When to do DC-beginning,middle or end of trip??

[essmom]

We are coming to USO,IOa, DC, Sw in March. I planned to do DC the 1st full day there and then Us, Sw, IOA, and maybe WEtNWild the last day. We'll also go to USO and IOA at night also. anyone think this is a good time to go or should we go to DC in the middle of trip?We plan to be there Sat-Fri so we'd be at DC on a Sunday when the parks are more crowded.

 

[Eclpz314]

When we went in July, we arrived at RPR mid-morning on Sat. and did a quick tour of US while waiting for our room to be ready. Then we spent all day Sunday at the parks. We did DC on Monday and by Tues. our legs were so tired we took a cabana day off. Then did the parks again all day/night on Wed. Thurs. we went to WetnWild until about 3 and SeaWorld on Fri. until about 4. We spent those two evenings at IOA and US. We spent until 4 pm on Sat at the parks until we had to catch a shuttle to the airport. I enjoyed "getting my bearings" before jumping over to DC. We waited a couple of days after that to do SW because we wanted SW to seem like a new experience. Wn'wild was done in between to give our legs a rest from walking all over the place, bu we found waiting in the lines that formed after about 11 am to be really trying.

 

[essmom]

Thanks for the reply!! Which ticket did you buy? I was planning to buy the 5 day Us/IOA for $89.95.

 

[Eclpz314]

We stayed at the RPR onsite and had "4-park length of stay" passes for the full 7 days. Had I known ahead of time that SW admiss. was already included with DC, I might have opted for another kind of pass because we weren't really interested in WnW, it's just that it was one of the 4 parks. I know DC closes at 5, but am not sure how early WnW or SW close in the off months. We spent each evening over at US or IOA no matter where we had been during the day. The kids were bored at WnW by 3pm and we saw everything we wanted to at SW by about 4......both times just as the afternoon storms were headed our way. So we'd head back to the hotel and rest for a bit and then head to the parks.

 

[Crissy7682]

We went in May 01 and we did DC our first full day then US then SW (we wanted to split us DC and SW since they are both marine animal parks. We are going there for our HM and this is what we have planned

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BG
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