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disneydude365

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Ok so fasten your seat belts and please remain seating while the ride is in motion! You are now currently on the highway in cyber space while we make our way to the happiest place on earth!

Our destination is the Walt Disney world resort, estimate time of arrival October 25th mid afternoon!
On board this train is myself Cameron, and my best friend Kala. Also is Kala's mother, and father and grandmother. Also is her younger sister Kara, and older sister Nikki. Nikki's daughter Kinsley, and son Conner as well as Nikki's husband Tyler.

We are so excited about this trip but that's not to say we haven't had problems arise and issues that needed to be rectified

Let me go back to a few months ago the day the free dining promotion was released. Kala and myself stayed on the phone for 16 hours trying to get through after hundreds of busy calls and a hand full of disconnections but we pushed through and prevailed and we had made it we were able to switch dates for 3 separate reservations add park hopper and receive the free dining!! (At this point in time Kala's grandmother was not attending. So the three rooms were: mine and kala sharing, Kara and kala's mom and dad, and Nikki, Tyler, Kinsley and Conner in a room.

Everything was set and ready so I decided to surprise kala and get two tickets to mickeys not so scary Halloween party she was ecstatic, however we all decided that would be a good night for the parents to go out by themselves so we bought a 3rd party ticket (for the 27th).

Everything was going smoothly as we counted down the days all that was left to do was purchase memory maker, and rent s scooter for the trip

Then Nikki and Tyler regretfully had to cancel thier reservation due to purchasing a home. And so the train lost 4 people. Around this time thier grandmother heard of the trip and decided she wanted to come along so she was added to kala's mother and fathers reservation and room.

A few weeks passed and things were once again going smoothly we were planning and just talking about all that awaited us at the end destination

Then Nikki decides that she regrets not getting to go and thinks she's found a way she can be able to go with just her and the kids and let Tyler stay home and go fishing . And so she and Kinsley who is 5 and Conner who's is 1 will be sharing mine and kalas room to save money. (We had already finished paying off the room kala and myself). So now this room looks crowded : me in my bed, my scooter, Connors pack and play kala Kinsley and Nikki sharing a bed, and all our luggage..
Now the train for a few days felt a little tight but we thought were going to DIsNeY!! Little things dawned on us that since more ppl would be in our room we'd have to give up but honestly family over EVERYTHING so they reboarded our train,

Now Tyler decides to try and see if he can get a room and tickets and if he can Nikki would just stay with him
So we were hoping Tyler got to go, and feeling so bad that they let go of the reservation including free dining
Now a few days ago in Florida, a accidental phone and water incident leaves Tyler needing a new phone as not having been insured so kala and I wonder how this will affect the trip, so Tyler is now hesitating at the door debating whether to get on board.

Things I'm wanting/looking forward to is getting to see Peter Pan, riding splash mountain, and going on tower of terror, exposition Everest for the first time!!

So as we continue on our way I'd love to hear your thoughts and opinions as we make our way to the final destination. And I hope you enjoy the ride have a magical day!
 
so what are everyones thoughts on some of the issues that have arose?
 

Sounds like you have some great plans. We were there in June and my kids loved Splash, and had a great time meeting characters.

It's great that Nikki and Tyler bought a house! Too bad about the phone..an unexpected expense stinks if money is tight. I say sharing the room is fine if everyone is ok with being a little squished, depending on where you are staying. I'd rather be squished in Disney than staying home, given a choice. Maybe things will work out and you can go back to the original plans. Either way, you will be at Disney.
 
Sounds like you have some great plans. We were there in June and my kids loved Splash, and had a great time meeting characters.

It's great that Nikki and Tyler bought a house! Too bad about the phone..an unexpected expense stinks if money is tight. I say sharing the room is fine if everyone is ok with being a little squished, depending on where you are staying. I'd rather be squished in Disney than staying home, given a choice. Maybe things will work out and you can go back to the original plans. Either way, you will be at Disney.

