Itinerary Help!

[pkelly6]

Taking our 7yoDD and 4yoDD late September when crowds are light (hopefully!). Here are our tentative plans, please let me know your thoughts!

Although we have park hoppers, right now we're planning on staying in the park we start in.

Hoping to follow a touring plan for each park in as much as the girls/hubby let me.

I could go from open to close, but am trying to keep things relaxing as possible and hope to go back within a year, so not trying to do everything this trip.

Monday - Arrive MCO 10am
DHS / 3:00 lunch at Prime Time Cafe

Tuesday
MK / 9:00 breakfast at Cinderella's Royal Table

Wednesday
Epcot / Figure we would want to sample selections at F&W festival, so no ADRs

Thursday
DTD / 1:30 lunch at Rainforest Cafe (I'd prefer Fulton's, but this trip is for the kids)
Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party

Friday
AK
6:50 dinner at 'Ohana

Saturday
9:10 breakfast at Chef Mickey's
Revist whatever girls want to do
Leave MCO 7:00pm

 

[3Gsandme]

I think that 3:00 reservation on Day 1 could be a little iffy. That's JMO, of course and while five hours SHOULD be enough time to get from the airport to the resort, etc it might not be. I won't have arrival day reservations again. Too much stress!

 

[jezebel73]

I would say it takes about two hours, being generous, from landing to hotel arrival, assuming you are using Magical Express and not having to get luggage, etc. Check-in should be OK in September, but I have seen it take 15 minutes or 45. Wear your park clothes on the plane if you can so you don't have to wait for the luggage! That still leaves you plenty of time to get to a 3 pm dinner at DHS so I am not worried for you there, BUT I will say that once the kids enter the park, it will probably be tough to get them to sit and eat so soon after arriving. I would recommend even pushing back an hour-hour and a half, just so they can run wild at first and then eat. The first day excitement is just through the roof!!!

I like your line up. You seem to have ample times at each park and even if you go open close some days (especially MK), you have a more relaxing or shorter day to follow. Lots of classics for the meals is all good! On your next year's trip you can revisit one you liked and then branch out to some newer ones.

Remember you can get in the MNSSHP at 4 pm to maximize more MK time. And again if using Magical Express, you get picked up 2.5-3 hours before your flight, so that last day is a lot shorter than you might think.

 

[Betty Rohrer]

you arrival day ressie looks good if you arrive on time but could be iffy if you have a delayed flight for any reason. at the start of your flight is it an early morning in that the plane will already be there? if not you cloud start out with a plane late in arriving at your airport. we have had that happen including daughters flight home form baton show being snowed out in Orlando. plane was stuck in Detroit in snow

 

[ajwolfe]

I think it looks good and I think you could make the 3pm adr on your first day. However, I would push that back to a dinner. You really aren't going to have much time to wander DHS anyways and then splitting the afternoon at 3pm might make that worse. I wouldn't want to be bound by an ADR that early on our first day.