Originally Posted By ronnyt We have seen DL, and we want to spend a day at Blizzard Beach. Can we do it in a week ?? We plan on skipping the 'kiddy' rides....
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey No, you can't possibly do everything WDW has to offer in a week, unless you're trying to make your vacation a marathon instead of a vacation. I've been to WDW 22 times, for varying lengths of time, and I've just gotten to the point where I can say that I've pretty much done everything.
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh As long as you don't plan to do anything but WDW, you don't mind not seeing everything at every park, and you don't go during the busiest times, then you can do it in a week. You can definitely see almost everything in each park in 5 days - I would recommend 1 day each for Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, and Disney Studios, and 2 days for Epcot. That leaves you one day for Blizzard Beach and one day to just hang out.
Originally Posted By barboy Is 7 days enough time for WDW? The answer depends on the following: 1. What is the compostion of your party?(2 young industrious adults on the run or a family reunion of 18 or a party of 3 in your golden years who rely on 2 hour naps in the early afternoon ect.) 2) What specific time of the year do you plan to tour? 3) How thorough do you want to be when touring?(will you want to repeat many attractions, will you see every show, how much sitdown dining and shopping do you anticipate?) So... party makeup, time of travel and personal touring habits need to be addressed before I can give you my opinion. And even though you have seen Dl(I assume you mean the one in Anaheim) that should not factor in when determining how many days you need at WDW.
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh <And even though you have seen Dl(I assume you mean the one in Anaheim) that should not factor in when determining how many days you need at WDW.> Sure it should. If someone has seen Honey, I Shrunk the Audience recently, or Tough to be a Bug, or ridden Star Tours, then those are attractions that could easily be skipped in the interest of time.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Two decades ago, you could have done it all in one week. Now, seven days gets you the teaser. If it's just about going from ride-to-ride, you can get a lot done, but you'll miss the resort aspect of WDW.
Originally Posted By cmash95 you can do everything in a week but it would be rushed a bit. really you are talking about doing it in 6 days if you spend a day at blizzard beach. I am assuming you don't plan on going to typhoon lagoon as well. AK and MGM are really half day parks or so especially if you get there in the morning and fastpass Tower or terror and rocknrollercoaster. also it depends on what you mean by kiddie rides as I see adults riding dumbo and the carousel all the time.
Originally Posted By barboy I so very, very much disagree with you on your take DouglasD. Here is why: very few attractions are the same from the facade to the queue to the actual show or ride. Without systematically going through every single attraction at all 11 "dry" Disney themeparks I can only think of 1 attraction that is absolutely identical from its inside to outside, head to toe(and even that attaction might have a subtle difference or two--one which I may have missed).... Roger Rabbit's Cartoon Spin in Dl Anaheim and Tokyo Dl. But then again I am probably more of a Disney themepark nitpicker/connoiseuer than most.
Originally Posted By danyoung I think it would be safe to say that Star Tours is pretty much the same (I know, some small queue differences but basically the same layout). Same for Muppets. HISTA has a totally different preshow, but it's really not a major production on either coast. And I think 7 days is enough to see just about everything, as long as you're at the park of choice at park opening, and stay till closing, maybe taking a break in mid-afternoon for a swim and/or a nap. Of course, this also assumes you're not visiting at the really busy times of the year like summer.
Originally Posted By Elderp Short answer is yes it can be done.... We went for 7 days and did the marathon pace. I was able to go the four major parks MK,EP,AK, and DS. In the parks I did almost every "ride" attraction that was open, the exception was the racecars in MK (could of gone on them but I didn't want to). AK I missed the Lion King Festival and only saw part of the Flights of Wonder show, it gets hard to schedule everything in one day because they stagger the shows out. We also did one night of Downtown Disney including the clubs of Pleasure Island. We did a morning-afternoon of Typhoon Lagoon. In addition to spending time at our resort (Allstar-Music) we visited the following resorts to check them out: Polynesian Resort (Spirit of Aloha), Grand Floridian (V&A's), Dolphin and Swan (explored it before getting our car) and the Wilderness Lodge (Whispering Cafe and to see the Golden Spike Room). We did both circuits of the Monorail and cruised the boat from DS to EP and back. We also went to church in Kisimee on Sunday. It was a blistering pace I was running around (like a kid in a candy shop). Mrs P, who is pregnant, wasn't always able to keep the pace so it was necessary to arrange meeting places. Also beforehand we planned the trip like an full on D-day assault. It was crazy but A) it was our first trip ever and B)I don't see us going back for awhile. It was by no means a "relaxing" vacation. I'd call it a more "action packed" vacation. I personally had a blast. It had this kind of bam, bam!! Quality to it. Due to the planning we knew however what we were getting into and even then we had to make adjustments. There was one day where Mrs. P. had to cut out and just rest, but it was ok because she knew her limits being pregnant. I have to say our vacation was not for the unfit, if you've been following the community threads you might have heard I recently did a half-marathon. If you want to see everything you have to be prepared to walk ALOT. Everyday we were walking about 7-9 miles, it can get crazy if your not up for it. I don't think it is for everyone but I know for me it was a great trip I will never forget. BTW, we don't always go for these high energy vacations. In fact this was a very rare occasion, most of our vacations consist of sitting arround a pool or a tent.
