Dear Santa, I'd like a double-deluxe Disney Xmas!! Dec'12 PTR! Upd 1/20 TR & DR links

[debrapagliasotti]

Ummmmm, yes, it does sound like you're talking yourself out of LeCellier.

We're hoping for Coral Reef for our CP too.....would like the middle show, late show then early show for times. I'll be disappointed if we can't get this restaurant.....but I do have back ups.....just don't want to use them!

Good luck!!! I'm thrilled with our narrator~~Olivia Newton-John!!! At one point we were looking the CP the first weekend we were there (and that's one of the TBA) but super happy that we chose to do it on our last night in the parks!!!

Coral Reef...I will be so disappointed too if we cant get this one for our CP. I still havent figured out my back-ups. I was hoping to get it all nailed down last night, but didnt. Guess I will be back at it again trying to get a plan in place tonight. I just need to be ready in case all the sudden we hear "packages are on sale in the morning" or something crazy without any notice.

I think Olivia Newton-John would be a good one. She has that peaceful Aussie accent.

 

[DizNee Luver]

Coral Reef...I will be so disappointed too if we cant get this one for our CP. I still havent figured out my back-ups. I was hoping to get it all nailed down last night, but didnt. Guess I will be back at it again trying to get a plan in place tonight. I just need to be ready in case all the sudden we hear "packages are on sale in the morning" or something crazy without any notice.

I think Olivia Newton-John would be a good one. She has that peaceful Aussie accent.

June 26th was announced on one of my many travel agent pages on Facebook this morning as the official day the CP packages will become available. Which totally sucks for us, because we leave the 24th for camp for a week!!!!

 

[debrapagliasotti]

June 26th was announced on one of my many travel agent pages on Facebook this morning as the official day the CP packages will become available. Which totally sucks for us, because we leave the 24th for camp for a week!!!!

Wow, that would be about a month earlier than last year! Hmm...will definately be keeping a watchful eye for that information.

If the 26th is the day, do you have someone who can take care of arranging your CP booking for you? I thought I remembered seeing on your PTR someone had volunteered to take care of it for you if needed.

 

[DizNee Luver]

Wow, that would be about a month earlier than last year! Hmm...will definately be keeping a watchful eye for that information.

If the 26th is the day, do you have someone who can take care of arranging your CP booking for you? I thought I remembered seeing on your PTR someone had volunteered to take care of it for you if needed.

Yes, I have a friend that lives in Boston that will do it for me!! Thank goodness!!

 

[debrapagliasotti]

Yes, I have a friend that lives in Boston that will do it for me!! Thank goodness!!

Oh good!

 

[debrapagliasotti]

Today I am BEYOND stressed!!!! It hit me this morning that my ADR date is in 6 days and I am worried about getting everything. I know lots of people have been having great luck lately, and we got lucky with our Oct ADRs, but GEESH, I might have a nervous breakdown between now and Thursday!!

I am still trying to get CP backups lined up. If I cant get our first choice place, then I have to hope we can get an ADR there for another time. The family really wants to eat at Coral Reef.

ADRs in 6 days...

 

[debrapagliasotti]

For whatever reason, I cant click on anything today on Dis that uses an arrow (search, quick links...including colors, sizes or fonts!!!) Annoying!

I finally got our list turned in to IPO last night regarding our CP selections. Here is what I gave them...

1st choice...Dec 19...815p show...Coral Reef
2nd choice...Dec 19...5p show...Coral Reef
3rd choice...Dec 19...5p show...Le Cellier
4th choice...Dec 19...815p show...La Hacienda de San Angel

I didnt pick the 645p show mainly because of the weird dining time. Eating between 330p and 430p, everyone would be starving at 10pm or something. If we have the 815p show, we can still eat early bkfst, and then early lunch. If we have the 5p show, then we would eat between 145p and 245p and then would probably get something to eat around 8pm. I dont know, I'll cross that bridge when I find out which show we are seeing (in a few days, weeks...it seems to keep changing) I had originally been hearing June 26, now today I heard July 1

I also submitted ANOTHER revision to our dining plans...I really think IPO hates me by now This is what I turned in...

Dec 18 - no ADRs

Dec 19 - lunch San Angel Inn
dinner Coral Reef (CP...I hope!)

