Tasscrapper
I belive in dragons, unicorns, good men and other
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Dh and I are going to Orlando mid August for our 25th anniversary we will effectively be there for 9 and 1/2 days. Flights and hotel are booked and there is no turning back. However, I am seriously worried about the heat. We live in Utah and are used to a dry heat in the summer, not the humidity. To give a bit of background . . . we have been going to Disneyland for about 10 years now and love it. We've been there during heat waves and dealt with the heat ok with various techniques but again it doesn't have WDW's humidity.
This will be our first trip to WDW and I was originally planning on getting 6 day base tickets. We would do each park once and then pick the two parks we enjoyed the most for our repeat days. It would be 2 days spent at the parks, 3 days with my sister and her DH (including an airboat ride, woot woot) and then 4 days at the parks with a half day free on the day we fly out.
Now I'm wondering if that is just way to much and we'll be miserable. So, is it crazy to cut it back to 3 days and just skip one of the parks? I think the park we would cut out would be Animal Kingdom. I know it has FOP and it is supposed to be the most amazing ride ever ect. but besides that there isn't much we want to do there. We would probably see festival of the Lion King, go on Kilamanjaro Safari, and EE although hubby doesn't really like coasters so he probably wouldn't even go on that. There is also the fact that AK is supposed to be hotter than the other parks and really spread out. We are staying off property so can only book fp's 30 days out so we might not be able to get a FOP fp anyhow and I am standing even an hour in any line in the Florida sun and humidity.
I'm not sure what we would do on the other days but the trip report I've been reading just sounds like it is going to be to much to go to the parks all those days in the heat. We want to enjoy it and not be exhausted the whole time.
Are evenings any better than the daytime with the heat? I don't know that we would get much sun relief because of the time of year. Sunset is probably way late in the evening anyhow. Does it help to go swimming?
This will be our first trip to WDW and I was originally planning on getting 6 day base tickets. We would do each park once and then pick the two parks we enjoyed the most for our repeat days. It would be 2 days spent at the parks, 3 days with my sister and her DH (including an airboat ride, woot woot) and then 4 days at the parks with a half day free on the day we fly out.
Now I'm wondering if that is just way to much and we'll be miserable. So, is it crazy to cut it back to 3 days and just skip one of the parks? I think the park we would cut out would be Animal Kingdom. I know it has FOP and it is supposed to be the most amazing ride ever ect. but besides that there isn't much we want to do there. We would probably see festival of the Lion King, go on Kilamanjaro Safari, and EE although hubby doesn't really like coasters so he probably wouldn't even go on that. There is also the fact that AK is supposed to be hotter than the other parks and really spread out. We are staying off property so can only book fp's 30 days out so we might not be able to get a FOP fp anyhow and I am standing even an hour in any line in the Florida sun and humidity.
I'm not sure what we would do on the other days but the trip report I've been reading just sounds like it is going to be to much to go to the parks all those days in the heat. We want to enjoy it and not be exhausted the whole time.
Are evenings any better than the daytime with the heat? I don't know that we would get much sun relief because of the time of year. Sunset is probably way late in the evening anyhow. Does it help to go swimming?