Akershus was great! We did early entry breakfast there last year. The food was great. They do a parade for the kids which was fun to watch. The character interactions were better than CRT. We even had a couple come by twice. (CRT one princess skipped over us until we talked to our waitress) And glad I could inspire you. LOL Trying to plan out outfits so I can slowly buy between now and then, so everything needed to be decided on early.
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Akershus was great! We did early entry breakfast there last year. The food was great. They do a parade for the kids which was fun to watch. The character interactions were better than CRT. We even had a couple come by twice. (CRT one princess skipped over us until we talked to our waitress) And glad I could inspire you. LOL Trying to plan out outfits so I can slowly buy between now and then, so everything needed to be decided on early.
sock2you
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Yikes I can't believe it's been more than 2mo since i've updated. 
Summer has just flown by and it's been full of fun family time with lot's of out of state visitors and mini vacations.
So if you're still reading, or following there have been some new tweaks to the schedule, so Yay for an update.
Finally, finally picked out our dates: May 19th-27th. This will allow us to spend 6 days in the park, 1 day of rest in the middle and our 2 travel days. These dates are still not locked in though since Memorial day falls on the 25th, so I need to do some more research to see how crazy the park is going to be.
The line-up has changed around as well due to Extra Magic Hours (as long as they stay as they are right now).
Tuesday 19th-Travel Day
Wednesday 20th-Magic Kingdom
-Lunch at BOG
Thursday 21st-Magic Kingdom
-Morning extra magic hour
Friday 22nd-Epcot
-Evening extra magic hour
-Akershus Breakfast
-Via Napoli for late lunch
Saturday 23rd-Free Day
-Kona breakfast (this is a maybe)
-Wolf Gang Puck express for lunch
-Ghiredelli snack
Sunday 24th-Animal Kingdom
-Morning magic hour
-Tusker House breakfast
-Yak & Yeti lunch (still debating on if I want a reservation or just the quick service)
Monday 25th (Memorial Day)- Hollywood Studios
-Evening extra magic hour
-Hollywood & Vine breakfast
-50's Prime time for lunch
Tuesday 26th-Magic Kingdom Last Day at the parks!
-Crystal Palace, early reservation
Wednesday 27th-Fly home day
That's it for now, will spend some time in the next couple of days figuring out fastpass+. Contacted Dreams Unlimited for a price quote so super excited to ehar back from them and get this ball rolling. Seems likes it's taken forever just to get this far and we're still 9mo away.
Summer has just flown by and it's been full of fun family time with lot's of out of state visitors and mini vacations.
So if you're still reading, or following there have been some new tweaks to the schedule, so Yay for an update.
Finally, finally picked out our dates: May 19th-27th. This will allow us to spend 6 days in the park, 1 day of rest in the middle and our 2 travel days. These dates are still not locked in though since Memorial day falls on the 25th, so I need to do some more research to see how crazy the park is going to be.
The line-up has changed around as well due to Extra Magic Hours (as long as they stay as they are right now).
Tuesday 19th-Travel Day
Wednesday 20th-Magic Kingdom
-Lunch at BOG
Thursday 21st-Magic Kingdom
-Morning extra magic hour
Friday 22nd-Epcot
-Evening extra magic hour
-Akershus Breakfast
-Via Napoli for late lunch
Saturday 23rd-Free Day
-Kona breakfast (this is a maybe)
-Wolf Gang Puck express for lunch
-Ghiredelli snack
Sunday 24th-Animal Kingdom
-Morning magic hour
-Tusker House breakfast
-Yak & Yeti lunch (still debating on if I want a reservation or just the quick service)
Monday 25th (Memorial Day)- Hollywood Studios
-Evening extra magic hour
-Hollywood & Vine breakfast
-50's Prime time for lunch
Tuesday 26th-Magic Kingdom Last Day at the parks!
-Crystal Palace, early reservation
Wednesday 27th-Fly home day
That's it for now, will spend some time in the next couple of days figuring out fastpass+. Contacted Dreams Unlimited for a price quote so super excited to ehar back from them and get this ball rolling. Seems likes it's taken forever just to get this far and we're still 9mo away.
sock2you
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Oh man, it's been way too long since I updated this. It's crossed my mind a time or two but I never could quite find the time to put everything down.
49 days to go and counting, to say we are excited is an understatement. After the 3rd day in a row of DD asking 'How much longer!' until our trip I decided to make a count down jar. It's filled with colorful rocks, she transfers one a day until there are none left, and there's a chalkboard slate behind it with the number of days left to go.
