skier_pete
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Hey everyone – we are not far off from our Disneyland/D23 trip and I thought I would kick it off. We have been talking about this trip for 4 years since I decided that we should go to a D23 convention while our DD will still travel with us. Then as I was looking at the numbers – it looked like this would be DW and my 23rd Disney trip.
17 trips to WDW: May 1997, Oct 2000, Oct 2006, Sept 2007, Aug 2008, Dec 2009, April 2010, Oct, 2010, Nov 2011, Nov 2013, Oct 2014, Aug 2015, Oct 2016, Nov 2017, Feb 2018, Aug 2018, Oct 2018
3 trips to DL : July 2012, Feb 2016 and an ABD backstage magic trip in June 2013.
1 DCL cruise: Feb 2014
Oh wait, you say – that’s only twenty-one! OK – in Feb 2017 we took a trip to Universal BUT we also got tickets for “Moonlight Magic” at MK through DVC, and so we spent the evening at MK. And THAT my friends brings us to 22 trips together. (DD has only done 16 – poor kid!)
First trip to DLR was on our way to Australia:
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2nd time was the most incredible trip ever – the Adventure’s By Disney Backstage Magic. It’s a standard which no trip can hold up to.
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Our third time out we spent a week in Calfiornia with my DM who lives in Arizona. We only spent 3 days at DLR, which was nearly enough.
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So on to trip #23 – well, as I said it was summer 2015 and I was watching the D23 convention coverage and thinking “We have to do this at least once I our lives!” I knew we were thinking of a trip to Europe in 2017, so my mind went to “OK – let’s do it in 2019.” And here we are a month away and the plans are in place.
I was originally thinking we would do the convention first and then DLR after, but the timing of the convention being at the end of August this year we wanted to have a week off for DD before school starts.
So we are flying out on August 17th to Los Angeles. I got an INCREDIBLY good price on the flight from Southwest. The flight out was $125 which is nearly insane – almost a mistake so low. The flight back on Monday the 26th I got for like $170 one-way which is still an excellent price, so I was super happy.
Anyways – we arrive at 9:30 PM, which doesn’t sound bad except we will be coming from the East coast, so we’ll be super-tired. We had previously used Supershuttle to travel from LAX to DLR – but we decided to get a towncar so we can go directly to the hotel. We’re staying at the Tropicana for the next 5 nghts, which we’ve stayed at twice before – right across Harbor Boulevard from DLR. It’s actually less than a 5-minute walk to the entrance of the park.
However, at this point – we will undoubtedly be crashing for the night.
I'll continue to update our plans as we get closer - but until then - come along, won't you!
17 trips to WDW: May 1997, Oct 2000, Oct 2006, Sept 2007, Aug 2008, Dec 2009, April 2010, Oct, 2010, Nov 2011, Nov 2013, Oct 2014, Aug 2015, Oct 2016, Nov 2017, Feb 2018, Aug 2018, Oct 2018
3 trips to DL : July 2012, Feb 2016 and an ABD backstage magic trip in June 2013.
1 DCL cruise: Feb 2014
Oh wait, you say – that’s only twenty-one! OK – in Feb 2017 we took a trip to Universal BUT we also got tickets for “Moonlight Magic” at MK through DVC, and so we spent the evening at MK. And THAT my friends brings us to 22 trips together. (DD has only done 16 – poor kid!)
First trip to DLR was on our way to Australia:
[/url]2nd time was the most incredible trip ever – the Adventure’s By Disney Backstage Magic. It’s a standard which no trip can hold up to.
[/url]Our third time out we spent a week in Calfiornia with my DM who lives in Arizona. We only spent 3 days at DLR, which was nearly enough.
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So on to trip #23 – well, as I said it was summer 2015 and I was watching the D23 convention coverage and thinking “We have to do this at least once I our lives!” I knew we were thinking of a trip to Europe in 2017, so my mind went to “OK – let’s do it in 2019.” And here we are a month away and the plans are in place.
I was originally thinking we would do the convention first and then DLR after, but the timing of the convention being at the end of August this year we wanted to have a week off for DD before school starts.
So we are flying out on August 17th to Los Angeles. I got an INCREDIBLY good price on the flight from Southwest. The flight out was $125 which is nearly insane – almost a mistake so low. The flight back on Monday the 26th I got for like $170 one-way which is still an excellent price, so I was super happy.
Anyways – we arrive at 9:30 PM, which doesn’t sound bad except we will be coming from the East coast, so we’ll be super-tired. We had previously used Supershuttle to travel from LAX to DLR – but we decided to get a towncar so we can go directly to the hotel. We’re staying at the Tropicana for the next 5 nghts, which we’ve stayed at twice before – right across Harbor Boulevard from DLR. It’s actually less than a 5-minute walk to the entrance of the park.
However, at this point – we will undoubtedly be crashing for the night.
I'll continue to update our plans as we get closer - but until then - come along, won't you!
Anyway, looking forward to reading more.
