liamthompson
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Planning a day at Epcot festival of the holidays in early december for myself, spouse, and 4yo. We are staying on-site.
Plan A:
- Rope drop spaceship earth or Figment
- Walk through journey of water / snack time
- Aim to pre-book test track and soarin LL before noon
- Lunch
- world showcase
- LL for living w land (how early can I book to see the lights, 5:30pm?)
- see light show on Epcot golf ball
- exit around 7pm
Here are the pickles:
- 4yo is 40in without shoes. Based on what I've read, it's likely he may measure too short for test track and soarin. We're headed to universal first and if he's consistently too short, I can swap LL for frozen a few days before we go...but not remy since both are tier 1. What's a good "use" of the other LL?
- It's also possible that he measures too short the day of. At that point, I can still try to swap for frozen/remy but it's possible that neither will have LL availability.
- I thought about child swapping for both test track and soarin if he is too short - it may work fine or it may be huge meltdown because of separation anxiety
With these pickles in mind, how would you structure plan B?
For context, we did a day at Epcot earlier this year and it was very unaccomplished...we rode LwL and nemo (kept breaking down while we were in line and on the ride), visited sea base, walked around world showcase and got stuck at the train display in germany...that's all we managed in ~8 hours. It was flower and garden festival and I thought the food booths would make snacking easier but it was frustrating to find somewhere to sit/eat on the go.
I'm hoping a solid plan B will help this second trip go smoother. The cost of a one day ticket + LL + food is making me wonder if we're better off just skipping Epcot and doing a resort day instead.
Plan A:
- Rope drop spaceship earth or Figment
- Walk through journey of water / snack time
- Aim to pre-book test track and soarin LL before noon
- Lunch
- world showcase
- LL for living w land (how early can I book to see the lights, 5:30pm?)
- see light show on Epcot golf ball
- exit around 7pm
Here are the pickles:
- 4yo is 40in without shoes. Based on what I've read, it's likely he may measure too short for test track and soarin. We're headed to universal first and if he's consistently too short, I can swap LL for frozen a few days before we go...but not remy since both are tier 1. What's a good "use" of the other LL?
- It's also possible that he measures too short the day of. At that point, I can still try to swap for frozen/remy but it's possible that neither will have LL availability.
- I thought about child swapping for both test track and soarin if he is too short - it may work fine or it may be huge meltdown because of separation anxiety
With these pickles in mind, how would you structure plan B?
For context, we did a day at Epcot earlier this year and it was very unaccomplished...we rode LwL and nemo (kept breaking down while we were in line and on the ride), visited sea base, walked around world showcase and got stuck at the train display in germany...that's all we managed in ~8 hours. It was flower and garden festival and I thought the food booths would make snacking easier but it was frustrating to find somewhere to sit/eat on the go.
I'm hoping a solid plan B will help this second trip go smoother. The cost of a one day ticket + LL + food is making me wonder if we're better off just skipping Epcot and doing a resort day instead.
