**September 2019**

[ariane37]

We're so excited to be able to have the vacation for just the two of us. We've taken the kids a few times and they just don't have the same feeling about Disney that we do.

DH and I go more often by ourselves than with the kids now! Sept will be our 4th trip without them this year alone (although May was a huge trip with tons of DIS friends) but we let them come earlier this month lol and are letting one come in Dec Have a great time!

 

[MamaJessie]

@pooh'smate - I added you to the roll call

Our kids are all really into the Disney trips but it's still nice to go adult only - it was such a different experience when I went with my best friend in November. Now I seem to keep planning adult only trips alternating with kid trips...

 

[Wishfuiiy]

It was FP+ day for us, I tried to pick some times that were earlier in the day so if people wanted to leave the parks to go do other things or wanted more fastpasses and I know people do 60+(5) or whatever but there are so many days that I can't even. I'm just going to give you guys my FULL ITINERARY cause I gotta pad mine out due to me doing a trip report anyway... 11 nights/12 days split stay whoo!

Also essentially, it's the divorced kids vacation were the first part of our vacation is with Dad, Grandma on Dad's side, Stepmom, Stepbro/Wife and their kids. Then they all leave and my Mom, Stepdad and Bro-in-law come for the rest. The only person leaving EARLIER than everyone else is my Grandma who is coming home a day earlier so my Mom can go get her from the airport. Even tho my mom and dad are divorced, my mom and stepdad really love my grandma. It's seriously the best.

Friday Sept 20th - Arrival

MCO - 9:30am-ish
Check-in Pop Century
Some point we gotta go pick up our APs (My sister, niece and I totally took advantage of getting these since we are staying longer than everyone else.)
Friday night is a MNSSHP for Family#1 and we managed to get some fun fastpasses for the kids cause they have never been to WDW. Peter Pan's Flight and PotC before the party. Good starters for the kids in the party.
MNSSHP activities the rest of the evening.

Saturday Sept 21 - MK
Mickey&Minnie - For the kids!
Space Mtn -For me! LOL
SDMT - This will be my first time cause I used to refuse to wait in this damn line. I can't believe I've never rode it before though my sister has. My niece also refused to ride it before now so it will be fun to ride with her.

Sunday Sept 22 -Epcot
Frozen Ever After - Kids, mang.
Living with the Land - Dad requested this, and I'm totally okay with things like this. Also since my niece is gonna be out of school for so long, we're making her do educational type of things like Hall of Pres and things like this.
The Seas with Nemo & Friends - Kids, mang.

Monday Sept 23 - HS
Star Tours - Me and Dad! I love this ride.
Frozen Sing-Along - KIIIIDS.
SPECIAL SURPRISE FOR NIECE - Tea Party in Wonderland at the GF for my niece, cause I love to spoil her.
SDD - It's later in the afternoon at 6:30, BUT it will be everyone's first time on it so we're pretty stoked. We definitely wanted to get FP to this over Alien Saucers, RRC or ToT, cause at least RRC/ToT has a shaded queue. And I figure the kids can rope drop Aliens, and I can rope drop Millenium Falcon since no one in my party is into SW like I am.

Tuesday Sept 24 - AK
WAKING UP SUPER EARLY TO UBER MY GRANDMA TO AIRPORT THEN UBER BACK. I really don't want her to get lost kinda thing since she never flies, and she needs extra assistance.
Na'vi River Journey - We hadn't ever been to Pandora either cause last time we visited WDW, we only went to MK for the Christmas Party on a whim on weekend. And while the older crowd would love love love FoP, we have a lot of kids and Gma so we needed to do something that everyone could do so Na'vi River it is!
Festival of the LK - Love this show, so it's fine.
Kilimanjaro - Look, I know people LOOOOVE this but I could leave it. Anyway, we have kids so they'll love it so that is fine by me even tho I mean... dinosaur is cool.


Wednesday Sept 25 - AK
Goodbye Family#1, Welcoming Family#2! Switching to All-Star Sports, even tho we really wish we just booked Pop the WHOLE TIME. We don't mind Sports tho. Also, we are adding on ADRs at this point cause Family #1 only wanted to do QS and Family#2 got Free Dining for half of the party.

As family#2 gets into town about 11am, we will be out of Pop and going over to Sports to meet them, while they transfer our luggage for us. No little little kids on this trip at this point. Niece is 8 so she's going to be fine.
ADR - Rainforest Cafe for my mom at 3ish then since we are here, we'll do the Pandora night with our family!
FoP- SO EXCITED.
Kilimanjaro - To quote my mom, "I BETTER SEE SOME DAMN ANIMALS OR I AIN'T EVER RIDING THAT TRASH AGAIN"
Everest - This is my mom's favorite ride in all of WDW so yay, I'm stoked and also it will be at night so it will be different from when we've rode it in the day!

