Help need advice

[cook4you]

We are doing our 1st trip to wdw and I want to make sure we see the fireworks. We have 5 day passes and 6 full days in Florida. Our plane lands @ noon Sat. and I planned to spend the evening at one of the parks and watch the fire works that evening and then we will spend Sunday resting and going to the pool. I have read that Sunday was a very busy day at the parks and I was hoping to avoid the busiest day. Some advice would be welcome. We have 35 days left before we leave and I'm getting nervous. I have very little planned. I want to have every detail planned so our trip will go smooth,but I just can"t get into the planning. Also I want to be at the right place at the right time. Where would be the perfect place to see the fireworks? We have meal vouchers for every lunch and dinner. So if we do dinner and get seats for fire works can you use the meal vouchers and is it too late for ressies? Also which park has the fire works?

 

[Dan Murphy]

Well, you need to get planning a bit, LOL. Nice to see you, cook4you. You will have lifetime memories of your first trip, we all do.

Fireworks are only at MK and Epcot. If you are wanting to do fireworks on Saturday, my suggestion is Epcot, Illuminations. Less crowded than MK on a Saturday. Great spots for Illuminations are the balcony at Japan Teppenyaki, along the lagoon railings by Italy and Germany, and the bridge by International Gateway between UK and France. You could also do your meal PS at Rose and Crown for probably THE best viewing of Illuminations, if you get outside seating. If you don't, you still could go outside to watch. Could PS time would be 7:15, IMO.

For MK, great viewing area is in front of Liberty Tree Tavern, but you will not see Tinkerbell, if that is important, and you won't really see the Castle from there, but you WILL have a wonderful view of the fireworks. You could do dinner at LTT and then go outside for the fireworks.

Check this out http://www.wdwinfo.com/wdwinfo/dining/pscalc/dispscalc.html

and look these over for help also.

http://www.wdwinfo.com/sitemap.htm

www.wdwig.com

Enjoy your first ever WDW, let us know how you like it and make sure to come back to the DIS.

Dan

 

[luvindisneyworld]

What about Fantasmic?that is at MGM

 

[DNBois]

I totally agree with Dan Murphy - dinner at the Rose and Crown is always good and the views are incredible. DH and I called last Monday and were able to get ressies for next Saturday at 7:00. You should call and see because you could probably get a really good time for priority seating; Illuminations is spectacular and the family will enjoy it very much - have fun!!! Although you may enjoy Spectromagic or Fantasy in the Sky and a great place to eat at MK is Tony's Town Square Restaurant - they have excelent Italian food. Good luck and have fun

 

[Luv2Roam]

Tink flying from the castle is my favorite part of the fireworks. Stake out a seat on the bench underneath the cable that comes from the castle. It's in the walkway heading to Tomorrowland.

 

[mad4themouse]

If your plane is not landing in MCO until noon, you will still be at least an hour from WDW. If you plan to check into your rooms before hitting the parks, chances are that you will not get to them before 3 pm.

My advise would be to plan to relax poolside on that first day. Get PSs for dinner at a monorail resort restaurant. The Grand Floridian has a very nice character buffet dinner (a princess dinner if I'm not mistaken) or you could eat at the Poly or Contemporary. After dinner, stroll along the beaches of the hotel and catch the FITS fireworks from across the lagoon. Turn in early and rest up for a full day of touring on Sunday. You will need your strength!

This way, you will have 5 full days in the parks instead of using up a park day from your hoppers on what amounts to only a half day in the parks. And if you're like me, traveling days can really wipe you out. Just all the excitement, anticipation and anxiety of air travel can take its toll. I much prefer to do my touring when I am fresh.

 

[cook4you]

Let me rephrase this... I want to go see the fireworks Sat. because I know that we will be out late fighting the crowds. And resting on Sunday seems like the best thing to keep my family getting up EARLY and going the rest of the week. Am I not right to think that early is the way to go and take a rest in the afternoon then back to the parks in the evening? We are from southwest Missouri and when we go to Silver Dollar City in Branson we go ALL day because our home is 40 miles from the park, but @wdw we will be real close @HI sunspree resort. I want to see Tinkerbell and we may do the other fireworks, but plan on not staying out to fight the crowds every night. Any suggestions?Or am I just dreaming, not a reality on my thinking?
Is this going to work.

 

[snuggles]

I think your plan is good. I'd much rather get up and get going then rest in the afternoon. Don't give up...