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[quote=Anonymous]Will you go before Thanksgiving? We were first-timers and did it last year for DD's birthday, which is at the end of November. We flew in on Monday night and did Magic Kingdom on the Tuesday and Epcot on Wednesday and then back to MK on Thanksgiving. Wow. The crowds were incredible that day and just kept growing as the day went on, felt like double the day before. I mean family groups of like 15-20 all in matching family t-shirts. I was glad this wasn't our primary day do MK but rather to revisit what we wanted and a few new rides we didn't get to (or that were being serviced--happens pretty often on the coasters). We did enjoy Thanksgiving meal in the castle and felt that it was fun and worth it for DD. Definitely take advantage of staying on-property so you can use the hour before the park opens to all to get in your one or two rides that are most important and/or draw the biggest crowds. On Friday we did Animal Kingdom and that was do-able because it's not drawing the same crowds as the others, though it did get busy as the day went on. Again we went early-admission there and hit the Avatar ride first and got in pretty easily. (We skipped Hollywood because our DD was 8 and I'll do that on another trip.) You will need to do Genie+ to help on some rides.

The parks were decorated beautifully as were the hotels, so it was worth it for me to see Disney at least once with the decorations. We toured all the big hotels and had a meal at a couple to enjoy the atmosphere. Big gingerbread house and tree at the Floridian. Amazing tree at the Wilderness Lodge. Definitely want to go back to that one again.

I had tried to book in October and earlier in November (around Veterans Day) but actually found those to be worse from a scheduling perspective. There's something called Jersey Week where kids are off and go and then the Epcot Food and Wine Festival and races. We just decided to go for it despite warnings.   [/quote]

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