2009 Orlando SDV

[scrappy910]

Just received an e-mail that the info for the 2009 Orlando SDV is now up on their site.

:dance3: :dance3: :dance3:

Carol

[rlovew]

I saw it but I am not ready to commit to which package for next year yet. I really need to sell the house before I make a decision.

Rebecca

[Lisa]

Oh, oh, oh, somehow it seems more real! Off to see the packages, print it out, and look it over. :dance3: :dance3:

[AlexWyattMommy]

Curious, because I didn't pay attention to it last year so I need to ask this year, do you get a discount for your park tickets through SDV? And can you add days to the package with their rates or do you have to pay rack rate for extra nights?

[Lisa]

AWM, BAMB, MomK, myself, and Denni got convention prices on our park tickets. Some of us got hopper passes, some got the basic.

Closer toward the convention, they do open up the opportunity to add days to the beginning or end of your resort stay. If memory serves me, :rotfl2: I believe the rate was $210 for the Yacht Club.

Are you thinking of coming?!!!

[AlexWyattMommy]

Only if I can get my MIL to leave FIL for a few days to get the boys on the bus. It'll be the first week of school then. My eldest will be riding the early bus for the first time and Little Bit will still be on the second bus. Don't think my DH can go into work late that many days in a row.

I was thinking about a three day crop my LSS has in March in upper Ohio and they want $359 for a quad. For a little bit more I can be DISNEY!!

[New England Eeyore]

I got the email too and I was surprised it was out so soon. Is it always this early? I can't commit to anything this far in advance, but I am really shooting for it!

[rlovew]

It opened in March last year so this is really early. I suspect that it will not fill up for awhile. Many people may not be able to make up there minds this early, plus have the extra $75 for the deposit.

Rebecca

[Kim1964]

Oh man, this is a killer. I'd have to cancel our Disney cruise to go, but I was thinking of cancelling it anyway. Then I'd have to convince DH that it was OK for me to go to WDW without him and the kids......what to do, what to do!

[BernardandMissBianca]

I'm going to start a new sticky thread in a bit with the details.

[nikkistevej]

I would love to do this, but my scrapping partner sister- who doesn't like Disney(I don't know how she is related to me- LOL)would not go for this. We may try some of the other places though.

[scrappy910]

I would love to do this, but my scrapping partner sister- who doesn't like Disney(I don't know how she is related to me- LOL)would not go for this. We may try some of the other places though.

Just tell her it is a scrapbooking event in Orlando that just happens to be at a Disney Resort. She doesn't have to do anything Disney. The 2008 event was my first and so I signed up for so many classes that I never even had time to think about going to any parks. Of course, the weather didn't help either. I have a sister that is non Disney and then I have another sister that is as Disney crazy as I am. :confused3

Carol

[BernardandMissBianca]

I would love to do this, but my scrapping partner sister- who doesn't like Disney(I don't know how she is related to me- LOL)would not go for this. We may try some of the other places though.

I'll be your sister!! I don't have any, I got stuck with brothers. LOL

Tell her it may be at WDW but with 72 hours of crop time and classes she'd never have to leave.

[nikkistevej]

I'll be your sister!! I don't have any, I got stuck with brothers. LOL

Tell her it may be at WDW but with 72 hours of crop time and classes she'd never have to leave.

Thanks!!!

[Lisa]

I don't have any sisters either, so I'll be your scrapping sister too!

Honestly, with so much going on for the 72 hours of scrapping, your sister will barely realize she is on DISNEY grounds.

[AlexWyattMommy]

:sad:
Never mind.
There is no way I can go.
Just came back from the Dentist. It's looking like 1100 OOP to fix TWO teeth. And that is with the insurance. Course our benefits are $1000 per year for the WHOLE family combined and we used some to fix the boys' teeth.
Not that I think my DH is going to go for getting both teeth fixed this year. I have lots more, but these two are next to each other and it saves on novacain to do it at the same time. I have decent teeth now, but my childhood dentist took out way too much enamel and put in way too much silver stuff in my molars. They all have to be fixed.

[BernardandMissBianca]

You still have time Ann. Maybe we can get something going. I'll run numbers for you.