Thursday Sept 26 - MK
ADR - 1900 Breakfast - WE LOVE THIS BREAKFAST AND THE CHARACTERS. It's a must do for our family.
SDMT - 10am, yes. Mom's first time riding it too. Like I said before, we've never gotten a chance cause the line was so long and we either were only there for so long on a short trip that we just wanted to skip it or the wait was REALLY REALLY LONG.
BTMR - The Wildest Ride in the Wilderness is my niece's favorite mountain... though Space Mtn might take the lead on it.
Splash Mtn - Oh my lord, half our party has panic attacks riding this the rest of our party laughs about them freaking out. Will be nice and cool to do.

Friday Sept 27 - HS
ADR - Hollywood and Vine: Fantasmic! FP thingymabob.
SSD - 10:40am, YES! Mom's first time! Super stoked. Great time of the day too!
Indiana Jones - It's a show we've never seen before and I think my Dad and BIL will appreciate it.
Star Tours - Me again. Hello, my old friend.

Saturday, Sept 28 - Epcot
ADR - Via Niapoli - Pizza, yo. It was the easiest decision for our group of picky eaters. However, I plan on doing a little F&W surfing so IDK how hungry I'll be.
We decided to rope drop Soarin' or just wait in queue after we do...
Test Track - Easily Dad and BIL's favorite ride. Everyone else loves it too, but we gotta keep the guys a lil happy.
Spaceship Earth - My sister hates this ride. I LOVE IT. My mom has never rode it.
Mission: SPACE - Blech. Maybe cause I did Orange when the rest of my family did Green, but either way I don't care for this one.

Sunday Sept 29 - AK/MK
ADR - Ohana's for dinner cause it is a must do for us!
Morning will be at AK to do the stuff we missed on the first half-day!
Na'vi River Journey - Gotta finish off Pandora, plus everyone should enjoy it but especially me cause I love Avatar.
Kali River Rapids - My sister has been dying to go on this for YEARS but no one wants to get wet. We finally are caving.
Dinosaur - Yes pls.
BREAK midday then dinner then MNSSHP

Monday, Sept 20 - MK
ADR - Be Our Guest Lunch and Liberty Tree, cause my mom and I have never had either! We really want to try them both.
SDMT - 9:20am, great opener for our last day!
PPF - This is classic, and while we've already rode it with Family#2 once, it's everyone's favorite.
Space Mtn - My favorite mtn but we figure they might have the halloween overlay on it during the party so we need the original.

OKAY SORRY THIS ONE WAS LONG BUT I AM EXCITED!

 

[Superchikk]

Oh... duhhh. what about 7DMT? Is that still a magical unicorn too? Prefer mid morning, but you know we take what we can get. It'll be 60+1 and 60+4.

I was able to get 7DMT twice on our trip, with lots of options open!

 

[Superchikk]

Just finalized our plans for FP day on Tuesday. As it stands now we are not making any FP for HS and instead arriving at 5:30am to RD all we can and leave around 9 to go to AK. Are we crazy? Do you think we will be able to do SDD and ToT (Galaxies Edge would be a bonus not a necessity) without crazy waits? It’s a gamble since my 4 year olds favorite ride is SDD, but we don’t want to waste our FP in HS since most rides are now Tier 1.

We are doing something similar. We're splitting our HS time into two early mornings. We didn't do any FP at HS and put them for other parks later in the day. We will be there Sept 8-14, and our HS days will be Tuesday and Thursday.

 

[bitty246]

I was able to get 7DMT twice on our trip, with lots of options open!

We ended up getting it easily on 3 days. 60+1 was later in the day than I hoped initially, but I think it'll work out just fine!

 

[Kbosch]

We are doing something similar. We're splitting our HS time into two early mornings. We didn't do any FP at HS and put them for other parks later in the day. We will be there Sept 8-14, and our HS days will be Tuesday and Thursday.

We did the opposite, we're splitting HS into two nights. It's not really what I wanted to do ideally but it's how it worked out. I figure if we aren't able to see what we wanted in those two days we'll have to wake up at the butt crack of dawn the day before we leave and try to do it then!

 

[Dawn Peterson]

We did the opposite, we're splitting HS into two nights. It's not really what I wanted to do ideally but it's how it worked out. I figure if we aren't able to see what we wanted in those two days we'll have to wake up at the butt crack of dawn the day before we leave and try to do it then!

I picked Wednesday and all day for our September trip. I plan to hit SWGE early so I grabbed a 9:40 TSM. After that I am playing it by ear. I may hop to Epcot or I may stay or I may go back to the room and plan to head back late because i also want to see the land at night. I think I am going to have to go with the flow since SWGE is a priority.

