Spring Break trip itinerary, Day 2 at DL--first timers!

[PHamrick]

Thanks for looking at this and offering any words of advice! Here are the particulars again: Family of four with two kids (6, 8) staying at GCH, so we will have EMH. Looks like EMH will be at 7 am on the Thursday we will be going.

Here is my tentative plan:
During EMH: hit Tomorrowland first
1. Register kids for Jedi training
2. Hyperspace Mountain
3. Star Tours
4. Launch By to meet characters
5. Finding Nemo Submarine (?) maybe Buzz Astro blasters?
6. Head to Fantasyland
7. Dumbo/Alice in Wonderland/Tea cups/IASW/Canal Boats (some combination of whatever has the shortest lines)
8. Meet some princesses
9. Frontierland for BTMRR
10. Adventureland--hoping to run into Moana!
11. Husband and I do single rider line for Indiana Jones
12. Other parent takes kids on Jungle Cruise or to the Treehouse
13. New Orleans Square for Haunted Mansion
13. Pirate's (assuming it is open by mid-April)
14. Critter Country for Splash Mountain
15. Mickey's toontown for whatever the kids are interested in

Obviously hoping to meet some characters along the way and may have to reorder things for parades, show and any other entertainment. We may or may not make MSEP. Might try and do the 8:30 parade the night before. Not sure yet.

Thanks for any constructive advice that you have! We will be in SoCal in less than a month now!!!!

 

[Nevada Jen]

First, unless your kids are short they can go on Indy. Its no more scary than some of the others on your list. My only advice would be that you might want to hit Tomorrowland during EMH and then head over to the other side of the park, rather than Fantasyland. The Indy/Big thunder side gets crazy crowded/hard to move in the afternoon and fantsyland ride times hit average right at park opening and stay that way all day. Indy, pirates, HM. BTMRR will be near walk on at park opening for at least an hour I would think.

 

[PHamrick]

One is tall enough and the other is right at the height limit, so I'm not sure if she would make it on or not. Good to know about Frontierland/etc. vs. Fantasyland. I wasn't sure how much I wanted to do there (Fantasyland) anyway. I'm more thinking about soaking up the ambiance of that area rather than ride-focused. We are definitely going to do the castle walkthrough and hopefully meet some princesses and maybe other characters, so that will eat up some of our time as well. And we will have to be back for Jedi Training (hoping to get a 2:25 time). Thanks!!

 

[alisonleigh21]

I'm a big planner too

FYI, the Star Wars launch bay characters don't typically don't start meeting people until 10am, and you'll be able to do all the Tomorrowland stuff well before then (likely all done during EMH). You'll probably want to come back for Launch Bay.

Fantasyland gets REALLY crowded really fast (Strollers EVERYWHERE), so it might be harder to soak up ambiance

If you're going to do Mickey and Minnie's houses in Toontown, go as close to opening as possible (10am), the lines get really long really fast.

 

[Nevada Jen]

Yeah. Not much soaking up atmosphere going on in fantasy land. The rides are very close together. You basically exit one ride and walk 10 steps to the next line! We go whole trips skipping it. But my kids are older. Practice with your shorty hitting the height bar with her head. Can't tell you how many kids insist on shrinking under it.
You could save some line time by doing the princess breakfast or lunch at dca.