[AlexWyattMommy]

:hug:

[BernardandMissBianca]

OK so for the room, if you do the dream weekend Friday/ Saturday quad, 4 to a room.
It's $336 - the $75 deposit / by 10 months = $26.10 per month to have it paid by the deadline of June 22, 2009 = 87 cents per day

For the Early Bird which is Thurs/Fri/Sat scrapping Fri/Sat quad:
$375 - $75 deposit / by 10 months = $30 per month, that's $1 per day.

Or you can do what we did and book a 2 day local package for $202 and talk directly to the hotel to be a 5th person in the room. that is 202 - 75 / 10 = 12.17 per month or 43 cents per day. I believe the room was something like $15 per day for the 5th person.

then the flights, just keep looking for deals through Southwest.

And the key thing is you need everyone in your room on the same package.

[Lisa]

I definitely would like to do the Early bird, Thur/Fri/Sat hotel. Scrapping Fri thru Sunday is a good amount of time.

My crew already talked, (on the plane home this year) about next year. We are probably going to fly down late Tue. night, stay at the Hyatt. I can get a great rate there, then do the parks Wed./Thurs. We aren't going to leave until late Sun or perhaps Monday. Think I should clue my DH into this? ;) :lmao:

[BernardandMissBianca]

I don't know what I'm doing yet. a lot depends on when school starts. If they keep it for after labor day I'm good, but if that is the first week of school, I'm screwed. That would be DD's very first day of school and I refuse to miss that. I will keep you posted.

[nikkistevej]

I know the dates aren't working for me either, we are doing WDW/DCL for 2 weeks Aug 8-23 of next year. I cannot go down a week later.:sad2: :sad2:

[LindaBabe]

I don't have any sisters either -except my disney friend 'sistas'

Let's see - January and November - Late August should be just perfect for a 'me' trip. I might be too old for '5 in a room' though, lol.

Can someone explain the difference between the different packages at the same number of room nights? They appear to me to be identical except for the price (where's that head scratching smilie when I need him?)

[AlexWyattMommy]

There is a difference in number of crop days too. You could have 2 nights and 3 crop days or 2 nights and 2 crop days. You could have 3 nights and 4 crop days or 3 nights and 3 crop days. That seems to be what is causing the more money - the extra day to crop.

[BernardandMissBianca]

Linda I will explain when I get back from picking DS12 up from cross country.

[LindaBabe]

Linda I will explain when I get back from picking DS12 up from cross country.

Thank you m'am, oh great translater of gobbledegook!:worship:

[Lisa]

I'll have a print out of the packages and we can discuss at CK Hartford!

[BernardandMissBianca]

good idea Lisa.

AWM is right, most of the price is based on 2 things, the number of people in your room and how many days you are cropping. We'll talk about all of it next weekend, it's a little easier to explain in person.

[JandJ]

Oooh, I really want to go. I had such a good time in 2007 (despite going with a former friend who complained and whined the entire weekend and ran off with nearly $400 of my money - ugh don't get me started!). ANYWAY, I really want to go in 2009. It all depends on where things are with our adoption plan. Those things are impossible to predict and we never know when or where we'll get called for a baby. It's so hard, we can't make any plans because we're "on hold." I'll keep an eye on here and hopefully I can go even if I do local registration.

[BernardandMissBianca]

But what a thing to be on hold for!!!! That's awesome! Totally worth missing SDV for. :wizard:


And if you do come don't worry, there won't be a whiner in the bunch!!!

[Kim1964]

I think I'm becoming an evil person over this. DH is working from home today and I mentioned that you all were starting the plans for SDV 2009. I told him that the package to stay at the Contemporary with food and scrapping was pretty good.......I think I actually started laying groundwork....and honestly, I didn't start the conversation with that intention.....bad Kimmie!

[LindaBabe]

CKC Hartford is September 10-12, 2009. It would be easier for me to do that.

[nikkistevej]

I think I'm becoming an evil person over this. DH is working from home today and I mentioned that you all were starting the plans for SDV 2009. I told him that the package to stay at the Contemporary with food and scrapping was pretty good.......I think I actually started laying groundwork....and honestly, I didn't start the conversation with that intention.....bad Kimmie!

