April 2010 ABD Backstage Magic : California Here We Come!!!

[DisneyTaylors]

Our airfare is booked! We decided to drive down to Austin, TX and fly directly from Austin to LAX on Southwest. It will be about a three hour drive. But, the money savings will be well worth it. We fly in on Sunday (April 11th) and out Sunday (April 18th). One full week in sunny Cali.

I can't wait!!!!

Kevin,

I will get the flight itinerary to you as previously requested. Do you forward it on to ABD or do we do that on our own?
I look forward to your reponse.

Jennifer

Nobody tell Jennifer, but I have been sneaking around trying to find a cheaper airfare for a reason. By driving 3 hours to Austin to fly to LA instead of DFW right in our backyard, it has freed up enough money to pursue another trip to WDW...perhaps the 2nd week of December. That's right...we are officially going to:

We are officially signed up for the party and something seems so wrong (but so right at the same time ) about going to WDW a week after you just left. Oh well, more evidence of our addiction.

We look forward to meeting all of you that will be there and please help me try and keep this a secret from Jennifer.

- Bill

 

[TheTXTaylors5]

We look forward to meeting all of you that will be there and please help me try and keep this a secret from Jennifer.

- Bill

You're a silly silly man! I don't come to this thread too often. You must have been posting in the bedroom on your laptop while I was in the office on the computer. Aren't we sad. Once again, communicating through the internet. We really are a "normal" couple. I promise.

This is a very BIG surprise. Once I heard the Podcast about Marty Sklar speaking at the seminar, I gave Bill the "puppy dog eyes". We booked the DVC Member Cruise in 2008 in hopes he was one of the speakers. No such luck! I know attending the DAP event at DHS doesn't automatically get us in on the Friday seminar. But, I thank Bill for even trying. At home, our main focus is on our children. We don't do too much for ourselves. That is one of the reasons I booked the April trip. This December trip will be an extra bonus.

I have now learned, our DS4 (Cole) will be coming with us on the trip. He loves TSM. He's going to have a blast at the party! DS9 and DD6 have school on Friday. So, they need to stay home. They will just be returning to school from being absent for a week from our previous WDW trip. So, they shouldn't complain too much about us taking a WDW trip without them.

It is surreal that Bill booked this trip. Thank you honey! It pays to have a "Disney Husband"!!!!!

Jennifer

PS - I love adding trips to my signature!!!!!

 

[katscradle]

Nobody tell Jennifer, but I have been sneaking around trying to find a cheaper airfare for a reason. By driving 3 hours to Austin to fly to LA instead of DFW right in our backyard, it has freed up enough money to pursue another trip to WDW...perhaps the 2nd week of December. That's right...we are officially going to:

We are officially signed up for the party and something seems so wrong (but so right at the same time ) about going to WDW a week after you just left. Oh well, more evidence of our addiction.

We look forward to meeting all of you that will be there and please help me try and keep this a secret from Jennifer.

- Bill

YAY!!

 

[Dodie]

OOOH! Exciting! I think we need to recap those of us on this trip who will be at DAP in December so we can make sure we connect if we've not met before.

Going from memory, I think this is the list. CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG PLEASE! Especially if I left you off - no offense intended.

John and Kevin (of course!)
Pete and Walter (of course!)
Kim (TickledTink33)
Anna (Aspen37)
Tracey (tmli) and Chris (Slapwhitey)
Jason (Menashacorp) and Susan (merriepoppins)
Kathy (kab407)
Dodie (Dodie )
Jennifer (TheTXTaylors5) and DH Bill
Katherine (Katscradle) and John (3guysandagal)
Tonya (Tonya2426) and DM Carol
Tracy (winotracy)and DH Bill

 

[aspen37]

Hello everyone! I'm Matthew (MatthewT212) and I wanted to introduce myself to all of you and like all of you I'm VERY excited about the Adventures by Disney Backstage Magic trip in April.

Not only will this be my first trip to Disneyland but I've also decided to extend the trip so we can visit the Disney Family Museum in San Francisco.

I've never been with a group of people who love Disney as much as I do and on top of that having some of the DisUnplugged team with us makes this trip even more enjoyable.

I know this is sort of a ramble but I wanted to say Hi to everyone and that I'm looking forward to meeting all of you. I hope we can get to know each other before our trip and a HUGE thank you to Kevin for all his help! There are a lot of firsts for me with this trip and Kevin is making it a VERY smooth trip!

Thank you and looking forward to meeting all of you SOON!

