mdsouth
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 15, 2005
Pack 47,000 things in your park bag just in case you need them. You must be prepared. Extra shoes, band-aids, every kind of medicine you can think of, bottles of water, crystal light, socks, ponchos, baggies, toothbrushes, kitchen sinks, and a dishwasher. Ok, so that's hyperbole, but you catch my drift. After the first evening, we carried what we "needed" in our pockets and never carried the bag again. STEP AWAY FROM THE BAG!!
Too Funny because it is so TRUE!
Before our first trip, I did a lot of research here on DIS, and other places as well. Prevailing thought seemed to be you absolutely HAD to have park hoppers or you'd never see everything you wanted. If you weren't hopping, you were wasting your time. No way could you stick to one park a day. So I bought them. Never used them! Wasted over $200 for our family. We've never bought them since and have done just fine on all five trips! I know this is personal preference. There's no one right answer--but it certainly seemed that way at the time!
I agree with many here. We do not see the need for parkhoppers. We tend to go to the park in the morning, take a break in the afternoon and then either go back to the same park or go to Downtown Disney or visit another resort for dinner in the evening. We pack a lot of stuff into our days without parkhopping. Each family is different so this is something, you really have to decide or try our for yourself.
We sat on the bus with one other family going back to AoA for an afternoon break. The dad was kind of grumpy and mentioned not doing the dining plan if they return because he was tired of eating at the resort every day.
Apparently their TA told them their free QS dining plan was only good at their resort! We quickly set them straight, but I wish we would have met them earlier. It was day 4 of a 7 day trip.
WOW! So glad, you helped the family out! Their Travel agent should give them money back on their purchase. It is sad when some travel agents do not take the time to be fully informed before spouting out information.