Alright....I do not keep up with Disney stuff....help me with the highlights.
Is Star Wars going to be it's own new park? When/where? Are they still doing the once rumored Aviator park? Toy Story Land? Are they ever doing the Cars world at WDW like they did in CA?
My the one week I did do WDW 5-6 years ago was pretty overwhelming. As amazing as the themes, attraction, and hotels are....the crowds where stressful for me. Week for of entertainment and stress. I gave my kids the option to vacation at WDW or Universal this year but they all overwhelmingly wanted to do cruise instead. All that being said....I still may go again with the right additions.
Spread the 4 parks out over 5 to 7 days. Do just Disney and stay on resort (rent a dvc unit) or do what we did. Split you stay into two DVC rentals(one for Wilderness for the boat ride into Disney and monorail connection to Epcot.and one at Animal Kingdom lodge for AK and just drive to or Bus to Studios and water parks plus there's a side road that dumps you out into Kissimmee's main drag.
Do the rest of Orlando in separate trip.
Toy Story Land is going into DHS, opens next summer.
They added a track to Toy Story Mania, building a Slinky Dog Launch Coaster and a clone of the Mater's ride at Cars land themed to the aliens.
Star Wars is also going into DHS, it is much larger land wise than Toy Story. The hotel will be built adjacent to it.
2/3rd of Studio is under the knife.
I think they should have included a couple more Toy Story Themed flats. A double deck carousel with all the characters would have been nice and a mother and child eater
This shows toy story on the bottom and star wars up top
A thing I found out is if you sign up for a Disney DVC pitch on a cruise, they give you 6 fast passes for your days at WDW. I am going to take full advantage of that. We have been eyeing buying enough DVC points in the aftermarket to fund a weekly trip every Three years off of renting out the points we don't use. Around 300 we figure. But we want to get the perks of buying directly. So we are eyeing a minimum purchase into DVC directly from Disney (copper creek)
The wife and I are thinkin ahead to grandkids and Orlando also is becoming a good place to fly internationally from with the rise of LCC long haul operators like Norweigian and even Emirates to really far destinations.
So I guess 2020 is the date for star wars land? I'm surprised they didn't do the full new park for it.....always thought DHS would be fine if they just made it the hollywood/pixar land.
We stayed at the resort and only did disney that week with 3 little ones. We used the buses, took advantage of the early/late hours, and made the months in advance reservations. I was kind of a pain to plan. I can't imagine staying offsite and dealing with the traffic/parking every day. We did a week of Universal and all the non-disney stuff before kids. If it wasn't for Star Wars land....and the kids prefer Disney. I'd probably only want to go back to see Universal and its many upgrades again.
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