Chaos PTR

[Amunet]

Hello All! This is my second PTR

It has been edited heavily to reflect most recent events ... shall I introduce us?

Kris (Me)

Disney Planner Extraordinaire & Reservation Agent for a Major Airline

Jon (Husband)

Stitch Enthusiast & Service Advocate for a storage company

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So ... when and where are we staying?

AKL ~ Oct. 29 - 30th
CBR ~ Oct. 30 - Nov. 5th​

The last time we went for the food and wine and MNSSHP, I didn't make a TR, so this year, I will!

 

[Amunet]

Oct. 29 - Nov. 5th
29 Tuesday
Travel & Check-in @ DVC AKL
Enjoy Day at lodge

30 Wednesday
Move to CBR
Epcot

31 Thursday
Ohana Breakfast - 10:20am
Halloween Party

1 Friday
Animal Kingdom
Yak & Yeti - 4pm
(AK AM EMH)

2 Saturday
Hollywood Studios
Boma - 6:30pm
(HS AM EMH)

3 Sunday
Crystal Palace - 8:05am
Magic Kingdom
BOG Lunch - 1:25-40pm
Cinderella's Royal Table - 9:15pm

4 Monday
Epcot

5 Tuesday
Travel Day


Another thing I'd like to document are what my planning goals are for this trip. If you'd like to offer any pointers on how to achieve them, please be my guest!

{x} Crystal Palace Pre-Rope Drop Reservation
{x} Get Free Disney Dining for full stay
{ } Book a Behind the Seeds Tour
{ } Find Location for & Participate in Character Meet & Greet for Disney Visa cardmembers
{x} Get Better Akershus reservation time

 

[Amunet]

This used to be a PTR for a family trip, but that kind of fell apart. Though, me and DH are still going!

 

[Amunet]

Whooh ^_^ Okay, I think I'm good ^_^

So, in a week I'm doing a presentation on my mom's birthday! It's going to be fun ... cake AND Disney :whee:

My thinking is this; 5 people x 7 nights = 30 Table Service Credits (7 per person).
My family thinks it's an awesome idea that we try and have 5 sit down meals together during the trip. So, each of us will pick ONE TS restaurant to eat at and the rest of the family will join in!
This leaves each person with 2 credits. I want to go to Cinderella's Royal Table with mine ... Jon and Bekah may join me. But I'm really hoping I can talk my parents into going to a Signature Restaurant for a romantic meal together ^_^

So far, this is all I have:
Mom = Be Our Guest Restuarant
Me = Crystal Palace Breakfast
Jon = Deciding between 3 or 4 restaurants
Dad = Wants seafood (hence the title of the ptr!)
Sister = No idea ... maybe Italian?

I'll be sure to update more around the 16th once everyone picks their restaurants and we figure out a clearer picture of our plans during the week.

 

[Amunet]

Hello ^_^

Thought I'd post and try to coax out any lurkers. A hello would be awesome!

Off to work I go ...

 

[Amunet]

Hello!

Don't forget to spring your clocks forward ^_^

So, I'm kind of diving deep into the ptr thing and disney planning because I've very recently had something very dear to me taken away. I really don't know how to cope with it and am trying to hold myself together by posting in this PTR.
I truly hope no one minds me posting in here all the time. I'm just trying to keep myself from floundering in depressing or any sort of self pity.

With that said, I would truly appreciate anyone just saying hi or helping me keep my mind focused on my task at hand

 

[Amunet]

Added 2 more goals ^_^

 

[blessedmom4]

Hello!

Don't forget to spring your clocks forward ^_^

So, I'm kind of diving deep into the ptr thing and disney planning because I've very recently had something very dear to me taken away. I really don't know how to cope with it and am trying to hold myself together by posting in this PTR.
I truly hope no one minds me posting in here all the time. I'm just trying to keep myself from floundering in depressing or any sort of self pity.

With that said, I would truly appreciate anyone just saying hi or helping me keep my mind focused on my task at hand

I just had to say hello! I am glad I saw your post. Sending pixie dust and hugs for whatever is going on!

 

[Amunet]

I just had to say hello! I am glad I saw your post. Sending pixie dust and hugs for whatever is going on!

Thank you very much ^_^ Pixie dust and hugs should help a lot!

 

[Amunet]

So, another thing I'm doing to help myself out is ... I've begun looking at the diney marathons
I am not a runner, I don't really exercise. BUT I need to get healtheir and I want to get some sort of medal/accomplishment. So, I've decided to possibly try training for a 5k run during the princess marathon

This is my goal so I'll be doing little updates here with that. Come Summer, once registration begins, I'll decide if I'm going to fully commit or not. If I do, that's when a new PTR will pop up!

 

[Amunet]

Hello Everyone! (if anyone is there ...)

Work has been crazy busy! Haven't been able to work on the powerpoint today
Tomorrow I'm planning on it though. It's a pretty big order, let me tell ya!
I'm dedicating 1 slide per 1 TS restaurant. Each slide has 3 pictures of the restaurant (inside/outside/food picture), the name of the restaurant, how many credits it is, meal times (Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner), if it's a character meal and the review rating (taken from wdwinfo.com).
There are 73 restaurants.

Yeah ... busy busy!

