A little update on our reservation. I asked DW to check and see if AAA offer any discount for Disney. After she made the initial call, we found a few interesting info.
1, During the time we plan to stay at Disney, 11/28 - 12/9, that's consider as value season. AAA do offer about 9% discount.
2, In order to get the AAA discount, we have to let AAA take over our reservation from Disney.
3, All payment arrangement stays the same. We can pay X amount of $ every month. During the waiting period, if Disney offer any promote like gift card or anything, AAA will honor those promote as well. Even cancellation deadline is the same. In a nut shell, anything you can arrange or change with Disney. AAA can do it for you as well.
4, This is an odd one. Some people claim AAA will do the ADR for you if you book through them. However, our AAA say we can do the ADR ourselves so we can change them ourselves at any given time. Personally, i would perfer to make the ADR ourselves.
5, AAA has a prefer parade watching location at MK.
6, There is some kind of AAA story telling session available for AAA member that book thru them.
7, AAA has their own parking area for all the park. I heard MK is the only park that's not worth it but all the other park are worth it. We probably use the Disney transportation for most of the park anyway. However, when it comes to DTD, we just might prefer driving there.
8, AAA provide 10% discount coupon on World of Disney at DTD.
We haven't switch our reservation to AAA yet because we are waiting for AAA to sent us an information package. We will then make a determination once we got all the ins and outs. You never know, if we can get the 20% or 40% discount code from Disney. Then the plan will always change.
However, the biggest plan change for us is transportation. We are still planning to drive down but we might drive our own car to NC and leave our car at my SIL. From there, we will pick up a rental and drive to Disney and then back to NC.
Before you wonder why I want a rental half way of the trip. I am trying to conserve the mileage on our car. The car is only 4 years old and it's already over 100,000 miles. I am trying to keep it as low as I possibly can and that's DW's daily driver. My daily driver is 3,000 miles short from 400,000 miles so that's not even a consideration for such a long trip.
Here is my version of ME transportation plan.
We will leave our home on Thanksgiving day and drive straight to NC, 10 hrs drive. Pick up the car rental on black Friday. Leave NC on Saturday morning. Stay in a hotel at Jacksonville, FL on Saturday night. Leave Jacksonville early Sunday morning to Disney. That way we won't be too exhaust from driving when we get to Disney. When our trip is over, we can then drive straight back to NC from Disney and return the rental. Stay at my SIL for a day to recover some energy and then drive back home on Saturday. That will give us a full day rest on Sunday before return back to work on Monday.
Sounds like a plan???
In fact, I already received another email directly from Red Cross letting me know they will have the schedule ready in a couple of days. This is moving much faster pace then I anticipate.
Besides...I'm kinda techie challenged, I'm not sure I would know how to do one.
Am I blushing? I realize in this time and age there's no excuse for it, but there it is...I admit it.
