Help with planning

[cook4you]

Ok here it goes... We are first timers to wdw,2 adults and 2 kids. we are driving from our home in Southwest Missouri to St.Louis to catch a plane. I have reservations for the night before we take off to Florida,in St Louis. We will arrive in Florida around 11:30 am
and take a rental car to our motel. I want to go to on of the parks the first evening to see the Fire works show, ( you know the one with Tinkerbell flying over) could someone please tell me which one that is? We have 5 day hopper passes and I wanted to hit all the parks early in the morning so to miss the crowds and heat as we will probably go back to the motel for a break in the afternoon. I have purchased meal vouchers for lunch and dinner. We will have to have a free day because of the first night of fire works, right? So I am thinking, dinner the first night and lunch and dinner for four more days. Ok now, We will arrive in Florida Sunday June 1st and we leave Saturday June 7th at noon .So what days at what parks? Please help me plan this out I want this trip to be as fun and smooth as possible. My husband is not to thrilled about going, I planned on taking my best friend and my 2 youngest children.As a matter of fact the travel agency already had my down payment when my friend's husband told her she could not go, so my husband has to go. I have purchased sovenirs from disney store and sent off for the bobble heads.

 

[alwaysmom]

Hope this helps some or at least gives you ideas. Also I'm sure some of the very people whom I have learned these tips from will come to the rescue .

This is trip 2 from my family on-site. While we have been to DW many, many times they have always just been day trips until April 2000. We leave Saturday (DS's 5 & 7 can hardly contain themselves) so maybe I'll pick up a few more tips.

My game plan is: Arrive Sunday, no parks (long drive, just going to relax, Have a nice dinner (PS at Chef Mickey's), hang out, maybe go to Downtown).

Monday: MGM (Last time did magic Kingdom, which by the way has the flight of tinkerbell) but it was really crowded, have since learned that MK is most popular for kids and since most vacations start on Weekends, everyone goes to MK on Mondays.?????? True or not, we are not going there on Monday.

Tuesday: Animal Kingdom, Wednesday: Magic Kingdom, Thursday: Epcot, Friday: Where ever we want. Saturday: depart.

It is my understanding that they have brought back the early entry, if so, they say go to early entry, then leave to go to another park at normal opening time.

Last time we never told the kids (3 DS's) which park we would go too each day. DH and I decided at night and the kids found out at the bus stop (avoided any fights).

The one thing I will repeat from last trip is: Go with the flow, relax, do not stress (my DH is not a big traveler) walk don't run, enjoy the sights (some of our coolest character sighting happened while everyone else ran right by).

You've got time and I've learned, very wise folks at this site with alot of great thoughts and ideas.