Help me tinker with our itinerary

[WaterLinds]

Two weeks until we land at MCO! There's been a lot of last minute planning and therefore a lot of rearranging for this trip. Can you guys help me optimize things?

Our group is two exhausted parents, two young children (one too short for any height limited rides, one big enough and game for MOST of them), and two active seniors. The grandparents have three day tickets, our immediate family will stay for a 4th day (but are driving to the gulf coast after, so a shortened day). All of us have park hoppers, and we will have cars. Kids are typically early to sleep and early to rise, so that impacts our scheduling.

The four of us will be back next year, probably, so if we don't get to do everything that's ok, and the grandparents seem to be happy doing whatever we get to. I'd like to not have it be a crazy time trying to fit too much in, and if it happens to be warm (our threshold is low) I'd like to fit in some pool time. That being said, priorities that have been named by people so far include:
MK: all the mountains, 7DMT, pirates. Youngest kid would enjoy most of fantasyland, Buzz, etc. HEA. Pirates adventure scavenger hunt.
Ep: Soarin, MS, FEA. The seas. Living with the Land. Interactive exhibits, fountains, etc. Always a hit. Garden grill. Eating at world showcase (maybe extra with festival of the arts). Agent P's scavenger hunt.
AK: FOP, exploring Pandora, anythingwith animals (KS for sure). Probably EE. ROL. Kids would likely enjoy boneyard, etc.
HS: probably only bigger kid and a handful of the adults will go for 2ish hours. Interested in RNRC, TSMM, and Indy stunt show.

This is what we have planned now, but I feel like we could arrange it better (and I definitely have some ADRs I need to drop once I've optimized things!)...give me some feedback?
Saturday--arrive at MCO midday, check in at POFQ, dinner at Boma

Sunday--possibly RD at Epcot for Soarin', a few other rides, 10 am breakfast at GG, Living with the land, the seas, etc. Hoping to modify our 7 pm FEA for early afternoon, then take a break at the hotel.
Currently we have ADRs at Spice Road because the initial plan was to return to Epcot in the evening. Now considering hopping to MK for fireworks because it's now the latest closure of our trip and we thought that might make it easier to get out relatively soon after?

Monday--I had planned to take advantage of morning EMH at AK, have part of the group hop to HS, and do dinner at DS (ADR at Morimoto)

But then we scored evening FOP FP. I'm thinking I will try to modify for earlier, but maybe now I should try to shift our schedule to have a lazy morning and just head to AK later in the day? Currently have morning FP for KS and EE, could certainly shift those. We also have a 10:40 Tusker house ADR with seating for the 7:15 ROL--I could try to switch to a lunch adr instead if we go late, or drop it completely--I understand we should be able to get ok seats standby or maybe grab a same day FP. Will likely be done immediately after ROL so no hopping in line for a late ride for us.

Tuesday--we have tickets to EMM at MK, so figuring we can get a lot of the headliners done early and go take a nap/pool break midday. Could either return to MK if we haven't watched HEA another day (maybe dinner at skipper canteen?) or head to Epcot for more eating around the world, which would be the adults' preference I think. If we haven't fit HS in yet we could also have part of the group hop over there before dinner.

Wednesday--was thinking a return day to MK to hit anything we missed the day before or any kid favourites, wrapping up midday to head to Sarasota. I have PPO ADRs at BOG but given we'll be there early the day before we might not need those.

Advice? Which day would be best to squish in that brief HS outing if we try to fit it in? I'm struggling especially with planning evenings because I'm not sure how late any of us can be up, especially the youngest. If he somehow misses a nap he needs to be in bed by about 6 pm, and while I'm ok with later bedtimes and some disruption on vacation I like to make sure no one gets too tired and miserable. We might end up splitting up some evenings if he needs to crash but others are up for shows.

And thanks for listening, I know I ramble!

 

[sharonabe]

But then we scored evening FOP FP. I'm thinking I will try to modify for earlier, but maybe now I should try to shift our schedule to have a lazy morning and just head to AK later in the day? Currently have morning FP for KS and EE, could certainly shift those. We also have a 10:40 Tusker house ADR with seating for the 7:15 ROL--I could try to switch to a lunch adr instead if we go late, or drop it completely--I understand we should be able to get ok seats standby or maybe grab a same day FP. Will likely be done immediately after ROL so no hopping in line for a late ride for us.

Tuesday--we have tickets to EMM at MK, so figuring we can get a lot of the headliners done early and go take a nap/pool break midday. Could either return to MK if we haven't watched HEA another day (maybe dinner at skipper canteen?) or head to Epcot for more eating around the world, which would be the adults' preference I think. If we haven't fit HS in yet we could also have part of the group hop over there before dinner.

Wednesday--was thinking a return day to MK to hit anything we missed the day before or any kid favourites, wrapping up midday to head to Sarasota. I have PPO ADRs at BOG but given we'll be there early the day before we might not need those.

I didn't copy your Sunday plans, but I would definitely rope drop and get one ride on Soarin' before breakfast. Take that afternoon break and then return to EP for the evening. Save HEA for Tuesday.

Monday morning might be a good time for HS. Move your FP+ at AK to later in the day and try for a late afternoon Tusker ADR. Just be careful of that FoP FP+ and the timing needed for it, especially if you're going to do child swap with it. If you can't fit in the Tusker, there's lots of good QS at AK.
If you do HS in the morning, you may not have time for a real break in the afternoon, but between HS and AK, you've got several shows to watch that will allow you some rest time.

Tuesday would be MK all day with or without a break.

Let the kids decide where to go on Wednesday.

 

[WaterLinds]

Monday morning might be a good time for HS. Move your FP+ at AK to later in the day and try for a late afternoon Tusker ADR. Just be careful of that FoP FP+ and the timing needed for it, especially if you're going to do child swap with it. If you can't fit in the Tusker, there's lots of good QS at AK.
If you do HS in the morning, you may not have time for a real break in the afternoon, but between HS and AK, you've got several shows to watch that will allow you some rest time.

Tuesday would be MK all day with or without a break.

Let the kids decide where to go on Wednesday.

Oh maybe a small group of us could rope drop HS Monday morning. Those who want a more leisurely morning can have it, since not everyone needs/wants to do that stop anyway. And since there are only 3-4 attractions we want to do we could be done pretty quickly--we should be able to get through a few rides without FP, since we'll be saving those for AK later?

I'd rather eat at Satuli Canteen than Tusker, I think, so if we don't need the adr to get into ROL I'm happy to let it go.

Half a day might feel rushed at AK but maybe we'll end up going back there Wednesday instead of MK.

Time to plug our new plans into TP and see how much we can realistically fit in!

Thank you for replying!

 

[WaterLinds]

Oh boo, no Indy shows before noon, so if we do a HS morning we'll have to leave that out. It was on of the only shows at any park my son had much interest in, but maybe it will have to wait for next year. When we head back next time HS will be a full day park anyway!