Good advice. The rain isn't really random. It happens every day in the summer. Usually early in the afternoon for an hour.

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If you are Euro and planning on going to Disney, there is just one factor you must take into account.

Its so ****ing hot, hot, hot, hot. I went early October, so so so hot.

Also jet lag and hot is not fun.

It is very hot. This is why I recommend not being at the parks mid-day, and just going mornings and evenings with midday reserved for pool time in your hotel and/or nap time depending on you and your kids. This is the advantage of staying at a Disney Hotel and especially at a monorail or boardwalk hotel, it is much easier/quicker to get back to your room and back to the parks from your room.

Yea, I posted about this in the LC thread.

My son has Cystic Fibrosis so a charity paid for us to go to Florida for 7 days. We had paid access to every park and a super pass that meant we did not have to wait in line for a single ride.

It was an amazing experience but it was a constant battle with the elements which were a huge drag on the whole adventure.

We basically had to do a park each day+sea world+Universal.

Getting back to our accommodation mid day would have been an impossible ball ache, it was hard enough due to taxi firm incompetence even when we left in the evening,also we struggled to do everything we wanted to do in a park even if we were there from open to close.

In hindsight and experience I would have done Seaworld first day and not over excitingly rushed to Magic Kingdom, as SW is much more mellow in terms of crowds and doing everything, though unexpectedly it has the most extreme rides in terms of my roller coaster bigger than yours.

The extended hours for resort guests are pretty awesome and make it easier to do this as well.

Fall/Spring Disneyworld, avoiding the typical American holidays probably best. There are occasional cold days in Florida and those days REALLY suck, very easy to catch a cold.

Hot... drink more soda.

Drink more water even better

But then you don't have the full American experience.

agreed. other Boardwalk upsides:

—the pool at boardwalk villas has an AWESOME waterslide. it’s water-park style. your kids will do it non-stop

—at night on the boardwalk they have magicians/jugglers/performers who not only put on a great show, but they always incorporate kids into their acts as assistants.

The Itchy and Scratchy Land/Westworld episode of the Simpsons will always be near and dear to my heart because it aired just a year or two after my own family's trip to Disney (FL), and that was more or less exactly how I remembered the experience.

lol it can get up to 22c in January in Florida, its coldest month.

That is a hot day in the UK.

YouTube channel recommendations?

Bro and sis-in-law are big Disney fans and are there this week with 4 and 7 year old daughters. They watch TheTimTracker pretty religiously.

Grunching. Can you get Mickey Mouse ashtrays there? Asking for a friend.

Sometimes this makes that park more crowded though, so you might want to check what some guidebook/forum/app says.

I'd lean towards doing that park for the extended morning hour, but then leaving pretty soon for another park. When I went to Disneyland last I literally just did like 2-3 high-demand rides at California Adventure in the first 45 minutes, then walked over (like 200 yards) to the other park for its official opening.

All these insane things you have to know, prepare for, bring things to prepare for just to make DW tolerable/less than 2k/day make it sound like DW is literaly the opposite of the happiest place on earth, espeically for anyone who has ever left the US before. Jesus Christ the whole process sounds like something out of 1984.

The extended “Extra Magic Hours” are largely a trap, especially the morning ones. Those are the parks that will be the most crowded that day. I always avoid Morning Extra Magic Hours parks. Disney uses them as a mechanism for crowd management.

My wife and I love vacations, and we have been on a ton, of all kinds, including internationally. (Our honeymoon was a 17 day vacation in Italy and Spain). It’s hard to explain why Disney has been far and away the best (with kids), but it has and it’s not even close. Yes it requires a lot of prep, it’s not a “relaxing” vacation where you can just figure out stuff as you’re doing it. But they really go the extra mile on customer service and guest experiences, especially for children.

Man, this sounds painful. It seems like some one could come up with an app to automate this for you. You just give it some inputs about your preferences and it just automatically registers you at the soonest opportunity. Any chance one already exists?

www.touringplans.com. It’s a $10 annual subscription but well worth it IMO. Has various different touring plans/itineraries designed for you based on what you want to do.

Edit: Direct link for Disneyland Touring plans. Again it’ll cost you $10 but it’ll be the best $10 vacation investment you’ve ever made. https://touringplans.com/disneyland-.../touring-plans

Edit Edit: Apparently it’s only $7.95 a year for the Disneyland Touring Plans. It’s $10 a year for Disney world or else they’ve just lowered their rates since I last renewed my subscription.

Thanks. I'm definitely doing that.

It doesn't "automate" things for you though, it just helps plan your itinerary.

Yeah, I haven't looked at the site yet, but I would have guessed that. Still seems worth $10 or whatever.

disney springs should keep the bourbon trail thing going all the time

Matrix playing games:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47360952

I did the late Magic Kingdom hours and the park was pretty empty. Rode Space Mountain like 5 times with my daughter at midnight and there was no line. The morning hours may be totally different but we weren't getting up early enough to find out.