Contemporary or luxurious offsite accomodation?

[travelitis]

What a terrible piece of news to get while on vacation! I'm glad that his father recovered and is doing well.

Thanks for all the very helpful points of view and ideas that helped us sort this out. We've decided to do 1st 2nts at CR then go to our timeshare which is only 2 mi. from WDW. My husband is already sick of hearing about Disney, so 2 nts. on site is all I'm going to get out of him, but that will be a great surprise for the kids. He's resistant to the idea of having just a room, because we always stay in larger places. The other part of that was looking at transportation times. Because I travel with an ECV, the buses take longer because I end up waiting for accessible ones. There are times I can get from the timeshare to a park in less time than from CR using Disney transport. Thirdly, it was brought to my attention that NASA is a greater priority than WDW for my boys. Little do they know we're planning to send them both to Space Camp. We'll get a nice injection of WDW magic to kick off our trip, though and end up with what we think is the best of both worlds.

TAR is training, administration, and retention or recruitment. It means you're doing paperwork, and lots of it. For each person deployed there's a package of paperwork, and he does that. He was very busy after Sept. 11, and was on the list to go to an sea, but his C.O. requested he be kept at the base. He also does advancements, service records, I.D. cards, reservist's pay, etc. There aren't a lot of these contracts available, so he felt fortunate to get accepted.

 

[DisneyVirginia]

Clover and Travelitis--just want to confirm SoG overflow rates at Disney properties are available only when SoG is sold out. Those particular rates are independent of the rank or GS level of the eligible person making the reservation. DH and I are dual-income, one private sector and one working for DoD. I usually wait to make overflow ressies until SoG confirms they have no rooms. Of course, this year I outwitted myself, because if I had known, I would have grabbed the CR special, even though my SoG rate at GF is very good. And I'm getting excited as it draws very near--woohoo!

One of the best features of overflow is the ability to get as many as three rooms at a time at the overflow rate. The other bennie is that over the years, depending upon what is offered, you can stay at almost any resort around the world at significantly reduced rates. That is how I have managed to stay at the deluxe hotels, without DH objection. (Well, not much objection.)

The SoG drawback is that overflow is sometimes comprised of slim pickings--if tourism business is very good, the range and depth of the SoG discounts are nothing special. When one asks for overflow, there are sometimes offerings for just about all of the Disney hotels, and sometimes for just a few.

SoG also helps with off-site specials--but as of now, I've not tried off-site through SoG.

Well, that's my WDW experience!

Still think CR at $66/night is way cool!!!!! Travelitis, your solution to split the stay is great--everyone wins. I hope you and yours have a MAGICAL time. And best of luck and God bless you as you work throught the arthritis!

DisneyVirginia

 

[DisneyVirginia]

Clover and Travelitis--just want to confirm SoG overflow rates at Disney properties are available only when SoG is sold out. Those particular rates are independent of the rank or GS level of the eligible person making the reservation. DH and I are dual-income, one private sector and one working for DoD. I usually wait to make overflow ressies until SoG confirms they have no rooms. Of course, this year I outwitted myself, because if I had known, I would have grabbed the CR special, even though my SoG rate at GF is very good. And I'm getting excited as it draws very near--woohoo!

One of the best features of overflow is the ability to get as many as three rooms at a time at the overflow rate. The other bennie is that over the years, depending upon what is offered, you can stay at almost any resort around the world at significantly reduced rates. That is how I have managed to stay at the deluxe hotels, without DH objection. (Well, not much objection.)

The SoG drawback is that overflow is sometimes comprised of slim pickings--if tourism business is very good, the range and depth of the SoG discounts are nothing special. When one asks for overflow, there are sometimes offerings for just about all of the Disney hotels, and sometimes for just a few.

SoG also helps with off-site specials--but as of now, I've not tried off-site through SoG.

Well, that's my WDW experience!

Still think CR at $66/night is way cool!!!!! Travelitis, your solution to split the stay is great--everyone wins. I hope you and yours have a MAGICAL time. And best of luck and God bless you as you work throught the arthritis!

DisneyVirginia