My husband and I are going for an adults only trip for our 20th anniversary. Our ideas are quite different (imagine that!), so we've worked up a skeleton plan to begin with. When we take the kids, we typically rope drop, take a mid-day break at the resort, and then go back for dinner/show/fireworks, etc. We may not rope drop every day this trip, and I'm trying to leave us enough flexibility in our plans that we can "wing it" more (which the thought of almost makes me twitch).
* Currently booked at Contemporary in a Garden Room.
* We got 5 day PH for the price of 4, so we have a "bonus" park day that we can use on our arrival day OR the evening of our Universal day.
* Went to Universal earlier this year with the family & upgraded our passes to seasonal for $10 each. We didn't get to ride anything together, so we're going back to hit a few of our favorites together... and eat.
* We will have a rental car, so transportation won't be an issue.
* Since this is our anniversary trip, we looked at signature dining places like California Grill and Le Cellier. DH isn't really interested in those menus, and nothing specifically called to me there, either. He likes NY Strip steak, and we had some really great steak in Mexico last time. I'm hoping LaHacienda's steak will fit the bill. Would love to hear any experience dining there or thoughts on the best place to get a NY Strip steak.
* We're super low maintenance people - don't really enjoy the spa. We also don't have to be "doing" something every minute of the day, but we'll be at DISNEY and definitely don't want to waste that.
* NOT planning on going to MNSSHP, but have based our schedule off of guesses for those party nights from KTP.
I'm open to suggestions!
9/15 Sat - Arrive; Check in, get settled, and dinner either at Disney Springs or possibly Epcot (use bonus park day?)
9/16 Sun - Universal/IOA: Lunch at Three Broomsticks; Butterbeer; Dinner: Chocolate Emporium
9/18 Mon - KTTK Tour in the morning; B: Starbucks or grab something quick; L: with KTTK Tour; D: Hop over to Epcot for the evening, ADR at La Hacienda
9/19 Tues - HS Day; B: Starbucks or Starring Rolls; L: QS D: 50's Prime Time
9/20 Wed - AK Day; B: Captain Cook's or Kona (likely CC); L/D: Restaurantosaurus/Flame Tree - This may not be a full day park for us. Hoping Pandora can bring it up to that. Flexible on dinner, depending on how much time we spend at AK.
9/21 Thurs - MK/EP Day - no specific plans for this day yet. Backup day for Captain Cook's/Kona Cafe breakfast
9/22 Fri - 10am leave for the airport - leaves us enough time to have a leisurely morning and/or breakfast at a resort
I'm hoping we can get these ADRs. I know HS will likely be a challenge with TSL opening just a few months prior, but hopefully it will all work out! The FP situation kind of freaks me out though... I've always made them with my kids in mind. I'm not sure I know how to think about myself! Ha!