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#-3 · 05-01-2018, 08:03 PM

We did 5 days at Disney a couple years ago with Grandma and 2 young kids,

2 at MK and 1 at all the other parks. Stayed in one of their hotels, didn't pay to rent a car, didn't pay to park (it made up for the cost of the hotel).

I'd say with entering the parks an hour early every day we did about 70% of all the rides/shows at Disney and met about 3 characters / day.

If you are going to skip the character visits and the slow rides that are basically repeats of California, they you can probably get a pretty complete Disney experience out of Orlando in 3 days, but we didn't stop for minute or repeat anything in the 5 days, not sure how you could even attempt it all in two days. (Their fast pass system is pretty important, you should register tickets and fast pass 3 rides, 30 days before your first day in the park.)

For a 1 year old, the evening parade and light show would be pretty good, if you do it on the first day its only 7/8pm our time. Animal Kingdom was the best park, Raft Ride/Safari/Lion King show were all very good, we missed out on Avatar by a little over a year I think.

05-01-2018, 08:03 PM	#18
#-3 #1 Goaltender Join Date: Mar 2008 Exp:	We did 5 days at Disney a couple years ago with Grandma and 2 young kids, 2 at MK and 1 at all the other parks. Stayed in one of their hotels, didn't pay to rent a car, didn't pay to park (it made up for the cost of the hotel). I'd say with entering the parks an hour early every day we did about 70% of all the rides/shows at Disney and met about 3 characters / day. If you are going to skip the character visits and the slow rides that are basically repeats of California, they you can probably get a pretty complete Disney experience out of Orlando in 3 days, but we didn't stop for minute or repeat anything in the 5 days, not sure how you could even attempt it all in two days. (Their fast pass system is pretty important, you should register tickets and fast pass 3 rides, 30 days before your first day in the park.) For a 1 year old, the evening parade and light show would be pretty good, if you do it on the first day its only 7/8pm our time. Animal Kingdom was the best park, Raft Ride/Safari/Lion King show were all very good, we missed out on Avatar by a little over a year I think.