I am starting to plan our family’s first trip to Disney. Kids are 5 & 3. I’m thinking of ensuring we have hotel and ability to enter parks (plus way to avoid/minimize lines to rides). Wife is stressed about booking breakfasts and meet & greets and other things. Are those things worth it in your experience (especially for first timers)?

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Answer for Disneyland -

Bippity bop boutique if you have girls.

They will probably love the meet and greets.

Lightening lane worth it to avoid lots of lines.

Plan meals and snack timing to minimize chances of a meltdown.

I think Disney hotel is not great value - there is hotel across the street with a huge water slide that we love and is much better value.

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My family (2 kids - 2&3 years old) went last month and had a great time. We stayed at the Swan Reserve (new Marriott property next to the older Swan/Dolphin) and loved it. Character breakfast was awesome - I really enjoyed it and so did the kids. My wife was equally as stressed planning it out, but I was so thankful after we went because it was so streamlined. I can’t recommend a fast pass enough, don’t ruin your time from having to wait hours in lines. Walkability is very convenient and nice but there are tons of shuttles too from nearby hotels. My strategy was even though this was our first time to try to make it the best possible and to do all the stressful things ahead of time so we don’t waste the trip. I initially told my wife not to worry about it and stress out, but she didn’t listen or me and I am glad she didn’t!!!

One piece of advice that I overlooked in the planning but really enjoyed - we went for 5 days and for one day in the middle we had a free day for rest from all the chaos. Super helpful and nice to just relax!

Hope y’all have fun!

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Land or world?

We loved booking the character meals as it gave us specific times to ensure we took breaks during the day to just enjoy ourselves and not stress about the million crazy things that is Disney

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Thank you.

We’re planning for Orlando. Somewhat impromptu (in the coming weeks) hence the stress that all those other things will already be booked up. I want to take it a bit more chill especially since we have no idea how the kids will react to all that there is to do.

We did one character breakfast and my daughter (3), loved it. Concur with all the other comments on bippity boppity boutique and hotels outside the park being better value.

We also did a day in Epcot with lots of food and “Drinking Around the World” with friends. She liked that too.

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