The Mouse Minute (Formerly Brad's Everything Disney Blog): Disney Vacation Tip #2 : When you Realize that you could have just skipped the park and stayed at the pool

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Disney Vacation Tip #2 : When you Realize that you could have just skipped the park and stayed at the pool

The Disney Vacation Tip deals with the Pools:

That moment in the middle of the day when you are at the Theme Parks and you realize you could have saved a whole bunch of money and just stayed at the pool. It was the first time my wife and her kids age 9 and 13 had ever been to Disneyworld. We were there for my step daughter's cheerleading competition which was at the back end of our trip. Since the last days of our trip including a cheer practice on Friday and competition days on Saturday and Sunday we had to do the parks at the beginning of our trip. 4 parks in 4 days!!! Oh Yeah!.....Okay so it wasn't the ideal way to do our trip- but I wanted them to see all 4 parks and that is just the way the trip worked out. (I have several upcoming blogs that will talk about this topic).

Well in the middle of day 2 the kids (who were having a great time at the parks) asked what time we were leaving ---because they wanted to go swimming in the pool. The Pool I thought???? Are these kids crazy. They want to leave the theme park early to go to the pool?? We had talked about Friday (which was cheer practice day) being a rest day where we would just hang out at the pool ---but they wanted to go to the pool now. You mean I could have just saved $400 and hung out at the pool all day? Maybe the next time we go on vacation we should just forget about the theme parks and just find a place with a cool pool? (Yeah not really)

Okay so Saratoga Springs does have several cool pools so I can kind of understand why the kids wanted to go to the pool . If we could have planned our trip differently - we definitely wouldn't have tried to do 4 parks in 4 days. Ideally 2 park days and a Resort day at the pool followed by 2 more parks and maybe another Resort day at the end would probably be ideal.

So the Disney Vacation trip Tip is to take a break from the parks and plan a pool day. Especially if your resort has a cool pool like this one. The kids went on this slide at least 30 times.

Take a break from the parks and the "go - go -go" mentality and relax.

We even got lucky and had some pool time at Animal Kingdom Lodge at the end of our trip after Cheer (which is a whole different blog---which I will post soon)