Mapman Jan 23rd - Feb 6th 2004

[mapman]

Here's my provisional itinerary for our forthcoming holiday - please let me have your views and all comments will be much appreciated. Bear in mind that this will be our 2nd visit, so we have already done most things once and have also done Boggy Creek. Our first visit was in Dec 2001.

Here we go then - :jump:

Fri 23rd: fly out to Sandford pick up car, Downtown Disney for the evening and probably Rainforest Café for dinner.

Sat 24th: Wet'n'Wild or Animal Kingdom and then shopping at Walmart later

Sun 25th: SeaWorld or Epcot

Mon 26th: Universal Studios and possibly Cinema later

Tues 27th: Blizzard Beach and Shopping, afternoon Titanic at the Mercado

Wed 28th: Breakfast at Fort Wilderness and WaterMiceBoats, then Magic Kingdom

Thurs 29th: IofA and Mythos for lunch. Orlando Magic vs New Jersey Basketball 7pm

Fri 30th: Blizzard Beach and Shopping plus Skull Kingdom later in afternoon. Orlando Seals vs Lakeland, Ice Hockey 7.35pm

Sat 31st: Animal Kingdom, then either Wet'n'Wild or BB plus Old Town Kissimmee in evening for the Car Parade.

Sun 1st Feb: Epcot + boardwalk for lunch and Ice Cream Social

Mon 2nd: Day at either Clearwater Beach or Cocoa Beach + picnic. Dinner at Ohana's later.

Tues 3rd: IofA and Universal Studios

Wed 4th: MGM Studios (Fantasmic now open after re-hab)

Thurs 5th: SeaWorld or IofA

Fri 6th: fly home

We will also fit in the following :-
DisneyQuest (already have tickets)
Trips to Downtown Disney
Pirates Golf

Definite eating places will be :-
Race Rock
Bahama Breeze
Red Lobster
Tony Roma's
Golden Corral

If I can fit it in, then these will be possibilities :-
Manatee Swim at Crystal River
Dave's Water Skiing School
Kennedy Space Center

Any comments ? Thanks

[BevS97]

looks good to me, my only comment would be that we never manage anything except sleep on that first night, but it may depend what time your flight arrives, we got into MCO at 5:15 but didn't get out of MCO until after 8 :( I think Sanford is much easier, even with the longer drive.

bev

[Ear_Poppin]

Wow you have certainly packed a lot in...wore me out just reading it!

We are there a day later than you Go on 25th Jan...I am keeping an open mind on the water parks depending on if the weather for that day is Ok for swimming. May have some last minute switches lol :D

[ANGEL]

great stuff Steve......good to see you have all the old faves in there!;)..inlcuding shopping;)

....don't forget the margeritas!:)

[mapman]

The Margarita's at Mexico are definitely on the list (we actually missed Mexico at Epcot last time and it's supposed to be one of the best "lands").

We found that swimming was fine in our December trip, so I'm expecting late January to be OK for water temperature. We've only been to Wet'n'Wild before but the days we had there were perfect.

We should be getting into Sanford at 3pm (local time), and the drive down will be easy, so I think there will be time to go out in the evening for a couple of hours.

I'm certainly not going to stick to this rigidly, I'll only use it as a guide and we may change things round a bit once we get back "into the swing".

[coxan56]

Hi Looks great, but will you need a holiday get over everything that you are going to do. you are going to be very busy. Annie:jump: :jump:

[jcholidays]

Wow, lot's in there!!!!

You mentioned ice hockey, I have been to watch the lightning play at Tampa but is there a more local team and do you have a web link?

Thanks.

[mapman]

Hi Jonathan & Sarah,

The ice hockey team is the Orlando Seals. They play at the TD Waterhouse Arena in Orlando, here's a link to their web site -

Orlando Seals (http://www.orlandoseals.com/)

I'm already thinking of swapping around 27th and 28th because SpectroMagic is on at MK at 7pm followed by Wishes at 8pm - we could just "hop" from AK on the Saturday but sometimes it's easier to just stay in one park. SpectroMagic is only on Tuesday and Saturday and we missed it on our first visit.

[gala]

Sounds good to me Steve but the manatee swim is only a maybe??-you must slot it in!:D :jump: :D

Margaret

[mapman]

Hi Margaret ! It's going to depend on stretching some finances to a degree, and seeing what the children want to do most. We'll see !
:jump:

[jcholidays]

Thanks for that, one of our old players (Bracknell Bees) is now playing there. I'll have to plan a trip.

Thanks again.

JC.

[mapman]

I'm familiar with the Bracknell Bees - we used to live in Basingstoke and followed the Bison for a while. The son of a friend of mine used to play for their junior team.

[bengunn]

Looks good Steve, Dave's Ski School is great (although it was 1992 when we went there) they managed to get all 4 of us (7, 9 and 40) skiing by the end. You also got a go in the rings (very uncomfortable).

We also love KSC so agree with that one as well.

[piglet]

I am also familiar with Bracknell Bees, DH's family live in Bracknell (we used to until we moved 14 years ago to the south coast)

[mapman]

We're definitely going to do Clearwater now instead of Cocoa Beach - the Sea Screamer speedboat has swung it for me.

And I'm toying with the idea of the southern Boggy Creek airboats (we went to the East Fish Lake Camp in 2001), you're supposed to have more chance of seeing Gators here. It will really depend if we have time to fit it in - it's already looking busy, but I'm sure we'll cope

[Balzan]

HAVE A WONDERFUL TIME
IT ALL SOUNDS GOOD TO ME
SUMMIT PLUMMET AT BLIZZARD BEACH WAS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE RIDES - ENJOY


SUE

[welly172]

Looks like we will be in the same places at the same time, we are planning:-

Sat 24th - Animal Kingdom
Sun 25th - Epcot
Mon 26th - Clearwater
Tue 27th - Manatee swimming (found a good price if you are interested Sunshine Tours Capt Mike)
Wed 28th - Day free to shop, Cirque du Soleil evening
Thur 29th - Boggy Creek and Gatorland followed by an evening of Basketball
Fri 30th - Home Boo Hoo!!!!!!

[mapman]

Hi Welly ! - keep an eye out for our Lime Green Ribbons on our bum bags and rucksacks, if you spot us please say hello - it's always fun meeting other DIBBers.