Thank you for commenting!!! and yes were hoping we've scheduled some fun things to happen, but with disney the best stuff is always spontaneous lol. glad y'all had a good time on y'alls trip!! yes it is great they got a house and honestly sharing a room won't be that bad i don't think, just will have to be quiet when coming in lol

we are staying at the Allstar sports, and in the room will be my scooter that we are going to reserve prior to the trip so we do hope that their whole family gets to go!
 
a small update on plans and where things are:
tyler has found a couple ways to his phone fixed or replaced without costing too much so heres hoping he's able to go along with us
next month i will be reserving the scooter i know its a little bit a ways off but better safe than sorry lol
i will also be purchasing memory maker, trying to put it off until the guest list is finalized not sure how difficult it is to remove/add people once its in effect!

been raining a lot here, and honestly I've got the disney jitters and can't wait to be heading back to my magical kingdom home!!
 
Was thinking about your space issues...Are you driving? Could you unpack, keep some luggage in the trunk during your stay? Might free up some floor space.

Good idea to rent the scooter early, especially if not having one available means you are not able to do the parks the way you want. You are going during a busy time.
Y'all don't hear that much here in New England. We're baking in Florida style heat/humidity. Enjoy the days of planning and your trip will be here before you know it!
 
Was thinking about your space issues...Are you driving? Could you unpack, keep some luggage in the trunk during your stay? Might free up some floor space.

Good idea to rent the scooter early, especially if not having one available means you are not able to do the parks the way you want. You are going during a busy time.
Y'all don't hear that much here in New England. We're baking in Florida style heat/humidity. Enjoy the days of planning and your trip will be here before you know it!

possibly could work ill run it by the others!, and yes getting one outside of disney early for a trip like this i feel is a must, it guarantees you get one the whole week, and you can take it everywhere not just use at the park then have to leave it there.
really? we think that this time is actually relatively less crowded time, i know halloween plays into effect, but i personally used to go in December January went once in july and haha never again it was the most crowded and heat waves lol loved disney but nearly killed us ha.
I've been when crowd capacity has been met several times so i guess my radar for crowded might be a little different lol
yes w have that southern slang even in our typing haha.

oh i really hope it gets here fast we all need a vacation, and we've been planning this one for a few years to make sure everyone would be able to go and not mess anything up!
 
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Have fun scooter hunting for your rental. I follow another Disboarder who has a pre trip report, Elevationist, and she found a scooter to rent in her favorite color, pink! I say do what you need to do to enjoy the parks and anywhere else you want to go. Downtown Disney was fun, we spent time just window shopping and seeing what was there.

You got me on the crowds. I just assumed the party times were busy. We were there Christmas 2013 super crowded but love the holiday season and this past June (too hot/humid). I'm a teacher and the kiddos are in school so that limits when we can go.

Are you planning to dress up for the Halloween party?
 
Hello disneydude365! I followed your first TR :) So cool you're getting to go back! We're going over Thanksgiving this year, 3 months from today :goodvibes Look forward to following along as you make more plans!
 
Have fun scooter hunting for your rental. I follow another Disboarder who has a pre trip report, Elevationist, and she found a scooter to rent in her favorite color, pink! I say do what you need to do to enjoy the parks and anywhere else you want to go. Downtown Disney was fun, we spent time just window shopping and seeing what was there.

Are you planning to dress up for the Halloween party?

