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

[DizNee Luver]

WOO HOO!!! I'm glad you got it all straightened out & have it booked!!!

 

[catherines_mama]

Everthing looks great! CP is amazing. This Dec we did La Hacienda and CP package, we all really enjoyed the dinner and the show was spectacular. I don't think we are back in Dec until 2014, but I can't wait to see it again.

Haven't seen all your Dec plans yet, but try to do storytellers in Epcot, they are wonderful!

 

[tofubeast]

October looks AWESOME. I am so jealous!! Two amazing WDW trips to look forward to!

Lucky (donald) duck!!!

 

[debrapagliasotti]

Everthing looks great! CP is amazing. This Dec we did La Hacienda and CP package, we all really enjoyed the dinner and the show was spectacular. I don't think we are back in Dec until 2014, but I can't wait to see it again.

Haven't seen all your Dec plans yet, but try to do storytellers in Epcot, they are wonderful!

We are definately looking forward to CP. Looks so beautiful. I am hoping La Hacienda is yummy. I know the menu is rather limited, but we love mexican food, so it looked like a winner to me.

I will continue on with daily plans in the next few days. We are definately planning on seeing the storytellers in Epcot. My DH really seemed intrigued by the idea of those. The plan for now is to see them on Christmas while we are at Epcot again, but we may catch a few on our CP day.

October looks AWESOME. I am so jealous!! Two amazing WDW trips to look forward to!

Lucky (donald) duck!!!

Thank you! I was upset when we had to postpone, but I think I like this idea better of going the following year.

Ha ha...lucky Donald Duck

WOO HOO!!! I'm glad you got it all straightened out & have it booked!!!

Thank you! It was a bit of a hassle, but worth it in the end.

 

[WDWCP96]

Yeah for booking your October 2013 trip! I really want to go back for F & W at some point but it will have to wait until 2014 at the earliest.

 

[JoshAndEvsMom]

for booking Oct 2013! I think I may have got a green light (okay, its slightly yellow) for going forward with our Nov 2013 plans. I'm not pressing anything until after this trip though!

 

[debrapagliasotti]

Yeah for booking your October 2013 trip! I really want to go back for F & W at some point but it will have to wait until 2014 at the earliest.

Thank you! After Oct 2013 we are going to be building a house...so no WDW on the radar after that for several years.

for booking Oct 2013! I think I may have got a green light (okay, its slightly yellow) for going forward with our Nov 2013 plans. I'm not pressing anything until after this trip though!

Thanks, I'm excited about that one! I hear such awesome things about MNSSHP.

in hopes you get the green light for Nov 2013!!

 

[Eoywin]

Joining from the October 2013 thread

 

[LadyBeBop]

Joining from the October 2013 thread

Double ditto here too.

 

[debrapagliasotti]

Joining from the October 2013 thread

Double ditto here too.

Hello and welcome my fellow Oct 2013-ers

 

[debrapagliasotti]

Always an exciting day when you go out to the mailbox expecting to find the usual bills, catalogues, magazines...blah, blah, blah.

But anytime you are planning a WDW trip its always exciting to find...

MICKEY MAIL!!!

Today this was in our mailbox...

Magic Express documents

There was also an additional ME envelope which contained 1 additional luggage tag per person, so we now have 12 tags (which is great because it saves me from calling to request additional ones since we are flying SW)

And while I am sharing Mickey mail, I dont think I ever shared the pic when these beautiful babies arrived earlier in June...

Our MVMCP tickets


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[debrapagliasotti]

I updated in the previous post so make sure you catch that too...

Day 2 - Wed Dec 19

Epcot

This will be our first FULL day at WDW. Last night we will have attended MVMCP, so I am expecting everyone to be dragging their feet this morning. HOWEVER, no sleeping in today!

Hopefully I can wake up a bit before everyone else and do a little holiday decorating. I purchased Disney stockings last year when they were on sale as well as some holiday window clings, christmas lights, etc.

We dont have a breakfast ADR this morning. Instead we will head to BW Inkeeper's Club and enjoy some breakfast offerings there.

From what I have seen, looks like pastries, fruit, cereals, yogurt, milk, coffee, juice...etc.

After our breakfast, we will walk over to Epcot. Its a very short walk (~5min) to International Gateway.

Park hours for today are 9a-930p. Hopefully we can get in there right at 9am.
Touring Plans shows Epcot as a Best Park today as well as 4.7 crowd level. Our plan for this day in Epcot is to focus on Future World. Of course Soarin and TT are priorities. Mission Space orange is also a priority for DH and Hunter. I know the little boys will enjoy The Seas with Nemo. We will try and get as much in as possible this morning before our lunch ADR at noon.

Lunch today will be at Chefs de France. As I said, we have an ADR right at opening, so I am hoping we can get seated quickly. Remy is scheduled at 1230pm, so hopefully he "shows up to work that day".

Anyways, Chefs de France. I really shocked DH when I picked this one let me tell ya! But I am very confident that everyone will enjoy lunch here. Personally, I am looking forward to some quiche, followed by an apple crepe for dessert. I absolutely love crepes!

