When is the best time to take a mid-day break?

[stace1214]

We like to be at rope drop and have an early lunch to head out by 12:30/1:00. We relax, swim and head back for dinner around 5:30 and more attractions/shows.

 

[glocon]

We didn’t go in 2020, but the two summers before that we went end of July through early August. We left parks around 1-2 and went back around 4-5. But it was flipping a coin if we could swim since there were thunderstorms almost every day at that time. Good time for me to rest and DS to hit the gym.

 

[Newbie500]

We haven't been in the parks in August, but considering the heat that time of year, I would go early, maybe rope drop, then leave between 1 and 3pm, which might be the hottest time of the day, and head for the pool until returning to the parks at around 3 hours before closing, not knowing when each park closes in August.

 

[kwdw]

I don't actually take a mid-day break much at all - but when I do, I tend to do this a bit earlier. I would be at the park before it opened - leave the park between 11am - noon. Sometimes I would eat lunch in my resort room, sometimes I'd head to a different resort for lunch then Lyft back to my resort, sometimes I'd do QS at the resort for lunch (it's pretty quiet then, actually). I'd then chill out - and head back to bus stop at the resort to go back to a park anywhere between 3-5. Honestly - it depends on park hours and HOW hot it actually is.

But honestly, unless the August heat is unbearable (it was one trip to US/IOA for me) - I just plan a TS meal mid-day and not leave the park. Wastes too much time and takes too much energy to leave and come back, IMO. I find it easier to stay - or hop to a meal at a close resort and then come back.