Need help with impromptu trip to OKW!!!!

[amee]

We have an impromptu trip coming up, that i could use some veteran help on!

We leave Seattle on a red-eye on Monday night, arriving early Tuesday AM(6:30!)

We have a 1-br at OKW

We leave early on Friday AM (7:30 am)

So, we have 3 full days at Disney! I am assuming we(DH, DD11,DS8) will all be pretty exhausted after froughly 4 hours of sleep en flight..........so ideally, a room would be ready when we checked in around 8 -ish, allowing a couple fo hours to sleep.....then head to a park, etc......

Has anyone done this before....? Any tips on how to plan such a brief trip.....? Another family is coming with us(staying in own place) and they have never been. This will be our 6 as a family (second one this year).........it was aflukey turn of events that allowed this second trip to occur!

Anyway, any thoughts help would be appreciated!

 

[disney queen]

you will be extremely lucky if a room is ready when you arrive! check out time is 11:00 and there is no guarantee that the room will be ready before 4:00. maybe once we were lucky arriving around 12:00 noon. a short trip is good,but you need to have a good plan as to what, when, where. just know that you might not be able to do everything on a short trip, just agree on the highlight you all would like to do. which park(s) to do. take advantage of EE to the parks; this will help in getting in what you plan to do. will you have a park hopper pass or annual pass? being able to do 2 parks in a day will get the fun done! and dining. have you made any PS? good luck!

 

[spiceycat]

before you stop for lunch or anything - go check in - first you might get lucky and get a room - if not - you will be given a card with a number to call - you just need to call this number you don't have to go back to the front desk.

are you going to be doing the parks?

then that is all you will have time.

if you what resort activities - on the back of the map that you should get is the resort activities for that week. just pick out the ones you want to do and make sure you are there for them.

there is also DD - just a boat/walk/bus ride away.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Our family is always too pumped up to think about napping when we get to WDW, even after little to no sleep. My suggestion is to have everything ready by Sunday so you can have a relaxing day on Monday - sleep as late as you can, don't drink a lot of coffee, no running around, etc... Get as much shut eye on the plane as you can. When you arrive just begin your day and if you're room is not ready, go have fun in the parks or whatever. That night you will crash and maybe be a little tired the next day, but you'll be having too much fun to give it a second thought

We find it a little tricky to travel with others. When we do we like to split up and do our own thing during the day, then meet for dinner, at the pool or something like that later on. That way nobody feels they didn't get to do what they wanted and there's no pressure, chaos or hard feelings (except those within your own family unit)! Relax and enjoy the moment, save what you don't get to for the next trip!

 

[Deb & Bill]

Once we checked in at about 8AM and our room wasn't readly until about 4PM. We went to the parks, had lunch and headed back to OKW. We sat around Papa's Den at the Hospitality House until our room was ready. The couches were very comfortable and we were even able to nap a little. Or you can nap out by the pool or one of the quiet pools.

 

[amee]

Thanks for all of your help.....lots of good ideas for us.

We will do the parks, since we bought AP's on our last trip...it is great getting extra mileage out of them!

again, thanks!

 

[Pa@okw95]

It is getting near the end of August, not the most popular time down there. You could get lucky regarding the room. Most members check out way before the check out time. I for one leave at 5 am when I am checking out. They start working on the rooms there around 9 am so there could be a chance that one might be ready early. They probably not at full capacity.