I am planning a trip for January. This is the first time DH, Me, our 2 daughters, their spouses, and 1 grandchild are going together. We will be getting 3 rooms. I know we can link our reservations on My Disney Experience App for Genie + and paid extra rides.
Any advice you can give me about taking a group of 6 adults and 1 toddler who will be 3 would be greatly appreciated.
We take an extended family trip each year. My mom, myself and family, my sisters family, and other sister and dh. We are usually a group of 10-11. I'm a big planner, so I'll get a rough itinerary together and will send them and make adjustments as needed. We don't stay together 100% of the time. but do the vast majority. The cousins love to be with each other, so we're together about 85-90% of the time.
We kinda have 2 main planners (those who touch
MDE lol); myself and sister. We have recruited the teenagers for help securing fastpasses/virtual ques at the 7am drop, but otherwise she and I basically manage it while we're there. Before the trip, I'm the one that arranges everything. makes adrs etc., with what everyone wants. Closer to the trip I make a more detailed itinerary that lists. departure times each morning, the adrs with confirmation numbers etc.
It works pretty well for our group, however if you're traveling with ppl. who have different priorities or extreme differences in vacationing more separation will be better.
Eta: Another brought up a good point of it'll be slower going with big group and can at times feel like you're hearding cats lol. One rule I made for my kids (I'm the unfun parent in case you hadn't noticed), was if we were stopping to go to the bathroom, they had to go/try too.
The first time we went without extended family, I was shocked as to how fast we moved and got things accomplished.