I posted this in a hotel thread earlier and I think it might belong over here but I can post it elsewhere if advised. Apologize in advance for all the questions. We're doing our first family Disney vacation over this upcoming Labor Day wknd. I've been putting off a Disney trip for 14 years but 4 kids later and our oldest already aging out with his high school attitude, time is not on our side.
We're staying at the GC and trying to figure out how to maximize EE along with rope drop/LL/ILL with a daily plan/strategy. We'll have
Genie+ but I still don't think I know the difference between LL and ILL. They seem one in the same just that ILL cost extra for each use? Also, had a few questions or looking for some sort of ballpark plan/itinerary to start with since we're not familiar with the layout of the parks.
The kids are all huge Star Wars and Marvel fans so we wanted to knock those out for sure along with the main "must dos" on our short trip. We have 3 park days with hopper tix, Fri/Sat/Sun (9/2-9/4). The current plan is to start at DL on Fri, CA on Sat and DL on Sunday going back and forth.
On Friday, does it make sense to use EE and knock out a couple of the big rides in Tomorrowland (Space Mountain & Star Tours) and still have enough time to get over to the Galaxy's Edge entrance via Fantasyland to get ahead of the rope drop crowd? I've had others tell us we wouldn't have time to knock out a couple of rides before we needed to be over there and to just start there but I feel like we're wasting our EE if we go straight to GE when we can still use Genie+ for ROTR and Smugglers. The additional "must dos" at DL we've been advised are Space Mountain, Star Tours, Indiana Jones, Big Thunder, Its a Small World, Pirates and Haunted Mansion. We're open to any other suggestions as well but that's just the common ones mentioned. We also signed up for light saber/droid building along with an Oga's reservation.
For our day starting in CA on Sat, original plan was to use EE and head straight to GOTG, Web Slingers and/or RSR. Idea was head straight to Web Slingers or GOTG to get a couple of rides in with EE and then use ILL for RSR? I also read on other threads suggesting instead to head straight to RSR to knock that out. Wasn't sure about the CA "must dos" along with the Marvel ones other than Incredicoaster and Grizzly maybe? Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I think our original plan with the day selection was that Galaxy's Edge and the other main DL rides wouldn't be as crowded on a Friday morning, especially with EE but I think I can switch our CA start day to Fri if that makes more sense but I assume Saturday at Galaxy's Edge and all of DL would be much more crowded. Seems we have less rides we'll do at CA as well, so maybe Saturday will be fine.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!