Help! 3 week itinerary draft?!

[Guest]

Hey Disney Guru's,

I am trying to plan a 3 week break with my family but need some guidance.

We are going in October 2018 and consist of
2 x 60 year olds,
2 x 30 somethings,
1 x 6 year old and
1 x 3 year old.

We have booked a villa and will probably purchase a 21 day Disney parks pass and a 14 day Universal one (as I can't seem to find a shorter one!).

Here's what I've got so far (any help well received)...

Day 1
Arrive, food shop, sleep!

Day 2
AM - Magic Kingdom and Bibbidibobbidi boutique
PM - Rest

Day 3
AM - Epcot
PM - Rest

Day 4
Rest

Day 5
AM - Animal Kingdom
PM - Rest

Day 6
AM - Rest
PM - Hollywood Studios / Fantasmic fireworks

Day 7
AM - Rest
PM - Magic Kingdom- Happily Ever After fireworks

Day 8
AM - Typhoon Lagoon

Day 9
AM -
PM - Epcot / Illuminations Fireworks

Day 10
Rest

Day 11
AM -
PM - Animal Kingdom / rivers of light

Day 12
Rest or Mickeys Not So Scary Halloween Party

Day 13
Disney Springs

Day 14
Rest

Day 15
Kennedy Space Centre

Day 16
Volcano bay

Day 17
Universal Studios

Day 18
Islands of Adventure

Day 19
Rest or revisit favourite park

Day 20
Islands of Adventure

Day 21
Rest and home!

Thank you for your wisdom!
Emma

[buryboy]

Hi
Welcome to the dibb
Firstly if you want less than 14 days at universal , check out the American sites, something like this undercovertourist/or...rlando-resort/

Personally you seem to have a lot of rest early on, and not much at the end. You will have more energy early in the holiday

I would go to universal earlier in the holiday. The way you have it, if you live it, you won't leave yourself time to get extra days in

Check out the busy day guide for better idea as to what days to go on.

You need way more than two half days at magic kingdom , two half days at Epcot , probably more than two half days at AK, and with toy story open, maybe more than a day at HS . You need to fill in many of your rest times with parks.
Fine, have a day of rest / pool/ water park every 4 days or a quieter day every 3, but you are going over the top ( appreciate you have some 60 somethings but there are plenty of places they can rest while you do stuff with the kids

Use water parks as rest days.

You won't need a full day at Disney springs

[Guest]

Thank you.

The AM and PMs are rough guides. I'm hoping they will be pretty full days...i.e. opening to mid afternoon or 1pm until the fireworks.

It's hard to know whether the pensioners or children will give up first!

The rest days allowed some flexibility but I'll move universal further up. Thanks for that. I'll check out that link too.

[Lovedisney123]

I would also add in a visit to Blizzard Beach as well.

[Geordie boy 57]

I agree with Buryboy you don't need as many rest days at start of holiday
You will be waking up early and be full of adrenaline
If you do get cheaper Universal tickets from one of the American sites make sure you get park to park so you can ride the Hogwarts express
Have you checked that HHN is not on when you plan to go to Universal Studios as if it is then park closes earlier that day

[Guest]

I think you could easily squeeze more in. As you have two waterparks and mainly half days, you probably don’t really need the full rest days at all.

Going for 21 days and only spending two half days at MK is a plan alien to me. If I ever was going for 21 days I would have at least eight trips to MKR in there

[Guest]

Haha! Ok! I'll take my conservative cap off and pack in some more days!

[7SeasSailor]

I'm in my 70s and I do full days without any problems. Having travelled 4000 miles and spent so much money to get to the parks I wouldn't want to spend a lot of time resting. I can understand you taking the children back to the hotel/villa for a break. Why don't you split the baby sitting if they need that much rest so the adults get more out of the holiday.