gottalovepluto
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jul 14, 2014
1) flying is what it is. It became a bit more tolerable to me when I started upgrading my legroom. The early boarding and extra couple inches helps me mentally dealing with it all I think (nervous flyer here). In my experience it’s approx $25/hour of flying to upgrade to premium economy type seats though so whether or not I do it depends on my budget for each trip!
2) I’m going to be blunt: you’re screwed if you can’t check this off. You have to book the coolest restaurants 180+10(or however long your trip is) or its entirely possible you won’t get in. Likewise you MUST book FP at 60+ out at 4AM PST or you won’t get anything “great” (Flight of Passage -OMG FREAKING AMAZING!!! take motion sick meds if prone to motion sickness- slinky dog dash, seven dwarfs are the other 2 hard to get FPs). If you don’t book FPs to these you’re gonna have some long waits. Still possible to do them but who wants to spend 3 hours in line for 1 ride? (I’m looking at you FoP!)
3) ok. why are you going to WDW then? This makes no sense to me. Why not put your energy and time and money into a bucket list item instead of something that will make you go “eh”?... Ah, I re-read and you’re chasing nostalgia. I can’t blame you there. I think that’s definitely part of why I love DL so much! Only you can decide if it’s worth giving up a DL trip for. Personally, I’d aim for an overseas trip now (but that is a LOT more plane time!) and go to WDW around the 50th or after so you get: SWL, Tron, New Epcot nightshow, Guardians, Ratatouille- and that’s all the new stuff just off the top of my head coming in the next few years. If you might only go once make it count!
4) you’ll be fine. WDW has a lot of appeal to adults by way of the obscene amount of restaurant selections & alcoholic drinks that are prevalent throughout the parks
5) “imagine” plane tickets cost more than gas. Have you looked? Take imagination out of this equation and get some cold hard numbers to work with.
I love the F&W festival at Epcot so if you do a trip to WDW I’d encourage you to do it during F&W. It’s like CA F&W times 3 booth wise with an international flair/focus because Epcot.
2) I’m going to be blunt: you’re screwed if you can’t check this off. You have to book the coolest restaurants 180+10(or however long your trip is) or its entirely possible you won’t get in. Likewise you MUST book FP at 60+ out at 4AM PST or you won’t get anything “great” (Flight of Passage -OMG FREAKING AMAZING!!! take motion sick meds if prone to motion sickness- slinky dog dash, seven dwarfs are the other 2 hard to get FPs). If you don’t book FPs to these you’re gonna have some long waits. Still possible to do them but who wants to spend 3 hours in line for 1 ride? (I’m looking at you FoP!)
3) ok. why are you going to WDW then? This makes no sense to me. Why not put your energy and time and money into a bucket list item instead of something that will make you go “eh”?... Ah, I re-read and you’re chasing nostalgia. I can’t blame you there. I think that’s definitely part of why I love DL so much! Only you can decide if it’s worth giving up a DL trip for. Personally, I’d aim for an overseas trip now (but that is a LOT more plane time!) and go to WDW around the 50th or after so you get: SWL, Tron, New Epcot nightshow, Guardians, Ratatouille- and that’s all the new stuff just off the top of my head coming in the next few years. If you might only go once make it count!
4) you’ll be fine. WDW has a lot of appeal to adults by way of the obscene amount of restaurant selections & alcoholic drinks that are prevalent throughout the parks
5) “imagine” plane tickets cost more than gas. Have you looked? Take imagination out of this equation and get some cold hard numbers to work with.
I love the F&W festival at Epcot so if you do a trip to WDW I’d encourage you to do it during F&W. It’s like CA F&W times 3 booth wise with an international flair/focus because Epcot.
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