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- Joined
- Sep 2, 2003
We are:
Tony, (DH) age 44 - in charge of driving, collecting coffee and doughnuts for breakfast, running to get fast passes and generally stressing.
This is his ninth trip.
Theresa (me), age 43 - in charge of the credit cards and plotting quickest routes to the shopping malls. This is my tenth trip.
Maddie (DD), age 19 - jointly in charge of where we eat, shop and play this trip. This is her seventh trip.
Callum (DS) age 18 - in charge of himself. This is his seventh trip.
Tony and I are in the fortunate position of having visited Florida twice already in the past 9 months, both times without our children!
This trip is for them; they will be choosing the parks we visit, the restaurants we eat in, the Malls we shop in and our general schedule each day. Maddie will be helping me write this trip report. Usually Tony writes it but weve hijacked it this time.
Some details:
We fly with Monarch on Saturday 23rd August from Gatwick to Sanford. We havent flown with them before and they were cheap so were preparing ourselves for the worst!
Cost for four adults - £1800.
We have booked a two bedroom condo with Alpharooms. Its at Terrace Ridge but we dont actually know where this is, there seem to be several locations. Well find out where it is when we get there. Cost of the condo for two weeks - £472.
We have booked the car through Alamo. Its a SUV and was £256 for the two weeks.
Were planning on doing the four Disney parks, Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach plus IOA and Universal. Shopping makes a regular appearance on our itinerary as we want to do as many malls as possible. Well also be doing a tour of the scrapbook shops and Callum will want to look in music shops and the pawn shops for guitars.
Now the most important thing the food! Were really looking forward to being able to eat until were stuffed as weve been on diets. Were planning on getting doughnuts most mornings for breakfast from either Krispy Kreme or Dunkin Donuts. As Maddie is a fussy eater and she prefers plain food, were going to be eating at a lot of the counter service restaurants, especially as she loves the Disney burgers. However, we have also persuaded her to try Le Cellier, Grand Floridian Cafe and possibly Artist Point (we have made ADRs for these) although she may just have a dessert at these! Well probably also eat at the Rainforest Cafe, Mythos and Ghirardellis and will be trying Beaches and Cream for the first time. Maddie and I have already chosen our desserts at most of these!
Other things to look forward to are the Dis meet at Margaritaville on the 29th August
and Mickeys Not So Scary Halloween Party on the 5th September. Maddie and I may also go to the Scrapbook Convention which is on while we are there.
Were almost all packed and ready to go. Sadly, we have a meagre luggage allowance of 20kg each including hand luggage so we have had to pack very lightly in order to leave plenty of room for shopping.
Maddie goes back to university two weeks after we get back so we aim to get the whole of our trip report finished before she goes!
Tony, (DH) age 44 - in charge of driving, collecting coffee and doughnuts for breakfast, running to get fast passes and generally stressing.
This is his ninth trip.Theresa (me), age 43 - in charge of the credit cards and plotting quickest routes to the shopping malls. This is my tenth trip.
Maddie (DD), age 19 - jointly in charge of where we eat, shop and play this trip. This is her seventh trip.
Callum (DS) age 18 - in charge of himself. This is his seventh trip.
Tony and I are in the fortunate position of having visited Florida twice already in the past 9 months, both times without our children!
This trip is for them; they will be choosing the parks we visit, the restaurants we eat in, the Malls we shop in and our general schedule each day. Maddie will be helping me write this trip report. Usually Tony writes it but weve hijacked it this time. Some details:
We fly with Monarch on Saturday 23rd August from Gatwick to Sanford. We havent flown with them before and they were cheap so were preparing ourselves for the worst!
Cost for four adults - £1800.We have booked a two bedroom condo with Alpharooms. Its at Terrace Ridge but we dont actually know where this is, there seem to be several locations. Well find out where it is when we get there. Cost of the condo for two weeks - £472.
We have booked the car through Alamo. Its a SUV and was £256 for the two weeks.
Were planning on doing the four Disney parks, Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach plus IOA and Universal. Shopping makes a regular appearance on our itinerary as we want to do as many malls as possible. Well also be doing a tour of the scrapbook shops and Callum will want to look in music shops and the pawn shops for guitars.
Now the most important thing the food! Were really looking forward to being able to eat until were stuffed as weve been on diets. Were planning on getting doughnuts most mornings for breakfast from either Krispy Kreme or Dunkin Donuts. As Maddie is a fussy eater and she prefers plain food, were going to be eating at a lot of the counter service restaurants, especially as she loves the Disney burgers. However, we have also persuaded her to try Le Cellier, Grand Floridian Cafe and possibly Artist Point (we have made ADRs for these) although she may just have a dessert at these! Well probably also eat at the Rainforest Cafe, Mythos and Ghirardellis and will be trying Beaches and Cream for the first time. Maddie and I have already chosen our desserts at most of these!
Other things to look forward to are the Dis meet at Margaritaville on the 29th August
and Mickeys Not So Scary Halloween Party on the 5th September. Maddie and I may also go to the Scrapbook Convention which is on while we are there. Were almost all packed and ready to go. Sadly, we have a meagre luggage allowance of 20kg each including hand luggage so we have had to pack very lightly in order to leave plenty of room for shopping.
Maddie goes back to university two weeks after we get back so we aim to get the whole of our trip report finished before she goes!
Make sure Tony takes lots of pics!
I think you will both do a brilliant trip report (co-writing is the future imo 
)