Now on to the good stuff, here's what we have planned.
19th
Disney's Pop Century Resort
Check In After 3:00 PM
Raglan Road™ Irish Pub and Restaurant
6:45 PM
20th
Magic Kingdom® Park
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad®
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Splash Mountain®
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Seven Dwarfs Mine Train
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Tony's Town Square Restaurant
7:15 PM
21st
Magic Kingdom® Park
Be Our Guest Restaurant
10:35 AM
Place Your Order Starting April 21, 2015.
Meet Tinker Bell at Town Square Theater
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Enchanted Tales with Belle
1:50 PM - 2:50 PM
Peter Pan's Flight®
3:05 PM - 4:05 PM
Be Our Guest Restaurant
8:10 PM
22nd
Epcot®
Akershus Royal Banquet Hall
9:20 AM
Meet Disney Pals at the Epcot Character Spot
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Soarin'®
12:05 PM - 1:05 PM
Turtle Talk With Crush
1:10 PM - 2:10 PM
Via Napoli Ristorante e Pizzeria
4:30 PM
23rd
Rest Day
Whispering Canyon Cafe
9:05 AM
24th
Disney's Animal Kingdom® Theme Park
Kilimanjaro Safaris®
9:25 AM - 10:25 AM
Finding Nemo - The Musical
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Kali River Rapids®
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
25th
Disney's Hollywood Studios®
Muppet*Vision 3D
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
For the First Time in Forever: A Frozen Sing-Along Celebration
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Toy Story Midway Mania!
10:55 AM - 11:55 AM
50's Prime Time Café
12:40 PM
26th
Magic Kingdom® Park
The Crystal Palace
8:45 AM
Meet Anna and Elsa at Princess Fairytale Hall
11:10 AM - 12:10 PM
Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin®
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
Disney Festival of Fantasy Parade
2:45 PM - 3:05 PM
27th
Departure Day
Disney's Pop Century Resort
Check Out Before 11:00 AM
DH really wants to do the 24 hour event day at MK, we only have base tickets so he'll have to upgrade to a park hopper but we're not sure if we might as well upgrade everyone's ticket or just his. This comes into play for our Epcot, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom days. Our first plan of attack was to hit stuff in the morning, each lunch then take a nap/relax at the hotel and go back later in the afternoon to finish off the park. But I know if we all have park hoppers the urge to use them and not waste them will be strong. So right now I'm only trying to plan out the morning parts of our trip and we'll let the afternoons go as they will.
49 days to go and counting, to say we are excited is an understatement. After the 3rd day in a row of DD asking 'How much longer!' until our trip I decided to make a count down jar. It's filled with colorful rocks, she transfers one a day until there are none left, and there's a chalkboard slate behind it with the number of days left to go.
Now on to the good stuff, here's what we have planned.
19th
Disney's Pop Century Resort
Check In After 3:00 PM
Raglan Road™ Irish Pub and Restaurant
6:45 PM
20th
Magic Kingdom® Park
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad®
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Splash Mountain®
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Seven Dwarfs Mine Train
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Tony's Town Square Restaurant
7:15 PM
21st
Magic Kingdom® Park
Be Our Guest Restaurant
10:35 AM
Place Your Order Starting April 21, 2015.
Meet Tinker Bell at Town Square Theater
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Enchanted Tales with Belle
1:50 PM - 2:50 PM
Peter Pan's Flight®
3:05 PM - 4:05 PM
Be Our Guest Restaurant
8:10 PM
22nd
Epcot®
Akershus Royal Banquet Hall
9:20 AM
Meet Disney Pals at the Epcot Character Spot
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Soarin'®
12:05 PM - 1:05 PM
Turtle Talk With Crush
1:10 PM - 2:10 PM
Via Napoli Ristorante e Pizzeria
4:30 PM
23rd
Rest Day
Whispering Canyon Cafe
9:05 AM
24th
Disney's Animal Kingdom® Theme Park
Kilimanjaro Safaris®
9:25 AM - 10:25 AM
Finding Nemo - The Musical
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Kali River Rapids®
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
25th
Disney's Hollywood Studios®
Muppet*Vision 3D
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
For the First Time in Forever: A Frozen Sing-Along Celebration
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Toy Story Midway Mania!
