Hollywood Studios

[teamhayes]

We were not originally planning on going to HS but now I am on the fence. 

Tell me why or why not we should/shouldn't go. 

I admit I have done ZERO research on this park. 

Time would be Mid May

Children would be 5,3,1.5 at that time. 

Is it a full day park?

What are the WOW must do things?

Would my kids enjoy it?

This will be a trip for them not my husband and I. 

Thanks!

[ribollita]

If your kids are into Disney JR and/or Star Wars then yes. Otherwise no.

[ilikedonuts]

My girls LOVE HS. We do lunch at Hollywood and Vine and meet the Disney Jr Characters. DD1 does Jedi Training Academy. They love Toy Story Midway Mania and the Frozen sing a long. They love to meet the star wars characters. Disney Jr Live is a cute show. Plus now Olaf is there!

(My girls were 4 and 2 last trip and will be turning 5 and 3 during our trip in October)

[teamhayes]

oh they love Olaf and Disney Jr.

We are still too young for Star Wars

Is it worth it you think?

[hymen]

We spend a day there, no more. My kids (5, 2) really like Toy Story Mania, the Disney Jr. show, the Beauty and the Beast show, and my oldest is a daredevil and likes the Tower of Terror and Star Tours.The Frozen Singalong is awesome, too! All the new Star Wars stuff is really neat. Our HS days are definitely not as fast-paced as MK days but it's kind of nice.

To give you an idea, our trip next week is 6.5 park days. We are spending 1.5 days at Epcot, 1 day at HS, 1.5 days at AK, and the rest of the time at MK (plus a Disney Springs evening and pool time).

[zarapipe]

We went and even with DD liking Disney Jr we wouldn't go back. We did lunch at Hollywood and Vine which was nice. We also watched some shows but that's it.

[hymen]

Also, if your kids like Disney Junor characters I would suggest maybe doing an early Hollywood and Vine breakfast (like before park opening). Then you can spend some time doing Toy Story, Disney Jr., Frozen sing along, and if you're done by lunch, you can always boat over to Epcot (assuming you have park hoppers).

[Deleted]

We are going to do half a day, maybe one day. I think we will have trouble filling a whole day as we aren't doing Star Wars stuff.

[ilikedonuts]

I think its worth it even if you just do half a day. You could FP Toy Story, see a couple shows and meet some characters all before like 1pm.

[teamhayes]

so maybe make it one of the scheduled pool days?

I want to have some down days/pool days so they dont get exhausted and turn into beasts.

I read somewhere do 2 parks a pool 2 parks a pool 2 parks home

but we are doing a hotels switch day 5 so can't do a pool day that day and hte crowd calendars are obviously lower mid week over the weekend

SOOO many decisions

I wasn't going to do park hopper but might

Oh I have 11 months to think ans rethink about it

[teamhayes]

I'm not sure
I'm still almost a year out

[nsl]

The nice thing about Hollywood Studios, IMO, is that it's not overwhelming in the sense that Magic Kingdom and Epcot can be simply because there aren't as many rides, and the shows let you sit down and take a break in (mostly) air conditioned spaces. It's a great park for a day when you want to take things slowly, especially if your kids won't be interested in any of the Star Wars offerings.

[ilikedonuts]

You could do it on the morning of a pool/rest day. If your FP Toy Story, you could sleep in and not rush over. Nothing else other then Toy Story and Jedi Training sign up are a rope drop necessity. (since your kids won't be tall enough for Rock n Rollercoaster)

[aubreyann]

We like to get there before rope drop. We were able to get 9 things done in the first hour (Olaf, Mickey/Minnie, Chip/Dale, Great Movie ride, Star Tours with rider swap and more). Around 1-2pm we leave for a midday break and then return for the evening stuff. My DD doesn't really like Star Wars, but my DH does and it was worth going just for his enjoyment. There was still plenty my daughter and I liked. We were just there on a Saturday in early June

[curbsideprophet]

It was a half day park for us with a 4 year old and 16 month old. And that included time at Honey I Shrunk the kids which is now closed.

[mslhb]

For us it is a 1/2 day park. Maybe when the new stuff opens we might spend more time there. We always get park hoppers to have flexibility to pick and choose parks.

[bunch]

I definitely think it's a full day park with young kids.  There are so many shows that are a hit with that age, tons of characters to visit and fun rides for parents.  

[momof2]

With kids this young, what do you really consider a "full day?" I had no idea about Hollywood Studios, but we went and it was a full day for our young ones (but this means like 9am-2 or 3pm in my world). I was shocked at how much my kids LOVED all the shows there. Disney Jr, Ariel, Frozen Sing Along, etc. It was awesome to have a park that felt more relaxed.