[Rustie]

Go every few eyars with my kids. They love it!

1) Eat breakfast at the townhouse. Pack your lunches. And then call now and make reservations for the dinners! They book WAY in advance.

2) Try to get one of the dinners at a Character show. There are several at each park and they book very early on. I was once told 90 days in advance, but if you call now you may be able to get in somewhere for either an early or late dinner.

3) Call disney land and have them send you park maps. Give them to the kids during the ride down or now if you are flying. Have them mark what things they REALLY want to see. Then you can save time wondering around by keeping to a schedule of sorts. If you don't do this now, you'll waste a lot of time standing srounf trying to figure out what everyone wants to do while you are there.

4) The Park Hopper option is nice, but I have actually never used it, so I quit buying it. You can easily spend a whole day at each park and 2 at Magic Kingdom alone.

Never made it to Animal Kingdom and I have been there 3 times and each time for five days. MGM is by far my favorite. They have an Indian Jones Stunt show that will have you on the edge of your seat! It is awesome! Epicot does the best fireworks show at night it last 30 minutes or so. Have to go an hour early and find your spot to watch from. Get the kids and Mickey mouse ice cream so they are occupied and watch the show. It is awesome!

The fireworks show at Magic Kingdom is the second best. It is choreographed around a song and twinle bell. Has some lasers init as well. But like i said you could spend two full days there and not see it all. A lot of the stuff in this park are shows though, so depending on the age of your kids, this might not be all that exciting to them. My daughters at the ages of 3 through 10 loved this park. Spent a lot of time there. It's where the "It's a small world after all" floating boat ride is. After riding that, you'll never want to hear that song ever again.

Epcot is great for kids if you stay to the front of the park. Innovations has some of the coolest soon to come gadgets and inventions. There is the water park there as well with some really cool "learning" type shows. But the back of the park has a lake surrounded by building representative of each of the countries in the world. Kids get bored here, but I was fascinated. Really cool! Oh, Canada has a complete surround view show (complete 360 screen). Have to go see that one!

Can save a lot of $$$ taking in your lunch and eating breakfast in your room. Have to say that is really good advice. I spent between $50 to $100 a day there and we only ate dinner and had ice cream snacks each day. The kids also got a momento. If we had eaten lunch and breakfast too... urgh!