Adding my name to the list. We are doing 1/27-2/6 at the Waldorf Astoria. It's the first time ever for myself, my 15 yr old, and my 6 year old. My wife hasn't been in nearly 20 yrs. We will have a car rental for transportation.
Currently working on ADRs. Being limited to booking at 60 days for each day, and waking before 4am every day to try to get ADRs has been a bit difficult, but since a) it's the Waldorf and b) we used reward points for the entire stay, I'm not too broken-hearted!
So far the first few days of ADRs have worked out with a little adjustment. Biggest surprise so far was totally failing to get T-REX for our arrival day, a Thursday afternoon/evening in late Jan. Who knew?!
Here's what we have so far:
1/27 - Wanted T-rex but no luck. Have Morimoto as a backup, but think we are gonna cancel that and just walk up for T-Rex day of since we don't have any other plans that evening and my DW really wants to take my DD6 there first night.
1/28 - MK day rope drop. Crystal Palace @ 11:40am in case character dining returns but might just cancel otherwise. Hotel break then Be our guest at 5 so we can watch fireworks later.
1/29 - AK half day so we got Boma at 8. Wine bar George at 3 for a mid-afternoon bite and finish it up with date night at Bull and Bear (lounge for drinks first then dinner at 9).
1/30 - Boathouse at 10am as a backup in case we can't get another brunch option. Then EPCOT for festival snacks! Will try and grab a dinner spot in EPCOT to have but no must do's there for us.
Still have a few tough ADRs to try for (we want to do topolinos and tusker house still), and while we probably won't get CRT I'm fine with it (DW on the other hand...). But hasn't been nearly as bad as I imagined not having the 60+ option.