Excited to jump in on this thread.
We took a heck of a route to get here, but we are booked at POFQ for Easter Week (I know, I know, its going to be crazy).
We originally booked ourselves at POR for a long weekend around Memorial Day (Fri-Tuesday). Then I got an itchy trigger finger and with the Spring Vacation deal, upgraded us to Poly (had never stayed at either, ftr).
Unfortunately, this past Monday, my wife (teacher) got word that because of all the snow we've had here in the Northeast, and since the Friday before and Tuesday after Memorial Day had been "taken away" as vacation days, she was going to have to apply for vacation days to take those days off, and her request was denied (despite her vetting this exact scenario at the beginning of the winter before we booked - we never try to do anything during the school year for this exact reason, but we didn't want to go back again in August like we usually do with the heat!!).
Scrambling, since we had already disclosed to the kids (son, 7 and daughter, 1 - ok, so we didn't really "disclose" to her haha) the trip was happening, but wanting to avoid that summer heat, we decided to brave the Easter Week despite everyone telling us not to. Unfortunately, that meant huge price increases on flights, no discounts and room rack rates. Our vacation more than doubled in price!!!
Since % discounts were no longer available, I decided to check on POFQ (previously not a consideration as excluded from the spring vacation plan, but always an intriguing option because of the size and that being a huge concern to us, especially now with the prospect of the crowds we'll be dealing with all week) and lo and behold, garden views were still available!! We booked, and our Disney Package was suddenly now lower than the previous bookings' cost WITH AN EXTRA NIGHT. And, lucky us, I held off on changing the flights (SWA) for the moment because of the exorbitant extra costs, and the costs went down yesterday! Not quite down to our old level, but the end story is, our total cost, with an extra day and night, is now not much different after all.
I've been in crazy planning mode all week now since our vacation moved up about 6 weeks - had ADRs previously, rebooked some (not all). I suddenly found myself IN our FP+ window where we previously weren't (but it appears those don't sell out the way I expected them to, like ADRs) and its been touring plans and easy WDW research nonstep to figure out how we'll beat the expected 9 level crowds.
But all in all, excited to try a new resort. Any Port Orleans' fun we should be on the lookout for!?
) and I was at the 60 day mark yesterday so I went to do my online check in. I had wanted to request a top floor but the only floor options were ground floor and 2nd floor. Anyone have any idea why the third floor wasn't an option?
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