Should I add two more park days?
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| Wed, 03-28-2007 - 1:30pm |
We are driving down to WDW (a 2+ day drive each way) for a late August vacation. We are staying 7 nights and I got 6 day park tickets with hopper. Our plan is to arrive at AS Music (in the suites) around lunch time. Our plan was to just relax for the day, swim, explore the resort, maybe see DTD.. Then we have an ADR for 5:45 at Ohana. After dinner, go to bed for our first park day the next day.... On our final day, we are planning on driving about 6 hours, so we could conceivably leave WDW around 1pm or so. Our plan was wake up, pack up, maybe take a swim and leave.
My question.... I was just for fun seeing how much it would cost to add on another day... it would be $8 for all of us to add one more day, or $16 for all of us to have two more days.... would you add on the two extra days? It would allow us to enter MK before and/or after Ohana for a quick taste, but I sort of think if we go for the VERY first time, the kids will be so excited, I'll never get them out of there for dinner. And our final day... with the confusion of packing up and checking out, is it even worth having an hour or two at the parks after we have had SIX full days??
The only benefit I can truly see is it would allow a park meal either that first night, or breakfast the last morning, which isn't really necessary. Or it would allow us to enter MK exclusively to watch the parade and fireworks on our first night.
Help. Any ideas? My gut says to leave it as is. That first day would be more relaxing without parks, but we'll all be dying to get going!!
Thanks
Laura

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Annette,
I do, I do!! All that you wrote sounds excellent! Can't wait to hear more!
(I see your icon is a CL hat...what board is that from?)
I am co-cl at the frugal living chat that meets in ivillage basement on Wed evenings at 9 ET.
Some of the "cheaper" places I found to eat were: (Can you tell my favorite park is Epcot?)
Hope my memory is correct and prices haven't changed too much!!
We usually ate just one meal a day at the park and the rest were just snacks or eating in the room. My kids are 15, 13 and 12, but none are real big eaters.
The pastry shop in France at Epcot of course sells wonderful treats at reasonable prices, but they also have a ham and cheese croissant for under $4!
The bakery at the Boardwalk (easy walk or ride from Epcot) sells a fresh fruit plate. It's around $3 for a 9 in plate of fresh fruit and yogurt dip. My son and I shared a plate for a late afternoon snack--good on a hot day.
Germany has the brat and pretzel booth--Sommerfest- across from the Biergarten. The pretzels are huge and cost around $3. My dd and I shared one and still couldn't eat it all.
The restaurant in America has good sized portions at decent prices. Most meals could be shared by younger kids for less than 2 kids meals.
Earl of Sandwich in Downtown Disney is good. Sandwiches are around $5 and are big enough to share. Sides are reasonable also.
Kaki Gori in Japan is a very tasty snow cone. Also good on a hot day and around $2.
The Churros in Mexico are good and about $2.
The Flame Tree BBQ restaurant at Animal Kingdom is good, reasonable and large portions.
The Pinnochio's restaurant in Magic Kingdom has pizza and sandwiches for good prices.
The noodle station at Magic Kingdom was reasonable and something different.
Electric Umbrella in Epcot is good, average prices for Disney.
I have never had a problem ordering a kid's meal for my older kids at any counter service
restaurant.
The Cool Spot in Epcot has coke products from around the world for FREE. Nice place to get a drink on a hot day.
The only place at MGM I've eaten is the Sci-Fi theatre. Good food, fun atmosphere. Expensive for burgers, but it was the only meal we ate in the parks that day.
Hope these help.
Annette
Annette
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