February 2012

[miss.potatohead]

I'm considering a trip in very early February, from Melbourne to New York (no more than 5 days) then to Florida for 10 days (2-3 days at Universal, then a week at Disney and anything else we want to do).

What would be the best way to do flights/best companies? I've only ever gone from Melbourne to LA so I'm not sure of the best way to get to the places I want to travel to!

Any insights would be much appreciated!

 

[Toy Story]

how exciting, fingers crossed for free dining during your stay.
We are doing NY than Orlando next April, booked through flight centre, it is a Virgin fare that flies into LA, than Delta for the LA to NY & Orlando to LA legs. I am booking a separate internal fare for NY to Orlando, I am looking at $130 with luggage. I hope that helps.

BTW, I booked our stay at Universal today, if you stay 4 nights there is a 20% disc out at the moment.

 

[Anne_Aus]

Oh exciting!!! I will also be in NYC at the same time

I would look at V I know that they are flying out of Melbourne to LA and they do have a partner airline.

I booked my flights between Orlando and NYC with Jet Blue it includes one free checked bag

 

[Anne_Aus]

Toy Story where did you book? I am considering a few nights there later in my trip

 

[miss.potatohead]

Okay I've edited this post since I originally posted...

I've been playing around with on-site accommodation for the dates 2/2/2012 until the 10/2/1012 (so that I get in with free dining that finishes on the 2nd) It's spat out $3600 for a standard view room at the Port Orleans French Resort with a 6 day park hopper + water parks option and Magic Your Way Plus Dining option. The only question is, when I downgrade the dining option to the entry 'Magic Your Way' option (ie no food) my price drops down $1000 to $2600 (this is for 2 adults). So it isn't recognising it as being 'free' - do you have to put a code in this later to get the price down or what? So confused, maybe I'll post this in the dining section too, but I thought an Aussie or NZ dis'er could help!

 

[Toy Story]

Toy Story where did you book? I am considering a few nights there later in my trip

Hi Anne, I booked at the Portifino Bay, I booked through Expedia and paid straight away - I know I will take the risk of a better deal coming out, but just decided I wanted to pay up-front and cross it off my list.

 

[Anne_Aus]

Hi Anne, I booked at the Portifino Bay, I booked through Expedia and paid straight away - I know I will take the risk of a better deal coming out, but just decided I wanted to pay up-front and cross it off my list.

Thanks, I am the same with paying straight away and crossing it off the list. Will check it out now

 

[OziJo]

Okay I've edited this post since I originally posted...

I've been playing around with on-site accommodation for the dates 2/2/2012 until the 10/2/1012 (so that I get in with free dining that finishes on the 2nd) It's spat out $3600 for a standard view room at the Port Orleans French Resort with a 6 day park hopper + water parks option and Magic Your Way Plus Dining option. The only question is, when I downgrade the dining option to the entry 'Magic Your Way' option (ie no food) my price drops down $1000 to $2600 (this is for 2 adults). So it isn't recognising it as being 'free' - do you have to put a code in this later to get the price down or what? So confused, maybe I'll post this in the dining section too, but I thought an Aussie or NZ dis'er could help!

Go to http://www.dreamsunlimitedtravel.com/ and speak to a Travel Planner. I was about to book myself when I came across a blog for Aussie travelers called Disney Traveller who put me onto them. They booked everything for me, gave me a heads up on free dining and just recently a discount on my room only portion of my stay. You only have to make a deposit and they keep an eye out for discounts. They don't charge for the service.

As to flights we did a multi-city search on the QANTAS site and they gave various options. We chose to pay a bit more for less stopovers. But there can be issues with QANTAS (see the thread on this board). I did look at other airlines at the time but went with QANTAS.

 

[miss.potatohead]

Thanks guys for all the advice. Not sure if the trip will go ahead or if I should just wait until 2013 or 2014 and make it a bigger trip. Time will tell