We leave for WDW in a week. Last minute tips?

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We brought a bag of pennies and quarters for the penny press machines that are found all over the parks and bought a souvenir book to collect them all in. My son had a lot of fun with that. If you are super organized, you can get one of those mini M&Ms tubes and stack the coins quarter, quarter, penny (each pressed penny costs 51 cents).

[Anonymous]

the little bubble bottles that are sold for weddings are great when waiting in long lines. Blring glow sticks/necklaces (sold at the Dollar store) if you will be there after dark. Your kids will beg for the ones being sold on site.

[Anonymous]

Bring rain gear. We just got back today and it rained yesterday night. It rained out the fireworks at Hollywood Studios.

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We ate lunch at Tony’s using the VIP Fantasy Package in the MK and it included great tickets to watch the 3pm Fantasy Parade. DH and I paid only for our lunches with the package and not our 2yo (she just ate off of ours), but she was included in the VIP seating.

I’m sure you already know this, but get FastPasses for the must-ride rides in the AM to use up your 3 and then keep using your app to get more throughout the day.

[Anonymous]

Make use of the rider switch if your 2 year old is too short to go any any rides.

[Anonymous]

Art of Animation is great! We just got home from Disney World on Sunday and used the new Minnie Van service - Lyft has partnered with Disney and now they have polka dot vehicles that will take you anywhere within Disney property for $20. It was a great time saver on our way to breakfast at Chef Mickey's. Use the app to see which rides have short lines - that was great for us when we were standing in front of something with an hour plus wait to see what had short lines nearby. And take lots of breaks! We took the monorail over to the Polynesian hotel for lunch one day instead of eating inside Magic Kingdom and it made for a really nice quiet break during the day.

[Anonymous]

We just got back. It was much more crowded than we expected (crowd calendars said it would be a 3-4 our of 10, it was actually a 7). We definitely didn’t do everything we planned to do, but the kids still had fun. Temper your expectations though, and leave the park when it gets to be too much.

Also, use the mobile ap for any quick service meals. You can bypass the long lines.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hit up Dollar Tree before we go every time and get a bunch of little Disney-themed items—stickers, figurines, washclothes, etc. Then every morning they wake up and their outfits are laid out for the day and on top is a “present from Mickey.” It is helpful for a few reasons: 1) the clothes are already out and we don’t habe to fight about it (I have budding fashion designers of both sexes so this is important) 2) When they beg for a ton of crap in the parks we can just say, “well, we’ll see what Mickey brings you...”. it really cuts down on the begging for crap. We always get one souvenir per kid in the actual parks and it is their Mickey present on the last day.

Genius!

+1 Definitely!!