Thanks!
We will be visiting November 25th - December 1st. We are actually flying out from California on the 22nd, which is my son's 16th birthday. Incidentally, it's also my boyfriend's birthday. All day in the air! What better way to spend your birthday?
My daughter - 11 - is also coming of course.
We are staying at the Royal Pacific the 22nd - 24th, the 25th - 28th at POR, and 29th - 30th at AKL, leaving on the 1st at 5 something (I think).
So, onsite at RPH at Universal for the unlimited express pass perks on Monday and Tuesday, and the rest at WDW. The split stay was an afterthought so I had to cancel my original POR reservations and make the new ones. Now, I'm wishing I had done one more day at AKL because I know my daughter will love it, but the extra cost is too much to justify on top of everything else.
My big thing right now is figuring out tickets. Originally, my plan was 6 days in the parks, 6 day park hoppers. A no-brainer, I thought. But... with so many other considerations now...
Arriving on the 25th, we have 4 pm reservations at Hoop Dee Doo. Do we plan on visiting a park this day or not? Should we just do a few more hours at Universal before we go to check in at POR, then straight to Hoop Dee Doo? After Hoop Dee Do, holiday resort tour if we don't visit a park?
Another thought is that we also have tickets to
MVMCP on Sunday, the 29th. So, another alternative I've heard is to do the resort tour that day and save a ticket, just using the MVMCP hard ticket for MK that day. (If can't tell, I want to do a resort tour to check out the holiday decorations, so the kids will just have to suck it up.) We also have reservations at O'hana that day for breakfast since my daughter loves Lilo and Stitch.
But, I'm also hoping (and fervently checking) to get a O'hana reservation on the day we check out, the 1st, so then the 29th stays a little more open since our reservation is at 11:10 - not exactly the most convenient time if we do decide to visit a park that day.
As you all know, there are so many different ticket options available, with slightly different deals depending on the number of days I plan to visit a park. 6 day park hopper from
UT is good, but if I go for 5, then I think - I can't quite recall right now and I'm at work... haha - that Park Savers has a better price (4 days +1 free).
So, that's it in a nutshell right now... What tickets to buy? In the big picture, the cost for another day isn't that much, so perhaps it's just better to covey my bases. OTOH, perhaps a day taking it a little easier would be a good idea for the 29th/MVMCP or, in the case of our arrival day, a little more realistic and easier on all of us.
Thoughts and suggestions? It also just dawned on me that the 29th is the day we check into AKL, so perhaps saving a ticket that day might be the best option. We can check out of POR, go to breakfast, check in at AKL, check out some of the other hotels and then go to MVMCP.
