My first Disney Trip.

[da rcman2001]

Must rides/sees at whatever parks you may be going to.

Magic Kingdom: Space Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin, Dumbo and It's a Small World(for sentimental reasons.), Mickey's Philhar Magic, The Haunted Mansion, Splash Mountain, Pirates of the Caribbean

If Time Permits: Stich's Great Escape, Astro Orbiter, The Barnstormer at Goofy's Wiseacre Farm(Vekoma Rollerskater), Jungle Cruise

Epcot: Mission: Space, Test Track, Spaceship Earth, Honey, I Shrunk the Audience

If Time Permits: El Rio del Tiempo(Mexico)

MGM Studios: Muppet Vision 3d, Star Tours, Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular, Tower of Terror, Rock 'n' Roller Coaster, The Backlot Tour

If time permits: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, The Great Movie Ride

Animal Kingdom: DINOSAUR, Kali River Rapids, Kilimanjaro Safaris, It's Tough To Be A Bug!, Primeval Whirl

If Time Permits: Tarzan Rocks!, Festival of the Lion King

Also, make sure you see all 3 of the nightly shows. They include Wishes!(MK), Illuminations(Epcot), and Fantasmic!(MGM). Also, see any of the parades if time permits.

The waterparks are also fun! Blizzard Beach has the best waterslides, while Typhoon Lagoon has an awesome wave pool!


Here are the must rides/sees at Universal.

USF- Shrek 4-D, Twister...Ride it Out, Revenge of the Mummy, JAWS, Terminator 2, E.T. Adventure, Men In Black Alien Attack, Back to the Future The Ride, Earthquake!

If Time permits: Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast, NICK LIVE!, Universal Horror Make-Up Show, Woody Woodpecker's Nuthouse Coaster,

IOA- Amazing Adventures of Spiderman, Dr. Doom's Fearfall, Incredible Hulk Coaster, The Cat in the Hat, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls, Popeye and Bluto's Bilge Rat Barges, Jurassic Park River Adventure, Dueling Dragons, The Eight Voyage of Sinbad Stunt Show

If Time Permits: Storm Force Accelatron, Poseidon's Fury, The Flying Unicorn(Vekoma Rollerskater)

Take time to enjoy Citywalk as well if you are going to have time. It is pretty neat!

I hope you have fun. I felt like a 5 year old at Disney and Universal. It was so much fun! Make sure you arrive at the parks at least 45 minutes early. It is Easter Break and it takes awhile to get to the ticket booths once you park. From the Parking Deck at Universal to the entrances to the parks is at least a 10-15 minute walk. You also have to take the monorail or ferry to the Magic Kingdom and there is no way you will walk from where you walk to any park entrance. The trams are used for that.

If you are staying on Disney property, I reccomend using the shuttle services, it worked great.(You don't have to stay on property to use them. You can get from park to park on them too!)

Have fun! Any questions, just ask.

Add Maelstrom in Norway to the EPCOT list, as well as spaceship earth. And while you are at disney, whatever park you end up being at at nightime, see the firework show. Fantasmic! at mgm starts at 7 I believe and you cant miss it if your at mgm. You need to get your seets in the theatre around an hour before the show starts. If you wait too long you will get crappy seets or they wont let you in. If you are in epcot at night, illuminations starts at 9, if the schedules the same as it was in January, and it is a must see. You can watch it from anywhere around the lagoon, and make sure theres no trees in the way.

[sixflagsguy5]

Is Maelstrom in Norway the Viking water ride?

[da rcman2001]

Yea its really cool and it goes backwards and stuff.

[sixflagsguy5]

I know, my mom wanted to ride it, and I thought it would be some stupid themed ride that goes 2 MPH through some tunnels and has a bunch of theming. And it turned out to be a great ride. I love the part were it goes backwards. The coolest part for me was because I thought it would be some dumb ride, and then there was a pretty good drop.

[LAFFfan4lyfe]

I agree with the others. Illuminations is amazing, we played music from it during our 2003 Wind Ensemble trip, and saw it after our performance. We're going as a group to see Fantasmic! this year, since we're playing the music from it. I've never seen Fantasmic so i can't give my opinion, but according to my friend Kimmy, it's one of the besyt shows she's ever seen.

[w00dland]

One thing I hope Hurricane Harbor does is keep the patios wet all the time. It's nice on your feet to not have to worry about getting burned.

It all depends on the type of ground. Racing Rapids has blacktop (which is extremely painful when the sun is on it to walk on), but they also have (cement/concrete) in some places which is very comfortable to walk on.

Waterparks should choose carefully. The other problem with bare feet on a surface is that some not only burn, but they are just painful (in one place especially at Noah's Ark).

You are totally right, I can't walk at Noah's Ark without my sandals. They need to repave almost the entire park because that asphault hurts liek no other...