Schedule -- Will This Work?

[Terk-1]

Am heading to WDW for 10 days. The first 5 1/2 will be solo, the remaining days my sister will be with me. Trying to get as much in as possible. How does the following plan sound? Do you think it's enough time?

Day 1 (Arrival Day):
10:30am -- Arrive @ MCO
12pm -- Arrive @ CSR, check-in & unpack
1:45pm -- Lunch
2:30pm -- Tour decorations @ Magic Kingdom & EPCOT Resorts
6pm -- Tree Lighting @ EPCOT
8:15pm -- Dinner
9:30pm -- Illuminations

Day 2:
8am -- MGM morning EMH
12pm -- Lunch & tour decorations @ POFQ & POR
3:45pm -- Stars & Cars Parade
6pm -- Dinner @ Magic Kingdom
9pm -- SpectroMagic
10pm -- Wishes

Day 3:
9am -- EPCOT
12pm -- Lunch @ EPCOT
5pm -- Dinner @ MK
6pm -- Magic Kingdom evening EMH

Day 4:
8am -- Animal Kingdom morning EMH
12pm -- Lunch @ AK
1pm -- Tour decorations @ Animal Kingdom Lodge
5pm -- Dinner @ MGM
6pm -- MGM evening EMH
7pm -- Fantasmic
8pm -- Osborne Lights

Day 5:
8am -- EPCOT morning EMH
11:30am -- Lunch
12pm -- Break
4:30pm -- Dinner @ EPCOT
6:45pm -- Candlelight Processional

Day 6 (DSis arrives):
8am -- Magic Kingdom
12pm -- Meet @ CSR for lunch
3pm -- Animal Kingdom evening EMH

Day 7:
8am -- Magic Kingdom morning EMH
12pm -- Lunch
1pm -- Break
4pm -- MGM
5pm -- Dinner @ MGM
6pm -- Tour Osborne Lights (she's never seen them before)

Day 8:
9am -- EPCOT
1pm -- Break
6pm -- Dinner @ BC
7pm -- EPCOT evening EMH

Day 9:
8am -- MGM morning EMH
1pm -- Break
5pm -- Dinner @ Polynesian
6pm -- Magic Kingdom
9pm -- Wishes
10pm -- SpectroMagic

Day 10 (departure day):
9am -- Either back to MK or EPCOT
11:30am -- back to resort
12:30pm -- DME to Airport

 

[Frantasmic]

You should have plenty of time. I am envious. Take me with you.

 

[a*lil*bit*goofy]

looks good to me. i had to laugh when i changed my POFQ ressie to CSR. as we had chatted months ago about POFQ when we were first inquiring about Candlelight Processional. I mentioned that i would wave hello to you when we were arriving and you were leaving. Now i see that you switched too to CSR! those codes will getcha, eh. LOL your itinerary looks awesome!

 

[justwinnie]

I would just be worried about your arrival day plans.

Check-in is officially at 3 PM and you'll only be able to check in early if your room is ready. Since C/O time is 11 AM, the room might not get ready in that 1 hour.

Resort hopping might be difficult if you don't have a car. It seems like you're doing the monorail line ones on the first day, so it might not be that bad. If you want to see the Epcot resorts, you should take a bus to one of the resorts from MK, instead of the monorail-- you'd have to walk all the way through Epcot to go out the International Gateway entrance/exit. They're all fairly close, so it's easy to walk around.

Sounds like a lot of fun! I'd love to go by myself for a few days just to do things at my own pace. I'm jealous, but I'm going next week, so I really should't be.

 

[Karnak]

Your itinerary looks good to me.

However, if it were me during the solo days of my visit, I would eliminate as many of the park hopping days as possible. I have found that I can get so much more done in the parks if I don't use up three hours or so each day moving from park to park.

But that's just me. Plenty of folks like to hop.

In any case ...

Enjoy.

 

[Terk-1]

Check-in is officially at 3 PM and you'll only be able to check in early if your room is ready. Since C/O time is 11 AM, the room might not get ready in that 1 hour.

If I can check-in & get my room at 12pm, then great. If it's not ready, then I will store my luggage and head over to the MK Resorts for touring early before lunch. I can head back to the resort (if the room was not ready) after lunch and unpack, then head for EPCOT. As far as check-out, we will probably check out that morning and store the luggage before heading to a park.

Resort hopping might be difficult if you don't have a car. It seems like you're doing the monorail line ones on the first day, so it might not be that bad. If you want to see the Epcot resorts, you should take a bus to one of the resorts from MK, instead of the monorail-- you'd have to walk all the way through Epcot to go out the International Gateway entrance/exit. They're all fairly close, so it's easy to walk around.

If I can check-in to my resort early, then I'll unpack and hopefully have enough time to tour the MK resorts before lunch. As far as the EPCOT resorts, was planning on grabbing a bus to the Boardwalk from the Magic Kingdom. Should have enough time to see those decorations and head into EPCOT via World Showcase in time for the tree lighting. If not, then I can tour the EPCOT resorts after the tree lighting.

Am trying to get most of my picture taking/video taping done early in the trip. I take a ton of pictures while I'm at WDW and this way it won't get too annoying for my sister.

 

[Terk-1]

i had to laugh when i changed my POFQ ressie to CSR. as we had chatted months ago about POFQ when we were first inquiring about Candlelight Processional. I mentioned that i would wave hello to you when we were arriving and you were leaving. Now i see that you switched too to CSR! those codes will getcha, eh. LOL your itinerary looks awesome!

I had changed to POR because of the discount, but still just could not shake the bad feeling. My TA called to say I could get CSR for the same $$ and thought, why not give it a try.

What I'm trying to do is get all the resort touring, photograph & video taking done early in the trip, so that that's done. Will still take photos when my sister joins me, but this way I know I'll be done with the one's I want to.