The Peavy Family Blog: Hollywood and Epcot

I will start off by saying that the Disney portion of our trip turned out to be more than I could have expected. We had plans and definitely called some audibles. We needed luck (magic) at times and we got it. We were flexible. We laughed. We benefited from Drake’s Genie+ skills and perseverance. We had some “would have done that differently” moments (research MagicBands, less back and forth at night), but those were far and few between and did not take away from all the goodness we had. I’m so thankful we got to get this trip in as schedules are just going to get harder as things change.

We only had one hot day and the crowds were manageable and downright low on Saturday (on the crowd tracking sight we used, they predicted a 7 level at Epcot and it was a THREE!). This led to us benefiting from several Genie+ passes every day.

Day 1 was spent at Hollywood Studios and then to Epcot and back to Hollywood Studios (all via Skyrider). It was an early day and late night and lots of rides and shows (18 in total). Highlights included getting in the virtual queue for Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Wars land, getting Tower of Terror in 3 minutes BEFORE the extra 15 minutes on our Genie+ Pass and the 10:00 Fantasmic show with no people there.