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4.  We are staying off site and visiting Magic Kingdom for one day, what is the deal with parking?  Apparently, there is some sort of transportation center, so even after you park you have to take a tram or ferry?  Can anyone explain. [/quote]

Yeah, the tram will take you from your parking spot to the transportation center.  There you can take a 10 minute ferry or take the direct monorail.  The monorails and such will be open plenty early for you to get to the gates at opening.

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6.  We are planning on staying the whole day, 9a to 10p, and just sit and relax and visit with family often, (probably while stuffing our faces)....are we crazy?  (3 yr old - great traveler) [/quote]

Totally doable.  On some nights the park stays open until 11pm.  Sometimes they run two electrical parades, one at 9pm and one at 11pm, with the fireworks spectacular at 10pm.

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7.  There are other places to eat, other than the reservations needed places, and character meal places, right? [/quote]

There are plenty casual order at a counter type places.  Otherwise you will probably need a reservation.  Also, I think the best restaurants are at the resorts you can access via a five minute monorail ride. I recommend 'Ohana at the Polynesian.  The California Grill at the top of the Contemporary is fabulous too, but you need to be somewhat decently dressed.

[quote=Anonymous]Any other advice for one day at the park, for a family that just wants to experence the park in a relxaed manner...seems a little overwhelming [/quote]

Plan on not doing everything.  Even if you go two complete days you will miss things.  I would not stress about fast passes.  They can be a pain, especially now that they really do expect you to come between the hour window printed on the ticket.  Also, you can only get one fast pass every hour or two hours.  And, make sure you look at the return time before you get one.  You would be surprised how many times a fast pass ticket was for hours and hours later.  Sometimes it is much easier just to wait in the 30 minute line.

A lot of the rides are scary for three-year-olds.  You can preview them on youtube.  But, for example, the snow white scary adventure was an awful experience for DD.  She liked the haunted mansion, but a great tip we learned was that if you ask you can skip that first scary room.  It helped a lot.

If your kid wants to get pictures and autographs with the characters it is a pretty big commitment.  There are just as long waits for characters as there are for the best rides.

Do not miss the electrical parade.  Have someone find a spot on the curb at least an hour before the parade and save spots for your kid.

Also, measure your kid now and prepare them for what they can and cannot ride.  38 inches for the Barnstormer roller coaster.  40 inches for space, splash, and thunder mountain as well as Stitch's great escape. [/quote]

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