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I just found this thread!! We (myself, DH, DS11 and DS5) will be in WDW staying at POR from Aug 19-26.

Here's a list of our ADR'S:

AUG 19 - EP - Teppan Edo 6:10pm
AUG 20 - MK - BOG 7:20pm (celebrating DS 's 12 B-day)
AUG 21 - EP - Via Napoli 11:30am/Chefs de France 6:30pm
AUG 22 - break day - Sanaa 5pm
AUG 23 - MK - Kona Cafe 6:30pm
AUG 24 - AK - Tusker House 1pm
AUG 25 - HS - Mama Melrose F! 5:15pm
AUG 26 - MK - Chef Mickey 8:20am

Welcome!! We will be in Epcot on the 19th and MK on the 23rd too!! I'll have my LGMH on my backpack!

Great engagement story! Today is my 8 year anniversary with my wife. We have a Disney tie in to our engagement too. We were living in California and flew to Michigan so I could meet her family and ask her dad for permission to marry her. I proposed on Christmas Eve in front of her family. The day after Christmas we flew to Tampa and spent a few days in Florida. One of those days we drove to Orlando and visited MGM Studios for the day. The morning we went to MGM we did a pregnancy test and found out she was pregnant, which kept us off of RNRC but we still had a blast and enjoyed the Christmas parade and the Osborne lights.

Next year we are planning a trip in June and depending on when exactly we go we may very well wind up celebrating our anniversary there.

Happy Anniversary!!

We'll be at POR 8/17-24 with DS10, DS6, and DD4. We have some days in common. Will be at EPCOT on 8/19, and are breaking on 8/22. Maybe we'll see you around the pool. :)

Another person in EP on the 19th! We should arrange a meet!
 
QOTD! (The benefits of waking up at 5:30 in the morning for no apparent reason lol)

What time is everyone landing in Orlando and what do you do for your first day?

I usually try to get one of the first flights out so this time we are leaving JFK at 7:30 and landing at 10:10. Hopefully, we'll be at Pop by 11-11:15. I don't usually make plans for the first day since you never know what can happen with flights. So once we are checked in, we get on whichever bus comes first (as long as its one of the parks easywdw has as a recommended park). On the 16th, it's MK, HS, or AK. We are going to AK the next day so we'll either be at MK or HS and then DTD for dinner :)

We are also leaving from JFK at 7:30 am and hopefully landing at 10:10 - are you on American? I'm starting to wish I had either a) chosen JetBlue despite the higher price or b) booked an afternoon flight the day before and added one more day to our stay. I'm having bad weather nightmares and American Airlines' schedule is AWFUL other than this flight if it gets seriously delayed/cancelled. We usually fly JetBlue which sends more planes to MCO out of JFK, so I tend not to worry too much.
 
BTW.. for anyone looking for a rental car, Dollar and Alamo rates are dropping and I just got a 9 day standard car for $206 with Alamo:cool1:
That's really a Full-Size though because Alamo doesn't have a standard aisle at MCO.

When we went down in May Budget kept dropping the rates and I switched two days before we left! Keep searching and keep changing!
 
We have the first (and only) flight out in the morning and hopefully will be checking into SSR by 10:30 am (arriving at MCO at 9:15). Unfortunately that means we had to take 'the only' flight home which is a morning flight (10am). We always take night time flights but Frontier was less than 1/2 of what Southwest was when we booked and direct. So we'll 'suffer' and maybe I won't be so wiped out when I go to work the next morning (since I'm feeling hungover when we take those night time flights and I go home and unpack and start laundry), ugh.
 

Our flight originally took off right at 7a from Boston and got us to MCO at 10:03. I got an email the other day that it had been moved back to 7:10a. PLEASE DONT WASTE MY TIME DELTA! Those 10 minutes are precious!
Last year we didnt have a direct flight and our first flight was delayed and we ended up having to stay in Atlanta overnight. I made sure to get a direct flight this year!

Our plan at this point is to go to HS once we get there, as it is the EasyWDW recommended park, and then I want to head to MK later. It is the only day of our trip that Jungle Cruise will be open and I need to ride it at least once!

You must be going on the 18th because that is our plan too :rotfl: Ok, not completely because I have changed it a million times so far! We were planning on checking into the BC and walking over to HS and going to Epcot for a 7:25 ADR at LeCellier. Then I found out about JC. So I thought it would be better to check-in, relax a bit, have lunch (we have a 12:45 ADR at Captain's Grille but I'm not stressing about keeping it - it's not a CC guarantee, so if our plane is delayed that morning I'll call and cancel from the airport). Then unpack, relax, hit Epcot for an hour or two before our dinner and then head over to MK for EMH and aim to ride JC!
 
