Kids have never been to Disney. Would you go pregnant or wait until baby arrives?

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Anonymous wrote:You missed the boat. Better planning would have helped with this. Older kids should have gone earlier and not sure why you're having a 4th but trying to make up time with the older ones.

Ha! Preachhhhh.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven’t been to an amusement park in a long time, but I think Disney parks are only good for children about 4 to 7 who like the baby rides and think the Disney characters are real, or for older relatives who have health problems or psychological issues that keep them from going on scary rides.

I remember going to Disney World when I was 9 and being shocked by how boring the rides were, and thinking the same thing when I went there again a few years later.

My understanding is that a lot of Six Flags parks have gone downhill, but the secret for people ages 8 to heart-problem age is to look for healthy Six Flags-type parks that have relatively easy access to a lot of scary rides, not to burn money by going to Disney and waiting in long lines for boring rides.

For a Florida trip, I think going to the Cocoa Beach area for a combination of surfing, hanging out on the beach and going on a Kennedy Space Center tour is a much better value than going to the Orlando area.

Disney world doesn't have any amusement parks, so not sure what your comment is for? Disney World is a resort with several theme parks, water parks, and many, many themed hotels.

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Anonymous wrote:If it’s like a family baby moon and the pregnant mom is willing to take breaks at the hotel while the rest of the family carries on, it could be fun.

Because it’s Disney—which is very germy—I would primarily worry about that aspect as a pregnant lady. Ymmv.

I think I’m hyper aware of the germ piece since I’m fairly certain my kid caught covid at Disney when it hadn’t made national news in the US yet. The Disney hotel transported us to the Disney-funded emergency medical center where the doctors kept grilling us on whether we had recently traveled to China…and a staffer eventually commented that while we hadn’t visited China, tons of folks at the parks obviously were tourists from China. In short: it was an awful experience navigating an illness at the tail end of the Disney trip and flying home with a sick kid.

I got extremely sick a day after returning from WDW in January of 2020... but I don't think it was covid. Still, was close.

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I wouldn’t go for a few years. You’ve waited this long.

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Anonymous wrote:You missed the boat. Better planning would have helped with this. Older kids should have gone earlier and not sure why you're having a 4th but trying to make up time with the older ones.

You sound so judgmental! You have no clue about these people’s circumstances.

That is a lot worse than mistiming a trip to Disney.

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I wouldn't go. Reasons: no kid is the right age, you won't be best in either scenario, and DW is overrated and overpriced right now.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven’t been to an amusement park in a long time, but I think Disney parks are only good for children about 4 to 7 who like the baby rides and think the Disney characters are real, or for older relatives who have health problems or psychological issues that keep them from going on scary rides.

I remember going to Disney World when I was 9 and being shocked by how boring the rides were, and thinking the same thing when I went there again a few years later.

My understanding is that a lot of Six Flags parks have gone downhill, but the secret for people ages 8 to heart-problem age is to look for healthy Six Flags-type parks that have relatively easy access to a lot of scary rides, not to burn money by going to Disney and waiting in long lines for boring rides.

For a Florida trip, I think going to the Cocoa Beach area for a combination of surfing, hanging out on the beach and going on a Kennedy Space Center tour is a much better value than going to the Orlando area.

You are completely out of touch. Nobody considers Tron or Guardians of the Galaxy boring or baby rides. Did you go back in 1979? The littlest kids are too short for the best rides so 4-7 is completely incorrect.

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Anonymous wrote:The other thing is... I wouldn't go to Disney super pregnant either. Especially in the Florida summer heat, you are going to be absolutely miserable.

I'd either send your spouse with the kids or put this off until your baby is old enough to have at least an MMR.

I don’t see why anyone would want to go to Orlando in the summer, pregnant or not. It’s a complete sauna. To pay all that $ to sweat and walk around on hot pavement all day long.

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Anonymous wrote:The other thing is... I wouldn't go to Disney super pregnant either. Especially in the Florida summer heat, you are going to be absolutely miserable.

I'd either send your spouse with the kids or put this off until your baby is old enough to have at least an MMR.

I don’t see why anyone would want to go to Orlando in the summer, pregnant or not. It’s a complete sauna. To pay all that $ to sweat and walk around on hot pavement all day long.

Because summer is about the only time families with school aged kids can go. The other breaks are completely over crowded and even more expensive. Summer is cheaper and probably less crowded. The weather is an issue but so many of the rides are indoors you get periodic breaks from the outdoors.

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I think Dad taking the kids and you getting a break would be the only way this is doable.

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Anonymous wrote:here's another option ... don't go at all.

Wow aren't you a fun person. This wasn't an option given, lol

I wouldn't want to go in the summer pregnant or not. Can your husband take the three kids by himself or with another adult?

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't go. Reasons: no kid is the right age, you won't be best in either scenario, and DW is overrated and overpriced right now.

I disagree! All those ages can have fun

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I wouldn't go with an infant personally. Disneyland in CA would be a compromise if you wanted to go now since the weather is better and it's smaller. Or heck even Disneyland Paris for a day as part of a France trip.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't go. Reasons: no kid is the right age, you won't be best in either scenario, and DW is overrated and overpriced right now.

I disagree! All those ages can have fun

Agree. We just went recently and the kids are 10, 12 and 15. We skip the character meet and greets and the things that might appeal to the youngest visitors and spend all of our times on rides. There's something for every age.

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Anonymous wrote:The other thing is... I wouldn't go to Disney super pregnant either. Especially in the Florida summer heat, you are going to be absolutely miserable.

I'd either send your spouse with the kids or put this off until your baby is old enough to have at least an MMR.

I don’t see why anyone would want to go to Orlando in the summer, pregnant or not. It’s a complete sauna. To pay all that $ to sweat and walk around on hot pavement all day long.

I mean, you do sweat. And I don't mind that. What I mind is sitting on a ride in a puddle of someone else's sweat. So I tend to do less rides in summer. And of course the rain showers come through a lot. It can be done, just gotta be ready to take a few showers.