****Official November 2025 Thread****

[Disturbia]

This will be our first Thanksgiving trip. Who has been that week and has any advice on crowds and how best to arrange things? I'm trying to figure out how to take advantage of holiday parties, EEHs, and LLMP (maybe splurge on premier pass at MK and skip MVMCP?) to lessen the impact from the high crowds but also not completely blow the budget. We are staying at Kidani and will have a car rental.

IF
MVMCP 21, 23, 25, 26, 28
JW Nov 22, 24, 29

Then (frontrunner plan C):

Nov 21 Fri Travel
Nov 22 Sat MK full day (LLMP)
*can’t convince extended family last day of food and wine festival is worth a visit in am
Nov 23 Sun AK (LLSP FOP)/MVMCP?
Nov 24 Mon Epcot am hop to MK (LLSP Tron)
Nov 25 Tue MK am (LLSP SDMT; hop to HS (shows+Hollywood & Vine dining package)
Nov 26 Wed MK am hop Epcot (LLMP)
Nov 27 Thur HS (with LLMP+LLSP ROTR)
Nov 28 Fri checkout Topolinos breakfast - start of Epcot festival of holidays (will miss again)

EETPH extended evening theme park hours - we’re trying to avoid pm - Mon@Epcot; Wed@AK (your plans may need to be rearranged if staying at deluxe)

 

[Disturbia]

Also, if staying at AK I wouldn’t use the car going to AK. The bus is pretty efficient going to AK but not to other parks. I would definitely utilize early entry for AK. We loved the AK extended evenings this past Dec and rode 4 rides (FOP twice).

Pool/kids splash area at AKL is excellent but hot tubs can have people in them for hours.

We stayed at AKL post Covid and bus service was very slow 40 min wait; no times updated on the screen; but we’ve also stayed at the Poly where we got stuck behind buses at GF and it took 1.5 hr to get to HS (one bus for both resorts; deluxe should have dedicated buses).

We just switched resorts from Poly to AOA Nemo mainly for the 1 bedroom setup and ease to Epcot/HS (Skyliner is not recommended during the rainy summer months but is great for Nov/Dec). Dec had one sudden downpour and something happened on the monorail and we were stuck on it for 2 hours and then scrambled to get to Boathouse.