Hello everyone, I’m so happy to have found this board. I just started on this site last week to keep up with the RotR posts and info board, then while poking around, I found a whole lot of May friends! I started reading the posts here yesterday afternoon and finally finished, now feel like I know everyone, and got my first roller coaster ride of the trip with all of
@Farro sagas. So sorry for the loss of your kitty and the unfortunate second trip cancellation!
Anyway, about our trip. My wife, 5yo daughter and I will be staying at POP May 16-22. Back in October, I received a pin code email offer for Coronado springs, but had to go by end of year. It was too late to make good ADRs, and I think FP window had already opened. Even tho a Christmas trip would have been great, I decided it wasn’t the right time, then 2 days later, I got a pin code in the mail for spring dates for 20% off room. We picked the 16th to start as it’s a few days after school gets out and before memorial weekend, so it sounded like a perfect time, in conjunction with the crowd calendars. So we booked in oct and only had to wait 3 weeks to make ADRs, which ended up being on the 1 year anniversary of our first and so far only trip to any Disney park ever! So May 2020 will be just our second trip and first time in AK and Epcot.
Since im new to the parks, I like to spend full days in each park taking it all in, so no park hoppers, but we’re planning a full park day in each park and 2 half days, 1 in MK and 1in HS. The HS half day was partly added in hopes that SW would offer FPs before our trip and I’m so glad that’s been announced and the new tiers! The half day will definitely be all Star Wars and I hope RotR remains BG only and will fall in-line with my other plans. I’m gonna try for RotR both days though, just to be safe.
Our Plans/ADRs are:
16 - arrive, but just do QS at POP or DS restaurant.
17 - Tusker House in AK
18 - Hollywood & Vine in HS
19 - 1900 for breakfast/artist point for early dinner. Doing 3 FPs in MKs Adventureland/Frontierland, watch fantasy parade, then dinner at 4, then done for the MK half day. MIL flies in that night, so that’s why early dinner and small park plans.
20 - Garden Grill lunch/Akershus dinner in EPCOT. I’m sure wife/MIL will love the flower and garden festival.
21 - Be our Guest lunch/Cinderella Table dinner in MK for our full day.
22 - Bon Voyage breakfast at the boardwalk hotel after HS.
That’s right, all character meals! Lol. We had so much fun with the 2 we did on our first trip, that I wanted to experience more. We enjoy meeting the characters, but why stand in line for them when you can sit down to a delicious meal and they come see you!
After we leave the kingdom, we’ll spend a couple days at the beach, so we will relax some, just not til the end. Ok, I’ve written a novel, I’ll be here regularly through May!