Hope you had a great trip!! A few questions come to mind. Did you ever return to you hotel for nap time or did DS always sleep in his stroller? Did you go anywhere particularly out of the way or quieter for nap time in the stroller or did you just wander around while he slept? Did you leave all of your things in the basket under the stroller or did you have another backpack or bag that you took with you on the rides?
Going in Sept. with our DS who will be 13 months then and looking for any ideas that might help. Thanks for any information you can share.
We never went back to the hotel for naps, just let him sleep in his stroller while we walked around. Our son never got particularly fussy if he was tired so he would just fall asleep whenever he wanted and we would leave him sleep as long as he wanted. We went to AK yesterday (last day) and went to Camp Minnie & Mickey after seeing Nemo and he fell asleep in his stroller just as we arrived. So we just let him sleep instead of seeing the characters. We just sat in the shade while he napped, when he got up we took him to see the characters, it worked out great. We went into the Lion King and he loved that.
We usually only took DH's camera bag with us, occasionally the diaper bag (I had to reverse myself in the Nemo line at AK to get his bag since I had to change a dirty diaper.) Otherwise we just left the bag with the stroller all the time when we went on rides or into shows. His diaper bag is a backpack type, easier to let it hang on the stroller that way.
DS even slept in my arms while we were at the pool one day, he got fussy and I just held him and we went into the pool and stayed there for about 20 mins while he slept, was a nice break from the parks.
Don't over do the parks if you can help it. We went all 5 days to the parks and honestly we could have done 3 or 4 and that would have been more than enough, we would get in late and up early so it made for tired parents mostly. As DS could sleep whenever he needed.
Told DH I wish they had just a park of characters no other things going on, except maybe a show with the characters in it. He loved seeing the characters and interacting with them. His little face would light up when he saw them. Only time we had a fussy little man was at about midnight at Epcot at Character Connection. We had seen Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Goofy and moving onto seeing Chip and Dale and we had a meltdown happen, he wouldn't stop crying and so we left the park after that, he was tired and we had already been at Epcot at about 9am that day, that was our return trip since it stopped raining (had rained allllllll day) Make sure to take a stroller rain cover for your stroller (if you have a Graco they sell a deluxe cover that fits really well and kept everything dry and it was easy to unzip to get DS out)
I'll try to do a trip report shortly.