You got me on the crowds. I just assumed the party times were busy. We were there Christmas 2013 super crowded but love the holiday season and this past June (too hot/humid). I'm a teacher and the kiddos are in school so that limits when we can go.

thats awesome she found her favorite color!! i actually can never focus on a favorite color it switches but stays between yellow and green! we know a place the yellow scooter rental that is in orlando which is possibly what ill use this trip since i had no problems with them before!
crowds honestly can be very sporadic and never fully planned for, October is part of the off season which is why they give out free dining promotion the holidays do see a peak in crowds but christmas has been named highest holiday crowd levels while spring break to summers tend to get higher as well. for Magic kingdom it actually the parties serve as a buffer i think. people don't wanna go to magic kingdom on days of the party that aren't attending due to restricted times so they go to other parks
omg yes the christmas holidays are the best, closer you get to christmas day weekend the higher it will be and it will be like instant change but still worth going!!
love downtown disney always have to visit several times to eat and do some shopping.

Honestly yes i am dressing up!! I've been working on my costume since january and it looks really good!! its sort of a mix between costume with casual clothes, hopefully it don't look like i just stopped half way haha! right now 4 of us are attending the party and our theme we are trying for originally was peter Pan when it was just three of us, so will have to wait and see how the group progresses, who all attends and what we can do lol

Hello disneydude365! I followed your first TR :) So cool you're getting to go back! We're going over Thanksgiving this year, 3 months from today :goodvibes Look forward to following along as you make more plans!

Well I'm glad you are following this pre trip report as well, and hope you enjoyed the last trip report :) I know I'm very excited and thankful I'm getting the opportunity! this trip thats being planned and this thread follows will be one of my longest stays in WDW ever most of my trips are 3nights-single day trips, so i can't wait for this and hope physically i can keep up lol! omg i hear that time is awesome its got all the holiday feels, and near perfect weather in my opinion. i bet you are also getting the disney jitters in anticipation as your trip date is fast approaching!!
 
Well I'm glad you are following this pre trip report as well, and hope you enjoyed the last trip report :) I know I'm very excited and thankful I'm getting the opportunity! this trip thats being planned and this thread follows will be one of my longest stays in WDW ever most of my trips are 3nights-single day trips, so i can't wait for this and hope physically i can keep up lol! omg i hear that time is awesome its got all the holiday feels, and near perfect weather in my opinion. i bet you are also getting the disney jitters in anticipation as your trip date is fast approaching!!

I'm getting very excited for our Thanksgiving trip, less than 3 months now :goodvibes I got a Minnie's Dine at Hollywood and Vine ADR too, so we get to see the characters in holiday dress which should be cool. But what I'm especially excited about is our trip to Universal next Saturday!! DH and I were there 15 years ago but I know it's changed sooo much, and DS's 9 & 13 have never been.

Have you been to MNSSHP before? I can't remember if you have, because I'm old and I forget things lol. We've been 4x, it's my absolute favorite thing at WDW. Can't wait to see a picture of your costume!
 
I'm getting very excited for our Thanksgiving trip, less than 3 months now :goodvibes I got a Minnie's Dine at Hollywood and Vine ADR too, so we get to see the characters in holiday dress which should be cool. But what I'm especially excited about is our trip to Universal next Saturday!! DH and I were there 15 years ago but I know it's changed sooo much, and DS's 9 & 13 have never been.

Have you been to MNSSHP before? I can't remember if you have, because I'm old and I forget things lol. We've been 4x, it's my absolute favorite thing at WDW. Can't wait to see a picture of your costume!

oh i hear that place is good we tried to get an ADR one time but didn't luck out lol. Well i hope y'all have a great time in universal, personally I've only been once and it too was a LONG time ago i remember dr suess land lol don't think harry potter land had even started yet lol but i think it looks so cool but haven't managed to switch over from disney lol.
I have not been to MNSSHP before however, my friend has and she also says only positive things about it. i have been to MVMCP 1 or 2 times can't remember but i know i loved it. I'm really looking forward to the halloween/Autumn decorations, I've been in christmas and spring and summer lol but never this time of season. I'm excited to see mickey jack-o-lanturn, Maleficent candy apples, all that stuff! don't get me wrong i love the christmas decorations but have been dying to see the halloween stuff for ages!
I might try to post a picture of the costume soon to see what peoples opinions are lol;)

i am glad the Sinister Soiree isn't happening this year hopefully meaning all the villains will be back in the general party public lol as last year some of the best ones in my opinion i read was exclusive to the add on.
 