That's how I have to do things, casually mention things like this, see how they respond. If the response isn't positive- I have to use my feminine wiles.pixiedust: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

[tubachick]

GGGRRRRRR!!!!! I don't like the SDV's that are in September!!! School has started and its harder to get off!!!

(how selfish of me ;) ) So I guess if I go it will be a last minute thing. Maybe leave on Friday after school and stay til sunday am??? So I guess I'll play it by ear!!!


But either way I am saving up, worst case is I have all the money saved for 2010!!! :thumbsup2

[MrsDopey]

I want to go!!!!!!!!!!!

How do I talk my husband into this one? Maybe he can go visit his mother in the villages,fl!
Who needs a roomie?!?!?!

[rlovew]

GGGRRRRRR!!!!! I don't like the SDV's that are in September!!! School has started and its harder to get off!!!

(how selfish of me ;) ) So I guess if I go it will be a last minute thing. Maybe leave on Friday after school and stay til sunday am??? So I guess I'll play it by ear!!!


But either way I am saving up, worst case is I have all the money saved for 2010!!! :thumbsup2

SDV is actually in August- just the very end. CKC in CT is in September just 2 weekends after SDV.

Rebecca

[MrsDopey]

CKC in CT is in October. which makes it a month after sdv.

It is this coming weekend!


SDV is actually in August- just the very end. CKC in CT is in September just 2 weekends after SDV.

Rebecca

[rlovew]

CKC in CT is in October. which makes it a month after sdv.

It is this coming weekend!

We are talking about next year in 2009 it is the weekend of Sept 12.

Rebecca

[MrsDopey]

Sorry, I thought you were generally speaking...they have the dates out for ckc hartford for 2009????

We are talking about next year in 2009 it is the weekend of Sept 12.

Rebecca

[rlovew]

On the ckc website if you go to conventions and then sponsers corner they have the 2009 dates for all the conventions.

Rebecca

[MrsDopey]

Wow! I had no idea they even planned to come back here- although that is a bad time of year in general for me. Between Scrap pink,sdv, and now ckc i am doomed!

[JandJ]

But what a thing to be on hold for!!!! That's awesome! Totally worth missing SDV for. :wizard:


And if you do come don't worry, there won't be a whiner in the bunch!!!

Oh, absolutely! It's just that the waiting is so hard! We're almost out of the Home Study though and it will be so great to be on to the next step :yay:

YAY - no whiners! It was so embarrassing with her - when she got up to use the restroom I had to apologize to our table-mates for her attitude. I kept calling DH and my BFF (who doesn't scrap) to complain about her. That's how I know SDV is so awesome - despite her and me catching a cold the last day, I still had a blast!!

Last night DH and I talked about it and he wants to go on a ski vacation with his buddies and I want to do SDV so we've agreed we can each do our own thing - that way at least one of us is in town if the adoption agency needs us. So unless we have our little one by then, I'm in (of course I'm praying that I won't be able to go because that means our adoption is happening!!) I'll be keeping an eye on the boards for all the details . . . :surfweb:

ETA: Do we know which Resort in 2009? Did I miss that?

[PixyDusted]

What's SDV? I may be interested!

[BernardandMissBianca]

SDV is a scrapbook retreat. Dream Events Inc is an event planner company that has events up and down the East Coast and into the Mid West. The one we are talking about is in Orlando at Disney. You can book up to a 4 day stay and they open the convention center for a huge crop, this year we had 653 registered scrappers.

the room is open all night, there are vendors, prizes, contests, and classes. The packages include the cost of the room (prices vary on length of stay and number of roommates) and typically include 1 meal per day.

Here is a link to their site:
http://www.dreameventsinc.com/

click on View All Events on the left , then scroll down and click on 11th annual Sunshine State SDV a WDW, then click on packages to see the prices.

[morgansmom2000]

What are the dates?

[BernardandMissBianca]

August 27 - 30 2009 at the Contemporary

[morgansmom2000]

Shoot, I think school is starting 8/25...I don't think DH and DD would *allow* me to go to WDW without them :rolleyes1