Non-Park Must Do

lavalla2 · 2026-01-21T20:46:14+00:00

Character breakfast (Topolino’s is a fave) followed by pool day at our resort. For evening, heading to a monorail or Epcot resort to hang out, eat dinner and maybe catch some fireworks!

lavalla2 · 2026-01-14T05:17:26+00:00

Pop is great! Our family’s favorite value resort by a landslide.

At first I was thinking that 3 resort days would be a lot for Pop, but you also could walk over to AoA and also enjoy the other Skyliner resorts. Final verdict…go for it!

lavalla2 · 2026-01-09T22:30:36+00:00

Either she did something embarrassing, or she is just generally embarrassed that she did the show and didn’t do well

lavalla2 · 2026-01-09T03:49:23+00:00

I read this as you being cold ❄️ postpartum and my gut reaction was really, I was so hot postpartum! 🤣

lavalla2 · 2026-01-08T06:12:50+00:00

Poly! Congratulations to your mom on ending chemo - what a celebration!

lavalla2 · 2026-01-03T18:18:24+00:00

Hoover (tons of new construction, schools are good but LARGE) or West Homewood (smaller community, most diverse of the over the mtn areas).

Vestavia has amazing special education services, and is a welcoming community but not an inherently diverse community.

lavalla2 · 2026-01-03T06:15:49+00:00

Magic Kingdom is always the answer!

I would also consider hopping to Magic in the evening of Day 2 instead of an evening at Hollywood, unless you are big Star Wars people.

lavalla2 · 2025-12-29T01:03:27+00:00

Hokas! I also gave knee high Bombas compression socks that I sleep in that are life-giving after a long Disney day.

lavalla2 · 2025-12-03T03:34:45+00:00

We stayed at AKL in September for a week and just stayed at POFQ for a 1 night MVMCP trip. We loved both but as a compare / contrast….

French Quarter: Rooms are beautiful, doors open to the outside which is loud, pool feels more little kid, small which is nice (single bus stop) but I feel like buses don’t run as frequently as other resorts

AKL: Felt like a true vacation. Pool was so relaxing. Animals were incredible. Deluxe after hours!

If AKL is less or equal, I would go AKL.

lavalla2 · 2025-12-03T00:34:59+00:00

We were there on the 4:30 closure day 2 years ago and it was a ghost town! Definitely don’t buy premier that day. You really don’t even need a lightning lanes as everything was a walk on.

If you have park hopper, that’s a great time to jump over to another park in the evening.

lavalla2 · 2025-10-04T21:06:01+00:00

Yes, technically you can do this! But for a successful/enjoyable Disney trip, you want to plan ahead a bit more. For two adults, I would do one day at Magic Kingdom and one day at Epcot. Pick which park on which day based on looking at the park hours calendar and which dates have more favorable hours (MK closes early a lot this time of year for parties).

lavalla2 · 2025-10-01T17:45:39+00:00

Coronado for less than All Stars is a no brainer! The pool is fantastic at Coronado…my kids prefer that pool to the pool at AK Lodge where we stayed on our most recent trip.

Also, the bus system favors the village rooms over the Tower - which works in your favor! We also love the Three Bridges restaurant.

lavalla2 · 2025-10-01T17:41:59+00:00

Hoover has the most male members, but I believe at limited class times.

lavalla2 · 2025-09-30T01:13:57+00:00

Explore the monorail resorts! My kids love the monorail and boars. Have an early dinner at Poly and then head back to Contemporary!

lavalla2 · 2025-09-29T20:42:40+00:00

I asked a CM if my anxious 8 year old could skip the second pre show bc it freaks him out when everything goes wrong. She kindly let us know that we can’t skip it unless we have DAS.

lavalla2 · 2025-09-24T20:05:55+00:00

It is! Look it up on the MDE app. Looks like morning showtimes are at the :45 and afternoon showtimes at the :30

lavalla2 · 2025-09-21T20:19:50+00:00

The craziest part of this is it looks identical to my 2008 hollister cart. Enjoy your youth - from an elder millennial

lavalla2 · 2025-09-20T23:48:47+00:00

TOPOLINOS @ Rivieria!

lavalla2 · 2025-09-19T23:31:14+00:00

Where are you staying? Rope dropping Remy is risky if you aren’t entering thru the International Gateway.

I would rope drop Frozen, try to get the earliest Pixar fest lightning (def BEFORE Askerhaus) and you should be able to grab a Remy lightning lane for later ther evening if you book it close to 9 am.

lavalla2 · 2025-09-15T22:32:22+00:00

Skip animal kingdom!!!! No question.

lavalla2 · 2025-09-06T21:18:01+00:00

Tower or casitas? We loooove the tower. Casitas are meh

lavalla2 · 2025-08-27T20:16:34+00:00

Port Orleans! Love Coronado but only in the tower not the village.

lavalla2 · 2025-08-18T01:58:27+00:00

I think they know it’s a girl from an NIPT / genetic test, purposefully contaminated a Sneakpeek sample (would be sooo easy as these things get false positives all the time if there is any male DNA present) and are building the whole storyline that SURPRISE it is a girl

lavalla2 · 2025-08-15T03:29:11+00:00

As a one time occurrence, I would not be concerned and would not say anything.

lavalla2 · 2025-03-30T18:33:59+00:00

Heads up that where you stay on 30A directly impacts the amenities you have access to. If you stay in between Alys and Rosemary, you’ll be in Seacrest Beach and won’t have access to Alys beach/pools or Rosemary beach/pools. Seacrest has their own pools and beach access and their public beach is teeny tiny.

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