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  1. goldwest

    Best tips for preventing illness before and during a Disney vacay?

    My trilogy of health is sleep, exercise and nutrition! It is almost impossible to completely avoid every virus but a healthy immune system can fight off invaders.
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    FastPass+ Basic Info, Suggested Priorities, And Strategies--Part II

    Mesaboy2 - can't thank you enough for all of the planning advice. It is very much appreciated.
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    Wild Birds at Walt Disney World

    Thanks bochnikm - We are from the west coast. On our first WDW trip we were intrigued with all the species of birds we had never seen before. Thank you for your excellent post. We will reference it when we are in WDW this January.
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    Be Our Guest Lunch FastPass Thread [PLEASE read the FAQs in the first post!]

    My experience for what it is worth. I tried to book BOG for Jan 3 on my 27 day out. I tried at 12:30 eastern time - nothing. Several hours later I checked again and was able to book. I would encourage checking later in the day. Good luck. On anther note I want to send a big thanks to Andre for...
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    Magic Your Way plus dining glitch

    We also had quick service show. My travel agent referred me to the email I received with the correct dinning plan showing. A little unnerving though.
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    RideMax or Touring Plans?

    My experience has been that ridemax is better for DL and touring plans for WDW. This is only based on 3 uses in DL and 2 in WDW.
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    Disney dining plan

    We always use the snack credit for breakfast - we usually buy some fruit and pastry at the resort and split it. The amount of food we ate for lunch and dinner meant we found this to be more than enough for breakfast. One day we did a character breakfast then planned to have a snack before...
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    Monorail to resort counter service for lunch

    Looking for tips and ideas for leaving Magic Kingdom to go to a counter service lunch at one of the resorts accessible by monorail. We were thinking of Gasparilla Island Grill at the Grand Floridian. How long would this likely take? Which counter service at which resort would you chose?
  9. goldwest

    Dinner and Wishes

    If you do a search there is a disneyfood blog that agrees with me that 'Ohanna's is the place to be!
  10. goldwest

    Pool hopping at Universal hotels?

    I read somewhere else on DIS that pool hopping is OK at Universal (they actually stated encouraged) I had cut and paste it into my tips file.
  11. goldwest

    Getting cheaper airfare from Canada

    If they change the flight details is there any recourse to get a refund and fly with someone else? It seems you are not getting what you paid for. I'm going now to check on my flights as I didn't know this was possible
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    What do you carry into the parks with you?

    I carry a lot of what others have listed but was thinking this trip we would also carry an ipod for the updates on entertainment and ride waits. I suspect many of you use your phones for this but that would be very expensive for our Canadian plan and apparently the ipod will work the same way...
  13. goldwest

    January 2013 Discounts

    We upgraded from a water view to a river view on a magic your way plus dining trip to get a 1492.28 refund thru or TA.
  14. goldwest

    Transportation to/from airport from Universal Resort

    Thanks for posting about the town cars. We only need to go to the airport so that sounds like the best for us:thumbsup2.
  15. goldwest

    fireworks

    Not exactly fireworks but similar - we made a 7pm dinner reservation for Rose & Crown in Epcot and then watched illuminations while eating desert.
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    Disney World vs. Disneyland

    I grew up going to DL (5 trips from Canada) and love it. I agree with previous posters about the closeness of the 2 parks and less walking between rides. Had first trip to WDW couple of years ago because of the water parks. For us the extra cost of the flight was offset by the all inclusive...
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    Ladies, what did you learn from first trip?

    We were flying from North west and I was new to booking flights - didn't know to pick seats and got stuck by the bathrooms! Anyway arrivng rested next time!
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    The best attractions that hurt!

    Astro orbitors - we used to fit
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    Starbucks Location?

    Not sure what coffee palces use for water but I remmber a distinct "taste' to teh water in WSW. I am wondering of the taste of the coffee in WDW is due to the water?
  20. goldwest

    So, what's your take on Park Hoppers?

    We use ours to eat in Epcot when we have been at one of the water parks -also nice to park hop on animal kingdom day




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