If you took a one-year old...

[vettechick99]

I have some questions on scheduling.

DH and I are an easy-going touring couple, so going with her schedule is fine with us. We plan to pick a park and stay until whenever she wants to go. Go home take naps and relax and go back to the parks if she's up for it. She's never been a great stroller napper, but if she's tired enough she'll snooze anywhere.

My question has to do with PSs though. I do not like counter service and want to eat at some restaurants. But I have no idea how to arrange this so I was hoping for some of your experiences.

DD (will be 13m when we go) is a great sleeper. She takes a short nap during the day and goes to bed around 6. She sleeps through the night and gets up around 7. But if she takes a good nap in the daytime, she will stay up til 8 or 9. So do I make dinner plans for 6 since she's more likely to be in a good mood at that time, or hope she takes a nap and make later dinner plans? Either way we do it, she won't be eating with us so she her eating schedule is irrelevant. I just want her to be happy.

How did you work it for your trip?

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

We found that it was better to do dinner a little later. BUT that is because DD had a really hard time settling down for naps at Disney (way too overstimulated!). So by the time she fell asleep, it was pretty late in the afternoon. Then we'd have to wake up to get ready for dinner...which made her pretty cranky at dinner. I don't know how you feel about doing breakfast or lunches but we also mixed up our TS schedule so that we weren't doing sit down dinners every day.

 

[vettechick99]

Good points. I'm very open to breakfast and lunch PSs. And will probably make some. We are only going for two days (over a weekend), otherwise I wouldn't bother making any. We're going during a fairly slow time so it's not like it'll be wall-to-wall free diners. But I still want to secure some table service.

I just can't predict how she's going to take it all. She will definitely be overstimulated, I can tell you that now!

 

[Disneychix]

I would make them for 6ish. If the baby is in a good mood then you will be! I also wouldn't count on her keeping with her sleep schedule. You never know how kids will be affected by the heat and atmosphere of WDW. Plus at 13 months she will be eating some table foods and you could feed her off your plate as well. I would make ADRs when you think everyone will want to eat.

 

[goofygal531]

When DS4 was 1, we ate dinner at 6pm while he napped. We never had ADR, we just did walk up and always asked for a quiet corner so we could bring the stroller in the restaurant.

He'd sleep through dinner then be up in the evenings until 10pm. It worked for us. He did sleep in later and we rarely left the room before 9am. You can't have both We just followed his new wdw schedule and it worked for all of us. We did breakfast and lunch together, usually got him a counter service dinner early then let him nap. We also loved walking around the Epcot countries while he napped!

We had gone in January. No crowds and no concerns with ADR.

Mare