I'd Love some Feedback/Critique on my plan

[Halefamilyof6]

Here is a very tentative plan for our trip. We will be coming to DW after a 1 week cruise – so driving from Miami to Orlando on Sunday. We won’t know where we’ll be staying until we can book our DVC room at the 7 month mark.

Here is who will be traveling for sure:

Myself, my husband, and four kids:

19 yr old DD

11 yr old DS

11 yr old DD

6 yr old DS

My boys hate the heat. My youngest gets heat rash and sick pretty easy due to heat. He always has and it’s something we have to be careful of – we will definitely be renting a stroller.

My husband must work every day online as well (about 2-4 hours per day). This is non-negotiable.

My girls can go all day and all night, which is why we’re hoping to get a resort somewhere within walking distance to a park or easy access to monorail. Not sure that’s going to happen though.

We have plenty of days in DW, so we are thinking it might be best to break down our MK days into lands and not tackle a lot in one day. The first week (not the day we arrive, obviously), we plan to hit rope drop….this will be a challenge as none of us are get up and go morning people. But, with the heat, we have to be proactive on this issue.

On week two, the end of the week is open, and I’m thinking of switching to evenings just to get a different perspective and see some of the shows and allow there to be a compromise of some lazy mornings.

I plan our days to end with lunch around 1pm. All fastpasses will be late morning or right after lunch, thus hitting rope drop to ride some of these more than once which all kids have agreed is important. This will give us time to go back to resort, kids to relax, husband to work and it will leave the evening open to return to the park, or just stay at the pools.

To make RD easier, I might schedule a character breakfast in one of the parks. My kids don’t care where, my dd isn’t into princesses, so I’m sort of on the fence where to go. I guess we want a cool experience with good food. Any suggestions?

Any other restaurants or rides that we should think about hitting?

Anything look off?

Anything I need to think about that I might be missing?

I’m really trying to balance regimented time to hit all the key points, but enough down time to keep the trip fun for everyone. I know by the end of the second week (our third week of vacation), everyone is going to be wearing out.

Sunday: Epcot
Dinner: Depends on Resort or Teppan Edo
FP:
Test Track
Mission Space Orange
Soarin

Monday: MK (Memorial Day)
Lunch: Colombia Harbor House CS
FP: Splash Mountain
Pirates
Big Thunder Railroad

Tuesday: MK
Lunch: Be Our Guest CS
FP:
Peter Pan
7 dwarves mine train
Splash Mountain (after lunch)

Wednesday: EPCOT
Lunch: Biergarten
Test track
Soarin
3rd fast pass?

Thursday: Hollywood Studios
Lunch: Prime Time Cafe
Toy Story Midway
Star Tours
Tower of Terror OR Rock N Roller Coaster (Child swap necessary)

Friday: Resort Day
Saturday: Resort Day – Hoop De Dooh Revue

Sunday: MK Tomorrow Land
Lunch: Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Cafe
Buzz Lightyear
Astro Orbitor
Tomorrowland Speedway

Monday: Animal Kingdom
Lunch: Yak and Yeti
Unsure of rides/fastpasses yet

Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday/Friday: We’re unsure of which day we will be leaving.

 

[kmb584]

Sunday: Epcot
Dinner: Depends on Resort or Teppan Edo
FP:
Test Track
Mission Space Orange
Soarin

You can only book Test Track or Soarin' in advance as Epcot (and DHS) has a tiered FP+ system. You're allowed one from Tier 1 (Soarin', Test Track, Living with the Land, Illuminations) and two from Tier 2 (Figment, Mission Space, Spaceship Earth, Captain EO, Nemo, Turtle Talk, Character Spot). You could book a second Tier 1 as a fourth FP+ but it's rare that they're available.

 

[disneywithbaby]

Sorry to hop on here, just wanted to say I didn't realize illuminations was a tier 1 or that it was hard to get a FP for, was planning to do test track and illuminations on same day. My FP window starts Monday so happy I saw this post. Which one would you pick fireworks or
The ride??

 

[kmb584]

Sorry to hop on here, just wanted to say I didn't realize illuminations was a tier 1 or that it was hard to get a FP for, was planning to do test track and illuminations on same day. My FP window starts Monday so happy I saw this post. Which one would you pick fireworks or
The ride??

I would personally pick Test Track as it's one of our favorites and wait times are often high.

 

[lizard1]

The FP at DHS are also tiered. You can't get RNR and TSMM, you would have to choose.

One other thing to think about concerns your plan to RD and have breakfast at RD- unless you are doing a before park open breakfast, you lose the advantage of the short wait for rides by starting off at a meal.

Also, for your FP in MK, if you think that you might want to ride 7DMT more than the one time you have a FP for, get them now. You may be able to change your FP later FROM 7DMT to another coaster, but you most likely will NOT be able to change TO 7DMT from any other ride. Also, the wait time for 7DMT is almost never under an hour during the day whereas the other rides that you want to FP are. Keep in mind that if you really make RD you can get quite a bit done- the last time we did RD at MK we were able to ride Splash and BTMRR a combined 5 or 6 times before the lines started getting longer than 15 minutes or so. If you strategize which area you plan to do at RD, you could save your FP for another area of the park or for rides like 7DMT and PPF that ALWAYS have a very long wait.