bweagle
DIS Veteran
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- Mar 1, 2001
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Just got back from a week and a half at Disney World. I had read about the outlet stores on these boards, but had these stupid notions in my head that the souveniers wouldn't mean as much if I got them at a Discount store rather than in the parks. BOY WAS I WRONG!
I got a few things here and there at stores in the parks, but on one of our days away from the parks, we decided to just check out these outlet stores to see what they were all about. I hit both of the stores at Belz & the one at Premium Outlet too! Actually, we went back to all three a second time on the day we started for home, and I remembered someone saying something about one at St. Augustine, so while we were driving through I had DH pull off at the exit of the Belz outlet, and by golly there was a great one there too!
When all was said and done I spent $74 on clothing that would have cost $269 in the parks. All had Walt Disney World tags, and most of it I had seen in the park shops. For that $74 I got 4 sweatshirts (most marked between $40-$69 originally) a t-shirt and a long sleeved cotton shirt! I also got several little knick knacks, photo frames, a key chain, magnets.....etc. I seriously thought about getting one of the Mickey snowman that you can get at the Marketplace for twenty some dollars marked down to $11, but I didn't see this until the St. Augustine store and I was running out of $$$
Oh, DH loved these places too. He normally wears the golf type shirts (collar, three buttons, short sleeve) but all of these type shirts in the park stores were in the $30-$40 price range. He bought 2 2x shirts (one with goofy and one with Mickey) for $12.00 each.
Now I can't wait until the Fall, so I can wear my new sweatshirts!
I got a few things here and there at stores in the parks, but on one of our days away from the parks, we decided to just check out these outlet stores to see what they were all about. I hit both of the stores at Belz & the one at Premium Outlet too! Actually, we went back to all three a second time on the day we started for home, and I remembered someone saying something about one at St. Augustine, so while we were driving through I had DH pull off at the exit of the Belz outlet, and by golly there was a great one there too!
When all was said and done I spent $74 on clothing that would have cost $269 in the parks. All had Walt Disney World tags, and most of it I had seen in the park shops. For that $74 I got 4 sweatshirts (most marked between $40-$69 originally) a t-shirt and a long sleeved cotton shirt! I also got several little knick knacks, photo frames, a key chain, magnets.....etc. I seriously thought about getting one of the Mickey snowman that you can get at the Marketplace for twenty some dollars marked down to $11, but I didn't see this until the St. Augustine store and I was running out of $$$
Oh, DH loved these places too. He normally wears the golf type shirts (collar, three buttons, short sleeve) but all of these type shirts in the park stores were in the $30-$40 price range. He bought 2 2x shirts (one with goofy and one with Mickey) for $12.00 each.
Now I can't wait until the Fall, so I can wear my new sweatshirts!
