The one with the dusty, wrinkly, moldy-oldy 4 day park hopper ticket from 1992! August 2025 Trip Report
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Gosh, right?! When I was linking my TR from our first family visit in 2022 I just about died seeing them so little! Time flies!!
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Right?! I wholeheartedly agree - though again I really wanted the strawberry shortcake so I'm telling myself that the sundae would have been disgusting and I made the right call by walking awaySorry about your Twilight Zone free ice cream experience. Ice cream? What ice cream? They shouldn’t mess around when it comes to people’s desserts.
I honestly don't see us staying anywhere else until the kids are much older - LOVE AoA and LOVE those suites!!
Yes she did say that the walk from the plane > baggage claim > Uber (which then took her to Disney Springs to sort out the dusty ticket and get it converted to todays version of tickets) and then navigating Disney Springs was a BIG ouch!!
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That would have been devastating! She was SO DESPERATE to lose it there - we had dental cleanings the Monday before we left on Wednesday and even the hygienist was like "that thing is SO loose I didn't dare even touch it" hahahaha I'm sorry for your daughters missed opportunity! Sounds like another Disney trip will have to be in the worksMy 6yo tried to lose her tooth at Disney for our trip earlier this month too because she wanted tinker Bell to be her tooth fairy but she lost it right before
Funny coincidence
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Oh man such a small world (both that we were there the same time and that we have the same dynamic only a few years apart
) If you end up doing a TR let me know, I'd love to read it!!!
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Thursday, August 14th (Day 2)
We had our alarms set for 6am with the goal being to leave the room no later than 6:45am on 8:30am EE opening days- whether bus or Skyliner, same time frame applied. The plan for the day was to rope drop Epcot, then head back to the resort for our afternoon 'rest' which is where we anticipated meeting Grandma (but since she was flying standby we couldn't really bank on anything - so we didn't dare modify our plans too severely), and then spend the evening in Hollywood Studios which is where we had our much loved theme park nanny, Miss Maya, scheduled for 4 hours that evening. My mom and I had discussed though, a couple days prior, that since we had the nanny already arranged for the day and didn't want to cancel on her at the very last minute (I did not think for one second that the kids would be pulled away from their grandma with this super exciting surprise - even though they ADORE Miss Maya, they adore grandma even more) that I should/would just ask Miss Maya if she would be willing to hang out with the kids that morning instead of the evening.
...of course that fact escaped me until it was already this morning. Whoops! Anyway, back to 6:45am.
We met our goal of the 6:45 departure from the room, with Matt making his way to the Skyliner station to hold our family's place in line while I got in an equally important line... the one for coffee. WHY Landscape of Flavors doesn't open until 7am is beyond me. That feels so late in general, but at Disney World?! That's basically noon to us rope droppers!! (JK but seriously)
So I waited outside the mall-like security style door, looking like an absolute psycho I'm sure (though eventually other people joined me so I'm not the only coffee fiend, it seems) for 7am to roll around and I could fill up our shared coffee mug. Since there were 4 of us, we got 4 mugs included with our 'free' QS Dining Plan. The kids don't drink pop, so that made it pretty easy for Matt and I to dedicate specific mugs for specific drinks - i.e. the blueish/teal mug was dedicated to coffee. The pink lid was for Powerade (which we do give the kids in small doses). The orange one was for anything else (pop, lemonade, whatever), and the green lid was for my mom. This makes for less mingling of flavors (sorry but once you pour coffee in a Disney mug, that's all it's gonna taste like- rinses between fills don't do diddly!) as well as easy identification. We kept reminding ourselves "Green = Grandma!" or "Pink = Powerade!" etc., lol!
Eventually I had my coffee acquired, and power-walked my way to join Matt at the Skyliner line. Now, line jumping at Disney in the parks? Nooooo. One measly mom joining her family with a newly-filled mug o' caffeine? I feel like that's more acceptable. Sound off on me in the comments, if you wish
It was an absolutely beautiful morning! The line wasn't too bad at all by this point, time stamps for the photos below are 7:03 & 7:05.
We waited for 7:25 which is historically when they've started running the Skyliner, the kids of course excited to look for turtles & fish in Hourglass Lake.
Did I mention it was a beautiful morning???
Eventually they let us on, though always always always starting with the Pop Century line first... Matt and I commented that at least this trip they have a dedicated CM to direct the flow of traffic ("okay Pop side you can begin...... **lets maybe 30-40 people through** "okay AoA side, once that family is through then you guys can enter the station.....") vs last year's trip when it was just a free for all and the Pop side is closest to the station so they just continuously spill in, never allowing for any sort of zipper merge. Regardless, we were in the air by 7:33am so not too shabby!