Matthew
(MatthewT212)

Matthew!

Nobody tell Jennifer, but I have been sneaking around trying to find a cheaper airfare for a reason. By driving 3 hours to Austin to fly to LA instead of DFW right in our backyard, it has freed up enough money to pursue another trip to WDW...perhaps the 2nd week of December. That's right...we are officially going to:

We are officially signed up for the party and something seems so wrong (but so right at the same time ) about going to WDW a week after you just left. Oh well, more evidence of our addiction.

We look forward to meeting all of you that will be there and please help me try and keep this a secret from Jennifer.

- Bill

OOOH! Exciting! I think we need to recap those of us on this trip who will be at DAP in December so we can make sure we connect if we've not met before.

Going from memory, I think this is the list. CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG PLEASE! Especially if I left you off - no offense intended.

John and Kevin (of course!)
Pete and Walter (of course!)
Kim (TickledTink33)
Anna (Aspen37)
Tracey (tmli) and Chris (Slapwhitey)
Jason (Menashacorp) and Susan (merriepoppins)
Kathy (kab407)
Dodie (Dodie )
Jennifer (TheTXTaylors5) and DH Bill
Katherine (Katscradle) and John (3guysandagal)
Tonya (Tonya2426) and DM Carol
Tracy (winotracy)and DH Bill

That looks really good! Great job Dodie!

 

[Dodie]

One small edit, as I believe that Tonya is actually coming solo..

John and Kevin (of course!)
Pete and Walter (of course!)
Kim (TickledTink33)
Anna (Aspen37)
Tracey (tmli) and Chris (Slapwhitey)
Jason (Menashacorp) and Susan (merriepoppins)
Kathy (kab407)
Dodie (Dodie )
Jennifer (TheTXTaylors5) and DH Bill
Katherine (Katscradle) and John (3guysandagal)
Tonya (Tonya2426)
Tracy (winotracy)and DH Bill

 

[Tonya2426]

OOOH! Exciting! I think we need to recap those of us on this trip who will be at DAP in December so we can make sure we connect if we've not met before.

Going from memory, I think this is the list. CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG PLEASE! Especially if I left you off - no offense intended.

John and Kevin (of course!)
Pete and Walter (of course!)
Kim (TickledTink33)
Anna (Aspen37)
Tracey (tmli) and Chris (Slapwhitey)
Jason (Menashacorp) and Susan (merriepoppins)
Kathy (kab407)
Dodie (Dodie )
Jennifer (TheTXTaylors5) and DH Bill
Katherine (Katscradle) and John (3guysandagal)
Tonya (Tonya2426) and DM Carol
Tracy (winotracy)and DH Bill

I'll be there but Carol (my mom) will not be attending DAP - it would just be too hard to explain the whole lightsaber following thing to her

 

[Tonya2426]

One small edit, as I believe that Tonya is actually coming solo..

Opps, you beat me to the edit!!!

 

[aspen37]

Opps, you beat me to the edit!!!

So did you warn WS CM's that there will be around 100 people having drinks on Dec 11th?

 

[Carolinagal]

Hi Kevin - not sure if you answered, but I just saw the ABD site had info on the "free cruise" offer:

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[Tonya2426]

So did you warn WS CM's that there will be around 100 people having drinks on Dec 11th?

No, figured it wouldn't do any good to tell the slushie serving CM but needed to talk to a manager. Although I did mention to Dan Cockrell that they needed to keep the Cosmo slushies all year long.

 

[corky441]

I was just wondering if any of you were going to take advantage of the LAX airport transfer option on the first day of our adventure.

My husband and I are arriving on saturday April 10th and are spending a few days in Huntington Beach. We'll have a rental car and plan on returning the car on that Tuesday at LAX. The paperwork says we can get a transfer from LAX at the USAir terminal #7 at noon at the baggage desk and then they will get us to the Hollywood Hotel.

So, is anyone else planning on doing this too?

 

[aspen37]

No, figured it wouldn't do any good to tell the slushie serving CM but needed to talk to a manager. Although I did mention to Dan Cockrell that they needed to keep the Cosmo slushies all year long.

You liked the Cosmo slushy I take it. It sounded too tart for my taste. I like sweet drinks.

 

[corky441]

OOOH! Exciting! I think we need to recap those of us on this trip who will be at DAP in December so we can make sure we connect if we've not met before.

Going from memory, I think this is the list. CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG PLEASE! Especially if I left you off - no offense intended.

