As I mentioned back in June, We are going to Florida the 23rd through the 30th. My ILs live there and when we visited the same week 3 years ago we just stayed with them and drove to the parks each day and avoided the parks with extra magic hours/followed the crowd calendar. It worked out ok but back then the FP+ was by ticket machine and not online booking. We've never been to Universal and we'd like to do a day there too. We are open to staying on property for a night or two in order to get the 60 day window.

If you were planning this trip, which days would you go to the park (we are doing 4 DW days and 1 Universal) and which days would you stay on property?

Where would you stay on property given the max capacity crowds that time of the year?

Anything we should consider in our planning during this peak time?

I think last time we did one breakfast dining reservation in order to get into MK early. Should we do that again? Not sure if we'd even be able to get a reservation.