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arcanetrivia) wrote2009-08-26 12:16 am
arcanetrivia) wrote2009-08-26 12:16 am
advice please?
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enotsola and I are considering tacking a trip to Disney World onto the beforetime or the aftertime of our trip to Infinitus. Being natives of two points quite far from Orlando (California and Nova Scotia by way of Ontario), we are the cluelessest of n00bs* and gravely in need of your sage advice:
1. How many days would you suggest spending at Disney? We did three days in Disneyland last summer and that was actually a touch too much time since we were fairly bored by "California Adventure" and aren't much for watching musical performances, parades, etc., but I feel Disney World may be quite a different story. Even so, I am considering three days, in an effort to keep the expense of all this at least slightly in check. But if that's really, really, really not enough and even one more day would make a difference, tell me so.
2. Do you think it would be better to do it before or after Infinitus? We are currently leaning towards after because I think Disney will burn us out more than the con, and I don't want to be physically and mentally exhausted just as things are starting (plus have wrinkles in my robes from them being packed so long *wink*).
3. We're going to do our darndest to stay in the (expensive!) on-resort hotel for Infinitus, but I'd rather go somewhere else while we're visiting Disney, if it makes any sense to to do (i.e., if we can find a cheaper non-resort hotel/motel -- my intuition says "of course you can" because on-resort is always sky-high, but for all I know proximity to Universal Studios comes cheap compared to any reasonable proximity to Disney World). However, I don't even know where to start on this besides going down to AAA and saying "help!" which will lead them to try to sell me a vacation package.** Any suggestions for hotels? Also, for the purposes of this question, consider ease of available transit or shuttles; the two parks are about 20 miles apart and we'd need to get from one hotel to the other (once) as well as from the hotel to Disney World (and back to the airport, but I imagine airport shuttles to MCO aren't hard to come by in this area). I imagine a lot of places have either private shuttles to the park or stops for some kind of local dedicated transit line (like the one in Anaheim that loops past a bunch of local lodgings and then stops at Disneyland), but the point is that I don't know whether we'll bother to rent a car, so we may not have utter freedom of transportation.
* Except to know that we are going to hate hate hate the weather, and hope to all that is good and merciful in the universe that the hotel for Infinitus takes its air conditioning more seriously than the Parc55 did, albeit that's understandable given the sparse need for air conditioning in San Francisco.
** OTOH, that might turn out to be the right idea; we took a package for Disneyland which was decent, and they have far better value ones for Disney World, including a whole bunch of actually-meaningful meal vouchers and things.
enotsola and I are considering tacking a trip to Disney World onto the beforetime or the aftertime of our trip to Infinitus. Being natives of two points quite far from Orlando (California and Nova Scotia by way of Ontario), we are the cluelessest of n00bs* and gravely in need of your sage advice:1. How many days would you suggest spending at Disney? We did three days in Disneyland last summer and that was actually a touch too much time since we were fairly bored by "California Adventure" and aren't much for watching musical performances, parades, etc., but I feel Disney World may be quite a different story. Even so, I am considering three days, in an effort to keep the expense of all this at least slightly in check. But if that's really, really, really not enough and even one more day would make a difference, tell me so.
2. Do you think it would be better to do it before or after Infinitus? We are currently leaning towards after because I think Disney will burn us out more than the con, and I don't want to be physically and mentally exhausted just as things are starting (plus have wrinkles in my robes from them being packed so long *wink*).
3. We're going to do our darndest to stay in the (expensive!) on-resort hotel for Infinitus, but I'd rather go somewhere else while we're visiting Disney, if it makes any sense to to do (i.e., if we can find a cheaper non-resort hotel/motel -- my intuition says "of course you can" because on-resort is always sky-high, but for all I know proximity to Universal Studios comes cheap compared to any reasonable proximity to Disney World). However, I don't even know where to start on this besides going down to AAA and saying "help!" which will lead them to try to sell me a vacation package.** Any suggestions for hotels? Also, for the purposes of this question, consider ease of available transit or shuttles; the two parks are about 20 miles apart and we'd need to get from one hotel to the other (once) as well as from the hotel to Disney World (and back to the airport, but I imagine airport shuttles to MCO aren't hard to come by in this area). I imagine a lot of places have either private shuttles to the park or stops for some kind of local dedicated transit line (like the one in Anaheim that loops past a bunch of local lodgings and then stops at Disneyland), but the point is that I don't know whether we'll bother to rent a car, so we may not have utter freedom of transportation.
* Except to know that we are going to hate hate hate the weather, and hope to all that is good and merciful in the universe that the hotel for Infinitus takes its air conditioning more seriously than the Parc55 did, albeit that's understandable given the sparse need for air conditioning in San Francisco.
** OTOH, that might turn out to be the right idea; we took a package for Disneyland which was decent, and they have far better value ones for Disney World, including a whole bunch of actually-meaningful meal vouchers and things.
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And the Studios: Tower of Terror (excellent ride, I used to work there), Aerosmith roller coaster (indoor coaster based on a car concept rather than a train), lots of behind the scenes movie stuff, a stunt show (used to be Indiana Jones but I don't remember what it is now), the Star Wars simulator ride (Star Tours), Pizza Planet, and more. :)
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*shudders* Forget it. We both hate free-fall rides like that. I was coaxed to go on the Edge, similar but shorter ride in Great America here in California, once when I was younger and I nearly had a panic attack. We avoided Tower of Terror like an avoided thing in Disneyland.
If Star Tours is anything like it is in Disneyland, eh, we got our fill of it there. (It was so much cooler when I was 10, somehow... heheh. And yet I never seem to get tired of Space Mountain...) But, meh, we might want to have some time for it. I think what I am trying to decide between is the "one park per day" or the "park-hopper" option, which plummets in price-per-day after you get past like 3 days. I think we're going to want to have like a day and a half or something in some places and less than a day in others, so maybe 4 days park-hopper so we can go round in whatever order might make sense.
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If you do hop, keep in mind how to get from park to park, and some take longer than others. The monorail easily connects MK and Epcot. Epcot and the Studios are reasonably close to one another and there used to be a ferry you could take plus a walking path to get from one to the other. AK isn't *far* but Disney won't shell out to extend the monorail. So, bus.
My favorite place to stay is the Yacht & Beach Club but I've only done that once because I got a crazy discount. It's easy to get to Epcot from there and you can enter at the quiet gate behind the UK. Good stuff.
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