If you only had 1 1/2 days?

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If you only had 1 1/2 days?
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Wed, 01-03-2007 - 8:54pm

Arriving mid to late morning on Friday and staying til Sunday early morning in hot hot June. What would you do? Would you buy a 1 or 2 day pass that is overpriced or find non-park things to do?

Calie

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Thu, 01-04-2007 - 7:32am

We are Magic Kingdom junkies. I'm pretty sure my family would get a one day pass for that park, then spend the rest of the time doing non-park activities. Maybe the pool, downtown Disney, etc.

I wouldn't pass up even one day at Magic Kingdom, no matter what the time of year! :)

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Thu, 01-04-2007 - 9:20am

I would definately spend a whole day in Magic Kingdom. I can't be in the state of florida and not go to magic kingdom.

It's well worth it.

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Fri, 01-05-2007 - 7:45am

It depends on if you have kids, and if so, what their ages are.


If they're young, I would do MK.

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Fri, 01-05-2007 - 11:09am

Have you been to WDW before?


Are there kids involved? what ages? have they been before?


Are you staying onsite?


If *I* alone had 1 1/2 days I would spend the half day shopping at DTD, I never seem to have enough time to do this, have dinner at Earl of Sandwich, then eat Gerahdeli's ice cream by the lagoon watching the upermost Illuminations fireworks and enjoying the evening. Or maybe I'd try dinner at Wolfgang Puck Express since no one else ever wants to! lol Even if I don't buy anything I LOVE the Marketplace.


I would spend the whole day either at Animal Kingdom soaking up all the little touches, checking out attractions we haven't made it to yet, and riding Expedition Everest as many times as possible, closing the park and having dinner at hmmmmm Kona Cafe or Ohana and then watch the MK fireworks from the Poly Beach assuming they are running.

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Fri, 01-05-2007 - 11:47am

I guess I should have put more info, but once I get going I write a book and a half ;)

Kids will be 10, 16, & 18. Been to WDW in 1998 offsite with 2 oldest, Nov/Dec 2005 family trip staying at Poly, Sept 06 just me and the youngest at ASMo. I am trying to sneak in a trip because there's some things I NEED to buy at Epcot WS for our house redecorating. To do this I'm planning a week at Daytona Beach and sneaking in that 1 1/2 days at the end by flying out of Orlando. I have a leftover 1 day pass from the Sept06 trip. I am planning to go back to WDW 2 years later on a combined 3 days Universal, 4-5 days WDW trip. We will probably be offsite if I can get 2 nights at our timeshare on bonus time.

We actually will have the condo in Daytona Friday night so we can leave anytime, we'll just check out a day early since that one needs a full week ressie. Concerns are the cost of a 1 or 2 day ticket, is it worth it especially without parkhopping? It's also June so HOT and I know we'll want to spend some time at the pool, so again is it worth it to go to a park with the time constraints. Then there's the Epcot factor of having to go to that park when the kids would probably vote for AK since the 2 oldest haven't been on Everest (Ideally I'd do a morning at AK and evening at Epcot but that would be over $100 for a 1 day hopper or 2 days just for a few hours at each park). See the dilemnas? I can get a nonexpiring ticket for 4 of us to use for 2 trips but I'd have to check the extra cost on that first, I'm pretty sure we'll need 5 days for the next trip but not hoppers.

So given all that to confuse everyone what we do want to do is: spend time at the pool, eat at Ohana and fireworks on beach if we're not going to a park, disneyquest if it's still around (here's where I could go to Epcot shopping if H doesn't care if I pick the stuff out without him since I have a ticket, I don't mind missing disneyquest). But could I be that close and not actually do a park especially go shopping in Epcot but not be able to watch Illuminations?

anyone want to try and figure out this mess? :) calie

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Fri, 01-05-2007 - 12:37pm

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Fri, 01-05-2007 - 6:18pm

My one day ticket is leftover from buying a package with free dining, I used my AP that trip and never used the one day. I upgraded DD's 1 day ticket to 6 days since I was the only one who had an AP to give us discounted room/dining on the previous trip. So that should be good since I've never used it.

I'm not opposed to splitting up if the 2 oldest stay together, but H also hasn't been on Everest, and what would they do when AK closes at 6:00 and we're at Epcot til 9:30 when we're offsite?

Tough problem because I just can't fit it all in and still have some down time at our condo. If we did disneyquest Friday when it opened and Ohana that night it leaves time for 1 day at the park Sat. Then it also seems silly to pay $71.36 per person for 3 hours at opening, take a break to swim, then come back for supper and fireworks for a total of 7 hours. That's $10/hour to be in a park, per person, yikes.

I might just have to skip the parks until we come back. Best case I can come up with is Friday disneyquest from 11:30-3:00 (I'll go shop at Epcot with my ticket), check into condo, go back to disneyquest after dinner (I'll sneak over to Epcot for Illuminations alone, is that awful?). Saturday relax at condo, dinner at Poly & fireworks on beach.

calie

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Sat, 01-06-2007 - 9:26am

Excellent on the ticket. I have a few of those myself. As long as your room key never went through the turnstile it's good.


A one day ticket always does seem to be a collasal waste of money. Plan B sounds

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Sat, 01-06-2007 - 7:31pm

Thanks. I was just wasting time online last night and started thinking ILLUMINATIONS CRUISE, hahaha. Yeah that's probably much more than $10/hr but it's less than buying 1 day park tickets for 4 if we share it with another family, about half the cost. And it's something we'd never do if we had park tickets since it's hard to justify if you've paid to watch it inside the parks. I think I can justify it to get some extra "disney magic".

calie