which parks on which days during busy weeks?

[dez1978]

Help me please! We are going to be there the week of Thanksgiving. Arrive on Sunday, leave Sat. We have 5 day park hoppers and tickets to Jollywood on 11/25 (monday). 4 adults and 4 kids ages 10-15. We've been several times, including during spring break, tho not the week of Easter. I am trying to figure out the best plan of attack here so I can start thinking about dining reservations and such. Generally my order for parks in MK, AK, HS, Ep. We've only had hoppers once, so I'm also not sure how that should affect my planning. I did like that at least w/ Genie+ I didn't have to worry about this as much during the planning stage. My thoughts were to start at a different park every day, then hop later on. We do not plan to rope drop this trip as the kids have all finally gotten old enough to prefer sleeping in and staying up late. We will be staying at Rivera so we can take advantage of EEH as well. I don't know why I'm so overwhelmed with this. But I think I'm panicking about the crowds lol

 

[gottalovepluto]

Every park will be packed each day so start wherever you want.

Reconsider the early morning thing if you’re buying the new MPLL. Night owls are hardest hit by the new system. You can’t get a 4th LL or modify existing ones to tier 1 or other parks until you’ve entered a park and used/expired that LL. But- follow along on the thread here on TPAS for more. It could turn out that you’ll be fine because there will be nothing else available beyond your initial 3 anyway due to crowds. (Availability is currently the biggest complaint and it’s slow season.)

 

[dez1978]

Every park will be packed each day so start wherever you want.

Reconsider the early morning thing if you’re buying the new MPLL. Night owls are hardest hit by the new system. You can’t get a 4th LL or modify existing ones to tier 1 or other parks until you’ve entered a park and used/expired that LL. But- follow along on the thread here on TPAS for more. It could turn out that you’ll be fine because there will be nothing else available beyond your initial 3 anyway due to crowds. (Availability is currently the biggest complaint and it’s slow season.)

Yeah, I know. I'll work on talking the rest of them into it. But getting up an out in the morning is always the biggest struggle with the kids. It wasn't so bad the first couple times we went because they were still at the age where they woke up at the butt crack of dawn no matter how late they stayed up. But now, the oldest 2 esp, have really embraced the whole sleeping in thing and I don't quite trust them to meet us somewhere later lol. So I was planning to embrace the late nights and be a park closer instead of a rope dropper

 

[azarine]

We're going the same week so would love to compare info! We have a 14 and 12 year old and we used to be rope droppers but not sure now that we have teens! We're planning an afternoon break at the resort most days (Bay Lake Tower), and being so close to MK we may be there extra times too. Here's our plan so far:

Mon - AM HS, PM MK (we prefer to start at MK but know this day is a non-party day so probably super busy at MK)

Tues - MK all day and then MVMCP

Wed - EP

Thurs - AK

Fri - HS

Sat - AM MK, EP PM (for EP holidays)