The good stuff ... THIS trip.
I mentioned my husband calling on his way home from work on day (he's a wedding videographer). Our closest friends are Disney nuts and want to go on another Dis cruise (we've never been on a Dis cruise, only Carnival and Norwegian) They want to go 2015, when we've promised to take our daughter back to the parks. So he figures we should go in November/December (his low season) and I plan the crap out of it. Originally we were going on Veterans Day week, but he got a call for a wedding expo so we moved it. Leaving the day after Thanksgiving gives us more driving days without missing more school (my daughter will only miss 4 days due to a teacher's workshop.)
We decided to go with our original plan from LAST time and go for a moderate. When I booked, I did so with ASMusic. Then I got a phone call (yes, TELEPHONE!) from Disney with a free dining pin code offer! Apparently that's unheard of, but thank you, we'll take it. So we upgraded to
CBR. Tried for preferred but they were out with the dining, so we went for a water/pool view and requested the
Jamaica buildings.
Right now I have Raglan Road booked the night we check in (we are guessing we'll overnight somewhere on the way down, but we thought that last time and ended up driving straight there - left NH at about 4am and got to Disney at midnight.) So I'll clarify that we have Shutters booked for Saturday, 11/30 - that is aiming to be the first night, but we'll see
Sunday - no park plans right now (***more on that) so I'd like to see the resort decorations, the GF in particular. We are going to the Cape May Café that night for dinner.
Monday - MK, EMH PM. CRT at 11:55am.
Tuesday - Epcot, EMH AM (I think?) Les Chefs at 230pm (ish ... ) Hoping Remy will be around
Also did the CP package, and will continue to hope that Neil Patrick Harris is set as the narrator. Disney says no one right now, other sites say he's it. We'll see.
(This has since changed with the discontinuation of Remy - we are paying OOP at Biergarten now, 1pm rez)
Wednesday - Off day*** (again, see below). May just do Shutters at the resort.
Thursday - AK. Closes at 5pm, so I have Kona Café at 7pm.
Friday - HS. Mama Melrose at 145pm. No Fantasmic, but I'll continue to check back.
Saturday we'll leave for home.
** We're doing base tickets for all four parks, but I did 5 days of them. So we can either go to MK on Sunday as well (Touring Plans has them at a 1 but all other parks at a 5 or higher) or to one of the parks on Wednesday.
Also hoping to get Wishes Dessert Party - my husband turns 40 in October and since booking this trip, I've canceled (with his encouragement!) his surprise birthday party. I'm doing a smaller, less formal party at his parents' land 25 minutes from us (aka, our "summer place", as we (and his brother and sister and their families) have travel trailers there by a lake and are there weekends from April until October) Anyway - I've put a little extra money aside to pay for this, a special sort of "birthday party" for him.