What time does your family wake up at Disney?

[Godaime]

How old is your daughter? 7 hrs is plenty for us adults but not for my 4 year old

Why not?

7 hours a sleep a night is plenty for us. I normally wake up about 4:15 am, the wife about 5:15 and our daughter about 5:45. Waking up early gives us way more flexibility throughout our day and trip so we get a great value out of the dollars spent.

 

[Bilge Rat]

First day, bright and early. Last day, it takes someone pulling the fire alarm to get them out of bed.

 

[River Country]

There is no right or wrong answer here, its whatever your family/group prefers.

We set alarms in my family but we are used to it, we don't sleep the day away, although if you build a pool day into your plans like we do sometimes more than 1 depending on the length of stay we would wake up on our own and grab a quick bite then hit the pool, and go to a nice dinner whether in the park or not

so in summation

IT DEPENDS

 

[Newsies]

Me- Like, 5:30 or 6 because I like to make rope drop.
Rest of my family- 7:00 at the latest
Everyone on the last day- 9:30 a.m. in a pool of tears

 

[tjevans]

I see so many people going for rope drop and I was just wondering...what time do you and your family wake up while on vacation at Disney. It doesn't seem much of a vacation if you are setting an alarm for 6 am everyday!

No later than 6 every day. Who wants to sleep when at Disney? If you wanted to sleep on vacation, stay home; it's cheaper!

 

[Hummingbird]

My family is split.

DF, DD18, & myself are early risers because of our internal clocks and having to get up by 5 everyday for work/school. So we are usually up by 5:30-6 when we are at Disney even without alarms. We always make rope drop. We have to purposely try not to make rope drop to miss it lol.

DD17 & DS11 are night owls and could sleep through an earthquake so we usually leave them sleeping when we head to the parks and they will come meet us around 10-11.

We all pretty much keep late hours though and will close a park down but the younger 2 usually go for a night swim every night from anywhere between 11pm to 1am.

 

[Dreamport]

We usually don't eat a large breakfast, so making a plan to get up around 7/7:30am to make those rope-drops or EMH hours seems perfectly logical for us!

Except we're also all night owls so actual execution of said plans usually involves 2-3 hits of the snooze button which means we actually get to the parks closer to a half hour or hour past opening. Even before FP+ we still managed to get in everything we wanted to do in a day and didn't have to bother with the throngs racing toward this-or-that ride.

 

[Mambo Junkie]

We get up and get going when we get up and get going. We're usually not too long after RD, but we have a couple of little ones plus my DS and DDIL bothe work graveyard in real life so they like to get some sleep regardless of where they vacation. (They never get enough). We're nighttime people so we like the late hours. We do late EMH. But like I said we get to the park not long after RD leave around lunchtime then come back later when a lot of people are leaving.

 

[ericstac]

Our typical Disney morning is:

5:00am I wake up and get some coffee and a snack to get my body working
6:00am wake the kids and wife up
6:30am leave to the park for the day
7:30am at gate for early entry
8:00am ADR

if its EMH we do the same but no ADR, unless its a quickie at the Wave or something at opening..

 

[bookgirl]

I'm a slug at home and on my days off I sleep in till 8:30-9:30 when I tend to wake up on my own time clock. On work days my alarm goes off around 6 (I usually begin to wake on my own around 5:30 but I am a notorious snoozer) and I am fighting to get up sometimes hitting the snooze until 6:40.

I go on vacation and I'm awake at 6 am and I mean awake I can't seem to make myself to even snooze past 7am, a recent trip to Alaska was the hardest because between my auto awake and the time zone difference I was awake between 4-5 almost every morning.

I didn't even set an alarm at Disney last month and had no problem getting out and about in plenty of time, even hit rope drop a couple of times. Heck I had a morning DME time and I still didn't set one.


It's weird how that happens. (ps I was totally over slept this morning LOL)

 

[stinkpickle]

Usually about 2 hours before the park opens.

 

[ZoZo]

we are staying at AKL and I'm not sure if its a better idea to eat breakfast before or after arriving in a park. I did not reserve any breakfast ADRs because I'm afraid we will miss it except Ohana at 10:55am lol

I don't like to spend premium park time eating breakfast in the parks. The first two hours after rope drop are golden - I wouldn't want to waste them eating breakfast.