Dec 20 - bkfst H&V
lunch Sci Fi
dinner La Hacienda de San Angel (this will change if we have to take this restraunt for our CP)

Dec 21 - bkfst CP
lunch LTT
dinner 1900 PF

Dec 22 - bkfst Cape May
lunch T-Rex
dinner Yachtsman

Dec 23 - bkfst Rainforest Cafe
lunch TH
dinner WCC

Dec 24 - bkfst CRT
lunch Tonys
dinner Ohana

Dec 25 - bkfst Akershus
lunch Chefs de France
dinner Tutto Italia

Dec 26 - lunch Via Napoli
dinner SOA

Dec 27 - bkst TH
lunch Y&Y
dinner Cali Grill

Dec 28 - bkfst Captains Grille
lunch Le Cellier (if we dont get this we will just eat @ Beaches N Cream or Big River Grille)

ADRs in 5 days!

 

[JoshAndEvsMom]

Your ADR's sound so fun! I would love to do the Deluxe DDP some day but I think my family would strangle me! My only hope is that I can turn my (2 year old) DD into a foodie and someday drag her to Disney World so we can eat ourselves silly. *Sigh*

I wouldn't worry about getting what you want. We did our ADR's last month for July when we booked and got everything we wanted. There were even a lot of options for all the hard to get places like CRT, O'hana & Chef Mickey. DH wasn't interested in those places so we didn't book them but I have even been able to change some of our current ADRs to more desirable times in the last week. I'm sure you'll get everything but just keep checking back if you don't.

 

[DizNee Luver]

Take a deep breath and just wait to see how it goes.......I imagine you'll be ok for most of them.....you may have to switch the time on a couple.....but I bet you'll do ok!!!

 

[debrapagliasotti]

Your ADR's sound so fun! I would love to do the Deluxe DDP some day but I think my family would strangle me! My only hope is that I can turn my (2 year old) DD into a foodie and someday drag her to Disney World so we can eat ourselves silly. *Sigh*

I wouldn't worry about getting what you want. We did our ADR's last month for July when we booked and got everything we wanted. There were even a lot of options for all the hard to get places like CRT, O'hana & Chef Mickey. DH wasn't interested in those places so we didn't book them but I have even been able to change some of our current ADRs to more desirable times in the last week. I'm sure you'll get everything but just keep checking back if you don't.

DH was the one who wanted to do DxDP. Our family typically eats 3 meals a day anyways, so he thought it just made the most sense for us. I'm excited we will get to try so many places, but am worried about having to be rolled out of the hotel by the last day

Take a deep breath and just wait to see how it goes.......I imagine you'll be ok for most of them.....you may have to switch the time on a couple.....but I bet you'll do ok!!!

I hope it all works out ok. I'll let you know on Thursday. I will be checking my email first thing in the morning hoping with good news from IPO.

 

[debrapagliasotti]

6 months from today we will be at WDW!!!!!!

ADRs in 3 days...

CP packages available on June 26 (finally heard the OFFICIAL word today from Disney!)...

Did I mention we will be at WDW 6 months from today??!!

121 days until October bonus trip

 

[DizNee Luver]

6 months from today we will be at WDW!!!!!!

ADRs in 3 days...

CP packages available on June 26 (finally heard the OFFICIAL word today from Disney!)...

Did I mention we will be at WDW 6 months from today??!!

121 days until October bonus trip

WOO HOO!!!!!

(I just wish the date wasn't the 26th......I'm away at camp, in the boonies, with no internet or cell service.......)

 

[debrapagliasotti]

ADRs on Thursday!!!

 

[DizNee Luver]

You'll do great!!!!

 

[debrapagliasotti]

Lots going on today...

DH found out yesterday that he has been granted full admittance to the Doctoral program he recently applied for. Soooo happy for him, BUT, this throws a tiny wrench in some of our plans...our Oct trip plans because of one of the classes he needs to take this Fall. So, with a sad heart, I had to call and cancel our Oct trip.

HOWEVER...

There is happy news here x 2...

Happy news # 1...DH said we could definately do the Oct trip...NEXT YEAR AND...we could stay a day or 2 longer than we had originally planned! As soon as the booking window for packages for 2013 open up I will be booking, but the dates I am looking at are Oct 15-20, 2013. That would give us 2 days at MK + MNSSHP and 2 days at Epcot for F&W. By that time we wont be able to book CR Tower because Evan will be older than 2 so we would exceed our 5 + infant, so...we would probably do WL (CL). This trip would still be a suprise for the kids.

