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2excited2sleep · 02-25-2013, 05:25 PM

Our Mickey mail arrived today

wdwgirl03 · 02-25-2013, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by 2excited2sleep

Our Mickey mail arrived today

YAY!!! Ours did too!

anniebabymu · 02-25-2013, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by elfling8

People that are having trouble getting to the pay your balance page on the website - try this link:
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/reservations/
I saw it posted on another thread and it worked for me.

When does your Mickey Mail usually arrive? I'm waiting very impatiently. Does anyone know if you pre-ordered photopass+ if that info comes with the MMail? When we paid, it looked like the price reflected the pp+ addition, but it didn't have it as a line item on the receipt anywhere.

By the end of the week we will only be one calendar page flip from our trip!!!

In Oct our pp+ came separately from our MM. Haven't ordered our yet this go around!

cherylsmike · 02-25-2013, 06:51 PM

I hadn't heard about the "back door" so I called to make my final payment. I told the automated system I wanted to make a payment and I did the whole thing pretty quickly using only the automated system. It even told me I was "Paid In Full". It was quick and easy.

Ironically, it was like my fifth final payment. I keep adding stuff. POP is the only resort I didn't make final payment for. I booked CSR standard room with tickets and made final payment. Then switched to POR with King bed and made final payment. Then added DDP and made partial payment and then a few days later final payment. I added my last day back and made final payment (wow, Debbie, you are on it...I haven't even posted that change on this thread yet but you already have the list updated...your awesome!) I added PH yesterday and made final payment again. The more OT I work the more money I make and the more money I spend. It's a vicious cycle. I guess I have an allergy to money in my account or the thought of actually having spending/fun money while on vacation.

My house would love to have some of this money dumped into it. I was looking at my main bathroom and I am just ashamed that other people will have to endure it while I am on vacation. I gave DH quite the lecture about being a lazy home owner. I even thought for 1/2 second that I should cancel the Disney portion of the trip to redo the bathroom, but luckily DH told me "Uh, HEdoublehockeystick NO! Thank goodness my DH is so rational

Any who, after all that. The automated phone system was an easy way to make a payment. And I don't normally have anything nice to say about automated phone systems.

gtpoohbear · 02-25-2013, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by elfling8

People that are having trouble getting to the pay your balance page on the website - try this link:
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/reservations/
I saw it posted on another thread and it worked for me.

You know, I hadn't thought that I minded the new website too much, it's kind of cute and all, when it works. But when I brought up that link I was almost giddy at seeing the "old" site again. Now I miss it.

The new one definitely seems a little less Magical in comparison.

For some reason I still can't bring myself to PIF though, not sure what's holding me back

It's going on our Disney Visa anyway, and we'll use the 6-months financing. But it still seems like an awfully big commitment.

I have one more week until I'll have to take the plunge!

TJDisneymama · 02-25-2013, 07:04 PM

We're in the same boat house-wise. Lots of little things that need done since we'v e been here 11 years now, stuff is starting to go. A little tiny part of me (the un-fun,responsible part, lol) keeps thinking how we really should be spending this $ on the house, not vacation. BUT, then I think - I bust my butt working 3 jobs, am prone to depression (having an upcoming vacation is the best antidepressant in the world for me), and my kids are only young once; in 10-20-30 years would we look back and have fond memories of the new bathroom sink and/or tile backsplash in the kitchen? Is getting up every morning looking at new wall ovens going to keep the depression at bay? If i die next year, will i die happy that we spent all this $ on refinishing the floors? NO, NO, and NO!! Must keep the priorities in order.

cherylsmike · 02-25-2013, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by TJDisneymama

We're in the same boat house-wise. Lots of little things that need done since we'v e been here 11 years now, stuff is starting to go. A little tiny part of me (the un-fun,responsible part, lol) keeps thinking how we really should be spending this $ on the house, not vacation. BUT, then I think - I bust my butt working 3 jobs, am prone to depression (having an upcoming vacation is the best antidepressant in the world for me), and my kids are only young once; in 10-20-30 years would we look back and have fond memories of the new bathroom sink and/or tile backsplash in the kitchen? Is getting up every morning looking at new wall ovens going to keep the depression at bay? If i die next year, will i die happy that we spent all this $ on refinishing the floors? NO, NO, and NO!! Must keep the priorities in order.

