My mom has a friend in Club 33 and she has very generously gifted our family a VIP tour! It will be us, my parents, my 15 yo brother, and our kids—almost 7, 4.5, and 2.
A few things we’d love your wisdom on:
1. Disney park double stroller vs. our Thule Urban Glide 2 double jogger—which survives a VIP sprint better (storage, gate fit, stroller handoffs)?
2. VIP tour tips with toddlers—how do guides handle Rider Switch, stroller/nap breaks, and unexpected delights for little ones?
3. Anything else we should prep or flag with our guide?
Here’s a rough overview of our plan for this trip:
Arrival Day (June 3): AKL → quick MK preview (Main Street/castle reveal + a few Fantasyland classics)
• VIP Day (June 4): HS → backstage to EPCOT → backstage to MK for all the big hitters
• Day 3 (June 5): Full EPCOT (World Nature + World Showcase) → evening Muppet*Vision before it closes
• Departure Day (June 6): Boma brunch → AK half-day (Dinosaur + Everest) → drive to FTL
We are moving to Florida right before this trip, so we will be APs and will be able to return throughout the year. Right after this we are heading to a cruise—and celebrating our move throughout it all!
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Paging @FOMOm_VA
She did this a year or two back with littles
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We did VIP in June 2023 with my in-laws, husband and then 6 yr, 3 yr & 18 month old. It was fantastic! I’m excited for you!
1.) We used a double Bob - mostly because I much prefer steering that around in the park for the other days we were there than the Disney park one. It worked well for the trip’s fast pace. I have seen VIP tours with the Disney park stroller too.
2.) Our guide was wonderful. He strolled my 18 month around when the rest of us did BTM. Then for other rides, he would take my youngest and one adult on another ride while the rest did a ride he couldn’t do. I cannot say enough great things about our guide. He calmed down my 6 yr olds fears before riding Tron, carried my 3 yr old who was obsessed with him & made the day magical. My youngest ended up napping in the stroller for a quick nap (and napped through lunch). There was a pop up storm during our tour - he handed everyone ponchos & we kept going. The guide kept them all in great spirits the entire fast paced trip (something I can never do 
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3.) I had a list of the “must do” rides for our guide and noted that we wanted character interactions as well. He pulled it off wonderfully - we ran into Jasmine right before getting on Magic Carpets, Peter Pan outside of PotC, etc. It was a whirlwind day - we knocked out 19 rides plus meeting Mickey at the end of the 7hr tour.
Hope you have a great trip!
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Did you stay in MK or hit multiple parks? All of this sounds wonderful and I’m even more excited!
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Def not the disney one. It will restrict your entrance to the park to the one where you can pick up a stroller.
Littles are guide dependent. My daughter doesnt ride anything fun and our guide hung out with her but she was almost 5. And the family we were with knows the guide super well. They are definitely not expected or required to hang w your kid.
For EP, plan strategically. I tell people not to pay for the 20 minute walk from gotg to remy, but since its gifted, hey why not? But its better to pick rides closer together at EP IMO.
Be sure to request vip fireworks seating as its not guaranteed.
Have a blast!!!
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We stayed in MK the whole time. We were picked up from our resort - the car seats were already installed.
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Good to know about the strollers! I was leaning towards our own since we have to bring it with us anyway and for naps.
Also good to know about the guides and their comfort level with little kids.
Is it worth knocking out Remy and frozen in Epcot so we don’t have to worry about them on our non VIP days? We don’t care about guardians (controversial maybe, I know 
) because of motion sickness tendencies and it basically being a newer space mountain.
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I did think about staying in MK, but my other thought was that I wanted to knock out lines that would otherwise call for rope drop on our other park days. My four year old desperately wants to do Slinky, so I was thinking slinky and Mickey and Minnie RR, then onto EP for Remy and Frozen and possibly soarin.
My goal is to give us chill park days on the other days!
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i think frozen and remy are close enough, you just don’t want to do like remy and soarin or remy and GOTG, iykwim
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Also, if anyone has any tour guide recommendations that are particularly good with littles, please let me know!
Whoa!! I can understand skipping GOTG due to motion sickness but it is definitely not just a newer Space Mountain. Not even close!
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I know people love guardians because of the music and effects, but to me, it’s a reminder of what could have been there.
Putting the guardians of the galaxy franchise into Epcot just doesn’t make sense to me. I know it’s another Epcot pavilion, but…I just don’t think it works well. I’m also not a huge fan of those movies to begin with, so that does color my view.
GOTG occupies the previous universe of energy ride. I think it would have been so cool if they had kept the same ride system but instead of guardians, you’re being shrunk down to the size of a proton and you’re ricocheting through the universe, seeing what all these parts of matter look like magnified, listening to great music, and maybe learning something as you go through it (I can’t credit myself for the idea—this is Poseidon Entertainment’s idea). I think it would have fit so much better with original Epcot. The theming feels too similar to me to space mountain for it to feel differentiated enough to be worth it as a separate experience when space mountain holds all the nostalgia for me without any potential motion sickness.
And yes, it does bother me that they replaced maelstrom with frozen, but we will still ride it for our littles.
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