OK, happy news # 2...We have added on 2 days to our Dec trip at the end. We are officially booked at CR TPV Dec 28-30!! Couldnt let the opportunity pass us by to stay at this hotel in the tower before we outgrew it. We wont really be doing much park time after moving here, but we will probably do AM EMH at MK on the 29th, then just relax, swim. Most excited about watching fireworks from our balcony.

Once we found out we needed to cancel Oct, I called BW IPO and asked them to rearrange a few ADRs to try and get the ones we were going to miss out on...Chef Mickey and Kona, so, they will be trying for those tomorrow morning.

I will update tomorrow with ADRs once I hear from IPO.
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[DizNee Luver]

Congrats to your hubby!! Bummer you had to cancel your October trip........ All that planning, it's such a let down when you put so much time & effort into it and then to tell it good bye!!

Exciting news about adding a few days in December!!! Hopefully with adding a couple days, you'll be able to get those ADR's without too much trouble.

 

[tofubeast]

Congrats to your hubby!! That's huge news! Sorry about October, but WDW will still be waiting for you and it gives you all something to look forward to in '13! Super awesome about adding CR to the end of your already awesome trip.

Good luck with ADRs!!

 

[debrapagliasotti]

Congrats to your hubby!! Bummer you had to cancel your October trip........ All that planning, it's such a let down when you put so much time & effort into it and then to tell it good bye!!

Exciting news about adding a few days in December!!! Hopefully with adding a couple days, you'll be able to get those ADR's without too much trouble.

Thank you, he is so happy about this opportunity. I am so proud of him!

I am a little sad that we had to cancel October, OK, a LOT sad, but, DH totally made it better by saying we could do the trip next year.

I have Halloween costumes purchased for the kids already, so thats a plus

Super excited about the 2 extra nights! I was shocked to see CR still had availability for the room we wanted!

Congrats to your hubby!! That's huge news! Sorry about October, but WDW will still be waiting for you and it gives you all something to look forward to in '13! Super awesome about adding CR to the end of your already awesome trip.

Good luck with ADRs!!

Thank you! He is so excited (nervous, but excited).

I am sad about no WDW this Oct, but I know we have a great trip booked for Dec. The kids never knew about the Oct trip, so we wont be letting them down and they can still be excited about the suprise...next year.

Looking forward to ADRs tomorrow

 

[debrapagliasotti]

Today was...ADR day!!!

How did we fare??...

Dec 18 -
No ADRs booked, grabbing something QS before MVMCP

Dec 19 -
Lunch Chefs de France
Dinner Candlelight Processional...trying for La Hacienda de San Angel

Dec 20 -
Bkfst H&V (pre park opening!)
Lunch Sci Fi
Dinner Coral Reef (couldnt take any chances not getting it for our CP!!)

Dec 21 -
Bkfst Crystal Palace (pre park opening!)
Lunch LTT
Dinner Chef Mickey

Dec 22 -
Bkfst Cape May
Lunch T-Rex (IPO has to call and book this. They have not released the dates in system yet)
Dinner Yachtsman

Dec 23 -
Bkfst Kona
Lunch TH
Dinner WCC

Dec 24 -
Bkfst CRT
Lunch Tonys
Dinner Ohana

Dec 25 -
Bkfst Akershus (pre park opening!)
Lunch Le Cellier
Dinner Tutto Italia

Dec 26 -
Lunch Via Napoli
Dinner SOA

Dec 27 -
Bkfst TH (pre park opening!)
Lunch Y&Y
Dinner Cali Grill

Dec 28 -
Cannot be booked yet
Lunch San Angel

Dec 29 -
Cannot be booked yet
Dinner Narcoossee's

Dec 30 -
Cannot be booked yet
Bkfst Chef Mickey, Ohana or Kona - whatever I can get

I am EXTREMELY happy with how it all worked out. We got the exact times we wanted for almost everything. We have 2 ADRs that are 15 minutes from the time we wanted, 1 that is 10 minutes from what we wanted and 2 that are 5 minutes from what we wanted. Overall, pretty darn happy!!

I'm switching up my CP request since I was able to get Coral Reef and Le Cellier. We are hoping for La Hacienda de San Angel. Hopefully this will be an easier one to get.
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[DizNee Luver]

WOO HOO!!!! WTG!!!! Everything looks great!!!