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