LSUmiss
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Sep 8, 2014
Forget about being in the park open to close. Your children will not make it. Get to the park when it opens if you can to take advantage of shorter lines first thing in the morning. Then take a break and head back to the resort for naps and a swim. My son was four on our first trip and his favorite thing was swimming in the pool at the resort. After everyone is refreshed, head to another park for evening shows and any FPs you can pick up. Then try to be on your resort bus before the end of the night. Otherwise, you are going to have sleepy kids and no way to handle all of them. If you want to stay to the end, plan on starting the next day later, not park opening. And move at the pace of the kids. Their legs are shorter than yours and cannot move as fast as you can. Do what you can, but don't stay so long that the kids get out of sorts. That will make a horrible bus trip back to the resort.
A good way to see characters is to do a morning or afternoon character meal. You could do that for your lunch and head back to the resort right after eating. Then if the older child isn't tired, maybe you or your spouse could take the little ones back to the resort and the other stay with the older in the park for a while longer.
Oh, and you won't get your money's worth. You might get a good value for your money, but it's going to be the family time and not the number of rides.
IMO that is more valuable than anything!