I am thinking by this point, we will probably take an afternoon break and walk back to the hotel. If the weather is nice, we will swim, otherwise, we will just enjoy the Boardwalk or Inkeeper's Lounge for a few hours.

Tonight is our Candlelight Processional. We will be taking the little boys over to the Beach Club to Sand Castle Club and after we get them checked in and settled, we will walk back to Epcot and head over to our CP ADR, La Hacienda. Our ADR is at 5pm.

Although the menu is limited at La Hacienda, the offerings intrigue me. Our family loves Mexican food, so I think this will be a hit. While we are eating dinner here, the little boys will be given a meal at Sand Castle. The choices are PB&J, burgers...there are a few other choices as well, but your typical kids food. They will not use dining credits because the meal is included in the hourly fee, so they will have 2 credits to use as some point over the trip.

We are seeing the 815p CP. I was super excited once narrarators were announced earlier in June. I waited in anticipation...who would we get??!! The list was announced and we have...

TBA!!!

AGH!! Really??!! So, now I find myself checking the WDW website every other day in hopes the list will have been updated. No such luck yet, but I know we will end up with SOMEONE, just a matter of WHO?

Anyways, Candlelight Processional. I am beyond excited about this, as is DH! I dont care if we were to get stuck sitting in the back row, I am just happy to see this. I have watched a few little clips of this, but I dont want to see much of it because I want to be suprised and just take it all in while we are there.

After CP we will go ahead and stick around for Illuminations, just watching from wherever we can find a spot. We did not watch Illuminations the last time we were at WDW, so I know everyone will enjoy this. We will let the little boys see this when we go back to Epcot in a few days.

We will then head back over to Beach Club and pick up the little boys. Hopefully they will have had a good time. We will walk over to BW and head to bed. I'm sure everyone will sleep good tonight. Tomorrow we will head to HS.


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[tofubeast]

Your daily itinerary so far is looking good!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope that TBA becomes known soon.

Love that you already got Mickey Mail. Feels oh so real!

 

[debrapagliasotti]

Your daily itinerary so far is looking good!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope that TBA becomes known soon.

Love that you already got Mickey Mail. Feels oh so real!

Thank you. I will try and knock out a day 3 update in the next few days.

TBA is driving me ...but not the happy dancing banana! More like a banana doing this ...or

Love Mickey Mail, it really does make it all feel so real.

 

[WyldLynx]

Totally subbing. Looks like you are in for a amazing trip. I want to see how you end up with the DxDDP for 7 days, because we are going in Sept 2013 and using DxDDP also for 7 days. I haven't made it too far into your report yet but so far it has been a fun read.

 

[debrapagliasotti]

Totally subbing. Looks like you are in for a amazing trip. I want to see how you end up with the DxDDP for 7 days, because we are going in Sept 2013 and using DxDDP also for 7 days. I haven't made it too far into your report yet but so far it has been a fun read.

Welcome! As you will quickly find out when reading, the 7 day trip, has become an 11 day trip...which just meant, more dining!

I am really excited to get to try so many offerings being on DxDP. I think we have 25 ADRs booked!

I see from your ticker you are staying at WL Sept 2013, we are booked there in Oct 2013 It will be our first time staying at that resort.

Glad to have you following along!

 

[JoshAndEvsMom]

Hooray for Mickey Mail!! Its so much fun when you see those papers and it becomes more real.

Your Epcot/ Candlelight Processional day sounds like so much fun. I hope you get to find out soon who your narrator will be!

I love Remy so Les Chefs is on my bucket list for our next trip. I really hope you get to see him! He's so cute!

 

[jlas00]

After CP we will go ahead and stick around for Illuminations, just watching from wherever we can find a spot. We did not watch Illuminations the last time we were at WDW, so I know everyone will enjoy this. We will let the little boys see this when we go back to Epcot in a few days.




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When you book a CP dining package in addition to reserved seating for the CP you also get VIP viewing for Illuminations. Not sure if you knew this or not!

 

[debrapagliasotti]

When you book a CP dining package in addition to reserved seating for the CP you also get VIP viewing for Illuminations. Not sure if you knew this or not!

Thank you, yes I did know. Only problem is that with us going to the 815p CP, we may not be able to get a very good spot b/c everyone else from the other shows will already be there, so, we will just kind of get a spot where we can

 

[debrapagliasotti]

Hooray for Mickey Mail!! Its so much fun when you see those papers and it becomes more real.

Your Epcot/ Candlelight Processional day sounds like so much fun. I hope you get to find out soon who your narrator will be!

I love Remy so Les Chefs is on my bucket list for our next trip. I really hope you get to see him! He's so cute!

I do love Mickey mail!!

Still nothing on that CP narrarator...one day maybe they will tell us who

Remy is super cute! I just love that movie I am hoping getting that ADR right at opening, we can get in pretty quickly and be sure not to miss him...unless he is *sick* that day