Thanksgiving Week - 2017

[my2disneyboys]

We'll be there 11/14-11/24 (doing 2 split up days at Universal). Not really worried about the crowds. We are there so early that we feel like we can get some quality park time in before it gets crazy. We don't have many full days planned. We are either doing RD or doing late night.

We're having an early Thanksgiving dinner at Minnie's Dine H&V with the Fantasmic! package. Looking forward to spending the day at HS

We don't intend on following a detailed itinerary. I chucked it out the window

Here's our plan:

11/14--driving day --check in Cabana Bay
11/15--Universal
11/16--MK
11/17--Check in Beach Club--Pool? Epcot? MK? HS? dinner at Beaches and Cream
11/18--Epcot
11/19--Back to Universal for Christmas at Wizarding World!!!!
11/20--HS/Epcot
11/21-- Dessert party at MK
11/22--AK then EMH at MK??
11/23--HS
11/24-- Drive home

Had to split up Universal to get to see the Christmas stuff. It's annoying, but what are ya gonna do?

We stayed at Cabana Bay and LOVED it! It was a really fun resort.

 

[my2disneyboys]

You guys are all making me re-think my Tgiving Day plans - lol. Glad to find this thread - it will be fun following it for ideas!

We are staying at BC for 2 nights and doing the CP package on one night and possibly the HS show(?) on the other night. I have Chefs de France booked for my CP package with the 5pm show, but I'm fiddling around trying to change the show time to a later slot so it's darker outside.

I have dinner on the boardwalk scheduled too at Trattoria al Forno. This is going way back, but when my girls were babies/toddlers, we spent many nights eating at Spoodles so I'm excited to finally have the right opportunity to at least eat in the same building as our old hang out .

Then moving to GF for the next few nights and have bought tickets for MVMCP already. We'll also take one of the days to spend at AK. We should have a fair amount of "spare" time during this GF portion of our stay, purposely so we can soak in the holiday atmosphere there and also resort-hop to see decorations/trees.

I'm pretty excited - we've been to Disney earlier in November a couple of times, but never this late into the month when there is much more of a holiday theme.

Edit to add: Not worried about crowds either. We'll book our FPs to do the rides we want, but I'd say the main reason for our trip is to enjoy the holiday parties and shows.

I think that is the right attitude to have when visiting over a holiday!! I will try to get my family thinking the same... I love that we have the three fastpasses and dining reserved so even if it is crazy busy - we know we have that and then the rest of them time can be slower pace and not as rigid - and just enjoy all the holiday stuff and shows!! I can't wait.

 

[foohpah]

We went for Thanksgiving for the first time in 2015 and loved it. It was crowded but we had been going in the summer so we were used to crowds and found that they bothered us less when it was not a billion degrees outside. We loved it so much we are headed back this year. Two years ago we ate Thanksgiving at Tusker House and spent the day at AK. It was really nice - not too crowded. This year we are going to do Hollywood Studios and eat at 50's Prime Time. I am hoping more people are thinking HS is a park to skip so it might make it less crowded that day....we will see.

 

[Delirium]

I know the #1 rule is that Rope Drop is your friend. But, can someone tell me what are the crowds like at MK in the evening during Thanksgiving week? Do they not get 'lighter' until after fireworks? Or, can you begin to get some things done around 7-8 o'clock in the evening?

 

[BGinCali]

We went for Thanksgiving for the first time in 2015 and loved it. It was crowded but we had been going in the summer so we were used to crowds and found that they bothered us less when it was not a billion degrees outside. We loved it so much we are headed back this year. Two years ago we ate Thanksgiving at Tusker House and spent the day at AK. It was really nice - not too crowded. This year we are going to do Hollywood Studios and eat at 50's Prime Time. I am hoping more people are thinking HS is a park to skip so it might make it less crowded that day....we will see.

We are doing a family celebration Thanksgiving week too - love hearing everyone's experiences & advice!! Our dinner Thanksgiving is set for Tusker House - hoping the kids like it! (I know the adults will ).