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02-07-2013, 09:23 AM
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We loved Discovery Cove... you get a 14 day ticket to Sea World, Busch Gardens OR Aquatica with admission.. for like $50 more, you can go to all three for 14 days!! Truly was our favorite day of vacation.... Atlantis is a close second... Disney Cruise is number 3.
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02-07-2013, 10:36 AM
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For those of you who cruise....do you have passports?? Just wondering about this for my family. Thanks!!!
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02-07-2013, 11:04 AM
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I apologize in advance, but what is a click clack?
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As far as the areas you mentioned, Kure Beach, NC.
Edit: Sorry, you are looking for new places, and have already been to the NC coast. Little slow this AM. |
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02-07-2013, 12:13 PM
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02-07-2013, 04:44 PM
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Our favorites have been: Beaches Turks and Caicos (love it just as much as WDW), So cal tour (DLR, Hollywood, Sea World, SD Zoo), NYC touring, and just waiting for our new adventure next year.
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02-08-2013, 08:28 PM
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Ours would be Thailand. The big cost is getting there. What about a Southern CA vacation. The City Pass includes 3 days at Disneyland. I prefer Disney World, but Disneyland and California Adventure have some special things about them. We also did Universal Studios Florida for one Spring Break. My kids loved it. We did no Disney just a 3 or 4 day pass at Universal. We stayed at one of their hotels although pricey because we all got the front of the line pass. My kids want to go back. They love the Hard Rock hotel.
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02-08-2013, 09:01 PM
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We love to vacation in the Smoky Mountains. Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge area. We usually go every year but haven't in a year or so because we are saving for our Sept WDW trip
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02-09-2013, 10:45 AM
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I am looking for something different and affordable this summer too.
One thing we did though depending on where you are from and what the airfare would be is a summer trip to Oregon. That was a fantastic trip. Portland has so much to do. Then the Coast was a treat in itself. It was cool being on a beach and having to buy a fleece jacket! Cannon Beach is wonderful. http://www.cannonbeach.org/ Haystack rock is the highlight there. http://www.cannon-beach.net/cbhaystack.html
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02-09-2013, 11:46 AM
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We have done many non WDW trips and loved them all:
Sedona/Grand Canyon (with a night in Vegas to see Hoover Dam) Williamsburg/Jamestown/VA Beach Niagara Falls San Francisco/Yosemite 13 Disney cruises DCL is a great way to get a Disney fix without the work & stress of the parks. Also it gets us to beautiful island beaches without paying the exorbitant airfare it would cost to get 4 of us to an island. Just need flights to MCO for most itineraries. The service is nothing short of amazing: they cut my son's meat & crack his lobster. Our favorite Disney cruise so far has been Alaska. Gorgeous beyond words. The Med cruise on the Magic is our next adventure touring Barcelona, French Riviera, and in Italy: Florence, Rome, & Naples. I can't wait!  
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02-09-2013, 12:33 PM
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How about Vero Beach?
We went to Disney's Vero Beach resort one year for Spring Break. The kids loved it. It has a disney feel but is very low key and fun. Good luck deciding.
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02-09-2013, 01:18 PM
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My family loves Disney and the Atlantis too! We have timeshare at the Harborside which we won't be using this year. If you are interested let me know. We charged everything to the room and I found my invoice from last year - we only spent $1600. There were 5 of us and that included the lunches, dinners, teen club that the kids went 5 nights and frozen drinks at the pools. We probably spent another $200 for groceries and liquor.
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02-09-2013, 01:44 PM
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Just wanted to add, fwiw, that we didn't find Vegas very family friendly at all. We only spent one night there just to see the strip, see a Cirque show then in the am head to Hoover Dam. We're also Toby Keith fans so we wanted to eat at his "I Love This Bar & Grill".
Everything requires walking through a smoky casino.  Staying at a hotel on the strip is outrageous because to have 4 guests in a room, including children, there is something like a $60 pp upcharge for any more than 2 guests per room, which I'm sure is to discourage families from booking. We found a Hyatt Place off the strip that was reasonable, smoke-free & offered free shuttle to the strip instead. In our walk along the strip, our boys got an unexpected fast lesson in prostitution after seeing topless women pictured on a million business cards that litter the streets. There were men just standing along the street with shirts stating, "We'll get a woman to your hotel room in 20 mins." Nice.  They even tried to hand dh their cards while the 4 of us walked down the sidewalk and dh holding the hand of our ds then 8. The whole place just skeeved us. If I won a free trip to LV, I'd take the airfare & drive to AZ, UT, or CA. jmho 
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With the kids we have been to Atlantis, loved it but a bank breaker, Ocean City Maryland, Rocky Mountain NP, coastal NC, SC, and GA, Fire Island and of course WDW. All were great, but Disney and Atlantis were our favorites. What were your favorite family vacations so far?
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