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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At least two days for MK and one for Animal Kingdom, those are our favorite.  We usually rent a car for the convince.  If you stay on property, you get free parking.  Personally, I'd stay close but off property.  The food at Disney is terrible so we'd often go offsite or to the McDonalds (and we are vegetarian, so it is that bad).  [/quote]

I'd actually 100% disagree.  The food at Disney is very good.  Also there are so many things you can't take advantage of if staying off property, including airport transportation so you don't need a car, being able to book reservations and fast passes early, getting to take advantage of extra magic hours and having purchases sent back to your hotel.  Disney is actually GREAT with dietary challenges.  They have a special menu at every location for all sorts of dietary restrictions.  [/quote]

We just got back and were there two years ago and no, the food was terrible.  There was not much healthy at the theme parks and everything was fried.  Their mac and cheese was absolutely disgusting.  It was a gross clump.  Pizza and breakfast foods were cold by the time we got them.  McDonalds was better, which is really sad.  If you rent a car, you don't need their transportation which is a pain, to put it nicely.  And, they claim to have special menu's but when we asked, they didn't.  We couldn't even find something as basic as a cheese sandwich or grilled cheese.  Yes, they are supposed to do requests but very few do.  I had a huge issue at the hotel when they insisted on giving us a food my child was allergic to and when I asked for a new plate, they said it was fine.  We ended up leaving all our food and walking out.  If you don't have food allergies or dietary issues, they may be better, but not our experience.

The nicer restaurants are overpriced and the chains outside disney are far better.  You can sometimes get a car rental really cheaply.  The only advantage to staying on property was the free parking at the theme parks.  The only reason why we stayed this time was because they gave us a few free days after our last bad experience.  Our hotel was nice but the food was terrible.  We didn't bother to complain as we would not stay on property again even if it was free.

We don't buy our tickets in advanced so fast passes are not an issue - who wants to plan a ride 6 months in advanced.  Just go and have fun.

How much do you buy to send purchases to the hotel?  Go to the Disney Outlets or the Walmart if you must buy stuff.  Everything this time (last time was more reasonable) was crazy $$ so we barely bought anything.

OP, August is miserable.  We went end of July with friends years ago and the heat and humidity was the absolute worst.  [/quote]

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