10:55 AM - 11:55 AM
50's Prime Time Café
12:40 PM
26th
Magic Kingdom® Park
The Crystal Palace
8:45 AM
Meet Anna and Elsa at Princess Fairytale Hall
11:10 AM - 12:10 PM
Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin®
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
Disney Festival of Fantasy Parade
2:45 PM - 3:05 PM
27th
Departure Day
Disney's Pop Century Resort
Check Out Before 11:00 AM
DH really wants to do the 24 hour event day at MK, we only have base tickets so he'll have to upgrade to a park hopper but we're not sure if we might as well upgrade everyone's ticket or just his. This comes into play for our Epcot, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom days. Our first plan of attack was to hit stuff in the morning, each lunch then take a nap/relax at the hotel and go back later in the afternoon to finish off the park. But I know if we all have park hoppers the urge to use them and not waste them will be strong. So right now I'm only trying to plan out the morning parts of our trip and we'll let the afternoons go as they will.
sock2you
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- Joined
- Jan 19, 2013
- Messages
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Surprise!
A whole second post.
I figured the first was wordy enough that I would make a second post for our plan of attack at Hollywood Studios.
9a Park Opens
*Hit Star Tours on our way to Muppet Vision
9a-10a Muppet Vision FP+
10a-10:15 Frozen Sing a long FP+
10:25a Frozen Sing a long starts
11a-ish DH will go to One Man's Dream
- DD and I will either go get in line for Disney Junior show or Jake/Sophia meet and greet.
11:20a Show or 12:10p show
12:40p Lunch @ 50's Prime Time
Depending on how we're feeling after lunch we might go back to Animation Courtyard to meet Fantasmic Mickey (Jake/Sophia if we didn't get to it before) and take an animation drawing class.
That leaves must do's:
Rockin Roller Coaster
Tower of Terror
Maybe do's:
Beauty and the Beast
Fantasmic
And so it's not just words after word after words I'll leave you with a cute pic of DD in her Minnie Mouse play dress she got for Christmas last year.
A whole second post.
I figured the first was wordy enough that I would make a second post for our plan of attack at Hollywood Studios.
9a Park Opens
*Hit Star Tours on our way to Muppet Vision
9a-10a Muppet Vision FP+
10a-10:15 Frozen Sing a long FP+
10:25a Frozen Sing a long starts
11a-ish DH will go to One Man's Dream
- DD and I will either go get in line for Disney Junior show or Jake/Sophia meet and greet.
11:20a Show or 12:10p show
12:40p Lunch @ 50's Prime Time
Depending on how we're feeling after lunch we might go back to Animation Courtyard to meet Fantasmic Mickey (Jake/Sophia if we didn't get to it before) and take an animation drawing class.
That leaves must do's:
Rockin Roller Coaster
Tower of Terror
Maybe do's:
Beauty and the Beast
Fantasmic
And so it's not just words after word after words I'll leave you with a cute pic of DD in her Minnie Mouse play dress she got for Christmas last year.
sock2you
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I'm having a hard time coming up with a plan of attack for Epcot so I guess I'll just post the things we hope to get done. Still up in the air about when DH will leave to go to MK to attend the 24 hour event and if we'll be joining him. He keeps going back and forth, I'm trying to encourage him to still go as I know he'll regret it if he skips it, but there is so much we want to accomplish in Epcot. :sigh
9:20 Akershus Breakfast
11a-12p Character spot FP+
12:05p-1:05p Soarin FP+
1:10p-2:10p Turtle Talk with Crush FP+
4:30p Via Napoli late lunch/dinner
Trying to figure out how long it takes to walk from the front of Epcot to Norway for breakfast, if it doesn't take super long I'm hoping to maybe hit Test Track before breakfast, if not we'll try again later.
Meet and Greets
Aladdin & Jasmine
Alice
Belle
Donald
Rides
Test Track
Grand Fiesta Tour
Figment
Living with the Land
Mission Space
Nemo
Spaceship Earth
9:20 Akershus Breakfast
11a-12p Character spot FP+
12:05p-1:05p Soarin FP+
1:10p-2:10p Turtle Talk with Crush FP+
4:30p Via Napoli late lunch/dinner
Trying to figure out how long it takes to walk from the front of Epcot to Norway for breakfast, if it doesn't take super long I'm hoping to maybe hit Test Track before breakfast, if not we'll try again later.
Meet and Greets
Aladdin & Jasmine
Alice
Belle
Donald
Rides
Test Track
Grand Fiesta Tour
Figment
Living with the Land
Mission Space
Nemo
Spaceship Earth
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