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Where to start...I was pleasantly surprised by how much we enjoyed Disney. A lot of our vacations are either beaches, national parks and we try to avoid crowds. Now that we have a two year old, those sort of trips wouldn't be that fun for him.
Disney around Xmas. We have friends who live in Orlando and they said the week of Xmas is a nightmare. They're season pass holders and go quite a bit. We were there last week, week before Xmas and the crowds didn't seem too crazy to us. The hot spot parts of the parks were busy like main street at magic kingdom. But we never felt like we couldn't navigate easily. People are pretty civil from our experience. The decorations were really neat. I'd recommend to anyone who wants to visit is to go in December. The temps were perfect, 70, and the Xmas theme was on point. We said we would like to see it during Halloween assuming they decorate then.
Organized. It seems like Disney has figured out the most optimal way to get you there and around the parks. From the road system, to parking, Disney transport and just navigating around. None of it was stressful to us. Its nice using the app to see wait times for rides so you can get an idea which ones you should get on. I will say, if you do not have a smart phone or struggle to use one, you'll be going into the ride wait time blind so good luck.
We did use the genie plus one day at magic kingdom. It helped. I think we used it three times that day.
Prices. Its expensive. Tickets are expensive, if you want to cut the line a few times you gotta pay up. We didn't eat full course meals there so food didn't seem too crazy to us. Pretzel was like $7, large coke was $5. If you want to spend a fortune you can. We took water and food in with us to the parks we went to. We stayed off site in a condo so it was inexpensive. What we paid for a week we would have spent in 2 nights at the beach club resort. We did a breakfast with characters and it was at that resort and was curious what it cost a night, around $700/night, yikes.
The rides were really cool. We did all the slow moving ones that a small child can go on and even we enjoyed them. We did see that one of the avatar rides had a wait time of 190 minutes at one point. Guess with the release of the new avatar, they were jammed again. We said we weren't going to wait more than 20 minutes for a ride with a small child and we didn't have to. We were there when the gates opened in the morning so the first couple rides we walked right on, no wait. If you wait till afternoon to arrive, you'll be waiting a lot for rides.
All in all, it was a great trip. I don't know if we would go there every year but we'll definitely be back before the little one doesn't care about the characters anymore. Half the fun was watching him flip out when he saw the characters.
Disney around Xmas. We have friends who live in Orlando and they said the week of Xmas is a nightmare. They're season pass holders and go quite a bit. We were there last week, week before Xmas and the crowds didn't seem too crazy to us. The hot spot parts of the parks were busy like main street at magic kingdom. But we never felt like we couldn't navigate easily. People are pretty civil from our experience. The decorations were really neat. I'd recommend to anyone who wants to visit is to go in December. The temps were perfect, 70, and the Xmas theme was on point. We said we would like to see it during Halloween assuming they decorate then.
Organized. It seems like Disney has figured out the most optimal way to get you there and around the parks. From the road system, to parking, Disney transport and just navigating around. None of it was stressful to us. Its nice using the app to see wait times for rides so you can get an idea which ones you should get on. I will say, if you do not have a smart phone or struggle to use one, you'll be going into the ride wait time blind so good luck.
We did use the genie plus one day at magic kingdom. It helped. I think we used it three times that day.
Prices. Its expensive. Tickets are expensive, if you want to cut the line a few times you gotta pay up. We didn't eat full course meals there so food didn't seem too crazy to us. Pretzel was like $7, large coke was $5. If you want to spend a fortune you can. We took water and food in with us to the parks we went to. We stayed off site in a condo so it was inexpensive. What we paid for a week we would have spent in 2 nights at the beach club resort. We did a breakfast with characters and it was at that resort and was curious what it cost a night, around $700/night, yikes.
The rides were really cool. We did all the slow moving ones that a small child can go on and even we enjoyed them. We did see that one of the avatar rides had a wait time of 190 minutes at one point. Guess with the release of the new avatar, they were jammed again. We said we weren't going to wait more than 20 minutes for a ride with a small child and we didn't have to. We were there when the gates opened in the morning so the first couple rides we walked right on, no wait. If you wait till afternoon to arrive, you'll be waiting a lot for rides.
All in all, it was a great trip. I don't know if we would go there every year but we'll definitely be back before the little one doesn't care about the characters anymore. Half the fun was watching him flip out when he saw the characters.
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