Is this your first visit? I'm assuming you have
free dining & have upgraded to regular dining. We loved Pop for our first family visit in April and we even loved eating at the food court. DS5 still talks about their chili dogs. My kids DS5 and DD10 loved Epcot and I heard them talking just yesterday about the dragon dance they saw there. DD loves to shop & bought a Duffy Bear and an umbrella from China and a Duffy outfit from Canada. So if your daughter likes shopping, she'll love Epcot!
If you go to Epcot, I would highly recommend Garden Grill. You're eating with Mickey, Pluto, Chip, & Dale and we thought the food was yummy.
If you haven't checked out
www.easywdw.com 's free crowd calendar and recommended days, I would do that immediately. We had a fantastic trip during April spring break crowds by following recommended days (& making Rope Drop as much as possible).
What are you doing on arrival day & departure day? If you have a couple of hours to spend at a park each of those days, the extra days are only about $5 each. Here's what I'd do
Go to MK on arrival. Get oriented and see if you can get any rides in. At least check out the castle. We spent a lot of time staring at it and it's good to go ahead & get that out of the way so you're not wasting time doing that during early morning ride time. Depending on
www.easywdw.com 's recommendations, I would switch around the days below (if needed) and include Epcot. Then I would spend time at MK on departure day- just to say goodbye.
Day 1 - MK I suggest having a late (10:30) breakfast at Crystal Palace this day if possible. It will serve as lunch and you can have a snack/light breakfast at Pop early before Park opening. Mickey Waffles kids meals at Pop are $5 for 2 waffles, bacon, applesauce, and milk. This was plenty of food for me & a great deal. I even gave my bacon to the kids and saved the applesauce for a snack later. Remember to save room for snacks. They're part of the fun. DS asked for popcorn repeatedly. I knew he wasn't hungry at all & kept putting him off thinking we'd get some later when he needed a snack. We didn't get it until we were leaving the MK the last day and I wish I had realized we were on vacation & it didn't hurt anything & wasn't expensive. We should have snacked more and worried a little less about staying on a meal schedule.
Day 2 - AK- I agree with the PP who suggested WCC for the evening after AK. It's the perfect time for an ADR! (You might want to try the HDDR- it's 2 TS credits but it's all you can eat chicken & ribs curte dinner show.)
Day 3 - DHS- Like Crystal Palace, you could do a late breakfast at Cape May- not sure how much you like breakfast! Not sure if you would find any availability for the Fantasmic! dining package but you could try that.
Day 4 - MK Like I said, I would switch this to Epcot and go to Garden Grill for dinner. If you want to stay for Illuminations, I'd take an afternoon break.
Don't try to cram in too much stuff. We were there 9 nights in April and certainly didn't do everything. Make a list of stuff you really want to do and focus on that. Anything else will be extra. Use FP like it's going out of style. Find some info on good FP strategy and make sure to get another one when your window is up.
We loved the food court at Pop. We came back for breaks in the middle of the day & ate at the food court. A large pepperoni pizza is $16- not too terribly bad. The buses are fast & efficient. I thought it was relaxing to just hop on a bus and have someone else do the driving & navigating. If the bus is too crowded & you don't want to stand (I don't) just wait for the next one. MK is the farthest park away at 20 minutes by bus. I hope your trip is as magical as mine.
Feel free to PM me if you want to ask me anything! I did tons of research for our trip because it kept getting put off for different reasons. I thought it would be our only trip but we wanted to go back before we even left!
