***1st Week of December Thread ADR Plans, Park Hours, and dealing with Pop Warner***

I need someone to either talk me down or push me over the edge here.

I finalized my fastpasses this morning (can't remember if I shared here or not, so apologies if you've heard this) and getting us all on FEA was a challenge as expected. I was successful on two of our days, but our first two Epcot days didn't work out so well.

Monday, 11/28 - the kids have FEA at 4:25, dh and I have Soarin' at 4:20 (we'll probably split up and just have 4 of our group including a parent do Frozen while the other parent and one kid does Soarin')

Wednesday, 11/30 - the kids have FEA at 1:35, dh and I have FEA at 8:10. Yuck! Here, I just can't decide what to do. I could have dh and I fp Soarin' again and just split up differently so we're all going to a ride at the same time, or we could keep the late FEA fp and just have 2 of us see it at night (if it's operating, that is).

Friday, 12/2 - I had to give up the 11:40 FEA time slot the kids had and move all of us to 5:15 so we could finally see it together.

Monday, 12/5 - FEA 1:00 ENTIRE FAMILY!!!! Finally.

Here's my dilemma: I currently have fastpasses scheduled for MK on Tuesday, 12/6 (our last park day, also our 4th time at MK). The current plan is to start at MK for rope drop and then hop to DHS for the afternoon/evening. I'm awfully tempted to drop our MK fastpasses in favor of getting one last fp at FEA. We would still rope drop MK, then hop to Epcot for FEA around noon, then continue on to DHS where we would make fastpasses from the app after riding FEA. I don't think we'll have any ADR's on this day.

One other thought, I just went through our finances one more time and realized there's a chance we could do EMM for a second time on 12/6 if we wanted to. IF we did that, then I especially wouldn't need those MK fastpasses. That is not a decision we would make until we're there though. I want to do EMM once first, just in case it isn't special ENOUGH to warrant spending the $$ for a second one. OR it's also possible that some of our group will want to do it a second time but not all of us.
 
@Meeko5 Love those Baymax shirts!!! I saw some at the disney store app that costs an arm and a leg to ship to Canada. :scared: Maybe I'll look at Etsy :rolleyes1

@BDFmom That's great about your daughter and yay for second MVMCP!!!

@areno79 and @Lisa F Hey now! I'm really just indecisive for my last 2 full days 12/10 and 12/11 :confused3 Oh and it's not indecisiveness, I'm being open minded like what @Talby says! :rotfl2: I overlap with @Lisa F on certain days- 12/4 AM EMH, 12/7 AM EPCOT and PM MK, 12/8 party and I think 1 meal (Narcoosee's) Touched my FP plans last week but I haven't looked at it since then!
 
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Oy..OY.... I found a dancing pickle...

random and :offtopic:
 

not an ADR but flame tree gets great reviews. I have promised my child that we could split a cheese fries with pulled pork (snack credit) and trying to figure out when I'm gonna do that with everything else I have planned. Kind of HOPING SWaGS will run at 7:45. maybe if it does I can move my 3pm Y&Y to 2:30 or so and have time to catch the 4pm nemo show on the way out. no availability right now but I could probably call and see. Or just leave it as it is lol.
They may have changed it, but in April they did not let us use a snack credit for that. You could get fries, but not the pulled pork ones (they said you could not use dining plan at all for them actually)
 
They may have changed it, but in April they did not let us use a snack credit for that. You could get fries, but not the pulled pork ones (they said you could not use dining plan at all for them actually)
This actually made me curious so I started snooping. They did not allow this for us, but I am seeing now they do allow it? I wonder if it has changed, or the CM just didn't know what they were doing. I am assuming it is the latter of the two there. Either way, flame tree is our favorite and always a must do at AK.
 
Here a recent menu from Flame Tree.... Updated as of August 2016. It's showing all sides available with snack credits.

Maybe @Wood Nymph could check if she's in AK on her upcoming trip.

We were very much looking forward to the the pulled pork fries!

http://allears.net/dining/menu/flame-tree-bbq/lunch-dinner
I have heard that sometimes CMs are unaware of what is and isn't available under DDP and it is especially problematic when you are trying to do swaps.

But if something has the DDP snack logo next to it there should be no question. Maybe @Wood Nymph can snap a quick photo of the menu board IF she is there, lol.
 
Happy to have just found this thread. Just booked our FP+ yesterday AM for our 11/27-12/3 stay. I was able to get most of what we hoped for but then the day ended with a mini freakout over some target gifts cards I was advised to by disney gift cards with. That totally didn't pan out, luckily it was resolved.

I'm stalking the ROL news currently and I just saw that pop warner is happening around this time?
 
