katyringo
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Sep 21, 2017
What a day our first day in the parks has been! I am going to use this thread to document our time. I may not come back every night to write, but I will fill it in all the way when we get back. Today was such a unique day that I have to share. It is because of these boards our day didn't fall apart after s crazy morning.
We are staying at DLH and want to take full advantage of EE. We got to the DTD security line at 6:05 am and we're second in line. PLEASE listen to the folks on these boards who say to get to security by at least 630 if you are using EE. Security opened at 7 and we got to DCA gates and were second in line. By 7:20 the lines were LONG and there is not a designated EE line. 7:25 they scanned us in and then we went to the EE sign, they checked the app, and off we went. We walked right on to web slingers. Then we tried to go get in line for Racers, but they were saying they weren't sure when they would open, so then we changed directions and walked right on to guardians. We were off guardians right about 8am. I booked our first LL for toy story for 9:15. We went to Pixar pier, stopping to ride mermaid on the way (walk on). Hubby jumped in stand by for incredicoaster (stated 15 minute wait) and I scanned for a rider switch. While he rode the kids and I did the carousel and emotional whirlwind. He got off.. and this is when all the crazy started. Due to storms in the area every single outdoor ride in the park closed. We struggled for a bit to decide what to do and kinda lost our bearings. We used the LL for midway 5 minutes early (9:10) and I booked Goofy's sky school.
This is where the knowledge I learned on dis came in handy. It became clear the weather would be iffy for the next 90 minutes to two hours. So I started booking LL for the earliest times and watched one by one them convert to Multiple Expirence ones. We went and used one for Soarin. We got some food at cozy cones- though I will say with all the rides closed mobile order started to push way out. It was hard for a bit to figure out things to do or to find food without long waits. I had also bought racers and our time was inching closer and no sign of it opening. It got a little stressful there for a bit and we contemplated leaving. A massive downpour happened and we were kinda stuck under an umbrella for awhile. But around 1045 everything started opening again. We headed toward racers to use our LL- the line for LL was crazy long, but it went really quickly. We then headed for our lunch reservation at lamplight. I used mobile to check in and we waited maybe 10 minutes. After lunch we did go take a break. The kids swam. I kept booking LL when I could and so around 330 we re-entered the park with 4 multiple experience passes, web slingers LL, grizzly LL, and guardians after dark LL. I booked a final one while in the park for Goofy's sky school. We spent a big chunk of time in advenger's campus. We saw the doctor strange show, Spider-Man show, hulk, iron man, captain America, Thor. Web slingers went down so that one converted too. We had dinner at Pym's test kitchen. For reference I put in our mobile order for dinner for 530
Around 1pm to ensure we would have it booked. We then just started using all our LL. Did grizzly a couple times, did Goofy's a couple times, guardians monsters after Dark (which is awesome!!). The multiple expirence ones can also be used at some non LL rides. So we used one at Mater's. Did some shopping. We ended the night around 9, using our converted LL to ride web slingers again.
We also had great luck with photographers! We got good ones in front of the avengers campus sign, the spider at Flo's and a few other places.
I got worried this morning with the weather and everything shutting down, but it turned out to be an awesome day and I really feel like this is because of things I learned here on Disboards. Tomorrow is Disneyland! We have Minnie's breakfast planned and light saber building.
We are staying at DLH and want to take full advantage of EE. We got to the DTD security line at 6:05 am and we're second in line. PLEASE listen to the folks on these boards who say to get to security by at least 630 if you are using EE. Security opened at 7 and we got to DCA gates and were second in line. By 7:20 the lines were LONG and there is not a designated EE line. 7:25 they scanned us in and then we went to the EE sign, they checked the app, and off we went. We walked right on to web slingers. Then we tried to go get in line for Racers, but they were saying they weren't sure when they would open, so then we changed directions and walked right on to guardians. We were off guardians right about 8am. I booked our first LL for toy story for 9:15. We went to Pixar pier, stopping to ride mermaid on the way (walk on). Hubby jumped in stand by for incredicoaster (stated 15 minute wait) and I scanned for a rider switch. While he rode the kids and I did the carousel and emotional whirlwind. He got off.. and this is when all the crazy started. Due to storms in the area every single outdoor ride in the park closed. We struggled for a bit to decide what to do and kinda lost our bearings. We used the LL for midway 5 minutes early (9:10) and I booked Goofy's sky school.
This is where the knowledge I learned on dis came in handy. It became clear the weather would be iffy for the next 90 minutes to two hours. So I started booking LL for the earliest times and watched one by one them convert to Multiple Expirence ones. We went and used one for Soarin. We got some food at cozy cones- though I will say with all the rides closed mobile order started to push way out. It was hard for a bit to figure out things to do or to find food without long waits. I had also bought racers and our time was inching closer and no sign of it opening. It got a little stressful there for a bit and we contemplated leaving. A massive downpour happened and we were kinda stuck under an umbrella for awhile. But around 1045 everything started opening again. We headed toward racers to use our LL- the line for LL was crazy long, but it went really quickly. We then headed for our lunch reservation at lamplight. I used mobile to check in and we waited maybe 10 minutes. After lunch we did go take a break. The kids swam. I kept booking LL when I could and so around 330 we re-entered the park with 4 multiple experience passes, web slingers LL, grizzly LL, and guardians after dark LL. I booked a final one while in the park for Goofy's sky school. We spent a big chunk of time in advenger's campus. We saw the doctor strange show, Spider-Man show, hulk, iron man, captain America, Thor. Web slingers went down so that one converted too. We had dinner at Pym's test kitchen. For reference I put in our mobile order for dinner for 530
Around 1pm to ensure we would have it booked. We then just started using all our LL. Did grizzly a couple times, did Goofy's a couple times, guardians monsters after Dark (which is awesome!!). The multiple expirence ones can also be used at some non LL rides. So we used one at Mater's. Did some shopping. We ended the night around 9, using our converted LL to ride web slingers again.
We also had great luck with photographers! We got good ones in front of the avengers campus sign, the spider at Flo's and a few other places.
I got worried this morning with the weather and everything shutting down, but it turned out to be an awesome day and I really feel like this is because of things I learned here on Disboards. Tomorrow is Disneyland! We have Minnie's breakfast planned and light saber building.
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Have a great rest of your trip!
