Which MK "lands" would you group together?

[Surgie2]

Planning for an early May 2018 trip with 6 adults and 4 children all under the age of 6. We are staying at the Poly and will have 8-day tickets so can make multiple trips to MK fairly easily. We plan rope drop (fingers crossed).

If we want to be done in the parks by 1:00 each day (maybe returning at night) and avoid criss-crossing, does this grouping of days look ok? They will not be consecutive days...will mix in other parks and a resort day.

*Fantasyland only
*Adventureland and Frontierland (a couple of the kids may do BTMR and Splash Mountain)
*Liberty Square on the same morning at BBB and CRT, Main Street shops
*Tomorrowland and repeat favorites from Fantasyland

 

[Anniefrances]

Given the ages of your children, I would suggest adding 2 days for Fantasyland only, if you can. They likely may find this their favorite area of the park and there are many attractions there.

 

[LeslieB123]

I was just planning the same thing. I'm not a Disney expert so I would like to hear from others but I was planning 3 days in MK.
1. Fantasyland
2. Adventureland and Frontierland
3. Main Street shops and Tomorrowland. On that day I want to be sure to see the parades and Mickey's Royal Friendship Faire show.

What is CRT? Do you really think you will be done by 1:00? I would like that. My kids will 10, 6 and 16 months. The 10 year old has stamina and can go on more rides but it will be a more pleasant trip for everyone if we don't burn out the 6 year old and the toddler.

 

[Hopefully]

CRT = Cinderellas Royal Table which is the table service restaurant in the castle

 

[disneyAndi14]

Fantasy land and Tomorrow land together is doable especially in the morning.

 

[Arden01]

We usually do 3 MK days - a Fantasyland day, Adventureland/Frontierland/Liberty Square day, Tomorrowland/Fantasyland day. We use evenings for things we missed, Main Street, nighttime entertainment and general "soaking up atmosphere" time.

 

[Ava]

Fantasy land and Tomorrow land together is doable especially in the morning.

I always found trying to do Fantasyland & Tomorrowland in the same day to be too many attractions, especially if the kids are interested in meeting characters as that can take up a lot of time.

I think your breakdown looks good. There's not much in Liberty Square that would probably interest young kids, so you could also use that day to go back to Fantasyland and do anything you didn't get to on the first day.

Will you be using FP at MK on all 4 of your mornings there? If so that gives you a lot of options.

 

[disneyAndi14]

I always found trying to do Fantasyland & Tomorrowland in the same day to be too many attractions, especially if the kids are interested in meeting characters as that can take up a lot of time.

I think your breakdown looks good. There's not much in Liberty Square that would probably interest young kids, so you could also use that day to go back to Fantasyland and do anything you didn't get to on the first day.

Will you be using FP at MK on all 4 of your mornings there? If so that gives you a lot of options.

Probably very true with little ones, my dd and I do this but she is a teenager so very easy for us. We can cover many attractions at these two areas starting at RD, if you don't go at RD,I wouldn't suggest it!

 

[Surgie2]

Will you be using FP at MK on all 4 of your mornings there? If so that gives you a lot of options.

Yes, definitely we will FP all of our park days. I'm concerned that we will plan rope drop days at 60 days out and then Disney will change hours and add a morning EMH after we already have FP planned. It would be harder for us to do rope drop on EMH mornings but I guess it's all out of my control - LOL!

 

[Surgie2]

Do you really think you will be done by 1:00?

We'll see, but we will likely NEED to be done by 1:00 - at least some in the group. Years ago we kind of burnt our kids out at WDW when they were 4 and 1. Now that I am an older and wiser nana, I know that staying onsite will make our lives easier as well as planning carefully for FP+ (which did not exist 30 years ago, nor did the Internet) and leaving while everyone is still having fun. The parks were definitely less crowded then but I clearly remember our 4 YO have a breakdown in the hotel because she just wanted to stay in the room and play with her stuffed Minnie Mouse. But no, we had a plan and needed to get going!

So I'm trying to do better on this trip and not have anyone feel burned out by the plans. We'll see.