Itinerary Help Please!:)

[JVig]

Hi:
I'm struggling with our second MK day and hoping you all might have some tips.

We have BBB at 8 am. Park opens at 9. I wanted Anna and Elsa on this date and have been able to secure FP for 6-7 pm for A&E. (At first all I had was 850-950 pm, so I'm feeling ok with 6-7). I had an ADR at 1900 Park Fare for 5:50, so I moved that to 8 pm to accommodate the A&E

That, folks, is a long day with a 6 year old.

I moved my other fast passes to later in the day (I have Peter Pan 305-405, and Space Mtn 505-505), trying to get them closer to A&E. My thought was that we could go to MK in the morning, do BBB and ... maybe a couple rides on standby, and then head back (we are at Yacht Club) for pool and down time. We'd want to leave Yacht Club around 2:30 (I guess??) to be sure to be back for the Peter Pan Fastpass.

What would you all suggest doing in the AM to make the most of a couple hours with no fastpasses? What's the latest I could leave Yacht Club without worrying about missing the Peter Pan fp?

 

[ddluvsdisney]

Could you Change BBB to a later time?

 

[JVig]

I could consider that I guess. But ideally, I liked having it pre-park opening. I figured we'd be out in time to get the benefit of low lines in the first hour or two.

 

[JimmyV]

You know your child better than anyone. If she needs the down time, then your plan makes sense. Speaking only from personal experience with a go-go-go daughter, at age 6, if I tried to give her down time at WDW, she would have resisted. "Down Time" can come in the form of Carousel of Progress. The People Mover. River Boat. Hall of Presidents. A table service lunch at Crystal Palace. Once you toss all those things into the itinerary, you find that you have added over 3 hours of fairly tame, mentally relaxing "activities". In actuality, time spent doing those things were far more relaxing and more of a "down time" experience than taking her to a pool. Especially Storm-along Bay. She would never have "relaxed" there.

 

[Alesia]

Are you sure you want to go swimming after BBB?

 

[Alesia]

You know your child better than anyone. If she needs the down time, then your plan makes sense. Speaking only from personal experience with a go-go-go daughter, at age 6, if I tried to give her downtime at WDW, she would have resisted. "Down Time" can come in the form of Carousel of Progress. The People Mover. River Boat. Hall of Presidents. A table service lunch at Crystal Palace. Once you toss all those things into the itinerary, you find that you have added over 3 hours of fairly tame, mentally relaxing "activities". In actuality, time spent doing those things were far more relaxing and more of a "down time" experience than taking her to a pool. Especially Storm-along Bay. She would never have "relaxed" there.

We're the same way. We always found a mid-afternoon break to be much more tiring than just staying in the park. And swimming is just exhausting. If we swim, we're just done for the day.

 

[JVig]

JimmyV - good point. And on and off a bus isn't exactly restful. Maybe we can just last the day and it will be fine. I'm also thinking of our last trip (which was our first) which was in late August and the humidity had all of us beat. This time its April so hopefully we won't be dragging as much.
@Alesia, I would be fine with the swimming after BBB if it made sense time wise and rest wise (we did BBB last time and her hairdo lasted days including swim time!)

 

[g8torphan]

Go straight to A&E after BBB?
(I'm not sure how long BBB is, but if you're out in an hour...)

You could also move PP and SM to later and see if anything for A&E opens for those times.