Message: After many false starts, I've just got off the phone to Premier Travel and booked a quick 9 night trip to Orlando for next Thursday (24th August) which gets me home exactly 24 hours before my knee operation.
Many thanks to Nicky at Premier who has got me Virgin flights from Gatwick when most others (including Virgin Holidays themselves!) could not get me flights on those days at all. Virgin Atlantic could get me the flights but wanted more than £300 per person more for them. She even went what sounds like more than the extra mile to get us on the VS027 (the earlier 11:15) flight out.
So - much planning to do now as it's not far away. First things first is a hotel I guess - found a very good deal on the Hilton at Downtown Disney on Expedia.co.uk which is vastly cheaper than anywhere else I've looked (including expedia.com and Hilton themselves, despite their 'low rate' guarantee!). The Downtown location works for me and I prefer it, I think, to the values and moderates on site which are a comparable price.
So probably there first and then over to one of the on-site Universal hotels for the last few days and front-of-line access.
Will get a car at some point, but will book *********** for the airport pick-up as it will give me a chance to break my record for the consumption of mini bottles of red on the way over.
Can't wait!
Darren
Many thanks to Nicky at Premier who has got me Virgin flights from Gatwick when most others (including Virgin Holidays themselves!) could not get me flights on those days at all. Virgin Atlantic could get me the flights but wanted more than £300 per person more for them. She even went what sounds like more than the extra mile to get us on the VS027 (the earlier 11:15) flight out.
So - much planning to do now as it's not far away. First things first is a hotel I guess - found a very good deal on the Hilton at Downtown Disney on Expedia.co.uk which is vastly cheaper than anywhere else I've looked (including expedia.com and Hilton themselves, despite their 'low rate' guarantee!). The Downtown location works for me and I prefer it, I think, to the values and moderates on site which are a comparable price.
So probably there first and then over to one of the on-site Universal hotels for the last few days and front-of-line access.
Will get a car at some point, but will book *********** for the airport pick-up as it will give me a chance to break my record for the consumption of mini bottles of red on the way over.
Can't wait!
Darren
have a great time and sink a red for me 
hope u get a decent deal on the universal onsite 
