shannie102
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jan 6, 2016
Hi everyone! So my DH and I did something a little crazy by non-Disney people standards and bought AP’s and DVC within a week of each other. We are totally stoked! I have done a PTR before (https://www.disboards.com/threads/c...t-a-december-2018-ptr-final-thoughts.3651031/) and documented our DVC buying process( https://www.disboards.com/threads/my-purchasing-experience-with-pictures.3765128/) so thought it would be time for another PTR to help me not only share my planning process and experience, but also help me keep my trips in order I am going to try to color coordinate these by trip so when I update it doesn’t get so confusing, thus the different colors.
So here’s what we have so far for our 366 (it’s a leap year!) day year of Disney!
January 11-18 2020
Day to book FastPass- 11/12/2019
This one was a last min (in Disney planning terms) add on. My work is having a PTO ban 3/1/20-6/30/20 for a new EMR so while I had wanted to do a quick weekend in march that was nixed, so on 8/12 I literally said to DH “I want to go to Disney now” and he said “book a trip” (that’s why I married him!). Well, he has a school break in January and this is before the PTO ban so I got right online and quickly realized we wouldn’t have many choices as 1) wayyyyy to close to use DVC points, 2) its Race weekend, and 3) did I mention it was race weekend? We are not adverse to split stay so I first booked Caribbean beach for 1/13-1/18 and then needed to find something else for the 11th & 12th. In an effort to save some money we went with All-Star Movies. Has anyone ever stayed there? Where should we request? I did book a Preferred room as it was only a few $$ more and since we haven’t stayed at a value resort I didn’t want it to be such a slap in the face.
May 14-23 2020
Day to book dining- 11/16/2019
Day to book FastPass- 3/15/2020
This was planned back in April so that’s the only reason my work let me have this time off during the PTO ban. We went to DL & DCA end of March 2019 and with DH going back to school I figured I would not be able to plan another trip till he was out of school in May so this one was born. It is a hodge-podge of all the things we love as it was to be the only trip, oops! It is already paid off so no harm adding these 5 other trips
July 1-5 2020
Day to book dining- 1/3/2020
Day to book FastPass- 5/2/2020
Simply a bucket-list item for me. I have always wanted to see the fireworks at Disney on the 4th. A friend of mine posted photos from her trip this past 4th and it looked awesome. Well, add in an AP and now it’s only flight and room to go? Can’t pass that up!
September 25-28 2020
Day to book DVC- 10/25/2019
Day to book dining- 3/29/2020
Day to book FastPass- 7/27/2020
DH is in Grad school and has the 28th off, and I have BWV points so a long weekend for WFF while points are still in the Adventure season range sounds like a good plan to me
October 17-24 2020
Day to book DVC- 11/17/2019
Day to book dining- 4/20/2020
Day to book FastPass- 8/18/2020
I actually have a conference at the Coronado 10/19-10/22 and with the PTO ban I can’t use the money I would for a conference then, so might as well go to this one and have work pay for A CLUB LEVEL ROOM IN THE TOWER!!!!! I am soooooo excited! I have never stayed club level and love the Coronado so have been looking forward to staying in the tower since it started being built so this will be amazing! Has anyone ever stayed club level- any tips?
Also it’s around my birthday, WFF, and MNSSHP! Best birthday present ever!
January 2-9 2021(I would love to do 12/31-9th but let’s see if I can convince DH of this)
Day to book DVC- 2/3/2020
Day to book dining- 7/6/2020
Day to book FastPass- 11/3/2020
This would be the last trip to use the AP =(. DH would be on winter break, it’s after the holidays so work should not care if I want to take off time, and I will have 2021 points just sitting there waiting to be used This one is still in the early stages of planning so stay tuned!
So here’s what we have so far for our 366 (it’s a leap year!) day year of Disney!
January 11-18 2020
Day to book FastPass- 11/12/2019
This one was a last min (in Disney planning terms) add on. My work is having a PTO ban 3/1/20-6/30/20 for a new EMR so while I had wanted to do a quick weekend in march that was nixed, so on 8/12 I literally said to DH “I want to go to Disney now” and he said “book a trip” (that’s why I married him!). Well, he has a school break in January and this is before the PTO ban so I got right online and quickly realized we wouldn’t have many choices as 1) wayyyyy to close to use DVC points, 2) its Race weekend, and 3) did I mention it was race weekend? We are not adverse to split stay so I first booked Caribbean beach for 1/13-1/18 and then needed to find something else for the 11th & 12th. In an effort to save some money we went with All-Star Movies. Has anyone ever stayed there? Where should we request? I did book a Preferred room as it was only a few $$ more and since we haven’t stayed at a value resort I didn’t want it to be such a slap in the face.
May 14-23 2020
Day to book dining- 11/16/2019
Day to book FastPass- 3/15/2020
This was planned back in April so that’s the only reason my work let me have this time off during the PTO ban. We went to DL & DCA end of March 2019 and with DH going back to school I figured I would not be able to plan another trip till he was out of school in May so this one was born. It is a hodge-podge of all the things we love as it was to be the only trip, oops! It is already paid off so no harm adding these 5 other trips
July 1-5 2020
Day to book dining- 1/3/2020
Day to book FastPass- 5/2/2020
Simply a bucket-list item for me. I have always wanted to see the fireworks at Disney on the 4th. A friend of mine posted photos from her trip this past 4th and it looked awesome. Well, add in an AP and now it’s only flight and room to go? Can’t pass that up!
September 25-28 2020
Day to book DVC- 10/25/2019
Day to book dining- 3/29/2020
Day to book FastPass- 7/27/2020
DH is in Grad school and has the 28th off, and I have BWV points so a long weekend for WFF while points are still in the Adventure season range sounds like a good plan to me
October 17-24 2020
Day to book DVC- 11/17/2019
Day to book dining- 4/20/2020
Day to book FastPass- 8/18/2020
I actually have a conference at the Coronado 10/19-10/22 and with the PTO ban I can’t use the money I would for a conference then, so might as well go to this one and have work pay for A CLUB LEVEL ROOM IN THE TOWER!!!!! I am soooooo excited! I have never stayed club level and love the Coronado so have been looking forward to staying in the tower since it started being built so this will be amazing! Has anyone ever stayed club level- any tips?
Also it’s around my birthday, WFF, and MNSSHP! Best birthday present ever!
January 2-9 2021(I would love to do 12/31-9th but let’s see if I can convince DH of this)
Day to book DVC- 2/3/2020
Day to book dining- 7/6/2020
Day to book FastPass- 11/3/2020
This would be the last trip to use the AP =(. DH would be on winter break, it’s after the holidays so work should not care if I want to take off time, and I will have 2021 points just sitting there waiting to be used This one is still in the early stages of planning so stay tuned!