Ok everyone so here are some big updates for the trip!!

first off I'm happy to announce that it looks like Tyler has boarded this ride as an additional reservation has been made! Nikki was able to manage a room in the same resort which i was honestly hoping if he got to come would happen. so Nikki and the kids are staying on our reservation to keep the free dining promotion but will be rooming with tyler (hopefully thats not breaking any rules!!) leaving the room free for just me and Kala~!!! (So much room!!) lol

I am also happy to report that earlier today i went online and attempted reserving a scooter i chose yellow scooter rental and looks like i managed a good deal, hopefully will hear back or something to verify that it got reserved got an order number so at the very least i can always call and see how its progressing but it is defiantly in the works!

also only less than a week till fast pass slots open up and we as a group have not discussed it at all so we need to get on that too lol!

~we are moving right along on this highway in the sky, if you turn around and look you can see the cinderella castle as we go~~ (well i can since i have a hanged framed photo over my bed thats quite large of the castle :) )
 
ok so here is a few pictures of the costume I've been working on. the jeans and shoes are obviously store bought however the shorts and the shirt was hand made, with a little help so right now I'm honestly thinking its good! (first place I've shown anything of the costume so i guess you could say this thread got the first exclusive reveal lol
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would love some criticism positive or negative or just your thoughts on how it looks :) and i think it easily goes without saying who it is lol ;)
 
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good morning! just a small update i called after getting my oil changed this morning (called the scooter place) and confirmed that everything went through smoothly and was all set! (seeing how the payment cleared lol)

the last thing on my list that i can think of is purchasing memory maker! last night Kala and i linked up all there accounts together so that everyone was connected under family and friends, so memory maker would work for all bands, and i will be able to go in first thing and try to make fast pass selections for 10 people lol.. that will be fun haha we are 62 days away guys!!

hope my costume looks ok! lol
 
As we have now hit the 60 day mark I can proudly say I was online at midnight and with minor effort I managed to get all fast passes for everything for 10 ppl:)
Mostly I just played with time slots trying to map out best plan for the days
But seriously with all the negative posts for fastpass+ I was worried slightly lol
But it was quite simple, this time I didn't even need to stagger ppl in the sane hour like I've done for 1-2 ppl lol
Managed seven dwarfs
Splash mountain
And big Thunder!
Soarin
Tower of terror
River Rapids
Safari
Everest
I could list all but I don't think yall want that lol just saying I managed everything from the 60 day window! And I've also had same luck day before a trip scoring seven dwarfs and Anna and Elsa lol

Now that fast passes are chosen it's getting even more real!!
 
Ugh, that dang free dining promo debacle!! I had 16 of us online for 9 hours trying to reserve rooms and we managed to miss out!! Then our Travel agent tried again the week or so later when they released more rooms and we were lucky to get it! Our original reservation was for Port Orleans Riverside and then we switched to All Star Sports with no deal, and ended up with POP with free dining! Boo yah! So I understand your troubles.

Your costume looks great! You did an awesome job.

So what are you using your dining credits for?
 
Ugh, that dang free dining promo debacle!! I had 16 of us online for 9 hours trying to reserve rooms and we managed to miss out!! Then our Travel agent tried again the week or so later when they released more rooms and we were lucky to get it! Our original reservation was for Port Orleans Riverside and then we switched to All Star Sports with no deal, and ended up with POP with free dining! Boo yah! So I understand your troubles.

Your costume looks great! You did an awesome job.

So what are you using your dining credits for?

Oh wow it sounds like you had to struggle for free dining too!! Congrats on achieving it!!
Thank you I'm really excited about he costume :)
We aren't sure what we will use them for I know one snack credit will be used on a Mickey cheese pretzel lol :D
 







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