threelittlebakers
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Happy to have found you all and to have figured out how to register and subscribe to this forum!
I have had a lot of the same questions circling in my head about logistics from GTKW to the parks and fitting it all in. I haven't read the most recent posts in this thread, so forgive me if this is repetitive: How do you suggest splitting up the days in each park given the parks vs # days allotted by MAW/GTKW??
My daughter is the wish child, at 6 years old. Her brother is 10. This is our first trip to Disney. Our dates of travel are next month, June 6th - June 12th.
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Honestly you can't do it all. Definitly do Universal Studios. We all had a great time their and in all actuality you can do almost both parks in one day. Now at Disney you actually need full days for each park. I would just choose three out of the the four. Its hard but i did the park hopper and we missed out on alot. Magic Kingdom you can do in one day and probably go back on a couple of rides that you like. I had BBB and PL appointments that day and dinner reservations and we did it all. Animal Kingdom we missed out on dino land and the lion king show because we split that day with Hollywood Studios. I did not know that Hollywood Studios consist of a lot of shows so we missed out on a lot because the time we got to the park after leaving Animal Kingdom we had 2 hours to get on rides and then we had dinner at 6pm and all of the final shows were at 530 pm. Then after dinner we hit like 2 more rides and then it was Fantasmic show. Which i suggest not missing it was better then the electric parade and fireworks at the magic kingdom. Also if you are going to see the parade, projection show, and fireworks at MG find a spot at least an hour before it starts because its hard to get a spot in front of the castle. We went to Epcot the kids were completely board except for talking turtle crush. My kids are 4 and 5 years old. So that might be a factor. And again its a park that you need a full day in. If i could do the trip all over i would of just done MK, AK, and HS. Thats why we are going back next years because we had a great time and knowing what we know now we are going to do alot of things differently. We only got to experiance two events at the village Candy Land night and Pirates and Princess Party. I really liked the Candy Land night but my kids weren't interested in the Pirate and Princess Party. I wished we had done the Christmas party but that was the night we were at the Ak and Hs and i wasn't going to miss out on Fantasmic show. We didn't even get a chance to do Sea World but the tickets that we got say they are good to the end of 2013 so if they are still good we probably do that next year. I hope this helps you out. I hope i wasn't to direct. I know its hard to pick and choose. And not everything goes according to plan. My husband got a foot blister the first day out and we had to slow down because he was in so much pain. I wish they could give us all additional two days so we could see all the parks.
at the living on email comment- as I definitely do! I'm fortunate that Ethan's wish granter's are pretty good at returning my emails, even if they don't know the answer right away. I totally understand about how nice it would be if people would just let you know they don't know the answer- at least you don't feel like you're talking to a wall! Did they also give you their phone number? E's wish granters are a husband and wife team and, when we met with them, they gave us a sheet with their phone numbers and email addresses. If you have the phone number, I'd go ahead and give them a lil ringy-dingy. Good luck!
so I guess there won't be much in the way of hard core planning until then. We were thinking about extending our trip (just b/c GKTW looks so fantastic that we feel like Ethan will absolutely love it, in and of itself and then we can see a couple of parks during our extended time), but I guess I can't check out ressies or anything until I know if we can either go down a few days early or stay a few days later (at an off-site location- probably a WDW resort if we can swing it). Oh well. Flying by the seat of my pants is more my nature and, if we don't find out til September, I'm thinking we probably won't be extending b/c I'm not sure what prices will be like at that time.