Though, I'm really excited to find out where everyone wants to eat

 

[Amunet]

WHEW! I finished making the slideshow for the presentation this Friday ^_^

So tired! Didn't help I was making slides about dining when I was hungry lol

 

[Alysa]

Hey Kris, I am sorry it has taken me so long to come by your trip report. We are in the middle of March Break madness over here!
Love your photos of your adorable family - looks like you have a bunch of characters in your family and that you are all going to have a super time!
Looking forward to reading more!

 

[Amunet]

Hello Alysa

It's okay, I didn't know you were going to stop over and I completely understand about March Madness. Very busy at work cause of all the Spring Breaking going on

Thank you! Haha yeah, my family is a bunch of characters. My dad is the biggest surprise. He doesn't let loose often, or at all, but since him and our mom got re-married, he is letting us take pictures of him like the one above

 

[Amunet]

Eugh just found out that my Dad works tomorrow. I have been telling him to make sure he has tomorrow off for a MONTH. It makes me a bit upset because I've been working on this slideshow for a while and it has 91 slides, 73 of those slides are all the Table Service restaurants on the Dining Plan (including signature and show restaurants).

Just makes me upset because I'm doing my best to help my mom with her dream of us going as a family. My grammy passed away last may (on mother's day ) and my mother hasn't been quite right. I REALLY want to make my mom smile like she hasn't since before my grammy got sick.
Also, my dad can take a day off work to fly his plane, but not my mother's birthday?

I'm sure all of you know why I'm doing this now ... doing it now allows us to give us a rough draft of our plan for the parks and also allows me to do ADRs.
For 5 people? Yes, need to get this done.

Sorry to vent a bit guys but it really upsets me. The only hope I have left is that my dad try to get home by dinner instead of being gone all day/night.

 

[Amunet]

Good news! My dad made it!

Finally figured out where we are all eating! And here are the final results:

Family Choice Meals
These are the meals we are all going to go to together

Mom = Be Our Guest Restaurant
Dad = Ohana - Dinner
Jon = Ohana - Breakfast
Me = Crystal Palace
Bekah = Paradiso 37

Since we're staying 7 nights, we get 7 Table Service Credits. The 5 Places above are all 1 credits. So, we all have 2 credits left ... which means we have some left over!
I tried to get my parents to do a 2 credit restaurant for a romantic dinner ... but they just wanted to try other restaurants! Lol so did my sister! So ... we have more reservations

Mom & Dad = Raglan Road
Me & Jon = Sanaa
Me, Jon & Bekah = Via Napoli
Mom, Dad & Bekah = Kouzzina

 

[blessedmom4]

Glad your Dad made it!
Yummy Food plans!






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[Amunet]

Thank you very much ^_^

Happy St. Patrick's Day to you too!

 

[Amunet]

Been a bit slow on planning since we just need to wait for times to come out.
Thankfully, I think October times has come out! I'm having to do double the planning in case our reservation is moved to the week ahead!

So, with everyone finally figuring out where they want to eat. I planned the below schedules. Feedback would be much appreciated

Oct. 23 - 30th

23 - Wednesday
Travel & DTD

24 - Thursday
Crystal Palace Breakfast
Epcot
(MK AM EMH)

25 - Friday
Magic Kingdom
Be Our Guest Dinner

26 - Saturday
Animal Kingdom
Sanaa (Me & Jon)
Kouzzina (Mom, Dad & Bekah)

27 - Sunday
Ohana Breakfast
Waterpark Day or Leisure
MNSSHP

28 - Monday
Epcot
Via Napoli Lunch (Me, Jon & Bekah)
Raglin Road Lunch (Mom & Dad)
(MK PM EMH)

29 - Tuesday
Hollywood Studios
Ohana Dinner

30 - Wednesday
Paradisio 37 Lunch
Travel Day

OR ....

Oct. 30th - Nov. 6th
{We are actually booked on these dates}

30 - Wednesday
Travel & DTD

31 - Thursday
Ohana Breakfast
Epcot
MNSSHP

1 - Friday
Water park or Leisure
Paradiso 37

2 - Saturday
Hollywood Studios
Ohana Dinner

3 - Sunday
Animal Kingdom
Sanaa (Me & Jon)
Kouzzina (Mom, Dad & Bekah)

4 - Monday
Crystal Palace Breakfast
Magic Kingdom
Be Our Guest Dinner

5 - Tuesday
Epcot
Via Napoli Lunch (Me, Jon & Bekah)
Raglin Road (Mom & Dad)

6 - Wednesday
Travel Day

 

[Amunet]

Posted the above itinerary in another board. Only got a few responses and no answers to my follow up questions

Anywho, in OTHER news ... I have officially decided that I am going to participate in the Princess Marathon Weekend 5k (Royal Family 5k) next year in February. I also thought it would be pretty awesome to add on a cruise after So, that is what my new tickers are!
I'm planning on surprising DH in the summer (when registration should be up for the 5k). Thankfully, we booked a 'dummy' cruise on our cruise last year, so I was able to apply our 10% discount and $100 OBC to this cruise
Exciting, no?

As for the PTR I am writing in ... I hope to iron out the itinerary by the end of next month, since that is when I will need to start booking reservations.