Where'sPiglet?
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 17, 2007
Hello! I am a touch behind in sharing my trip from last summer. I want to write about it so I can remember how unique 2020 was. Well, I hope it was a unique year, and not the New Normal. It looks like there are small steps toward the Old Normal, so I'm happy about that.
Last spring, I was looking forward to my planned Disneyland trip. I had gotten a unicorn DVC studio reservation for the Grand Californian. I had my 5-day Park Hopper with Max Pass all ready to go. I had some fantastic reservations lined up. See?
I still have my 5-day Park Hopper with Max Pass all ready to go. My trip was scheduled for the first week of April.
I also had a rather extensive trip planned for August to Disney World, Universal, and Vero Beach that used up the rest of my current year's points and all of my banked points.
It looks like it would have been a fantastic trip. I didn't take it. Well, not that version of it, anyway.
I was anxious about traveling during Covid, but I had points that had already been banked and were going to expire. I adjusted my trip so that I used only my expiring points and dropped Universal from the plans. I felt confident with the protocols that Disney and Delta were taking to prevent as much spread of Covid as possible.
I had 3 nights booked at Vero Beach, which turned out to be a hard-to-get reservation when people didn't want to go to the parks, so I kept those and worked around it.
I had my plans looking like this, then I looked at flights. I ended up adding a night at the front.
Then changed hotels because of how limited Jambo House was (and is) as far as services went.
Then, I decided I would get a 4-day base ticket and visit one park per day. I can't remember how I booked these park reservations; I think it was because I had an AP voucher sitting in my account that still has not been activated.
I never bought a 4-day base ticket for this trip, which is good because my friend decided she would come with me. Hooray!! I actually bought a 2-day park ticket and a 1-day park ticket. Is this the cheapest way to do it? NO. Can you use a 3-day ticket on a Tuesday and the following weekend? Also no.
This is what the plans ended up being. You might notice that it went from a 3-2 split to a 1-3-1-1 split. My friend had a single park day and I ended up with 3. The Everlasting Project Construction of Tomorrow (Epcot) was the park that I did not pay to visit on this trip. At the time, there was no park hopping, no live entertainment, and no cultural representatives. They did have substantial construction. It was an easy choice, honestly.
In short, trip planning was turned upside down and I felt like I had no idea what I was doing. 2021 is essentially Expert Level, because things just keep changing. Turns out 2020 was easy to plan, once I stopped making adjustments. I adjusted Boardwalk and Bay Lake Tower on July 30th, which is crazy to think about. I was able to snag a Boardwalk view studio less than two weeks before my trip.
Hopefully I'll have some readers along for the ride! It was an interesting trip, and I have a lot of photos and notes to pull from as I write this. See you real soon!
Last spring, I was looking forward to my planned Disneyland trip. I had gotten a unicorn DVC studio reservation for the Grand Californian. I had my 5-day Park Hopper with Max Pass all ready to go. I had some fantastic reservations lined up. See?
I still have my 5-day Park Hopper with Max Pass all ready to go. My trip was scheduled for the first week of April.
I also had a rather extensive trip planned for August to Disney World, Universal, and Vero Beach that used up the rest of my current year's points and all of my banked points.
It looks like it would have been a fantastic trip. I didn't take it. Well, not that version of it, anyway.
I was anxious about traveling during Covid, but I had points that had already been banked and were going to expire. I adjusted my trip so that I used only my expiring points and dropped Universal from the plans. I felt confident with the protocols that Disney and Delta were taking to prevent as much spread of Covid as possible.
I had 3 nights booked at Vero Beach, which turned out to be a hard-to-get reservation when people didn't want to go to the parks, so I kept those and worked around it.
I had my plans looking like this, then I looked at flights. I ended up adding a night at the front.
Then changed hotels because of how limited Jambo House was (and is) as far as services went.
Then, I decided I would get a 4-day base ticket and visit one park per day. I can't remember how I booked these park reservations; I think it was because I had an AP voucher sitting in my account that still has not been activated.
I never bought a 4-day base ticket for this trip, which is good because my friend decided she would come with me. Hooray!! I actually bought a 2-day park ticket and a 1-day park ticket. Is this the cheapest way to do it? NO. Can you use a 3-day ticket on a Tuesday and the following weekend? Also no.
This is what the plans ended up being. You might notice that it went from a 3-2 split to a 1-3-1-1 split. My friend had a single park day and I ended up with 3. The Everlasting Project Construction of Tomorrow (Epcot) was the park that I did not pay to visit on this trip. At the time, there was no park hopping, no live entertainment, and no cultural representatives. They did have substantial construction. It was an easy choice, honestly.
In short, trip planning was turned upside down and I felt like I had no idea what I was doing. 2021 is essentially Expert Level, because things just keep changing. Turns out 2020 was easy to plan, once I stopped making adjustments. I adjusted Boardwalk and Bay Lake Tower on July 30th, which is crazy to think about. I was able to snag a Boardwalk view studio less than two weeks before my trip.
Hopefully I'll have some readers along for the ride! It was an interesting trip, and I have a lot of photos and notes to pull from as I write this. See you real soon!