Honeymoon Planning - Help?

[captaincrash3424]

Hello all!

My fiance and I are so excited to be celebrating our honeymoon in Disney World. : We'll be getting married on a Saturday, and leaving the following Thursday for 10 days split between Disney and Universal. Our only problem is...we can't decide which day we want to start our trip on! We have subscribed to Touring Plans, and we've been crunching the numbers for a couple weeks. We've narrowed it down to either the 16th-26th, the 23rd-2nd or the 30th-9th but now we are kind of stuck.

Our priorities are, in order:

-Epcot Food and Wine Festival
-Halloween Horror Nights at Universal
-Low Crowd levels
-Decent weather (I don't do so well in hot weather - it's about the only thing keeping us from moving to Orlando all together haha)

I will also mention that while my hubby-to-be has been to Disney World numerous times, this will be my first "real" trip to the park. I went once, for one day, when I was a little kid. It was the day after Christmas, we didn't get to the park until late, and we only visited 1 park. We're just pretending that didn't happen.

We're waiting to announce our wedding date until we know for sure what week we want to be in Orlando (Priorities, right?). With all of that information, does anyone have any advice on which week would be optimum? Does anyone have any experience with this time of year specifically, and have any hints or tricks that will help us have a super awesome honeymoon?

Also important to note, we'll be staying offsite. One of our wedding presents is a week's stay at the Grand Beach Resort. We need to figure out our other housing options, and whether we want to do a hotel room for the first three or last three nights of our stay. I think I read somewhere that if you have to split your time in different housing, you don't want to 'downgrade' toward the end of your stay. Opinions?


Thank you for reading!

 

[penguinkimberly]

Do you know where you are staying the other three nights. You could stay at one of the universal resorts and then do those parks first. Have your change of resorts be on Sunday and not do a park, just chill. As for which weeks , I can't predict. I assume you are thinking October . Try to avoid the holiday weekend, it's usually the second weekend of October . Congrats and enjoy

 

[summabreeze85]

Those were october dates you gave right? The 16th-26th sound better to me, it gets real crowded around Halloween.
Downgrading would be unfortunate, but if your first priority is food and wine you should rent points from a DVC member and stay at beach club or boardwalk first (must book soon! Find a member w either of those home resorts since those months book up fast). It'll be the most cost effective way of staying on property w easy access to Epcot. I wouldn't mess around w the universal hotels, I think they are wayyyy overpriced for what you get.
Halloween horror nights will be busy whatever day you go. The lines for their haunted houses are consistently 2 hours long, its ridiculous.