ticket advice

[mack1420]

Hi Just looking for some advice really on how best to structure our holiday. We will be arriving ( family of four) late on the 23rd July and leaving on 12th August so in reality we will have 19 full days at disney. I have 14 day disney tickets and 14 day 3 park universal ( wet n wild being the 3rd one) can anyone give me some tips on what would be the best way to approach it. Obviously once the tickets are activated i only have 14 consecutive days - if you see what i mean. The plan was to do the first two weeks at disney and the rest of time at universal but also the girls want to go shopping etc.
Any input would be really appreciated as this is our first time.
many thanks

 

[disneyholic family]

everyone is different as to what they like and dislike, or what they like more or less...
so i can only say how i would structure it for myself...
other people on this board, with different preferences, would structure it differently..

i'm assuming you're staying offsite somewhere.....true?

if it were me, i would start with universal....why? because i like disney better, so i'd want to end on a disney high....our last day of our holiday at our favorite place on earth - WDW....
so i would only activate those disney tickets such that our last day is in disney...

i would activate the universal tickets at the beginning.....
i would focus our first 5 days on some combination of universal, IoA and W&W.....and that would be it...
no more universal at all, once the disney part of the holiday begins (of course, you may like universal so much that you'll want to keep going back - but we wouldn't, so 5 days would be more than enough for us)..

then with 14 days of holiday to go, i would activate the disney tickets and focus only on WDW theme parks and waterparks...and during those 14 days, i'd also take afternoons off to go shopping..

no time to go into greater detail right now...
i have to head out..
but overall, that would be my approach...

 

[Pegasus928]

A lot of it will depend on what your family want to do on the first day you get there.
The chances are you will all be wide awake and raring to go by 6am on the first morning. If you think you can get away with having a day at somewhere like DTD, or maybe doing a shopping day on your first one, then that might work. Other than that it will come down to you as a family - and what you just have to do as soon as you get there.

 

[mack1420]

Thanks for the great advice much appreciated
many thanks