Holiday Trip Itinerary - thoughts?

[Schweino]

We got 12 of us going this year from a few different families so it's going to be wild Open to thoughts on our trip and if it looks good or if you would tweak something:

Resort: Port Orleans French Quarter (all of us via multiple rooms)
Dates: 12/6 arrive (different times) and depart 12/14 (different times)
Tickets: 4 day park w/ hopper
Dining Plan: All of us (promotion w/ hopper purchase)
Parties: Doing both Jollywood Nights and MVMCP


Saturday, December 6: No park (travel day)

Most likely arriving late afternoon. Plan to do a 5:30/6 PM dinner at O’hana at Poly. Will want to get to bed early’ish since AK has like a 7 AM rope drop.

Dinner: O’Hana

Sunday, December 7: Animal Kingdom (morning), EPCOT (afternoon)

Rope drop Animal Kingdom and knock out Pandora, Safari and Everest. Explore a little bit then mid-day break. Hit up Epcot around 3 and do dinner there and Candlelight Processional.

Dinner: Garden Grill


Monday, December 8: Hollywood Studios + Jollywood Nights

Spend all day at Hollywood Studios. Take a mid-day break if desired. Dinner at 5 PM. Spend rest of evening for Jollywood (12:30 AM close)

Dinner: Hollywood and Vine


Tuesday, December 9: Rest Day

Sleep in due to late night from Jollywood and go explore Disney Deluxe resorts. Quick service lunch at Polynesian and Dinner at Contemporary

Dinner: Steakhouse 71


Wednesday, December 10: Epcot

Spend all day at Epcot. Breakfast at Akershus using Dining plan. Quick service lunch somewhere and then pay cash for dinner

Breakfast: Akershus


Thursday, December 11: Rest Day and MK Christmas Party

Sleep in and check out Disney Springs and do a quick service lunch there about 11 AM. Since we can enter Magic Kingdom at 4 PM with our party ticket, plan to do dinner at 5:15 PM. Party ends at Midnight.

Dinner: Crystal Palace


Friday, December 12: No park (rest day)

Rest day due to late night at MVMCP. Check out Disney Springs. Quick Service lunch there.

Dinner: Homecomin’


Saturday, December 13: Magic Kingdom

Spend all day at MK. Dinner at Liberty Tree.

Dinner: Liberty Tree Tavern


Sunday, December 14: No park (travel day)


Depending on flights, we can do a breakfast. Grand Floridian, Beach Club, Contemporary or Animal Kingdom Lodge.

 

[JIMINYCR]

Looks fine to me. With multiple rooms at POFQ hopefully they can situate you in the same building. Even so its fairly compact so if you are spread out it isn't as bad as some resorts.
I might have done a dinner somewhere other than Garden Grill unless you are looking for the character experience. There are better spots to dine at EP. The CP is a fantastic event, we've done it twice.
We've also finished a trip at LTT for a last meal before departing.
Have a great time and hopefully the bunch of you can agree on and enjoy everything together.

 

[Schweino]

Looks fine to me. With multiple rooms at POFQ hopefully they can situate you in the same building. Even so its fairly compact so if you are spread out it isn't as bad as some resorts.
I might have done a dinner somewhere other than Garden Grill unless you are looking for the character experience. There are better spots to dine at EP. The CP is a fantastic event, we've done it twice.
We've also finished a trip at LTT for a last meal before departing.
Have a great time and hopefully the bunch of you can agree on and enjoy everything together.

Yeah we've stayed at FQ before and we LOVED it and look forward to seeing the new rooms in person. I love how small the resort is.

Dinner at Epcot is probably one thing we haven't done a ton of. We've eaten at Space (twice) and Le Cellier (twice) in the past. We wanted to do something new, and not something too exotic for the older folks in the crowd My in-laws have actually never been to WDW so we wanted at least a few character experiences with our meals, plus we'll have 3 kiddos in tow from my sister's family.

One thing I already know is the chances that all 12 of us well get one table to ourselves is slim to none. Well have to break into two smaller parties like 6/6 or 8/4. Not a big deal.

 

[JIMINYCR]

Yeah we've stayed at FQ before and we LOVED it and look forward to seeing the new rooms in person. I love how small the resort is.

Dinner at Epcot is probably one thing we haven't done a ton of. We've eaten at Space (twice) and Le Cellier (twice) in the past. We wanted to do something new, and not something too exotic for the older folks in the crowd My in-laws have actually never been to WDW so we wanted at least a few character experiences with our meals, plus we'll have 3 kiddos in tow from my sister's family.

One thing I already know is the chances that all 12 of us well get one table to ourselves is slim to none. Well have to break into two smaller parties like 6/6 or 8/4. Not a big deal.

We've eaten at Garden Grill several times and as you are eating the area revolves around slowly, the characters come around and you can get the chance to interact with them multiple times. The meal is pretty good and the server will continue to bring platters of what you want as you eat up(similar to what LTT does). The service there is pretty fast so you won't be waiting long for your food. I think we usually revolve twice in the time we've started and finished our meals.