Tell me about Disney for Christmas and new year

[vampiress88]

Thinking of going at Christmas maybe next year. Probably from mid December to beginning of January.

What I don’t get is what everyone does for Christmas and new year as it’s obviously going to be different to home.
Where would you go to eat?
We would be offsite in a villa.

We wouldn’t be doing mvmcp but would have normal tickets.

How does it work with tickets as we would get a three week one but then it does ask for you to put the date in too. Don’t want it to expire in the middle.

How would we make it special for that time when in a villa that I’m assuming we can’t really decorate. Wouldn’t stay onsite unfortunately

[jen10]

most villas will have a wee christmas tree etc in the garage that you can put up. Your 3 week ticket would start on the day you first use it, you can't take a gap in the middle.

[Rescuer]

We were there last year but onsite so slightly different.

We loved it, it was very busy over Christmas and new year but we were expecting that.

Christmas Day was our first full day - we went to MK for extra magic hours at 6am, HS for opening at 9 and had lunch there then ended up at Epcot and had dinner in our resort at night and watched wishes.

New Year’s Eve we spent time at the boardwalk, did mini golf, had dinner in HS and DH and I went to Epcot for fireworks at midnight.

We spent News Years day in the pool then dinner and dessert party at MK.

I did a full trip report. Here

[vampiress88]

Originally Posted by Rescuer

We were there last year but onsite so slightly different.

We loved it, it was very busy over Christmas and new year but we were expecting that.

Christmas Day was our first full day - we went to MK for extra magic hours at 6am, HS for opening at 9 and had lunch there then ended up at Epcot and had dinner in our resort at night and watched wishes.

New Year’s Eve we spent time at the boardwalk, did mini golf, had dinner in HS and DH and I went to Epcot for fireworks at midnight.

We spent News Years day in the pool then dinner and dessert party at MK.

I did a full trip report. Here

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Ooooo this is what I’m gonna binge read tonight. Thank you

[vampiress88]

Originally Posted by jen10

most villas will have a wee christmas tree etc in the garage that you can put up. Your 3 week ticket would start on the day you first use it, you can't take a gap in the middle.

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Dunno what you mean gap.
First day would be probably be 16th December till 5th January maybe. Want to have the option for going every day within that holiday.
What I worry is that if I buy a “2020” ticket does that mean that I won’t be able to go in the January 2021

[Guest]

Originally Posted by vampiress88

Dunno what you mean gap.
First day would be probably be 16th December till 5th January maybe. Want to have the option for going every day within that holiday.
What I worry is that if I buy a “2020” ticket does that mean that I won’t be able to go in the January 2021

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So long as your ticket is activated in 2020 it's still good to use into January 2021.

[vampiress88]

Originally Posted by Scotsmomma

So long as your ticket is activated in 2020 it's still good to use into January 2021.

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Oh good awesome. Does the price drop closer to end of year too? I always like to book stuff in advance cos if not it give me the heebies but would book the tickets late if there’s price difference

Hubby should really not have set me off with this 🙄

[vampiress88]

Just looked and I do believe that it is about £80 cheaper in December if you book now than when I did for our June holiday so that may be something else.

[KarenG]

However bad you think the traffic may be over the peak holiday season, it will be worse. Build it into your expectations.

Some examples: Boxing Day a two hour line to get into the MK car park at 10am.

30 minutes to travel less than one mile of Hotel Plaza Blvd.

It is absolutely magical but the parks and roads are rammed for the middle week.

[vampiress88]

Originally Posted by KarenG

However bad you think the traffic may be over the peak holiday season, it will be worse. Build it into your expectations.

Some examples: Boxing Day a two hour line to get into the MK car park at 10am.

30 minutes to travel less than one mile of Hotel Plaza Blvd.

It is absolutely magical but the parks and roads are rammed for the middle week.

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Wow. Never actually thought about that.