JacLynne
Earning My Ears
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We are going on our last big family trip before my son leaves for bootcamp. I have made my ADRs, we are on the DDP & staying @ OKW, i also have an AP. I think standing in line for characters is a HUGE waste of time and patience, so my goal was to book as many character meals as possible. Thoughts on the following plan?
Day 1: myself, my toddler and my 18 yo fly in before 10am. Spend the day at the pool, possibly go to DS? I had thought of taking my toddler over to the photo studio and doing pictures. This is a Tuesday. I also planned on having groceries delivered. No meals planned.
Day 2: Hollywood studios (Galaxys edge opens 2 days later). Breakfast @ Hollywood & Vine for the Disney Jr characters. I thought this would be a good 1st character meal, since she basically only watches Disney Jr and Peppa pig. I am prepared for the food to suck. Paying cash for this meal. Spend the day in Hollywood studios doing all the stuff a toddler would enjoy. Leave earlyish since we will be coming back after GE opens.
Day 3: late breakfast @ Bon Voyage adventure breakfast. Tangled is the current favorite Disney movie and my son was actually Prince Eric in a theater production once upon a time, so this is a no brainer. Paying cash. Spending the rest of the day @ Epcot. GE opens at HS this day.
Day 4: hubs & 14 yo ds arrive after 6pm. No plans at this point.
Day 5: DDP kicks in because we move to a bigger room on this day.
MK day, we plan on opening the park at 7am. We have a 9:45 reservation for breakfast at BOG to use 1 of our QS meals. I figured this gives us a couple of hours & then we can sit and take a break and eat. Belle & Beast are my daughters favorite characters, so I thought eating in the castle would be fun even if we were not hanging with any characters. We have an ADR @ Crystal Palace for dinner too.
Day 6: no park day. Dinner plans at 1900 Park Fare
Day 7: AK. Late lunch reservations at Tusker House connected to ROL seating
Day 8: Garden Grill before the park opens. Chip & Dale are my younger sons favorites.
Early dinner at Akershus, because... princesses. And we decided against paying CRT prices until either the food gets better, or our princess is a little older.
Day 9: 1/2 day at a park just the kids and I. Hubs wants to sleep in or go check out the new NBA experience. Dinner at Sanaa with just hubs and I. This is when having older kids capable of babysitting really comes in handy.
Day 10: HS for GE - what my oldest has been patiently waiting for. Starting it with Rope drop. Early dinner reservations @ Mama Melrose hooked to saved seats @ Fantasmic.
Day 11: 1/2 day at MK. Lunch @ BOG.
Date night at The Edison.
Day 12: Brunch at Raglan Rd. My oldest has a 10 day pass, my hubs has a 5 day pass, the rest of us have an AP. Idk if we will go back into the parks or not.
Day 13: Check out. Breakfast at 'Ohana. Flight doesn't leave till 8pm... so idk what we will do this day either.
I promised my family we wouldn't enter the MK until we were all together, in case you were wondering why it took us so long to get there. Also, Epcot is my oldests fave park. Although that might change after GE opens.
Suggestions or thoughts?
TIA!
Day 1: myself, my toddler and my 18 yo fly in before 10am. Spend the day at the pool, possibly go to DS? I had thought of taking my toddler over to the photo studio and doing pictures. This is a Tuesday. I also planned on having groceries delivered. No meals planned.
Day 2: Hollywood studios (Galaxys edge opens 2 days later). Breakfast @ Hollywood & Vine for the Disney Jr characters. I thought this would be a good 1st character meal, since she basically only watches Disney Jr and Peppa pig. I am prepared for the food to suck. Paying cash for this meal. Spend the day in Hollywood studios doing all the stuff a toddler would enjoy. Leave earlyish since we will be coming back after GE opens.
Day 3: late breakfast @ Bon Voyage adventure breakfast. Tangled is the current favorite Disney movie and my son was actually Prince Eric in a theater production once upon a time, so this is a no brainer. Paying cash. Spending the rest of the day @ Epcot. GE opens at HS this day.
Day 4: hubs & 14 yo ds arrive after 6pm. No plans at this point.
Day 5: DDP kicks in because we move to a bigger room on this day.
MK day, we plan on opening the park at 7am. We have a 9:45 reservation for breakfast at BOG to use 1 of our QS meals. I figured this gives us a couple of hours & then we can sit and take a break and eat. Belle & Beast are my daughters favorite characters, so I thought eating in the castle would be fun even if we were not hanging with any characters. We have an ADR @ Crystal Palace for dinner too.
Day 6: no park day. Dinner plans at 1900 Park Fare
Day 7: AK. Late lunch reservations at Tusker House connected to ROL seating
Day 8: Garden Grill before the park opens. Chip & Dale are my younger sons favorites.
Early dinner at Akershus, because... princesses. And we decided against paying CRT prices until either the food gets better, or our princess is a little older.
Day 9: 1/2 day at a park just the kids and I. Hubs wants to sleep in or go check out the new NBA experience. Dinner at Sanaa with just hubs and I. This is when having older kids capable of babysitting really comes in handy.
Day 10: HS for GE - what my oldest has been patiently waiting for. Starting it with Rope drop. Early dinner reservations @ Mama Melrose hooked to saved seats @ Fantasmic.
Day 11: 1/2 day at MK. Lunch @ BOG.
Date night at The Edison.
Day 12: Brunch at Raglan Rd. My oldest has a 10 day pass, my hubs has a 5 day pass, the rest of us have an AP. Idk if we will go back into the parks or not.
Day 13: Check out. Breakfast at 'Ohana. Flight doesn't leave till 8pm... so idk what we will do this day either.
I promised my family we wouldn't enter the MK until we were all together, in case you were wondering why it took us so long to get there. Also, Epcot is my oldests fave park. Although that might change after GE opens.
Suggestions or thoughts?
TIA!
