re: Disney With Young Kids

Honey I Shrunk the Kids area is closed for good.
Just got back from Thanksgiving trip. Took my 5 and 3 year old boys. We went a year and a half ago when they were 3.5 and 1.5.

Both times we went we spent two days at Magic Kingdom, 1 day at Animal Kingdom, and did Epcot and Hollywood Studios in the same day.
If your kids watch Disney Jr, then they would like the Disney Jr live show at HS. Pet show is there too and that's cool. Toy Story is awesome. Other than that, there really isn't much there for under 5 year olds. I guess the Frozen thing, but we aren't into princesses.
Epcot is pretty boring as well for an under 5 year old, which is why we spent the same day at those two places. There's a boat that connects those two parks that you can take.


The kids could probably go to Magic Kingdom every day and wouldn't complain about missing the other parks.

We did two days at Universal. My 5 year old enjoyed it b/c he likes super heroes, and he was tall enough to ride a good big of the rides. if the water area is open then Universal is a good place for the under 5 kids for a day. My 3 year old couldn't sit in the normal seats for Minions b/c he's too short. Still did it, but you stand up 10 feet from a gigantic screen.
The superheroes that come out actually talk to you. got to talk to Spider-Man and I think if it was allowed my 5 year old would have spent the whole day talking to him. There was no one in line behind him when he talked to him and he was asking him all kinds of questions about different villains and all. it was pretty entertaining for us.
With little ones, you could probably spend 1 long day at the two Universal parks and do everything, assuming you're there to do kids stuff, not go ride the roller coasters and other rides the kids can't.

I think the biggest thing with the little ones is finding the play areas for them to run around. Honey I Shrunk the kids was a great one. They don't have one at HS now. Epcot has that flower area, but only in the spring. Magic Kingdom has that water area by the Barnstormer. Animal Kingdom has the best one now with that dig site. Universal has the Dr. Seuss water area.