Honeymoon over 4th July week

[Sez2004]

My fiancé and I are booked into POFQ for our honeymoon from 30th June until 9th July - at the time we booked it, we didn't even notice it was directly over the 4th July holiday (I'm british, but he is American so he has no excuse!) we had to book it for those dates anyway, as our wedding is on the 27th June, my birthday is on the 29th June and our second wedding (yes, second wedding, the plight of an international relationship! :-D) is on the 11th July!

We are fully aware of what we will be letting ourselves in for - heat, humidity, afternoon showers/storms, crazy busy crowds and generally full height of the season issues - but we're not letting any of it ruin our special trip! We have pretty much planned it to spend one full crazy busy day in each park, with one day dedicated to one of the waterparks and the other days left as more relaxed so we can either head back to the parks if ready or just chill out by the pool or elsewhere......

We have made all sorts of special plans (we wouldn't normally book things and be so pre planned out, but because of the time of year, and it being our honeymoon, we thought we had better!) including :-

Special last night dinner at Victoria and Alberts
Tickets to see La Nouba
Dinner at California Grill (timed to see the fireworks hopefully!)
Dinner at the Rose and a Crown (again timed for the fireworks - bit of a tradition in my family!)
Keys to the Kingdom Tour
DiveQuest Tour
Fantasmic Dinner Package (just so we don't have to worry so much about getting seats, and forces us to take a break for some food!)
Wishes Dessert Party (on the 3rd July so hopefully it will be more relaxed for the special fireworks than trying to fight the crowds!)

Other things we want to do:-

Horse carriage Ride
Characters in Flight
Walk along the Boardwalk and just take it all in!
Drink around the world at Epcot - hoping this would be able to allow us to slow the pace a bit!

Anyway.......If anyone has any more suggestions either of things we should look into doing, or how to handle/cope with the crazy crowds that will be around they would be greatly appreciated!

We are so excited, and I'm just twiddling my thumbs waiting for the next step I can start doing things since I finished making our ADR's (Fastpass booking next!)

X x

 

[sambycat]

congrats! it looks like you have some great things planned! love POFQ - definitely get over to the POR one night to see Yeeha Bob (he preforms at the bar n the foodcourt/lobby building there - free! - the river roost lounge!) - he is so much fun! and the food court at POR we really like so we enjoy grabbing some food and getting there early (i think tuesday-saturday ~7ish most weeks?), having a few cocktails and enjoying his show!

ok, we had him play at our wedding so theres the connection for you!

but really my main tip to add to the great ideas you have planned is to a) avoid any park on the fourth, b) taking afternoon breaks and c) just focusing mostly on out of the norm park experiences (tours) and non-park experiences (resorts, food, etc) - it sounds like you have a lot of that already!

what about a morning experience? cinderella’s table (just because it’s something iconic), there’s something at AK - a morning safari?, some kind of character breakfast one or two mornings? water park? they open early and are probably bursting by the end of the day but might be fun - there was some surfing experience they did early in the morning that i’ve wanted to try (wavepool) that is never available the times of year we go!

i would just try to aim for early morning park times personally and be sure to ask for your happy honeymoon (whatever iteration of happily ever after they are now!) buttons when you check in!

 

[Sez2004]

Ok third time lucky - every time I try to reply to you it keeps deleting it!

Thanks for the suggestion about Yeehaw - sounds like the perfect plan for our first night as we don't arrive until early evening and wanted to just relax at the resort that night!

As for taking breaks in the middle of the day - what's the travel time from the parks to POFQ? Would we better finding somewhere in the parks to take some downtime and people watch rather than trekking it back to the resort? I don't really know.......

Thanks for the encouragement about our plans - most of them came from tips we found on here! I saw the safari tour at AK and loved the idea - especially since one of our original honeymoon destination ideas was a safari in South Africa (which ended up being waaaayyy out of our price range!) I'll have to have a chat with the fiancé and see what he thinks!

Excited :-D