When we arrived at Epcot we made it through security & the tapstiles without incident and I realized shortly after that Epcot must have implemented the new/same rope drop rules as MK where they don't hold you at specific points anymore, they let everyone get to whichever ride they want to go on and wait for the park to open there. We were in a halfway decent position for rope dropping Remy's Ratatouille Adventure, but still behind maybe 100-150 people. The line was moving, and mostly chaos-free (thankfully) with the only point that we were dreading was the awful stroller drop off situation. There isn't really a good way to do this - it's not like all 4 of us can/should wait while Matt parks the stroller because no one, and I mean NO ONE will let you budge your way back into the line - I don't even mean where we WERE in the line, I mean in the line at all. It moves without you whether you like it or not, and I'm not waiting for all those people to pass before finding the end of the line (as if that would even remotely be close to fair). So what we've come up with is, once again, parent # 1 (in this case, me) takes the kids by the hands & stays in the steady thread of people inching their way closer to the queue while parent # 2 (this time Matt) parks the stroller and then re-joins the family. Is it ideal? No, but at least it's ONE person re-joining a group, not a group re-joining ONE person. Again, I hate line jumpers as much as the next guy (I think we all remember what Matt did to the 10+ line jumpers on Guardians last year....................
) but this is so much different.
Anyway, that's what we had planned.
We aren't moving super duper quickly (the park isn't open so it's not like the queue is moving, we're all just finding our place in the winding outdoor queue area for the ride), but Matt is taking slightly longer than he should. I kept looking over my shoulder, trying to see if maybe he couldn't find me? but don't spot him. I'm past La Creperie by now and getting closer to the fountain, getting nervous that NOW it would be less acceptable for him to join us when finally I see him approaching. "What on earth took you so long?!" I ask.
"a dad forgot his kid in the stroller"
"...what?"
"Yeah, a dad pushed his stroller into the parking area and then left. I saw hair poking out from under the canopy, paused a moment and then looked in the seat.... yup, there was a kid in there. I was like "SIR- YOU FORGOT YOUR KID" but he didn't hear me so I had to sit with the kid until a CM got there"
...................................
"how old was the kid?!"
"I don't know, 3 maybe?"
..omg. my jaw I think was on the floor by this point, the parents behind us were listening to the conversation and all of us were in awe.
I ask "so what happened? did he finally remember he had forgotten his kid??"
"no, I told the CM what he was wearing and she went and grabbed him to bring him back to get the kid but I stayed there because I didn't know what else to do, I didn't want the kid to be alone"
The 3 of us (me + the mom & dad in line behind us) busted out laughing and the mom and I high-fived. Yay us for not forgetting a kid at rope drop!!! We may not be perfect, but at least we were better off than that guy (for now anyway, the day is young LOL). I can only imagine what his wife said to him when he re-joined her in line and she went "where's little Sally?"
I was DEAD, y'all. Deceased.
We had our alarms set for 6am with the goal being to leave the room no later than 6:45am on 8:30am EE opening days- whether bus or Skyliner, same time frame applied. The plan for the day was to rope drop Epcot, then head back to the resort for our afternoon 'rest' which is where we anticipated meeting Grandma (but since she was flying standby we couldn't really bank on anything - so we didn't dare modify our plans too severely), and then spend the evening in Hollywood Studios which is where we had our much loved theme park nanny, Miss Maya, scheduled for 4 hours that evening. My mom and I had discussed though, a couple days prior, that since we had the nanny already arranged for the day and didn't want to cancel on her at the very last minute (I did not think for one second that the kids would be pulled away from their grandma with this super exciting surprise - even though they ADORE Miss Maya, they adore grandma even more
) that I should/would just ask Miss Maya if she would be willing to hang out with the kids that morning instead of the evening....of course that fact escaped me until it was already this morning. Whoops! Anyway, back to 6:45am.
