When would you go?

[teamhayes]

I have major Disney fever!

I have been researching and looking and researching some more. 

Its almost time for me to bite the bullet and book something or atleast decide when we should go. 

I think I am going to try to rent DVC points so I still have some time before I need to do that. I am thinking I would like a studio at either Animal Kingdom or Poly. 

Which month would you aim to go?

April (near the end not spring break or Easter) (we would celebrate my sons 5th birthday)
May
August
October
November

I would like to be able to use the pool/not be freezing. 

Do either of these months have a better rental success rate?

I believe all the crowd calendars say these times are fairly low. 

Am I missing something?

Other factors - we are a party of 5 (youngest will be 1 this September, middle is turning 3 at the end of June - young family)

How many days is too  many days? Is that a thing?

[teamhayes]

ETA this are all for 2017 travel - so next fall not this fall

[teamhayes]

Am i reading the DVC rental pages correctly that AK doesn't charge the $2 fee per point over 7 months so there is no benefit of waiting to book there?

[TBM]

No freezing in any of the months that you listed. We had 'the two days of winter' in Feb. 2015, and this year we had 2 weeks of winter, spread out over 3 weeks or so. That's about it.lol

November would be my first choice, then April or October. April could be quite warm, and October might be about the same, but both are much, much better than May or August.

[teamhayes]

Do you think if I booked April there would be AK Value Studios left since it is less than 11 months out?

I was being dramatic about freezing - we just want to be able to swim and wear shorts.

Also, how many days can you get for DVC rentals? Is it easy to ammend your request? Aim low?

[TBM]

Jun 22, 2016 14:32:16 GMT -5 teamhayes said:

I was being dramatic about freezing - we just want to be able to swim and wear shorts.

We overheard some Florida locals at Epcot talking about the 'cold' winter this year, and one woman commented that she actually wore capris instead of shorts for a few days there. lol  

This past November was pretty warm.  I have no doubt that shorts and swimming would not have been a problem.  I think we even wore shorts on Christmas. In my opinion, it was all kinds of wrong. ;p

[teamhayes]

Jun 22, 2016 14:47:12 GMT -5 @fivedogs said:

Jun 22, 2016 14:32:16 GMT -5 teamhayes said:

Do you think if I booked April there would be AK Value Studios left since it is less than 11 months out?

I was being dramatic about freezing - we just want to be able to swim and wear shorts.

Also, how many days can you get for DVC rentals? Is it easy to ammend your request? Aim low?

Maybe not Value Studios because there are so few of them, but I booked regular AKL studios at 5 months last year and 7 months this year.  There's no premium to booking before 7 months at AKL at dvc rental store because it's a non-premium resort.  They have you select four potential options on their form, I think (and I changed one of them after submitting the form because DH apparently really like Kidani instead of Jambo at AKL but never mentioned this to me, LOL).  When the first day of our projected dates weren't available, I just had them book the remaining days and I booked a regular hotel room for the first night.  They were pretty flexible.  But once you pay for the points, you are locked in (they have some kind of cancel-for-any-reason plan, but I got trip insurance instead).  When I sent in a request through David's, they just replied with "Not available" and didn't really invite any back-and-forth.  You can book as many nights as you want, I think, as long as there is availability and they have points with which to book (i.e., between 11 and 7 months, they can only use points from people who own in that particular resort, I think).  

We wore shorts every day in November last year.  We didn't swim, but that was because we were dumb and didn't block out any pool time.  

I was looking at DAvids site - you prefer DVC rental store it seems? the davids site didn't list an option for differeing dates 

[ilikedonuts]

Jun 22, 2016 14:27:35 GMT -5 chilerellanos said:

I've heard the end of April and beginning of May are about as perfect as you can get as far as weather.

The 2 years we went the first week of may it was 95 degrees every day....

[was5]

Do NOT go in August. That is my advice. It is HOT, humid and there were a lot of bees.

We are looking at November 2017 as a possibility. We are from the cold mid-west so I think we could probably swim any time of year in FL but it seems like November is still pretty warm. Some friends of our went in Oct a few years ago and said it was close to 100. I looked at some average temp calendars and the actual temps compared to average are all over the place. I think I looked in Feb when the average high is 72, but the actual high temps from the previous year ranged from 55-85 over a 5 day span.

We took twin 15 month olds 2 years ago. We only spent 3 days in parks (2 in MK and 1 in HS). They were not really good walkers yet (and there were 2 of them) so I was happy about just doing 3 days. One thing I didn't realize is that there is stroller parking. So, you might have to park your stroller a good distance away from the line for the ride (possibly not a big deal if only 1 kid isn't walking well). They did pretty well at MK and rode Dumbo, Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh, Little Mermaid, and the Tea Cups. They also did the Great Movie Ride at HS.

[teamhayes]

August had been crossed off the list!

In was thinking late August right before Labor Day but 100 degrees is my max

[Deleted]

I can let you know in November how that month is!

I personally would never ever go in August, the heat and humidity would kill me and my kids who aren't used to extreme heat.

[zarapipe]

I say may or November.

[curbsideprophet]

Will you oldest miss school if you go in October or Nov?

I would probably go with April or May to avoid missing any school.

[redmonkeystomper]

I live in FL and I would not do May or August. We went in November it was warm enough for swimming. We all were in shorts. April might be ok too.

[ribollita]

Given you have options, I would absolutely choose April/May over October/November. I found it really hard to deal with the party schedule and F&W last year.

[teamhayes]

April/may it is

Now to narrow down the week/days and all the other good stuff

[lala]

Ha, I was going to suggest October or November. I would go for a different resort over AKL. What about boardwalk or beach club?

[teamhayes]

I put in a request for mid May

5 days at ak and 4 at poly
Hope to hear back soon