John and Kevin (of course!)
Pete and Walter (of course!)
Kim (TickledTink33)
Anna (Aspen37)
Tracey (tmli) and Chris (Slapwhitey)
Jason (Menashacorp) and Susan (merriepoppins)
Kathy (kab407)
Dodie (Dodie )
Jennifer (TheTXTaylors5) and DH Bill
Katherine (Katscradle) and John (3guysandagal)
Tonya (Tonya2426) and DM Carol
Tracy (winotracy)and DH Bill

Dh & I are going to be at DAP also. So add us to the list. We've never had the chance to meet any of you in person, so meeting up at DAP will be great.

Marilee ( Corky441 ) and DH Dino

 

[3guysandagal]

I think the answer to your question is in the text....

Offer applies to new purchases between 10/26/09 and 1/15/10 of select Adventures by Disney land packages at the non-discounted regular rate departing before 10/2/10.

So looks like being early is once again not the best plan of attack sometimes when it comes to ABD.
Although, without being early would have meant not going on this trip, so, 6 of one, half a dozen of the other.

Would have been nice though....

 

[Dodie]

DAP attendees who are also ABD-ers...

John and Kevin (of course!)
Pete and Walter (of course!)
Kim (TickledTink33)
Anna (Aspen37)
Tracey (tmli) and Chris (Slapwhitey)
Jason (Menashacorp) and Susan (merriepoppins)
Kathy (kab407)
Dodie (Dodie )
Jennifer (TheTXTaylors5) and DH Bill
Katherine (Katscradle) and John (3guysandagal)
Tonya (Tonya2426)
Tracy (winotracy)and DH Bill
Marilee ( Corky441 ) and DH Dino

 

[DisneyKevin]

Hi Kevin - not sure if you answered, but I just saw the ABD site had info on the "free cruise" offer:

Book Select Adventures by Disney Vacations Now
And Get a 3-Night Disney Cruise Free*!

Unfortunately, we do not qualify for this.

Not only are we not a new booking, we have received special pricing for our Adventure.

Not only that, we have received excellent pricing on pre- and post nights due to an ABD error that they have stood behind.

Pre and post mights for the BSM trip following ours are at the correct and MUCH higher rate.

I wish I had a different answer for you.

 

[DisneyKevin]

I was just wondering if any of you were going to take advantage of the LAX airport transfer option on the first day of our adventure.

My husband and I are arriving on saturday April 10th and are spending a few days in Huntington Beach. We'll have a rental car and plan on returning the car on that Tuesday at LAX. The paperwork says we can get a transfer from LAX at the USAir terminal #7 at noon at the baggage desk and then they will get us to the Hollywood Hotel.

So, is anyone else planning on doing this too?

John and I are doing the same thing. We are arriving on 4/10 and staying at the Hollywood Renaissance. We have some plans to meet with some friends prior to the start of the Advnture

We will be renting a car at LAX and returning it on Tuesday (first day of our Adventure).

I called and verified with ABD that we would be eligible to take advantahe of the ABDtransportation and I was told that there would be no issues. We will schedule our rental return to coincide with other arriving guests.

If you would like to do this, let me know and we ccan work out logistics,

 

[Circusgirl]

DAP attendees who are also ABD-ers...

John and Kevin (of course!)
Pete and Walter (of course!)
Kim (TickledTink33)
Anna (Aspen37)
Tracey (tmli) and Chris (Slapwhitey)
Jason (Menashacorp) and Susan (merriepoppins)
Kathy (kab407)
Dodie (Dodie )
Jennifer (TheTXTaylors5) and DH Bill
Katherine (Katscradle) and John (3guysandagal)
Tonya (Tonya2426)
Tracy (winotracy)and DH Bill
Marilee ( Corky441 ) and DH Dino

Add me to the list, please, and thanks for putting the list together!
Heather

 

[Dodie]

DAP attendees who are also ABD-ers...

John and Kevin (of course!)
Pete and Walter (of course!)
Kim (TickledTink33)
Anna (Aspen37)
Tracey (tmli) and Chris (Slapwhitey)
Jason (Menashacorp) and Susan (merriepoppins)
Kathy (kab407)
Dodie (Dodie )
Jennifer (TheTXTaylors5) and DH Bill
Katherine (Katscradle) and John (3guysandagal)
Tonya (Tonya2426)
Tracy (winotracy)and DH Bill
Marilee ( Corky441 ) and DH Dino
Heather (Circusgirl)