OK Dis Experts. Here is the plan..what do u think?

[jnl]

Here is the plan for myself,dh,ds8,ds5,mil,& fil(inlaws 1st time to WDW)5-24 thru5-31
Sat. 5-24 Arrive to MCO around 1:00pm. Check in at off site resort. Swim,relax,unpack. Head to Chef Mickey's 5:15 ps. After dinner head to Poly for EWP& FIS.
Sun.5-25 Eat breakfast in room head to MGM for the morning(star wars weekend) leave park 1:45 and head to MK. Watch 3:00 parade then eat CP 4:30ps. Stay at MK for FIS.
Mon. 5-26 Eat AUCE breakfast somewhere? Head to MK stay until 3:15. Head to MGM eat Fantasmic pkg. at H&V 4:00 ps. Watch parade and Fantasmic.
Tues.5-27 AK Donalds, break. 9:50am ps. Stay all day, watch parade. Leave park eat off property. Head to MGM and finish park.
Wed.5-28 Day off relax shop DTD maybe Ohana's for dinner?
Thurs.5-29 Eat breakfast in room. MK in morning leave 2:15 head to WL Eat at WC 2:40 ps. Head to Epcot. Stay for Illuminations.
Fri.5-30 Eat AUCE breakfast. Spend day at Epcot. Eat at Brergarten 4:30 ps.
Sat. 5-30 Last day Pack up head to DTD last time. Be at airport at 2:00.

 

[nativetxn]

That's kind of tough to read. You might want to put a space between the days or something.

Looks pretty good.

 

[enord]

It may be a little hard on the 5 & 8 yo and two first timers. If you are not going to take any hotel breaks during the day, make sure you don't go too commando when you are in the parks. Take plenty of time to soak up the atmosphere and maybe have a Mickey Bar. I can tell you from experience, if you don't, about the middle of day two in the parks, someone is going to have a melt down. Good Luck and have fun!

 

[Elk34]

Looks to me like you have put a lot of emphasis on the priority seatings and the meals and not the attractions of the parks. And if that is your goal (and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it) then you have done a good job.

If however, you are really trying to see as much of the parks as possible I think all of the late breakfast and mid-day PS's will GREATLY interfere with seeing the attractions.

We only had one mid afternoon PS and that was a Mama Melroses for the Fantasmic package. At the time felt that it was worth it to guarantee a seat for Fantasmic. Looking back it wasn't needed. But the whole afternoon we would want to do something but couldn't because it wouldn't get out in time for the PS or it was on the wrong side of the park from the restaurant etc. I just felt like the PS really anchored us to that time and that location and interfered with our normal flow of touring.

I personally would rather tour the park at my leisure and if we all happened to be hungry and we happened to be in front of the Biergarten then that is where we would eat. But, I don't put as much emphasis on the meals as some people do. To me it is just something that has to be done so we don't drop dead on the way back to Space Mountain.

 

[jnl]

Since this is our fist time ouside of WDW I really didn't want to leave the parks to go back to the resort, so my plan was to eat a big breakfast in the morning bring snacks to the parks or to buy them and then use a earlier dinner to give us the breaks for the day. My boys both play sports and due to the 3yr age gap we tend to run from game to game and place to place so they are use to the fast pace. But i plan to take it sowhat slow for the inlaws.

 

[Elk34]

I think that you are smart to do the big breakfast and then late lunch/early dinner thing. That is pretty much what we did too. But when you make those lunch/dinners PS's at specific restaurants you are committing yourself to be in a specific part of the park at a specific time and that may become restrictive.

It seemed to me that you could almost always walk in and get a seating with a minimal wait. Especially if you are going at an off time like mid afternoon.