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Noodle77

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Hello everyone I have been on and off browsing this site for the last few years but, this last few months have been 100% ON daily in fact. I have decided to make a profile to get a lil insight on our first upcoming Walt Disney World trip. Ok but first a lil about us (me and my family)

Ok there is me 36yr husband (the planer of this trip) my Wife 35 Daughter 15 Daughter 12 Son 10. Ok so we currently live in northern ca (outside of Sacramento ca) and we are already pretty Disney crazy.. We currently have premium annual passes to Disneyland and on average we go every 6 weeks even if its just for a quick weekend trip. We have had our AP's for 3yr going on 4yr in April and we are going to upgrade to premier pass this to because we have planned a trip to WDW in June (yes I know crazy hot and busy but kids are out of school).



Ok so like I said I have on this site like crazy the last few months. I'm currently at 98 days until we leave for our trip I'm starting to get a little nervous of the pure size of WDW. Like mentioned before we spend a lot of time at DLR and know everything well and we know what we want to do and what can be done every so often. My dilemma is that we are making this a cross country drive (I don't fly yes I'm working on that) we have family in Austin tx and Louisiana that we will visit on the way. Now I have driven across country before and I now what that inquires but, ok back to WDW and it's size. We will be checked in off site (my wife is using a co workers time share so saving $$) so basically we have that from the 10th - 19th we know it will be hot and busy but we want to see and do as much as possible. We also need to spend 1 day at Universal more IOS just for Harry Potter land my kids especially my oldest have to see HPW. So it sounds like RD for us right? With older kids we don't go back to rest much plus being offset blah.. I have general map of what I want to do each day ect. I'm just currently trying to figure where to put universal IOS day. Thanks
 
HI and welcome!

I've got to tell you: we always go in August (2 teachers + 3 school aged kids. Non-negotiable.) And it's HOT. Even though my kids are well beyond the napping years, we get back to the resort every single afternoon for a swim. We hit rope drop, tour pretty hard until lunch time, then head back. We swim and relax for a few hours, then get back to the parks at dinner time, ususally for a Table Service dinner somewhere. We go until fireworks most of the time, then start over the next day. The only way we're able to keep up the pace is because of that afternoon swim break.

If your time share is convenient enough to make that possible, consider it. If not, then I think you'll probably want to build in a couple of sleep-in days. Othewise, that ride back home is going to be brutal; you'll all be exhausted!!
 

Think you for the welcomes.. aliceacc thank you for your input. I'm really trying to push the point of rope drops and mid day breaks. I'm usually the one who is against the whole mid day break thing but WDW along with its humidity is a whole new deal for us. Thanks again.
 














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