Momma_Lanier
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- Mar 10, 2015
That's my party day.
Maybe someone should start a separate hurricane watch thread.
Ours too! Hoping for good weather! I know my 3 littles would not like being in the rain all night.
That's my party day.
Maybe someone should start a separate hurricane watch thread.
I don’t think it’s ridiculous if you have the extra money to spend. We’re going in October and land at 9 am but we are doing the party that night and the one 2 days later.We arrive on Sunday 9/16 and don't have anything planned that day. We get in at like, 6am. Would it be ridiculous to get a party ticket that night, even though we already have one for 9/18?
You can also book a breakfast at O’Hana. Stitch and Lilo are there. They come to each table so you can take pics and have them sign autograph books. They are only at the breakfast seating.My grandson wants to see Stitch. He doesn't care if it's Elvis Stitch or regular Stitch. Does regular Stitch do an M&G somewhere? Rather not wait in the long Elvis Stitch lines if there's another option to meet Stitch somewhere during our trip.
I don’t think it’s ridiculous if you have the extra money to spend. We’re going in October and land at 9 am but we are doing the party that night and the one 2 days later.
Is there enough to do to fill two parties? We have never been to WDW before so we just don't want to waste the money if not. We also were looking at adding a day to our tickets and maybe doing the night at one of the other parks.
That would depend on what you want to do during the party. Do you want to do a lot of M&G? Rides? Parade & Fireworks? ToT? Magic Shots?
Some of the M&G lines get crazy and it can eat up a lot of the party time. I think I read a few pages ago that Moana’s line got to 3 hours wait at some point.
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The only M&G we definitely want to do are the Winnie The Pooh characters and Elvis Stitch. Everything else we are ok missing. We definitely want to do rides, the parade, fireworks, villain show, ToT and as many magic shots as we can.
We went to Tues night’s party and had a great time! We were delayed leaving our resort by 2 hours as I waited for the lightening to pass. Caught a bus around 5:15 then we’re delayed by an accident close to the MK that had traffic backed up so arrived at the MK byvabiyt 5:45.
It rained for the first hour or so we were there but it didn’t dampen our spirits! Our goal was to ride rides, trick or treat, watch the fireworks and the parade.
Most rides were walk-ons or near walk-ons. Waited 35 mins for 7 dwarfs mine train but that was right at 7:00 and our choice. Since it was running we went on in case the rain came back and they shut it down again.
Ended up going on 11 rides, visited all but 2 t or t stations (many more than once), watched the fireworks from Frontierland bridge (personally wouldn’t do that again) then called it s a night. I could see on my dd’s face that while she was willing to watch it she was concerned about beingbfrightened. I didn’t want to frighten her so made the choice to skip the parade and t or t instead.
Very happy with our choices and enjoyed the party although will go to mvmcp next time as that party just works better for our family.
Yep, just PLEASE, please let our flight down to MCO happen, everything else we will deal with as/if it happens.
I went down 2 days earlier than planned last year so I'd be there when they closed the airport. That was really the best trip ever! I keep telling everybody I'm going to head back down as soon as I see another hurricane headed to Orlando! I'm scheduled for the exact same time this year and I'm planning to schedule again for the same time next year.We went down for Irma last year - this was our attitude.
DH thinks it was our best disney trip.
Buying the tickets is one thing. Using the tickets is another thing.
If the person buys over the phone, they can have the tickets mailed to them. The person can hand you the tickets, assuming they order early enough.
If the person orders online, the tickets automatically end up in the buyer's My Disney Experience account. For example, I bought a ticket. It ended up in my MDE account. I could then easily assign it to someone else who is in my MDE account. But if I wanted to assign it to someone who is not in my MDE account, I don't know how to do it. I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm just saying that I can't tell you what to do. If this is your situation, make sure you know what to do before the tickets are ordered. When you order online, you also can have the tickets sent to you.
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Yeah, we noticed the crowds were pretty low even before it hit from all the people who canceled their trips or rescheduled I guess. We were a little jealous of those staying through the hurricane, since we knew the parks would be dead after it! We left on our originally scheduled departure flights, which were the evening before they shut down MCO. It was a bit tense in there that evening!
We went down for Irma last year - this was our attitude.
DH thinks it was our best disney trip.
Schools here in the Bay Area started second week of August this year. Many school districts said they wanted to start getting closer to the college schedule.
I’d watch reports on Moana - you may need to line up earlier than 5:15 if you want to be done around 6.
Where are you seeing a very wet forecast for 9/3? Googling the weather is showing just a chance of thunderstorms mostly. Of course I read the link that @Rich M posted, but that just mentioned a chance for something to develop. Give me your sources! I need to stay up all night reading about what weather may or may not come!
I just see the normal thunderstorm activity that is normal during September.
Translation: The POTENTIAL thing is barely off the coast of Africa in 5 days per the models.
How long was the wait for the Tweedles/QoH?
We skipped Moana because after Jack and Sallie she was still 75 minutes. I think the big thing there is her line was covered. So people who may not have waited went ahead and did because of the rain. Maybe. seems like a possibility.Tuesday August 28th party. Supposed to be third smallest crowds according to touring plans. Family well in front of us were in line at 455 and they finished at 635. We got in line at 610 and were done at 750.