Happy Duck
Mouseketeer
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- May 18, 2012
wow you did so much during evening EMH! That's great! My husband and I stayed at the magic kingdom once until 2am for emh. We were so tired (more like delirious!) but it was amazing. I felt like we were the only ones in the MK! We hopped on the carousel at park closing and a bunch of characters were on there as well! It was like something you see on commercials with characters just hanging out with guests. It does happen in real life!
Thanks for the info about the bounce back offers. We are planning 2 trips close together after we got back next year. We've been trying to do some mickey math and are looking at doing some split stays to get to experience more Disney resorts (our goal is to stay at all of them!) and since we are planning on driving those trips, the split stays will be awesome. Anyway, we were looking at renting DVC points since we want to stay deluxe but I'm having sticker shock at the prices right now LOL. We're going to play it by ear and see what discounts come out. When we go in December 2014 hopefully we can get a good discount for our trip in May 2015. We're looking at getting AP and squeezing in a 3rd trip before they expire... we're probably crazy, but our little one will only be little once and I think he will have a great year of Disney at 2-3 years old
You mentioned that you didn't actually have to have the AP to book a discount using the AP? How does that work? Depending on what we do (booking room only, or renting DVC points) I wasn't planning on buying tickets in advance, just buying the AP when we get there. Or do I need to order it online before we go? Can you even do that? Oh my goodness I have a lot of research to do... we've always booked a package straight through Disney (tickets, room, dining) and flew so these next few trips are going to be totally different.
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CHARACTERS WERE ON THE CAROUSEL!!!!!???? That sounds amazing!
I hope you can get a bounceback for your May trip. I don't know if they "round the corner" from year to year though. I'm sure someone out there knows that answer.
Plus, he's free before he's three! Take advantage of it!
Technically, you have to have the AP to show the person at check-in in order to officially get the AP-room only rate. I've read that sometimes they don't check, and if they do, you can bring the AP back within 24 hours or something. I got the voucher online, though you can buy it at any Guest Relations (DTD, in front of the parks...) Note that you can't buy APs at a resort desk. It was helpful for us to just pay for it ahead of time and not have to worry about that expense down the line. I like to pay for things as I am able instead of paying for everything at the end. With almost 2 months to go, we have everything paid off for our August trip- flights, rooms, both APs... the only thing left is food! And we pay out of pocket because we share a lot of the time. So excited!