Can I join in? We're 8/23 - 9/2 and I can't wait. I want to talk about it every day but no one else wants to hear it, so I kinda need to join you folks. :rotfl2:



We're arriving at MCO at 2pm, so likely not at the hotel until after 3pm. Last year I tried to do a dinner and we barely made it, so this year I don't plan on doing anything except hanging out at the pool and perhaps if the kids are up for it, do the Chip and Dale sing along at Ft. Wilderness. Our first ADR is the following day.

Welcome!! We will gladly share in your addiction! :rotfl:
 
So, we just did online check-in. We have two reservations, so I checked-in for the room only one first. We received a number of error messages throughout the process, including when we tried to bypass entering a credit card. Eventually, I was able to skip the credit card page and complete the check-in. I then immediately received a text on my cell about receiving future room alerts. When I went back to check into my second reservation, it said I had to log back in again. After doing so, both of my reservations were now missing. I was able to refresh the page and get them to reappear, but it still won't let me check-in for the second reservation.

Oh, Disney at its finest!

I posted a few pages back that I had the same problem because we have two hotels with two rooms in each. Go to www.mydisneyreservation.com and check-in through this site. You should be able to access and see everything there.
 
I've had 6 doses of the antibiotic now and I am feeling 100% better today and appreciating not being in that much pain!!:goodvibes
My parents close on the cottage July 15th and there is a whole gang of us (most of my siblings and my parents) heading up for the long weekend at the start of August:cool1:
So we'll keep the Disney trips as planned and still get to go the cottage in August and at Thanksgiving!!:goodvibes

I think our summer trips will now be a cottage week, and we'll do Orlando or other places in the winter::yes::

:dance3: Yay! Glad the tooth and the cottage have been all figured out! The good part about being days behind on this thread is that things tend to resolve themselves by the time I get to the end :lmao:.
 
Sorry to be whiny, but I neeeeed this trip already!

(Um this is only day 3 home for summer with the kids. My teacher coworkers keep putting pictures of them having fun with their kids on facebook and I'm like hmmmm which pic of me screaming or time out monitoring will I post!?!?)

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How old are the members of your party? If you only have two adults and kids under 18, you will 99% get the connecting rooms. If you have three or more adults, your chances will drop. Either way, if a connecting room request was placed when you booked, that will trump any options you choose when you check-in online.

We are two adults and 3 kids (16,12 and 9)..still debating the on-line check in! Driving myself crazy with it as I make up my mind "no I won't do it" and then I change it "yes I'll take my chances" and then back to no and then back to yes and so on and so on! You'd think this was a life altering decision! :rotfl2:
 
Got our Mickey Mail today!!!!!!! SO EXCITED!!!! :cool1:

WooHoo!!! I don't know if I am getting MM this trip. I got my DME stuff a long time ago, and this trip is a package (BC) and room only (Poly), but it is through the TA doing the August promotion, so does that qualify? I thought only MYW packages did, and I'm not sure this is considered a MYW package. Anyone know?
 
I posted a few pages back that I had the same problem because we have two hotels with two rooms in each. Go to www.mydisneyreservation.com and check-in through this site. You should be able to access and see everything there.
Now that you mention it, I totally remember that I saved a link to the old site from your previous post. In my excitement to check-in, I totally forgot! Thanks for the reminder. If I get bored, I may check-in on that site, too. I see the alternate site asks for an email address in order to get an email confirmation. Since the other one didn't do that, it may be worth going through the process again to get one. Thanks again!
 
Wow, go to a couple meetings and come back and 2 more pages! Yes, this is my kind of crew. I keep looking at the same pages every day hoping something new will develop so I can make some sort of official change to my ADRs or Reservation. I am jumping out of my skin excited.
 
We are also leaving from JFK at 7:30 am and hopefully landing at 10:10 - are you on American? I'm starting to wish I had either a) chosen JetBlue despite the higher price or b) booked an afternoon flight the day before and added one more day to our stay. I'm having bad weather nightmares and American Airlines' schedule is AWFUL other than this flight if it gets seriously delayed/cancelled. We usually fly JetBlue which sends more planes to MCO out of JFK, so I tend not to worry too much.

No we are on JetBlue. When are you heading down?
 












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