 

[Mousemommy1]

Too busy nailing down the details of my August trip, I forgot to get added here!!!

I will be there 9/25 - 9/30, staying at the new CSR Gran Destino Tower!!! So excited

Is anyone else having bad issues with the Disney website? It's been awhile since I have run into issues with it, but it will NOT let me process my final payment for September. So annoying!!! Then when I call, it's a more than 15 minute wait and I don't have time for that.

 

[Mrsb1234567]

Too busy nailing down the details of my August trip, I forgot to get added here!!!

I will be there 9/25 - 9/30, staying at the new CSR Gran Destino Tower!!! So excited

Is anyone else having bad issues with the Disney website? It's been awhile since I have run into issues with it, but it will NOT let me process my final payment for September. So annoying!!! Then when I call, it's a more than 15 minute wait and I don't have time for that.

I had a heck of a time booking my fast passes this morning. I was able to get everything I wanted with the exception of slinky dog early in the day. We ended up with 5:20pm.

 

[wx1]

I don't know if this is a good sign but there seemed to be a lot of availability today for fast passes. There was a glitch for 30 minutes and we ended up booking some later than planned. We got everything we wanted except SDD and kept seeing openings long after we selected Who knows but it worked out pretty good considering we couldn't get on the site right away and were clumsy about it when we finally did lol.

 

[Superchikk]

Too busy nailing down the details of my August trip, I forgot to get added here!!!

I will be there 9/25 - 9/30, staying at the new CSR Gran Destino Tower!!! So excited

Is anyone else having bad issues with the Disney website? It's been awhile since I have run into issues with it, but it will NOT let me process my final payment for September. So annoying!!! Then when I call, it's a more than 15 minute wait and I don't have time for that.

It's Tuesday. The site is glitchy on Tuesdays a LOT because they run updates on Monday nights/early Tuesday mornings. I hate having to book stuff on Tuesday mornings.

 

[LaDonna]

Had the same problems this morning booking fp....... I did end up getting pretty much everything we wanted, I could not get sdmt for Sunday but I got it for Tuesday, and sdd i could only get a 7:45....... not sure how we’re going to swing that and fantasmic so I really hope that I can modify it eventually

 

[Earningmywings]

Booking FP today was so frustrating, but I got it done eventually. We were able to get everything except for SDMT on day 60+1, but we knew that would be unlikely. There was one at 6:45pm but we do morning times. Got FOP on day 60+2 and 60+ 5, in the morning. Have already redone several in the hours since

 

[katiec786]

omgomgomg now that fastpasses are done I'm A. Super Excited cos now we're two months out and B. Wondering what will fill that time now all the planning is done?!

 

[old feller]

omgomgomg now that fastpasses are done I'm A. Super Excited cos now we're two months out and B. Wondering what will fill that time now all the planning is done?!

I'm thinking of GE and how it will be

 

[MamaJessie]

Too busy nailing down the details of my August trip, I forgot to get added here!!!

I will be there 9/25 - 9/30, staying at the new CSR Gran Destino Tower!!! So excited

Is anyone else having bad issues with the Disney website? It's been awhile since I have run into issues with it, but it will NOT let me process my final payment for September. So annoying!!! Then when I call, it's a more than 15 minute wait and I don't have time for that.

Added!

 

[Wishfuiiy]

omgomgomg now that fastpasses are done I'm A. Super Excited cos now we're two months out and B. Wondering what will fill that time now all the planning is done?!

I am actually sad that our FP+ choices are done cause you’re right, what do we do now?! I literally even went back in yesterday and rearranged the FPs to keep us from zigzagging all over the place like a completely obsessed nerd.

Also with the ease of booking everything we wanted on the days we wanted has me feeling really good about the crowds currently.

 

[LaDonna]

Had the same problems this morning booking fp....... I did end up getting pretty much everything we wanted, I could not get sdmt for Sunday but I got it for Tuesday, and sdd i could only get a 7:45....... not sure how we’re going to swing that and fantasmic so I really hope that I can modify it eventually

I’ve been fooling around with it all day trying to change some things I actually was able to get two of my Monday 745 Sdd changed to 9-10
So I’m thinking while 4 are standing in line to do Sdd at 7:45( I actually recall you can get in line earlier how many minutes earlier was that 10/15 I can’t remember?) the other 2 can stand in line for fantasmic, i was thinking 7ish to stand in line for fantasmic....... and if fantasmic ends around 830 that should give the other 2 plenty of time to make the 9 to 10 slot

 

[evlaina]

Question for the people getting FP the last few days - I read somewhere (not sure if it was this thread or another?) that FP only seem to be available after 9am, not 8am, at MK, AK, and HS. Is this true?