Day Two – Epcot
Coffee / Morning Plans: Early entry starts at 8:30am this day. We are planning to leave our room at 7:15am because I read that the Skyliner doesn’t start running until 7:30am (one hour before early entry). While I’ve read the line may be really long by the time we get there, I’ve also read it moves fairly quickly, and I’m not sure how much we gain by being first in line for the Skyliner, compared to the additional loss of sleep. Some blogs make it sound like it matters a lot, others make it sound like we should be just fine. Has anyone who stayed at AoA rope dropped from there, and if so, how early did you line up? How did that work out?
We will have to get coffee in our room, unless we want to make the detour to get coffee in our mugs at Landscape of Flavors, I think. That will probably depend in part on how far from the lobby area our room is. We’ll likely make do with room coffee until we ride our first 1-2 rides. 4 of the 5 adults are heavy coffee drinkers, so wish us luck!
7am LL: Living with the Land. I know this might be a terrible strategy, but we’re hoping to ride Remy & Frozen at rope drop, get coffee/breakfast at either the Norway bakery or Starbucks, and then hopefully we’ll have an early morning LL for Living with the Land so we can book another LL after tapping in. Where should we grab breakfast if we’re going from Frozen Ever After to Living with the Land?
ILL: My strategy is to try for the Guardians VQ first, and to only book the ILL if we don’t get VQ. Is there a significant benefit to booking the ILL over the VQ that I might be missing?
Rope Drop Plans: We’re planning to ride Remy first since we’ll be entering via the International Gateway, and then book it over to Norway for FEA. I’ve been reading a lot of blogs that attempt this strategy and it sounds like we might be cutting it close if we’re not first in line for the Skyliner / first in line to enter the park, but we’re hopeful we can ride Remy and still make it to Norway before non-resort park guests are let in. Then our next stop is coffee & breakfast!
LL Priorities: FEA (so we can ride twice), Soarin’, Spaceship Earth
Lunch: Most likely La Cantina de San Angel. With the margaritas, it looks like a good use of our QS dining credits. I'm hoping to get an Avocado margarita inside and will let one of our parents have my margarita with the meal if we eat there. But maybe Sunshine Seasons or Connections Café depending on where we are in the park when we get hungry. I also thought about eating around the world with the F&G festival, but we’ll have 4 unused QS credits if we do that. I’m so conflicted though, because I think we’ll want to try a lot of food around the world, and then we probably won’t be hungry for dinner. I'll do a separate post for our plans for the F&G Food booths!
Afternoon Break: Lunch at a QS will probably be our “break”… we have a busy day to fit in all the rides, characters, and food! This is our first day, so we should be a little fresher for all the walking required at Epcot.
Dinner: Rose & Crown, which will be new for us. It looks like heavy food and I’m so worried that we won’t be hungry. But maybe some of the adults will share meals since we’ll have 2 adult credits to use here.
Must Dos:
Remy
Frozen Ever After
Guardians
Soarin’
Living with the Land
The Seas with Nemo and Friends
Turtle Talk with Crush (one of my favorite shows!)
Spaceship Earth
Flower & Garden Festival – topiaries and food booths
Moana Journey of Water
Club Cool (the girls have never tried it)
Avocado Margarita in Mexico
Luminous
Do you think we’ll make it to all our “must dos”?!
Nice to Dos:
Characters – the girls would like to prioritize Jasmine, Mulan & Aurora, and we’d like to see Anna & Elsa
Tipsy Ducks in Love (drink in China)
Karamell-Kuche (can you believe we’ve never tried the treats there??)
Gran Fiesta Tour
Garden Rocks Concert Series – we won’t have tickets but we’ve been able to stand in the back and watch in the past
Other Maybes (first on our list to skip):
Journey into Imagination with Figment – we’ve never ridden that!
Mission Space Green – another ride we’ve never been on; the orange version scared me and Pat away for a long time!
What are we skipping?
Test Track – just not a priority for our family
Shows around the world – we might add something in or stumble across a show, but there aren’t any that we are prioritizing this trip