Hello to all! I am currently planning my family’s second trip to WDW. Our first was this past February over MLK Weekend and we LOVED it. So much fun but way too short! We stayed 4 nights at AKL, so we had 3 extremely full park days (on our MK day we were in the park from 7:45 am until almost 10 pm) and hit two half days at AK on each of our travel days. Needless to say, we were exhausted when we got home. I’ve convinced DH to let us go back again next year for 9 nights!!! I am super pumped and super hopeful that this length of stay will allow us to see a ton and yet have downtime as well. My travel party will consist of myself, DH, DD8, DS6, DD4, DD2, as well as my parents (both in their mid-60s and very active).
Our 180 mark is still a couple of months away but I would like some input on my plan as it currently stands. I am the type of person that needs a fair amount of time to process and make changes. My personality is also one that LOVES to spend 16 hours in a park and I don’t like being told I can’t do everything (I scheduled 3 ADRs a day on our last trip despite reading numerous articles that said it’d be too much food and too much time) but I am trying to make this trip a more reasonable one for my family. While they all really enjoyed our trip last time and our littles napped in the park…they were just worn out. My oldest threw up once we got back to the hotel on our MK night…I think from exhaustion…which made me feel awful and I don’t want that to happen again.
So, here’s my current, basic itinerary…
1/30/19 - Arrive at MCO early afternoon. DME to the Poly. Spend the rest of the evening exploring, swimming if possible and grabbing dinner at Kona Cafe
1/31 - Late breakfast at 1900 PF, H/S by 1
2/1 - RD AK, Lunch @ Y&Y, Afternoon break, back to see ROL in the evening
2/2 - PPO ADR @ H&V, H/S all day w/ a 3-4 hour break in the afternoon
2/3 - RD MK - Tomorrow Land, Brunch @ CM, Adventureland, Dinner @ HDDR (early show)
2/4 - Late Breakfast @ O’hana, Epcot by 1, Dinner @ Akershus
2/5 - PPO ADR @ Crystal Palace, Frontierland, Adventureland, Liberty Square, Afternoon break, HEA Dessert Party (also debating on if I should try a book BOG for dinner or if the Dessert Party will be plenty of food…)
2/6 - PPO ADR @ Garden Grill, Epcot until early afternoon, back to the hotel for the day for the kids, V&A dinner for the adults
2/7 - PPO ADR @ BOG, Fantasyland, BBB + CRT, Afternoon break, CG for dinner
2/8 - PPO ADR @ Tusker House, AK until lunch, DME to MCO and home to Dallas
Of course all of this is very tenative until ADRs are locked in, but…thoughts on initial plan? Hopefully the above makes a tiny bit of sense and I didn’t just spit out a ton of nonsensical garbage. Any advice y’all could offer would be so appreciated.