Hi all,
We're traveling with toddler twins next month (will be 20 months old) for 8 nights - split stay BLT/BCV. It's just us two parents and our girls. It's been a decade since we've been to WDW, as we live in California. Went to DL earlier this year and it was beyond magical.
Frankly, we're stressing out about our plans. We want to focus on things the girls might enjoy, but we also don't want to miss some of the "adult" attractions. We have FP+ for all the things we would want in terms of long wait rides (FOP, SDMT, FEA, SDD, Soarin, Test Track, ToT, etc...). But the more we look at our days, we see ourselves spending a lot of time rider swapping and focusing on the girls.
We had been planning two "date nights" during the trip to go to nicer restaurants. But I've been rethinking things. Instead of that, we are thinking of "throwing money at the problem" and trying out AKL After Hours and MNSSHP as our date nights in an effort to do the "adult" rides then. That would allow us to focus our daytime park time with the girls on things we can do with them.
My impression of AKL After Hours (this would be Sept. 9th) is that we could actually reasonably ride all the adult rides during that event. The complaint I see if that it's somewhat of a waste of money. We're willing to live with that part of things.
For MNSSHP, the impression I get is more mixed. Ideally, we would do Sept. 8th for this (as we'd be staying at BLT that night), but that's a Sunday, which is more crowded. We could also do Sept. 10th (Tues) or 12th (Thursday).
Are we going to be able to reasonably do things like SDMT, Space Mountain, BTMRR during MNSSHP? Or are we going to be sitting in long lines, making it a waste of money?
Some related questions:
1) If we do MNSSHP, are the dessert parties worth it?
2) Any sense of the likelihood these sell out? If so, how long in advance would we need to get tickets?
Thanks!
We're traveling with toddler twins next month (will be 20 months old) for 8 nights - split stay BLT/BCV. It's just us two parents and our girls. It's been a decade since we've been to WDW, as we live in California. Went to DL earlier this year and it was beyond magical.
Frankly, we're stressing out about our plans. We want to focus on things the girls might enjoy, but we also don't want to miss some of the "adult" attractions. We have FP+ for all the things we would want in terms of long wait rides (FOP, SDMT, FEA, SDD, Soarin, Test Track, ToT, etc...). But the more we look at our days, we see ourselves spending a lot of time rider swapping and focusing on the girls.
We had been planning two "date nights" during the trip to go to nicer restaurants. But I've been rethinking things. Instead of that, we are thinking of "throwing money at the problem" and trying out AKL After Hours and MNSSHP as our date nights in an effort to do the "adult" rides then. That would allow us to focus our daytime park time with the girls on things we can do with them.
My impression of AKL After Hours (this would be Sept. 9th) is that we could actually reasonably ride all the adult rides during that event. The complaint I see if that it's somewhat of a waste of money. We're willing to live with that part of things.
For MNSSHP, the impression I get is more mixed. Ideally, we would do Sept. 8th for this (as we'd be staying at BLT that night), but that's a Sunday, which is more crowded. We could also do Sept. 10th (Tues) or 12th (Thursday).
Are we going to be able to reasonably do things like SDMT, Space Mountain, BTMRR during MNSSHP? Or are we going to be sitting in long lines, making it a waste of money?
Some related questions:
1) If we do MNSSHP, are the dessert parties worth it?
2) Any sense of the likelihood these sell out? If so, how long in advance would we need to get tickets?
Thanks!
