Pre-Trip I'm an adult now! A pre-trip report on my first solo WDW trip

So I'm going to WDW from January 3-11. Let me explain what happened here. My family always goes on two trips a year, one in August and one in January. When I was in high school, they used to pull me out for a few days. But now I'm in college, and I have to be back on January 13 for classes, and skipping is a bad idea. So my dad, who is awesome, said that he would be willing to pay for a room if I could find a girlfriend to go with me. Yea! So my best friend since childhood is going with me. We're both 18 and living at home. I've been to WDW over 40 times (yeah, I know) and she hasn't been in 4 years. We'll be staying at Pop Century. We will be using Magic Bands. I debated on opting out (I'm an AP holder, so my pass is separate, but decided to go with the flow). Mine is pink, hers (we'll call her bff) is blue. Here is the tentative itinerary:

January 3:

Dinner 7:15 at Cape May Café
Arrive at 12:30 pm (9:15 am flight out of BWI)

Hollywood Studios or Epcot

Epcot Extra Magic Hours 9-11


January 4

Magic Kingdom and Epcot (basically spend day at MK and if it's too crowded, go to Epcot)

Dinner 7 PM Kona (Polynesian)

MK is open until 11

I'm worried about the crowds at MK on Saturday, but Splash Mountain is closing on Monday, and it's bff's favorite ride, so we're going to try it and leave if the crowds are bad.

January 5

Animal Kingdom

Boma's 5:15 pm

Head to MK

Magic Kingdom EMH 10-12

Probably will watch Wishes


January 6

Hollywood Studios

Fantasmic! 7 pm

8:45 Restaurant Marakeesh (Morocco)

Epcot EMH 9-11



January 7

Magic Kingdom

Be Our Guest 8:00 PM



January 8

Whichever park we'd like to hit again for the day

Teppan Edo 6:55 PM



January 9

Hollywood Studios

5:20 Prime Time Café

Possible Fantasmic! Night as well, 7 PM



January 10

Whichever park we want to hit again

Les Chefs de France, Epcot 8 PM

January 11

Another "blank" day, Magical Express picks us up at 5:45

We're planning on doing Disney Quest on one of our "blank" days, whichever one looks the worst or the day that we leave. We'll decide that when we get down there. Another "blank" day will probably be used for a second Animal Kingdom day.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

If she has vertigo I definitely would not do star tours! I'm pretty good with rides, but the new star tours, as much as I like it, makes me queezy as hell! It's the Hoth scene that really does it in do me...I would opt for something more like GMR or TSMM...

That's good to know. She's been plenty of times (a couple with us!) so I know she's willing to chill in a gift shop while the rest of us ride and I trust she knows what will and will not bother her. And then we go shopping. lol.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Plans have officially changed.

On that Monday, we will be meeting up with our friends. I decided to switch Prime Time to that day so we could talk. Unfortunately, we could only get a 5:30 ADR. I took it, but it means probably no Fantasmic. For that Thursday, I switched the plans as well. Since we had Prime Time (and we don't need to eat there twice) I switched it to Sci Fi for lunch and we'll have dinner at Downtown Disney. This means we should be able to see Fantasmic that night, barring any weather issues. If I look at the weather on Tuesday and it sounds bad for Fantasmic on Thursday, I'll switch reservations around.

Also, four more days!!!

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Might have to leave a day early. There's good chance of a snow storm hitting here on Friday. If need be, Southwest will let us change without a penalty if the weather looks bad, there is availability at the moderates if needed. Now I just need to keep calm and not freak out about it.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Definitely heading out on Friday; to head out tomorrow would be an additional $400 in airfare alone. The snow should have ended by 7 am and the flight is at 9:15 am, so let's hope for the best!

 

[disneypearl]

Have a great time!

 

[Gabe1]

I'm following Southwest to see if a friend gets in, SW a mess here today. Saw you got out and into Orlando. Woot! Hope you still make your FP+s for today but glad you're there and warmer than a lot of us are! Have fun.