HELP-My head is spinning and not leaving until October 06

[js]

I use to think I was somewhat of a DIS expert, know-it-all, etc. LOL, but my head is spinning and I’m not leaving until 10/21/06!
Please help me clarify a few points so I can begin my planning and know where I want to eat 6 months from my trip LOL

EMH morning/night are up and posted for the next 6 months. These EMH are set for specific days for the next few months, but I do know Disney has the right to change. Is that correct?
Spectro, Wishes, parades, not to concered with times. My main focus is what days are the am/pm EMH.

I have to make my ARDs for October in May and will base my park days away from EMH. What is the estimate when these will be posted.

So if we think that Disney will change the EMH schedule for summer through end of year, it is probably safe to say I cannot plan anything until the October EMH is posted, correct? I won’t be able to know what best park days to avoid EMH and when I want to attend the MNSSHP. Correct?

MNSSHP tickets usually go on sale in the summer. We went a few years ago and will go again next year. BUT, I think I will wait to purchase tickets once it gets closer to my date and the EMH are sort of kind of set. Not going on Halloween or a Friday or weekend so I should be ok with availability.

I want to get, for our family of 4, 4 - 10 day park hopping, non-expiring passes. Do these come with plusses or do I have to add that too?
One of the best places for me to purchase these tickets is Ticketmania and as of now they are about $360 each, more if plusses are not included.

We own a 3 bedroom at OLCC so we don’t worry about lodging and can handle rental car (usually National EA) and air, which I try to grab on jetblue when it comes out for best deal (use to be Song but as of May 06, they will merge their flights in with Delta).

Our last trip, we made it a point to eat at places we have never eaten and do things we have never done. We went the week after Thanksgiving and attended MVMCP, ate at WC and took a sleigh ride from the WL hotel and booked a Wishes cruise (we had already done an Illuminations cruise). We (my family of 4 with my dd-12, ds-8) will be traveling with my mom (karensi) who goes to Disney often and my inlaws who have never been. They are all young-mom and mil-60, fil-about 65. Can anyone recommend anything different? HDDR, thought about it, done it, don’t feel the need to do again. We always have to have dinner at Chef Mickeys our first evening and then ride the monorail. Tried Ohana our last trip and will go again our next trip. May have to see my fil sing Buttercup at WC but not sure LOL The kids still talk about my husband singing it our last trip.

Thank you all!

 

[js]

Anyone....Please???? Thanks so much!

 

[Lulu's Mom]

Disney could technically change the EMH at any time if they choose to as well as the park hours, and I am sure that they might depending on anniticipated crowd levels. I am assuming that you want to go the park on EMH days? If so I would just book what you want when they come out and then make changes if Disney changes.... keep in mind that if Disney changes hours or EMH's you will not be the only one changing all your ADRs.

If you are not so stuck on going on EMH days then I would just plan a trip based on the Parks you want to go on which days and base it on that. We went this past Oct and we avoided all EMH... probably the best thing we did because we did not have large crowds. We used the crowd indexes to fiqure out what days we wnated to go to each park.

As far as dinning recommendations... we tried a bunch of new places this past trip like LTT and Le Cellier... they were both excellant and we will definatley be visiting those again next year.

Good luck.. I am sure it will work out the way you want it to... plus I am sure that the majority of people going to Disney might not know about ADR's 180 days in advance and may not even want to make ADR's that early so you should have more than enough ley way.

 

[dwkwootton]

If the question is whether the EMH days can change, the answer is yes. If restaurant choices are of great importance to you, why not pick where you want to eat and plan your park day around it .... wait until the Oct 06 calendar is posted, and fill in your plans to the best days (such as the day you go to MK and have dinner at CRT will work best on Thursday) and call for your ressies at that time.

 

[js]

Thank you. I want to avoid EMH. I avoided them when I stay on site and I will need to avoid them since I own timeshare at OLCC.
I do not want to plan a park day around a restaurant. My park days are planned on attendance records from previous years so I guess I will need to plan on the information that is available and then know that it will change many times prior to October.

We've eated at both LTT and LeC and enjoy both restaurants also but don't think I will be adding them on my next trip. Although I have eating at LTT prior to both MVMCP and MNSSHP, I think this year, we will have an late lunch/early dinner at OLCC and then head to the parks for approx. 4-5 pm for MNSSHP.

Thank you and looking for any other suggestions. Thank you again.