Happy to have just found this thread. Just booked our FP+ yesterday AM for our 11/27-12/3 stay. I was able to get most of what we hoped for but then the day ended with a mini freakout over some target gifts cards I was advised to by disney gift cards with. That totally didn't pan out, luckily it was resolved.

I'm stalking the ROL news currently and I just saw that pop warner is happening around this time?

Welcome!

I'm also buying Disney GCs with Target GCs successfully. I have been for months. I hope your problem was a one time issue!
 
@Lisa F What is availability like at DHS for sdfp around noon each day? I mean, if we did FEA at Epcot and then tried to grab fastpasses for DHS for that evening, would we be able to find anything good? I assume no TSMM, but what about RnRC, ToT, or Star Tours?
 
Here a recent menu from Flame Tree.... Updated as of August 2016. It's showing all sides available with snack credits.

Maybe @Wood Nymph could check if she's in AK on her upcoming trip.

We were very much looking forward to the the pulled pork fries!

http://allears.net/dining/menu/flame-tree-bbq/lunch-dinner
Thanks for posting this!!! Probably one of THE BEST uses of a snack credit anywhere.

Also that Mandarin Orange Vodka Lemonade is now on my list!!! A couple of those paired with some hot Florida sunshine and I will be able to summon my inner Sir David Attenborough and become one with the animals. :drinking1
 
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@Lisa F What is availability like at DHS for sdfp around noon each day? I mean, if we did FEA at Epcot and then tried to grab fastpasses for DHS for that evening, would we be able to find anything good? I assume no TSMM, but what about RnRC, ToT, or Star Tours?

I think I've lost my ability to check on FP availability now that my allotted days are all booked for my tickets. But I do have a TP subscription and from the Lines app I can see that as of right now there's 6 FP times for TSMM starting at 4:20pm. Although they do say for a party of 1. There's tons of FP availability for everything else.
 
Happy to have just found this thread. Just booked our FP+ yesterday AM for our 11/27-12/3 stay. I was able to get most of what we hoped for but then the day ended with a mini freakout over some target gifts cards I was advised to by disney gift cards with. That totally didn't pan out, luckily it was resolved.

I'm stalking the ROL news currently and I just saw that pop warner is happening around this time?
First off, :welcome:!! glad you found us.

secondly oh no about the target gift cards. what happened? i have been doing this off and on bit by bit myself. I'm glad it was resolved.
 
@Lisa F What is availability like at DHS for sdfp around noon each day? I mean, if we did FEA at Epcot and then tried to grab fastpasses for DHS for that evening, would we be able to find anything good? I assume no TSMM, but what about RnRC, ToT, or Star Tours?
I can try to check around 12ish today, it might be a bit later since I have a meeting at 11:15. Tomorrow I should be at my desk.

As of right now for 2 people
BatB 12:40 1:40 3:30
F! 7:25
RnR 12:35 12:50 1:00
GMR 11:20 11:35 11:55
TSM 3:40 3:45 4:00
Indiana jones 11:35 12:45 2:45
Muppetvision 3d 11:00 11:15 11:30
Star Tours 12:10 1:05 1:40
ToT 1:30 1:50 2:10
voyage of the little mermaid 11:20 11:45 12:10

i'd say availability is great.
 
First off, :welcome:!! glad you found us.

secondly oh no about the target gift cards. what happened? i have been doing this off and on bit by bit myself. I'm glad it was resolved.

I got them on Raise.com and then went to target.com to buy the disney gift cards like I was told. Problem was Target changed their online policy and now you can't buy gift cards with gift cards online. Had to go instore (which isn't close) and buy them with the cashier scanning my phone to apply the egift certificates in my target.com account. I was $1080 in with the target gift cards and had placed a huge gift card order online, it went through but then they just cancelled my order. When I spoke to a target service rep they said sorry, policy is changed. I freaked. Thought I was out $1000.

How are you all doing your gift cards?
 
I got them on Raise.com and then went to target.com to buy the disney gift cards like I was told. Problem was Target changed their online policy and now you can't buy gift cards with gift cards online. Had to go instore (which isn't close) and buy them with the cashier scanning my phone to apply the egift certificates in my target.com account. I was $1080 in with the target gift cards and had placed a huge gift card order online, it went through but then they just cancelled my order. When I spoke to a target service rep they said sorry, policy is changed. I freaked. Thought I was out $1000.

How are you all doing your gift cards?
I was doing the same thing but wasn't aware that their policy had changed. it is not a huge deal for me, it was more like a bonus I guess and most of my trip is paid for at this point, I may have bought another $300-500 at most. Eesh I wonder what people are saying on the budget board? Have you checked there? I live on martha's vineyard so no target here, getting to a target would be a real hardship.
 














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