Originally Posted By Elderp Oh and one last piece of advise... We added a day of rest for our trip in that we had Sunday to recover so I was ready for work on Monday.
Originally Posted By Brian Noble Go for your week, pick and choose what you'd like to do, and know that you can always come back!
Originally Posted By Mybails We (husband and I)have been to DLR 10 times and went to WDW this summer for the first time for 8 days. We had some senior folk with us that probably slowed us a little but we still missed Lion King, the AK walk areas, half of Epcot world and half of MK. We are going back next summer with the youngest daughter & the 5 grandkids which should speed us up but I still doubt we will do all we want. But then 5 days at DLR is pushing it too and WDW has 2 more parks.
Originally Posted By 2BoyzMom We just made our first trip to WDW two years ago, and only had 5 days to spend. We opened and closed the parks every single day, no breaks in the afternoon back at the hotel. We spent 1 full day at MGM and AK, and 1 and a half days at MK and Epcot. No visit to Downtown Disney. With that said...we did everything that we really wanted to, some things twice. We had a marvelous time. However, I was nicknamed "the task master" and almost wore my family out. But you'll have two more days than we did. Just do your research and pick and choose, and try not to go commando!!
Originally Posted By wam0418 OK here it is..I just came back on Sunday the 7th of Oct and went for 8 Full days and did not get to see all of WDW. And I have been 16 times before. So I know what to miss and not worry about. Missed Fantasmic for the first time, did not get to go to EPCOT . (only saw Illuminations at night) Did not see all of AK. The reason being 10 People in our party. Some slow walkers, Others infants. Plus we went to US and IOA and Sea World. So we had about 6 Full days at WDW. 7 is still not enough unless you skip small stuff and dont go to US,IOA,SW.
Originally Posted By MrDisneyGeek I think it depends on 2 major things. 1 how busy is it at the time of year you are going? 2 what do you mean by "everything"? my wife and I went for 5 days in February of 2000 and did each park in 1 day with a second trip to AK on the 5th day. we managed to ride pretty much all the rides and take in most if not all of the shows/parades. that being said there were never any crowds, we spent more time walking through any of the ride queues than waiting for anything and quite a few rides we simply got right back on again rather even walking out and back in again. also aside from the rides and shows we really did not do a lot of other things, virtually no dining out (we had a condo with a full kitchen and brought lunch into the park everyday) and were in the park pretty much open to close each day (makes for a very long day) there are a few planning sites and a ton of resource to aid you in planning yourself I would use them to make sure you get to see and do everything you want and not miss anything. one of the best in my opinion is <a href="http://www.allears.net/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.allears.net/index.h tml</a> ask here for a list of "not to miss" things and maybe start from there.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 Right, the more people the harder it is to do everything you want to. We found that out last year. We're up and out early, but my daughter & her son were late risers and into big breakfasts. We tried to adjust to their schedule, big mistate. So we went our own way early. Good thing for cell phones. We'd meet up later and everyone was happy.
Originally Posted By Great Stone Dragon We just got back from 6 full days at WDW (with a couple hours the evening before and the morning before we flew back). We went to all 4 parks + DTD and saw everything we wanted to see -- we knew what we were OK with skipping. We had a day off from the parks in the middle and used the hotel pool, checked out one of the other hotels, and had dinner at the Grand Floridian. We also took another night to go to the luau at the Polynesian. However, lines were really good - we rarely had to wait longer than 10-15 minutes -- and since we had been there before we had a good game plan. We didn't go to any water parks. We didn't get up particularly early or stay till the last minute any night, but it was just my wife and I -- no kids.
Originally Posted By cmash95 the parks are less crowded in december but you will have MK closing early for the christmas parties except for wednesdays and saturdays. hope you have a great time!!
