other lines are short. I would save my FP's until sometime after 11AM or Noon.
Can anyone else confirm that TT always opens one hour after regular DL opening no matter what the opening time?
2. For the fireworks, 90 minutes early should be fine, but that depends on where you want to locate. If the hub were a clock and the castle was at 12:00, we located at 8:00 on a Tuesday night in August one hour before the fireworks, and the view was excellent. Make sure you can see the castle.
3. I do not know what FPs you would need in DCA with a two-year-old. Most or all of the FP rides would have a height limit thus disallowing a two-year-old.
I would not try to go to DCA at 10AM if you have a breakfast at 11AM. I would go after the breakfast. My kids are older and I know what the good rides are for 9-14 year olds. For two-year-olds, that typically means Bugs Land. We have never gone to Bugs Land at DCA. We might on our day trip in November.
