Twoboysnmygirl
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- Aug 31, 2008
I found you in Ann's PTR and spent all morning reading your TR from your last trip! I'm really looking forward to your PTR as I have the Disney itch pretty badly right now!
We will be there the last part of your trip! I haven't started my PTR yet, only because I can see it consuming a large chunk of my day, lol. Can't wait to hear more!
Great start, Ann. How are you dealing with Zach shipping out? What fun to be planning a wedding? If not imposing, what is Zoe having surgery for?
Hi Ann!!! I came over to join your planning fun, too!!! I finally finished your September PTR & TR so I feel like I know you and your family already!!! You sound like me in being the "clearence queen" and finding bargains galore. I've been to Disney at Christmastime and it's beautiful!!! Can't wait to read more!!
I found you in Ann's PTR and spent all morning reading your TR from your last trip! I'm really looking forward to your PTR as I have the Disney itch pretty badly right now!
The Disney CC is great. I kept saving our points, and by the time our trip arrived we had 986 Disney Dollars. Wish they would have had the offer for 200 free points when I first got it. We are already up to 56 again.
So cool that you will be at Disney on your Birthday. We left a few days before mine.
Great news, Ann. I love our Disney CC--I ended up with almost $500 last year.
On my last TR, I never really finished up my thoughts regarding the trip. Had I done so, I would have listed the things I want to do different next time and the things I thought worked well.
Things that I liked;
1. Flying in early enough to enjoy a meal after checking in but not so early that we went to a park.
2. Bringing items from home to help organize the room. The toothbrush holder I got to stick on the mirror was my favorite item.
3. Eating at other resorts instead of limiting ourselves to just meals at the park.
4. Having a character breakfast before the park opened to put us in the park early.
5. Actually, going to DTD. I had only gone there briefly before and it was only to eat at Raglan Road before we had to hustle back to catch DME back to the airport.
6. Booking both the Fantasmic dinning package and the Finding Nemo Musical dinning package.
7. Eating/drinking around the world at Epcot.
8. Bringing someone who had never been to WDW and enjoying seeing it for the first time through their eyes.
9. Staying in a different resort.
10. Letting Zoe finish an entire mask at Epcot.
Things I didn't like
1. The buses at Pop.
2. Not making better use of our mugs
3. Not spending more time enjoying the resort
4. Caring about making sure that everyone was happy
5. Participating in a fridge swap
6. Missing the aquarium at Epcot
7. Not getting more photos with the pp taken
8. Scheduling a TS meal after eating all day in WS at Epcot
9. Missing all the performers in WS
10. Bus stops at Pop not being covered.
Based on these I can come up with a to do list for our next trip. I am not sure it will be limited to a top ten... but this give me a starting point.
What a great list, Ann. You definitely have to see the performers at Epcot next trip. What is the dining plan for "Finding Nemo?" I don't think I ever heard of that one and it might be something we'd be interested in.
You took care of the "bus stops" not being covered by switching resorts so that helps.
It's a lunch package, just like the Fantasmic package. You have lunch at Tusker House (package) and get to go to a designated show of "Nemo".
Thanks. We've never been to Tusker House. Is it a buffet? Or do you order off a menu? And what time is the show. Sorry...I don't mean to hijack the thread.
Yea, it paid for most of the Polynesian bill. 40% plus a bunch of Disney Dollars made that place affordable.Wow, that is a LOT of Disney dollars! I bet that helped to pay for some things.
4. Having a character breakfast before the park opened to put us in the park early.
6. Booking both the Fantasmic dinning package and the Finding Nemo Musical dinning package.
Great lists! Reminded me of a few do's and don'ts from our past trip as well!
Thanks. We've never been to Tusker House. Is it a buffet? Or do you order off a menu? And what time is the show. Sorry...I don't mean to hijack the thread.
TH is a buffet and it's my favorite place to eat!!! Yum!!
Yea, it paid for most of the Polynesian bill. 40% plus a bunch of Disney Dollars made that place affordable.
Getting in a park before it opens is great. Especially MK so you can get a photo in front of the castle with an almost completely empty park.
We did the Fantasmic dining, I didn't know there was a Finding Nemo package. If I was guaranteed a seat in the same zip code as the stage, I might try it again.
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