Thank you.Yes, I am sure MK will be where we spend the most time. I haven't really looked into Universal a whole lot, but my DH and I are both huge fans of HP so I was wanting several early entrys to the WWoHP. My boys love marvel and Dr. Seuss so I thought those areas would be great for them. What would be your suggestions?
We (DH, DS9, DD7, DS4 and me) went for our first trip in June 2011. We spent seven nights at the Poly. We did three days at MK and one each at AK, HS, Epcot, and Universal. We had only two days scheduled at MK, but we had one day at the end that I left open. I assumed we'd go back to Epcot or HS, but we ended up going back to MK.
As far as Universal goes, that's a whole other thread! But I'll share my experience. My general advice to people with small kids is to skip it. But A) I only went one day, split between the two parks, so I'm not an expert, and B) for some families it could work. You have a nice long vacation, so maybe just doing mornings there and afternoons napping and at the pool might work for you.
We hope to go back in June 2013 and plan to spend a couple of nights at the Royal Pacific before or after WDW. You have that part right... if you are going to go to Universal, stay on site, and get the express passes and early entry!
Universal is not geared to families in the way that WDW is. At WDW, there will be a lot your whole family can ride and do together, including the baby, if you have one. At Universal, there is some stuff for little kids, but there is much more that kids can't do. At 40", my DS4 had pretty much one roller coaster at each Disney park he couldn't ride on. (And Mission Space at HS, but that ride has the most awesome exit area to play in he didn't even realize he missed the ride.) We could warn him that there was just this one ride he couldn't ride, do the rider swap, and move on to fun for the whole family. No kid wants to sit around through rider swaps! At Universal, most of the "kids" rides have height restrictions. He couldn't even ride the log flume/river raft rides. We spent a LOT of time split up at Universal, so it was less of a family day.
WWoHP is amazing, but it's small. Our main reason for going to Universal was DS9 and DH have read all of the books and are huge fans. But, most or all of your kids won't be tall enough to ride FJ and none can ride DD. My youngest loved FoH and rode it three times, but I was able to ride with him without worrying about switching off a baby.
The Spiderman ride is AWESOME. But you will have to rider swap on this too. The theming of the area is really cool, but the other rides your kids won't be able to ride.
The Suess area is very well done. With express passes, you could hit all of the rides in less than an hour then and hit the play area. The play area, and at least one of the play areas at Studios Florida, include water. We hadn't dressed for this, so we skipped them.
I hadn't done much research into Universal. The plan was to RD Harry Potter, and beyond that we didn't have a plan. We obviously liked it, since we are planning to return, but our next visit will be much better as our youngest will be able to ride more, and I know what I'm doing. Like I said, my general advice would be to wait a few years, but it could work out great for you, IF you know what you're getting yourself into.
)but this is our first ever trip to WDW and I am not sure where we will spend more time so maybe a more central location would be better then closer to MK but I don't know 
We will probably be in Orlando for 11 nights but part of that time we will be at RPR at Universal (I am thinking 3 nights). I would love to hear your opinions on what would be best for our family. TIA
