12/10-12/19 Riverside trip

[bsusanmb]

Flew from Phillie - park and fly at the HOliday Inn - cost $99 for night plus 10 days of parking. Free shuttle service to and from airport. RT on Air Tran $99 each for DH and I. Wonderful flight, comfortable plane. Able to check in electronically and pick seats 24 hrs in advance. Rented car through National, using codes from Mousesavers and some help from this message board - free Emerald Club membership from link on Mousesavers - paid $109 for 8 days and got a PT Cruiser - what fun! A friend gave us 4 left over days on park hoppers. While standing in line to check in at hotel, a lady walked up to us and handed us 3 parkhoppers with 2 days each left on them - they expired on the 19th and she was leaving and unable to use leftover days - FREE - so we were set. Got platinum passes to Sea World on line - monthly payment option - very affordable. Prepurchased MVMCP tickets for two separate nights as well as our Candlelight processional for the Land. Although the weather was cold (we are from PA and we were cold with two pairs of pants on, 3 sweatshirts, hats and gloves!) we loved every minute of our trip. Had 8 Q&C vouchers from hotwire as well as 3 Kingdome Lunches and 2 breakfasts. Had breakfast at Boma - excellent food, used Q&C for prime rib dinners and grilled tuna dinners at Pepper Market at CS. Really good value and decent food - desert was warm apple cobbler with icecream and M&M's. Used Kingdome Lunches at Tempanyaki (sp) in Japan and had suchi appetizers, lobster/shrimp/scallops on habachi, beverage and desert - total $101 without tip (used $60 in vouchers). Beaches and Cream for other Q&C's. We are WDW veterans, and this was my first time at Sea World - fell in love with Shamu - unbelievable! Ready to move down!

 

[bsusanmb]

Forgot to mention that we went to the Coronado day before we left to check in electronically and pick our seats for flight home - Originally cost was $10 for each 15 minutes plus $1 per copy - I needed to make 4 copies. THe young man at the desk asked me if all I did was print out our return flight check in - he said "no charge" - wow. We were truly blessed on this trip!

 

[HappyLawyer]

i thought the hoppers never expire

 

[bsusanmb]

there are some hoppers that expire 14 days from the first day of use. These tickets had 4 days plus an option for PI or DQ. You can purchase them from various places. The other PH's from my friend were from 2000! We were quite fortunate to have 5 days each FREE!