Well I am back! My wife and I for the first time are not taking kids on this trip. We usually do a mini vacation for our marriage without kids every year. We usually do small trips to the beach in Mexico or a cruise etc... Well last summer while we were sweating to death with the kids at WDW we kind of sparked an idea for us to just go ourselves to WDW for the Food and Wine festival. When we got back around Jan I made reservations and it was meant to be!
Anyway we are staying in the Beach Club Villas and we have the dining plan. We don't own DVC but we booked it through Disney direct because we knew it would guarentee us a single bed in the room. We are going to be there from 9/22-9/26. This is going to be a completely different trip than what we have done in the past. Usually we rope drop and tour like crazy and then go and collapse back in the room just after lunch and then debate if we'll go back out again. This time we are changing it up. We are going to try a signature restaurant, take a tour, go to a dessert party, and basically do stuff our kids wouldn't tolerate. You'll also notice some of our fastpasses are strange. We decided to book things we love or haven't done so sometimes they might not be the best FP choices but that was intentional. Sometimes we loved more than one ride in the top tier so we couldn't do both. If the line is short we might try to ride it but it isn't a big deal. It should be fun!
I was initially disappointed when I heard Galaxy's Edge was coming during our trip but I have learned to accept the reality and embrace it. I wasn't looking forward to the crowds but we'll try to enjoy Star Wars. I am a huge Star Wars fan but my wife not so much. So she is going that morning for me but I think she'll enjoy it.
Anyway here are our basic plans which seem so foreign to me.
Sept 22nd - Arrive at 11:30 in Orlando, take the magic express to the room, and then eat at Food and Wine. We have the dessert party booked for this evening. We might even try to catch Starship in concert. I have a few fastpasses but we won't be waiting in line just riding the rides with fastpasses and any that might not have any waits. FP: Soarin, Living with the Land, and Short Film Festival
Sept 23rd - Lunch and shopping at Disney Springs and then AK at night. We have reservations at House of Blues and will be shopping for several hours. We then will head over to AK and use our fastpasses and check out the park at night. FP: Flight of Passage, EE,Festival of the Lion King
Sept 24th - Our one rope drop day. Yes we are crazy and will be rope dropping DHS. 6am I can't even imagine getting up for that but we will be there. Fortunately we managed to snag reservations for Ogas right before noon and then Savi's right at noon. We'll rope drop and ride the Falcon and then go over and ride TSM so we can do that ride because we love it and SDD and we couldn't get fastpasses for both. We'll hang out in Galaxy's Edge except to do some FP we have booked. I might try to do single rider on RnR since my wife can't ride that ride it makes her sick. We might also try to hop on ToT if the line isn't nuts. After Savi's and our SDD fastpass we will go back to the room and nap. Then we'll go to Epcot for dinner at Teppan Edo and maybe hop on another ride and then finish the night at Jelly Rolls. FP: Star Tours, Muppet Vision, SDD.
Sept 25th - This day we're relaxing for the most part. We will be spending the morning at the hotel pool or something else we randomly come up with. We have 5pm reservations at California Grill. So we'll head over there maybe before to hit MK for awhile or not. After dinner we'll close down MK and ride our fastpasses and check out the little stuff. Maybe we'll get some rides on things we haven't done in awhile and check out some shops. FP: Pirates, Mine Train, Jungle Cruise
Sept 26th - We will check out in the morning and we have a 9am Keys to the Kingdom tour booked! I am super excited about that. If we have time we'll hop on our one fastpass and then we'll head back to catch Magical Express back to the airport. Our flight is at 7:30pm.