Well said!

wdw4rfam · 02-25-2013, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by TJDisneymama

We're in the same boat house-wise. Lots of little things that need done since we'v e been here 11 years now, stuff is starting to go. A little tiny part of me (the un-fun,responsible part, lol) keeps thinking how we really should be spending this $ on the house, not vacation. BUT, then I think - I bust my butt working 3 jobs, am prone to depression (having an upcoming vacation is the best antidepressant in the world for me), and my kids are only young once; in 10-20-30 years would we look back and have fond memories of the new bathroom sink and/or tile backsplash in the kitchen? Is getting up every morning looking at new wall ovens going to keep the depression at bay? If i die next year, will i die happy that we spent all this $ on refinishing the floors? NO, NO, and NO!! Must keep the priorities in order.

Our philosophy also. Luckily my DH is just as Disney crazy as me if not worse. We say enjoy it while we can, while the kids are young. They aren't going to look back at their childhood and remember the boring things, they will remember our vacations. Don't work to pay bills I say, must have something to work FOR.

wdw4rfam · 02-25-2013, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by wdwgirl03

YAY!!! Ours did too!

oh, jealous.
Well, on the bright side.....within a few weeks we ALL will be getting our Mickey mail!!!

Mousemommy1 · 02-25-2013, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by wdw4rfam

oh, jealous.
Well, on the bright side.....within a few weeks we ALL will be getting our Mickey mail!!!

Not me.....

Well, except for our ME stuff. This is the first time we've done a room only reservation and we don't get Mickey Mail for those I don't think....

Oh well I'll be excited for our ME stuff.

elfling8 · 02-25-2013, 08:58 PM

I started a PTR!

comments/suggestions welcome
http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3071069

pwdebbie · 02-25-2013, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by WDWNext

Wow, Congratulations !! and wish you have a great trip !!
You gor an ADR at the Cellier ? thats awesome !!

Actually had two, one lunch and one dinner. But since the menu is the same all day, I cancelled lunch (which, of course, was on a different day). We've eaten there every trip, even the trip we planned in less than two months. Persistence is the key to getting an ADR there if you really want one.

wdwgirl03 · 02-25-2013, 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Mousemommy1

Not me.....

Well, except for our ME stuff. This is the first time we've done a room only reservation and we don't get Mickey Mail for those I don't think....

Oh well I'll be excited for our ME stuff.

Well, actually all we got was our Magical Express stuff since we're in DVC. But it's better than nothing! It made me quite happy seeing "Contemporary Bay Lake" on the luggage tags.

TJDisneymama · 02-26-2013, 07:18 AM

3.8 million seconds! (Or 44 days)

Mousemommy1 · 02-26-2013, 07:34 AM

51 days.....and it can't come soon enough!!!!

My kids very rarely get sick, but boy oh boy, my little one has been struck down.

She has had a fever since Saturday and is just plain miserable. Normally, DH would stay home with her because he gets oodles of sick time (separate from his vacation time) but he had a meeting today that he could not miss. So, I am off today with my sick little.

I get 6 weeks of vacation time, but I hate to use it for sickness.

02-25-2013, 05:25 PM	#2851
2excited2sleep Earning My Ears Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Macomb, MI Posts: 32	Our Mickey mail arrived today __________________ Oct '06 - POP (our first family trip w/ DD ) Jan '10 - AKL Aug '10 - POP April'13 - AoA