Except for one day of our trip, we eat breakfast in the room. Saves both time and money! Usually just cereal and fruit, maybe some juice - nothing fancy. One day of the trip, we do a buffet "brunch" with one of the lastest breakfast seatings. This year, we went to Cape May at 10:30. It was great!

It helps to have a fridge in your room - you can easily stash a half-gallon of milk and other items. Used Garden Grocer delivery on my trip this year; it was wonderful! You "build a shopping cart" and place your order to be delivered the first day of the trip. We got yogurt, cereal, milk, fruit, and other breakfast items delivered, as well as a couple of cases of water, pop, wine, and snacks. It was great!

 

[jensen]

We stay up late and sleep in. Our schedule gets so screwed up while we are there... we get up about 8 or 9 and get to the parks around 10:30 or 11:00. We will often park-hop and hit evening EMH. We rarely go back to our room before the last park closes, so it's usually around midnight when we finally get to sleep.

Our eating schedule is even worse. We'll grab a quick snack for breakfast either in our room or in the parks. We'll eat lunch around 2:00 on the first couple of days, but by the end of our trip, we are eating lunch around 4:00. We don't eat dinner until after we watch fireworks... we usually watch Wishes first, then hop the monorail over to Epcot to watch Illuminations. Then we'll find food... usually a QS place at one or the resorts or DTD. If there is EMH that runs later than the resort dining locations, we'll grab a pizza and eat it in our room.

I always say I need a vacation after I get home from my Disney vacations.

 

[Good Morning Dewdrop]

we set the alarm to be on the safe side but generally are awake / moving before it goes off. Depending on the days plans (we usually hit morning EMH) we get up between 6 - 7 am at WDW.

 

[Minnesota!]

Sometime between 630 and 715. The kids shower at night, and my husband and I shower in the mornings. When I shower, he does his teeth, gets the kids awake (they lay in bed and watch TV). I get out, get dressed, do my teeth/hair, the kids get out of bed and do their teeth/hair and get dressed. Husband gets out, gets dressed, and we are out the door. Takes all of 30 minutes or so? Still plenty of time for rope drop.

We all do best on about 6 - 7 hours of sleep a night. So, getting in each night around 10-11, maybe a quick swim, the kids shower and are asleep by midnight at the latest.

Anything past 7 feels...gross? I don't know...I feel like I waste the day (even at home...if I sleep past 7 I feel like a slouch.)

 

[Kristina4109]

On our June vacation, we were up at 7:00 most days. The first two days I had the character wake-up call because I thought I daughter would find it cute. But she was so sleepy that she never heard it!

On our departure day we slept in.

 

[Minnesota!]

How old is your daughter? 7 hrs is plenty for us adults but not for my 4 year old

My kids are 7 and 10 - and 7-8 hours is plenty for them. They go to bed around 10 each night, up before 6. Even on weekends. My older child especially...he thrives on about 5 - 6 hours. I bet that will change as he gets closer to teenager-hood, but since day 1, that kid has not needed much sleep.

 

[Frozen2014]

On some days, we'll wake up around 7:30am and head to the parks by 8:30. Although this year, we're planning on showering at night rather than the morning to save time..

This is part of what I was trying to figure out. We often got back to the hotel WAY AFTER our kids bedtimes so no shower on those nights as they were exhausted. But then, if you shower in the morning, it takes more time.

We stayed at AoA so we had two full bathrooms which was great. So DH ended up showering at night, and he'd help our kids in the mornings while I showered (little one still needs assistance).

So overall with that in mind, we'd get up around 7am, got ready as quick as we could with showers as said above, grabbed a quick breakfast at our resort (one time we tried to eat in the car, but it made a mess in our rental car so we didn't do that again) and we'd get to the park closer to 9am.

 

[nkereina]

Who wants to sleep when you're at Disney! We stay at a moderate resort and will get up around 6:15. That puts us out the door by 7:15, and then we head over to the food court for breakfast. We'll be at the bus stop by 8 or 8:15 for a 9am rope drop.

 

[whitney37354]

We get up at the same time we do for work & school everyday. This way we're ready & have eaten breakfast by the time we need to be at the bus stop to go to the park. We go to bed at pretty much the same time too. DD stays up with us, so she gets a little less sleep. She has been known to nap while waiting on an evening ADR.