traveling with 2 girls.. and advice?

[lil1squirt]

This is my first trip to wdw. I have been doing tons of planning and reading. I have come up with a bunch of random questions. Sorry this is so long and soo many questions Any help would be helpful.
WE are going June 2-7. It is me(mom 32) my mom(56 but a marathon runner), my dd 4.10 and dd 2.5.

Our itenary.
june 2nd wed
arrive mco at 12:45. staying at contempory. in the garden wing.
Any chance they will upgrade us to the tower?

hope to make it to park by 3:00 for the parade. Is this possibe???


we have 6:40 dinner reservation at crt.
what would be a good plan for between 3 and 6?
after dinner back to resort.

June 3rd - thurs
adr chef mickeys for breakfast
am - ak
back to resort for naps
pm. studios
try to see fantasmic.. any advice? does everyone in the party have to wait in line?
June 4th- fri
am mk
back to resorts for naps
pm epicot
adt at askerus 06:50
will we be able to save a illuminations spot with our stroller before entering the adr?
How much will we be able to do if we get there at 4 before our adr?
June 5th -sat
Mk all day with a break for naps.
see wishes and spectromagic

june 6th sun
open day to do do what we want to go back to do
adr 1900 park considering changing this???

June 7th am open to do what we want
flight leaves at 3:00pm


another question i have is . my girls will need an afternoon nap.. I am having troubles figuring out how to get a nap in and see the parades.. Any suggestions?

Any other advice will be appreciated

 

[annacali]

We are going the same week

It will be our second trip-we went the same week in 2008. My girls are 5 and 7 now. I will try to help with a few of your questions. We stay offsite so I can't help with your hotel questions.

As far as your itinerary...not knowing much about your kids, you do have a lot of late nights planned. We have done WDW, DL, and now planning WDW again, have never seen an afternoon parade because it just doesn't work with naps, and have only seen Spectro at night...doing Illuminations and Fantasmic would just be too much for us. Mine are early risers, and we make every rope drop, but we just can't do all the late nights. We do rope drop, and even some early ADR's, leave around 12-1, nap, swim and go back around 5 for a couple hours. If we do Spectro, we have a lazy morning the next day. Otherwise everyone gets too cranky!

Your day with AK and DHS...you will have to allow major time for transportation to get back to your hotel and back to the parks on that one. Plan for an hour each way if you are using buses. If you really want to see a parade, maybe just make this an AK day, and stick it out until after the parade and then be done for the day.

I don't think you can save a spot for Illuminations with your stroller...a CM would likely move it to the closest stroller parking.

We love 1900 Park Fare...it is one of our favorites. We do it as our arrival dinner.

If you arrive early at Epcot, check out Nemo, Turtle talk with Crush, see how long the lines are at the Character spot, Journey to Imagination.