02-25-2013, 06:51 PM	#2854
cherylsmike Mouseketeer Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 222	I hadn't heard about the "back door" so I called to make my final payment. I told the automated system I wanted to make a payment and I did the whole thing pretty quickly using only the automated system. It even told me I was "Paid In Full". It was quick and easy. Ironically, it was like my fifth final payment. I keep adding stuff. POP is the only resort I didn't make final payment for. I booked CSR standard room with tickets and made final payment. Then switched to POR with King bed and made final payment. Then added DDP and made partial payment and then a few days later final payment. I added my last day back and made final payment (wow, Debbie, you are on it...I haven't even posted that change on this thread yet but you already have the list updated...your awesome!) I added PH yesterday and made final payment again. The more OT I work the more money I make and the more money I spend. It's a vicious cycle. I guess I have an allergy to money in my account or the thought of actually having spending/fun money while on vacation. My house would love to have some of this money dumped into it. I was looking at my main bathroom and I am just ashamed that other people will have to endure it while I am on vacation. I gave DH quite the lecture about being a lazy home owner. I even thought for 1/2 second that I should cancel the Disney portion of the trip to redo the bathroom, but luckily DH told me "Uh, HEdoublehockeystick NO! Thank goodness my DH is so rational Any who, after all that. The automated phone system was an easy way to make a payment. And I don't normally have anything nice to say about automated phone systems. __________________ March 2004 Disneyland Hotel, March 2006 Port Orlean's Riverside, February 2008 POP Century, May/June 2009 Port Orlean's French Quarter, August 2010 Wilderness Lodge, February 2011 POP/Coronado Springs, December 2011 Port Orlean's Riverside, April 2013 Port Orlean's Riverside

02-25-2013, 07:04 PM	#2856
TJDisneymama DIS Veteran Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: MA Posts: 1,380	We're in the same boat house-wise. Lots of little things that need done since we'v e been here 11 years now, stuff is starting to go. A little tiny part of me (the un-fun,responsible part, lol) keeps thinking how we really should be spending this $ on the house, not vacation. BUT, then I think - I bust my butt working 3 jobs, am prone to depression (having an upcoming vacation is the best antidepressant in the world for me), and my kids are only young once; in 10-20-30 years would we look back and have fond memories of the new bathroom sink and/or tile backsplash in the kitchen? Is getting up every morning looking at new wall ovens going to keep the depression at bay? If i die next year, will i die happy that we spent all this $ on refinishing the floors? NO, NO, and NO!! Must keep the priorities in order. __________________ **please forgive typos, typing from Kindle 1986: CR/Poly 1987-1999: numerous offsite stays 2001: DLR offsite (honeymoon!) Feb. 2011: First family trip ~ ASMUFamily Suite __April, 2012: Mother/son trip ~ CBR April, 2013 - 2nd Family trip ~ AoA Nemo Suite/Disney Dream* Me , DH , DS(9.5) , DD(5.5) [/url]

02-25-2013, 08:58 PM	#2861
elfling8 Mouseketeer Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 207	I started a PTR! comments/suggestions welcome http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3071069 __________________ POR April 15-21 2013 Trip Report Me DH DD10 DS8

02-26-2013, 07:18 AM	#2864
TJDisneymama DIS Veteran Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: MA Posts: 1,380	3.8 million seconds! (Or 44 days) __________________ **please forgive typos, typing from Kindle 1986: CR/Poly 1987-1999: numerous offsite stays 2001: DLR offsite (honeymoon!) Feb. 2011: First family trip ~ ASMUFamily Suite __April, 2012: Mother/son trip ~ CBR April, 2013 - 2nd Family trip ~ AoA Nemo Suite/Disney Dream* Me , DH , DS(9.5) , DD(5.5) [/url]

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02-26-2013, 07:34 AM	#2865
Mousemommy1 DIS Veteran Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: NH Posts: 6,928	51 days.....and it can't come soon enough!!!! My kids very rarely get sick, but boy oh boy, my little one has been struck down. She has had a fever since Saturday and is just plain miserable. Normally, DH would stay home with her because he gets oodles of sick time (separate from his vacation time) but he had a meeting today that he could not miss. So, I am off today with my sick little. I get 6 weeks of vacation time, but I hate to use it for sickness. __________________ Me DH DD(9) DD(6) 7/1985 OFFSITE • 7/1989 OFFSITE • 3/2000 ASMO • 9/2000 ASMU • 9/2002 ASSP • 11/2009 POP • 2/2011 CBR • 7/2012 WL CL 4/2013 YC CL • 9/2013 AOA

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