Strategy to beat the heat in the Summer at the Theme Parks

   

 Since it is vacation time everyone wants to get out and have some fun at Disney, Universal and Seaworld, but no one wants to be in the heat all day long. You can enjoy the theme parks and miss much of the hottest parts of the day if you take advantage of the extended hours during the summer. Most of the parks are open until 10 PM or later so you should be able to enjoy most of the attractions and not deal with 90+ temperatures all day.

     The easiest way to do this is to get to each park as soon as the park opens and do the most popular rides and attractions first. Next, hang around and do a couple of the older rides and attractions. In any of the parks this should get you to around 12 noon so now you can grab some lunch in the park or better yet take a break and go somewhere off the properties. If you are at Disney, then you can head to the Buena Vista area that is not too far from Downtown Disney and there are lots of cost conscience restaurants for your selection. If you are at Universal Studios or Seaworld, then jump over to Sand Lake road or Internal Drive and you can find some good, reasonably priced restaurants as well.
     After you have lunch, take a nap, chill out and recover some. By now depending on the time it takes for lunch this should bring you to somewhere around 2 PM or so. Next, you can go to the pool for a couple of hours of splash time for the children and the adults can enjoy some relaxing sunning. Depending on your ticket packages you could enjoy one of the Disney water parks like Typhoon Lagoon or Blizzard Beach and at Seaworld you could go to Aquatica. No matter what you choose to do you should spend a few hours and this should get you up to 5 PM. Now grab a quick early Dinner, then head back to the park.

     Now you have almost another 5 hours to spend in the park so do something that you did not do earlier in the day and maybe go back and do the most popular ride or attraction again. Finally, you and your family will be rested enough that you can hang around and catch the closing shows at the parks. At EPCOT you can watch Illuminations, Hollywood Studios has Fantasmic, Magic Kingdom has Wishes, Seaworld has One Ocean and Universal has added a firework and audio visual show.
     No matter what you choose to do you do not have to stay in the parks from opening to closing, but you can still  enjoy all of the park without staying in the heat all day long. You may even have a chance using this strategy to enjoy a sunset.
    Enjoy...