I posted before for help planning my trip so figured a trip report might help others as everyone else’s help me! I was 100% dreading this trip, as it was a big group trip and the family dynamics alone are a lot to handle never mind being in a theme park in 90+ degree weather! But our park days went off without a single hitch and we had the best time. We waited in so few lines that when we ever DID have to wait the kids were a mess ha, they didn’t realize how great we had it with how things worked out!
Who: 6 adults, 5 kids ages 2, 4, 6, 7 and 9
Where: we rented a house in the Windsor Hills area and it was PERFECT for our big group. Tons of bedrooms and our own pool, having lots of space was great and the parks were only 15-20 minutes away.
What: 3 park days with rest days in between. We had Genie+ and ParkHoppers but only myself and one kid hopped one day.
Park Day 1 - Magic Kingdom
This was the most challenging park to plan for because DN6 wanted to do all the mountains and my own kids did not, but it ended up working out fine and we waited in barely any lines.
8:00 am - arrived TTC, took the ferry to MK
- watched the opening show at the Castle
- Pirates (standby, 10 minute wait)
- Big Thunder Mountain (standby, about 15-20 minute wait) - meanwhile the rest of us did Magic Carpets and Tiki Room
- Splash Mountain (LL for thrill seekers) - while the rest of us did Jungle Cruise (LL)
- mobile ordered an early lunch at Pecos Bill
- Grabbed a shady spot across from Pecos Bills for the parade around 11:45, it filled up very quickly after that
- Watched parade
- Let kids try the Frontierland Shooting Arcade (which is free right bow)
- Hall of Presidents for an AC break
- Haunted Mansion (LL but probably a 15 minute wait, it was kind of a cluster after stretching room because they had a few users who needed it to stop to get on)
- Under the Sea (LL)
- Crazy thunderstorm, we grabbed Mickey Bars and found a spot with a roof overhang to huddle under. It almost completely stopped raining by the time we finished eating and cleaning up chocolate covered kids
- Barnstormer (LL)
- Dumbo (LL)
- Tea Cups (LL)
- Space Mountain (LL for thrill seekers) while the rest of us split up, some to Philharmagic and some to Tomorrowland Speedway (standby about 30 minutes)
- Seven Dwarves ILL - this one I would have asked for a refund if we weren’t hungry and cranky as the ILL still took almost 20 minutes
- mobile ordered dinner from Cosmic Rays
- Buzz (LL)
- Monsters Inc (LL)
- Speedway (LL)
Left the park a little before 8pm and then kids still rallied and were in the pool until almost 11!
Here’s the order I grabbed our LL in - many many thanks to @joelbruick because this would have been way harder without BG1!
- 7am - 3 people for Splash, rest for Jungle Cruise, return times 9-10
- 9am - park open, booked 7DMT ILL
- 10:30 - booked Haunted Mansion - we had redeemed Splash and JC but I had to wait for times to extend a bit as we wanted to watch the parade
- 12:30 - Under the Sea, return time was around 1:40
- Redeemed Under the Sea and then booked and used with immediate return times Barnstormer, Dumbo and Tea Cups
- 3ish - Two of our party went home early so I used their cards to book Space and the rest for Buzz, I kept rebooking Buzz to make it later so we could eat dinner first
- Redeemed Buzz and got Laugh Floor, totally not needed but wanted to make sure we got in to that showing
- Redeemed Laugh Floor and for Speedway to line up with when we’d be leaving the show