We met our goal of the 6:45 departure from the room, with Matt making his way to the Skyliner station to hold our family's place in line while I got in an equally important line... the one for coffee. WHY Landscape of Flavors doesn't open until 7am is beyond me. That feels so late in general, but at Disney World?! That's basically noon to us rope droppers!! (JK but seriously)
So I waited outside the mall-like security style door, looking like an absolute psycho I'm sure (though eventually other people joined me so I'm not the only coffee fiend, it seems) for 7am to roll around and I could fill up our shared coffee mug. Since there were 4 of us, we got 4 mugs included with our 'free' QS Dining Plan. The kids don't drink pop, so that made it pretty easy for Matt and I to dedicate specific mugs for specific drinks - i.e. the blueish/teal mug was dedicated to coffee. The pink lid was for Powerade (which we do give the kids in small doses). The orange one was for anything else (pop, lemonade, whatever), and the green lid was for my mom. This makes for less mingling of flavors (sorry but once you pour coffee in a Disney mug, that's all it's gonna taste like- rinses between fills don't do diddly!) as well as easy identification. We kept reminding ourselves "Green = Grandma!" or "Pink = Powerade!" etc., lol!
Eventually I had my coffee acquired, and power-walked my way to join Matt at the Skyliner line. Now, line jumping at Disney in the parks? Nooooo. One measly mom joining her family with a newly-filled mug o' caffeine? I feel like that's more acceptable. Sound off on me in the comments, if you wish
It was an absolutely beautiful morning! The line wasn't too bad at all by this point, time stamps for the photos below are 7:03 & 7:05.
We waited for 7:25 which is historically when they've started running the Skyliner, the kids of course excited to look for turtles & fish in Hourglass Lake.
Did I mention it was a beautiful morning???
Eventually they let us on, though always always always starting with the Pop Century line first... Matt and I commented that at least this trip they have a dedicated CM to direct the flow of traffic ("okay Pop side you can begin...... **lets maybe 30-40 people through** "okay AoA side, once that family is through then you guys can enter the station.....") vs last year's trip when it was just a free for all and the Pop side is closest to the station so they just continuously spill in, never allowing for any sort of zipper merge. Regardless, we were in the air by 7:33am so not too shabby!
When we arrived at Epcot we made it through security & the tapstiles without incident and I realized shortly after that Epcot must have implemented the new/same rope drop rules as MK where they don't hold you at specific points anymore, they let everyone get to whichever ride they want to go on and wait for the park to open there. We were in a halfway decent position for rope dropping Remy's Ratatouille Adventure, but still behind maybe 100-150 people. The line was moving, and mostly chaos-free (thankfully) with the only point that we were dreading was the awful stroller drop off situation. There isn't really a good way to do this - it's not like all 4 of us can/should wait while Matt parks the stroller because no one, and I mean NO ONE will let you budge your way back into the line - I don't even mean where we WERE in the line, I mean in the line at all. It moves without you whether you like it or not, and I'm not waiting for all those people to pass before finding the end of the line (as if that would even remotely be close to fair). So what we've come up with is, once again, parent # 1 (in this case, me) takes the kids by the hands & stays in the steady thread of people inching their way closer to the queue while parent # 2 (this time Matt) parks the stroller and then re-joins the family. Is it ideal? No, but at least it's ONE person re-joining a group, not a group re-joining ONE person. Again, I hate line jumpers as much as the next guy (I think we all remember what Matt did to the 10+ line jumpers on Guardians last year....................
) but this is so much different.Anyway, that's what we had planned.
We aren't moving super duper quickly (the park isn't open so it's not like the queue is moving, we're all just finding our place in the winding outdoor queue area for the ride), but Matt is taking slightly longer than he should. I kept looking over my shoulder, trying to see if maybe he couldn't find me? but don't spot him. I'm past La Creperie by now and getting closer to the fountain, getting nervous that NOW it would be less acceptable for him to join us when finally I see him approaching. "What on earth took you so long?!" I ask.
"a dad forgot his kid in the stroller"
"...what?"
"Yeah, a dad pushed his stroller into the parking area and then left. I saw hair poking out from under the canopy, paused a moment and then looked in the seat.... yup, there was a kid in there. I was like "SIR- YOU FORGOT YOUR KID" but he didn't hear me so I had to sit with the kid until a CM got there"
...................................
"how old was the kid?!"
"I don't know, 3 maybe?"
..omg. my jaw I think was on the floor by this point, the parents behind us were listening to the conversation and all of us were in awe.
I ask "so what happened? did he finally remember he had forgotten his kid??"
"no, I told the CM what he was wearing and she went and grabbed him to bring him back to get the kid but I stayed there because I didn't know what else to do, I didn't want the kid to be alone"
The 3 of us (me + the mom & dad in line behind us) busted out laughing and the mom and I high-fived. Yay us for not forgetting a kid at rope drop!!! We may not be perfect, but at least we were better off than that guy (for now anyway, the day is young LOL). I can only imagine what his wife said to him when he re-joined her in line and she went "where's little Sally?"
I was DEAD, y'all. Deceased.
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