Get up Sleepy Heads!

[Nemo14]

I've always been a morning person and savor those quiet moments when everyone else is asleep.

 

[DfromATX]

We like to be there right when it opens. You can get a lot done before the crowds start coming in.

 

[PhilharMagician]

I am up by 5:00 AM @ Disney. I tend to go out and walk a few mile in the morning around the resort and wathc the world wake up. By about 6:00 I am trying to wake up the rest of the family and sometimes that take a while. I end up on the computer taking care of minor work tasks while they hit the shower. We eat breakfast most times in the room and get to the parks just in time for rope drop on most days. If it were just me I would be there first in line at the rope every day, but thankfully it is not just me.

 

[Spikerdink]

During the work week I am held hostage to the alarm clock, so when at Disney I never set one... I am an early riser (and one of my friends who joins me frequently is up even earlier and when he makes his breakfast it ALWAYS wakes me up!) so I am never up later than 8. For me, the trip is about relaxing and unwinding - I hate the thought of rushing to 'do' anything. That being said, I do try to make a rope drop, but it does not rule my schedule....

 

[DisneyDebNJ]

I'm a morning person. I get up and work out before the sun is even thinking about getting up. So when you're at Disney do you keep your regular schedule? Are you at rope drop or do you sleep in? Breakfast grab n go or sit down? How do you plan a morning?

Actually, at Disney, we get up earlier than at home. (Usually between 6-7 am) One thing we do well at Disney is sleep!!! I am a night owl at home, but by 11pm while on vacation, I'm sound asleep and sleep really well! LOL

 

[bgraham34]

Personally I shoot to get to the parks when the open around 9am. The first few days in the trip we tend to make it one time but as the trip goes on it becomes later and later because we start sleeping later.

 

[muteki]

The parks are so nice those first couple of hours. EMH or not, that is the best time to be there.

You can get so much done by getting up early.

 

[coachwnh]

We like to get up early and roll. Beat the crowds, and in summer, beat the heat!!

 

[BigRedDad]

I wake up at the crack of stupid. We are very much morning people, but no alarm. We are at the parks at rope drop, take an afternoon break, and head back in the evening. If someone wants to sleep in, they can meet me there.

 

[sgtmgd]

The parks are so nice those first couple of hours. EMH or not, that is the best time to be there.

You can get so much done by getting up early.

I agree..

23 years inthe military..getting up early isnt an issue...but the days are long..and nights longer...hence why I like to take a break and have a decent sit down meal to recharge the batteries

 

[ddbowdoin]

It's all the little things. My dad is so great, I do all the trip planning and I swear he tells me each trip, throughout the trip that it's the best one yet; thanking me over and over. We never actually went as kids, my first trip was when I was 21...so I took him on his first trip years back and he "got the Magic" right away!!

that is certainly the way to look at it!... at least you have a parent who enjoys your company and appreciates exactly what you do. I went as a kid, but honestly my parents just brought us because that's what "parents do". There was no planning, we always stayed offsite, I don't remember making scrap books or anything.

 

[Fantasmic]

Well, when left to my own devices at home (UK) my body clock is naturally that of an "owl" - go to sleep at 2am, wake around 11am! BUT This translates to an almost perfect Floridian body clock for making the most of the parks!!
I always feel like my body clock is so much more suited to Florida's time zone!

 

[Chrononymous]

Maybe not rope drop every park every morning...but usually pretty close to it!

 

[I_heart_Tigger]

If I'm with my family I usually revert to their schedule which is morning - but not rope drop times. If I'm doing more on my own I stay on my regular schedule at home which is getting out of bed between 11am and noon and staying up between 3am - 5am.

 

[Pumbas Nakasak]

I get up before I go to bed.

 

[tracyandalex]

We have never been to a rope drop. We usually get to the parks at 10. For us, a vacation about relaxing and not frenetically running around.

Us too! We've even been known to stroll in as late as 11.

 

[Susan Savia]

We've been here 6 days and have been at rope drop every morning. The parks are so fresh and quiet first thing in the mornings. We have 8 more days left and plan to begin each of those days the same way. I like getting in and out of the bathroom before the rest of my family wake, eat a muffin and catch a bit of news on tv before we head out for the day.

 

[jlsHouston]

I am a morning person but it has to do with sitting around and drinking coffee not hitting parks. Mornings at the world are for character dining. We have yet to see the rope drop anywhere... however we have been in the last pile out of the parks on many nights even during EMH...we are swing shift people who can pull a graveyard shift..

 

[PUSH]

Morning person- in Disney. There's just something special about walking around when there's barely anyone else there. The smell during the morning is great too, and I love walking out into the Florida humidity in the morning. That's right, I like it. Being there for rope drop is a huge up too. So much you can get done!

 

[Shadowgate]

I usually try to be up by 6 or 6:30am, at least the first few days, to either eat at the hotel and go or to make an early in-park breakfast. We try to do two in-part breakfasts, one in MK and one in EPCOT. Love walking into the park when there is nearly no one there... I have gotten some great pictures at those times. We do go a bit later a couple of the days we are there depending on how late we stay up for fireworks and such as no one likes a cranky child!