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Ok, my girls and I plus my aunt are going to WDW March 18-27th.
Normally, when we go to WDW we always begin our trip at MK. But this time we are considering going to AK first. My kiddo's love Donald's Breakfast so we are considering going there first.
Our second day we are spending at MK since it is Evening Magic Hours.
What do you think? Do you think we will lose the magic by not starting at MK first?
I'm also in the same boat. W/ the schedule that I have we would be visiting MK on our 2nd day. I thinking that just seeing the castle at the other end of Main Street (whether it's the 1st or 2nd day) will still be magical.
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We rarely start at MK.
In fact, when DD was little we made a point of not doing it first -- figuring it would be all downhill from there
We felt our boys, when younger, would be disappointed in the other lands if we did MK first. Now we just hop with abandon! (We don't do table service restaurants much, so not having to do ADRS frees us up so we can free-spirit through the parks at our own pace as the notions strike us).
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We don't usually start at MK either. I think AK is a great place to start off a WDW vacation. It was the first park we ever visited with the kids and it was their favorite that trip.
We usually do MK first, but I'm thinking of switching to AK or Studios this time since we only spend 1/2 day in those parks anyway. MK should be saved for a full day.
We usually have never started at MK (we are this trip though b/c we are going during Thanksgiving and feel that the earlier in the trip the better). It has never taken away any of the magic. Good luck!
We like to start our first day at AK. It closes early, so we go back to the Pop and enjoy swimming and some down time. Our second day is DHS. We usually finish there around 3:00 or 4:00 p.m., these short days help with the full days at MK and Epcot.
This year we started visiting Epcot- we were at BC and it made more sense walk to Epcot than taking a bus ride to MK as an "special opening". well DD loved World Showcase (in the past she was already tired from starting future world and go to the World showcase late afternoon...). We stayed there (she painted the Duffy Bear and collect the stamps). After that we returned to the resort to the poll. At night she said it was the "perfect day one"!!!
Ao I believe that any "day one" can be perfect and she actually did not missed Cindy castle once next day we went to MK!!!
I like to start my trips at a different park each time.
The only way that starting a trip at one instead of another is if you believe that one has less magic than the other - which is not true, IMHO - they've all got the same amount of magic, it's just served in 4 different rainbow flavors.
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We also usually switch up the first day parks, going instead by what park has early EMH on our first full day. It works for us as the first morning there we are usually ready and rearing to go! No matter what day we choose to go to MK, the magic of seeing the Castle for the "first" time is still always a special moment for me (and we usually do two days at MK anyway too).
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We felt our boys, when younger, would be disappointed in the other lands if we did MK first. Now we just hop with abandon! (We don't do table service restaurants much, so not having to do ADRS frees us up so we can free-spirit through the parks at our own pace as the notions strike us).
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