I hesitated writing a trip report for this trip because we had a very heavy non-Disney trip. But, I think I will because we had a blast and I want to document it!
For the first time ever, we didn’t RD a Disney park. We relied on stacking LL for evenings in WDW and spent most of our days elsewhere.
Normally, I travel with my four kids plus an additional adult or two. Around New Year’s, my husband floated the idea to me of me taking each of my kids on their own trip alone this summer. So, that’s what I did! I took DD6 to San Antonio, DD8 to San Diego and DD11 to NYC!
My trip with DS was the last one! We left on Sunday, July 17th. I realized the night before that American had changed our departure time from 7 am to 8:30 am and had to scramble our plans a bit…mostly we had to cut some shopping time and move our lunch reservation….
We landed in MCO on time around noon. Grabbed the rental car while waiting on our bags to come out, grabbed the bags and drove straight to DS. We popped into WOD and the Lego store before heading to the Boathouse for lunch. It is so much bigger inside than I realized! They were really busy but service was decent and the first meal after a travel morning always tastes so good!
We grabbed some Starbucks after lunch and headed back to the car. We made it to AK right at 4. We had a few LL stacked but it was tricky as most of the attractions don’t advance enough throughout the day to really take advantage of this strategy here.
We ended up riding KRR (LL), caught FotLK (with tumble monkeys!!), grabbed some Dole Whips, did EE (SR), Dinosaur (LL), NRJ (LL) and FOP (ILL). By this time it was almost park close. We walked to the car, drove to AKL, I changed real quick and we finished the night with a fantastic dinner at Jiko.
Made it to the Riviera around 10:30. Absolute bust of a room request. I requested top floor, center section looking out toward the SL, we got lobby floor, looking out to backside of the pool/edge of the CBR property.