Keeping Cool at Disney

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Registered: 09-15-2005
Keeping Cool at Disney
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Wed, 08-09-2006 - 11:24pm

Thought that some of our summer travelers might benefit from this article that I read on my Disney Insider.

Val, Co-CL Disney Vacations

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Registered: 04-07-2003
Thu, 08-10-2006 - 12:17am

Some good tips!

Here's what helped us:

We went to WDW in July, and stayed off-site for a few days. Each night we popped a few bottled waters into our freezer, and took them with us the next day. Two went into insulated lunch bags, to keep my toddler's milk cold, and the others went into backpacks and the stroller basket. By the time we got to the parks and started walking around, the water bottles had started to thaw. Yet, they had an icy core that took a while to melt. The melting kept pace with our thirst, and we managed to have icey cold water for a few hours.

After a few days, we moved to Port Orleans, where we missed not having the freezer! Instead, we chilled water bottles in our fridge overnight, and packed them double-ziploc bags of ice from the ice machine. We also had brought a $1-store plastic mist bottle. When the ice in the ziploc bags melted, DH poured it into the mist bottle and gave it to the kids to spray each other while we waited in lines and walked around. That beat buying the $17 fan/mist bottle (that starts out icy cold, but probably got warm within an hour).

Of course, getting to the parks early early and using FastPass to avoid lines helped keep us cool, too. I found that eating lightly helped me feel better -- my favorite lunch at MK was a kid's chicken salad meal from Cosmic Ray's, with carrot sticks & crackers. Enough, but not heavy.

A couple of our favorite cool-downs at MK: Hall of Presidents and Carousel of Progress. HofP is particularly good if you fancy a nap! Those voices have a lullaby quality for me somehow. ;-)

Chris

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Registered: 08-04-2005
Thu, 08-10-2006 - 9:42am

Here are a few things we did to keep cool:


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