Ellie Webbs
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- Apr 26, 2019
We fly from the UK in the morning and are set to land at SFB just after 4pm. Am I crazy to try and drag my exhausted husband onto FOP (provided we can get a FP) after a 9 hour flight?
That's similar to my plan. Literally AK for FOP and maybe a drink and admiring Pandora at night then bed. We're are staying at AKL so that makes the journey shorter, DH may kip on the plane but I'm a nervous flyer (not the flying the space issue) so I'll either be full of nervous energy or dead as a door nail lolDepends on if you can rest on the flight or not (I know coming this way from the UK is harder to sleep on). We were exhausted just from the trip coming in from Seattle (granted we didn't have a direct flight but still less than 9 hours). We did a few things at MK that evening and it wasn't too bad after a small nap. I'd probably try to drag myself off to do FOP but head back early to try to sleep.
Could I go with a bad attitude?I would. We wake up a 4am, drive 15 hours and head directly to a park.
But, it definitely requires a good attitude.
Did you find you still woke up super early?It's doable if you only want to ride FOP. Remember it takes about an hour to get from Stanstead to WDW pluss the time it takes to get through customs etc.
Me and DH flew direct from UK last year in September and landed around the same time as you, but at MCO. We went straight to DS for a bite to eat and just a quick look in the dress shop. I was so exhausted that I almost fell asleep, so it wasn't really that enjoyable to be honest.
We are rope dropping MK and then travelling to Epcot the next day, so point well taken!I wouldn't do it but that's just me. There are plenty of hardcores around here that would though.
I would rather rest and be fresh as a daisy the next day.
Did you find you still woke up super early?
Ouch!!!!! Earliest I've woken is 4.30 so I went for a walk. DH has the irritating ability to adjust immediately to different time zones to when i got back i switched on another light every half hour and slightly turned the TV up. Still took him 2 hours top get the pointLol, yes I woke up at 3.30am in the mornig and I was starving. Couldn't sleep a wink after that, so I just stayed in bed and waited for the food court to open at 6am.
Could I go with a bad attitude?
If you do AK as soon as you get there, I would make it a short night as the next day looks full.We are rope dropping MK and then travelling to Epcot the next day, so point well taken!
Wow! You get there at 7pm and go straight to a park? No way I could do that after a 15-hour drive. I tried it after a 12-hour drive once, and I thought I was literally going to collapse in the middle of Hollywood Studios and fall asleep, LOL!I would. We wake up a 4am, drive 15 hours and head directly to a park.
But, it definitely requires a good attitude.