Cinderumbrella
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Hi everyone!!!
Glad my trip plans are amusing you all!! (It amuses me too!!
) I consider myself a self proclaimed WDW expert but this is such a different time of year for us that I feel like a newbie!!!
Want to hear my ADR nightmare?! I mentioned to DH last night that we could only get a 8:10 pm at Le Cellier on our last night with a 9pm Illuminations and 10pm MK closing. (We ALWAYS go to MK our last night) We would have missed Illuminations AND MK, and would have waited FORVER for a bus to get back to the hotel. He says it is too late to cancel and get an earlier dinner somewhere else (We were thinking Yacht Galley Grille (or whatever it is called)or GFC). So I call and I ask if there are any earlier openings at Le Cellier that night. Sure enough- there was a 6pm!!
We get it booked and he looks at my ADR list and says "That's strange, you have 3 dinner reservations that night..." I say, yeah, cancel the 8:10 and I give him my ADR #. He cancels it and says "So we are cancelling the 8:10 at CORAL REEF?" CORAL REEF?! It was supposed to be Le Cellier. Nope, it was Coral Reef and I also had a 4:30 there as well on the same night 
So we cancelled that one too and he ran down the rest of my list to confirm the dates and times were all accurate (which they were) Can you imagine if we got to Le Cellier at 8:00 on our last night and found out that we didn't have an ADR there 
So here are my ADR's
Tutto Italia our first night, Crystal Palace "brunch" (got the last seating for breakfast and we should be there for the lunch conversion), Chef Mickey's Breakfast (made sure to note the Birthday on this one!
), Play N Dine Breakfast, Sci Fi late lunch, Teppan Edo dinner, Le Cellier dinner. Not bad for calling 47 days out!! We will probably pay OOP for the Sci Fi rather than use a credit there. I wanted to skip Play N Dine and just use the credit at the Sci Fi but neither DH or DS wanted to skip it!!
OK, so catching up...
Debbie- we are there 5/14 to 5/20. Normally I avoid midweek to midweek trips but the airfare was such a steal we took it!! I am just glad Pop had so many openings that time that it was esy to fiddle with the airfare and get the hotel to match!
Goofy- enjoy the cabana! This was my favorite indulence last trip!!
DH still gives me grief about the $65 strawberries and says the cabana was money spent more wisely 
It's a shame we are going to the GF in December and not this trip (although there was room at the GF the week we are going, hmmm.... ) Anyway, I won't rent the cabana then since the weather is too unpredictable. We are planning a pool day this trip on the day we go to the P&P Party so the cabana would have been great!!!
Thanks for the tip on CBR, I figured that was why there were so many rooms available over there (I think the only mod for my dates too). The pool is the main appeal to me at CBR. I mentioned the moderate upgrade to DH but he thinks it is silly to upgrade from value to mod since the ammenities aren't much better (not to mention CBR is SO much bigger and more spread out than Pop) He said he would only upgrade to Deluxe... still wish he would go for AKL but it would add $600 to the trip price and when we are going for $2400 for the week (including DDP and airfare) he isn't about to splurge (Unless I agree to stay somewhere other than the GF in December
NO WAY JOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Tinklvr & Vanessa- The Wilderness was where we were booked at the Dells We were going for 2 nights. After lodging, minigolf, go-carts, food, gas etc. it was going to cost us at least $600 just for 2 stinkin' nights. We are coming out WAY ahead with the Pop trip (Even DS4 told DH last night he was glad we were going to WDW for his birthday instead since "There's more to do at Disneyworld, Daddy... besides, Wisconsin Dells isn't going anywhere..." 
From the mouths of babes!! Mommy has trained him well! )
Lindsay- I hope we aren't disappointed with Pop. When I was chatting with the WONDERFUL CM who booked it all for me (airfare, dining etc.) she got real quiet when I mentioned we were sandwiching this Pop trip between the 2 GF trips. I laughed and told her not to worry, we were only looking at this as a place to sleep with a couple of cute statues to amuse DS!!
We were nervous about staying at POR since it was our first time not staying Deluxe and it was getting horrible reviews here on the Dis at that time. We had low expectations and they were greatly exceeded!! I just hope the same is true for Pop!! Thanks for all the tips about the noise and how to avoid it... We usually bring a small fan to travel with as a white noise maker (we all sleep with them year round at home) and that helps drown out almost everything!!
Airfare is still so horrendous for our Decmber trip that we might fly down on Friday night and roll into Pop around midnight just for the night before heading over to the GF... if this trip goes well we will probably consider it, if not we will probably stay at the Airport Hyatt- I used to stay there for business on my last night in Orlando all the time!!
Hi to everyone else I missed!! I am just going to take a quick tour around the boards to see what is new and then I have to clean. My IL's are coming over around 2pm and I still have all our Easter decs out... might as well take them down as I am cleaning. Also I need to mentally prepare for the "Oh! I wanna go too!!!" speech that is coming when we tell them about this trip... Since MIL is allergic to heat/sun, maybe I can convince her that it will be 100 degrees in May and it will be too hot!!
Have a great weekend!
Kristin
Glad my trip plans are amusing you all!! (It amuses me too!!
) I consider myself a self proclaimed WDW expert but this is such a different time of year for us that I feel like a newbie!!!Want to hear my ADR nightmare?! I mentioned to DH last night that we could only get a 8:10 pm at Le Cellier on our last night with a 9pm Illuminations and 10pm MK closing. (We ALWAYS go to MK our last night) We would have missed Illuminations AND MK, and would have waited FORVER for a bus to get back to the hotel. He says it is too late to cancel and get an earlier dinner somewhere else (We were thinking Yacht Galley Grille (or whatever it is called)or GFC). So I call and I ask if there are any earlier openings at Le Cellier that night. Sure enough- there was a 6pm!!
We get it booked and he looks at my ADR list and says "That's strange, you have 3 dinner reservations that night..." I say, yeah, cancel the 8:10 and I give him my ADR #. He cancels it and says "So we are cancelling the 8:10 at CORAL REEF?" CORAL REEF?! It was supposed to be Le Cellier. Nope, it was Coral Reef and I also had a 4:30 there as well on the same night So we cancelled that one too and he ran down the rest of my list to confirm the dates and times were all accurate (which they were) Can you imagine if we got to Le Cellier at 8:00 on our last night and found out that we didn't have an ADR there So here are my ADR's
Tutto Italia our first night, Crystal Palace "brunch" (got the last seating for breakfast and we should be there for the lunch conversion), Chef Mickey's Breakfast (made sure to note the Birthday on this one!
), Play N Dine Breakfast, Sci Fi late lunch, Teppan Edo dinner, Le Cellier dinner. Not bad for calling 47 days out!! We will probably pay OOP for the Sci Fi rather than use a credit there. I wanted to skip Play N Dine and just use the credit at the Sci Fi but neither DH or DS wanted to skip it!!OK, so catching up...
Debbie- we are there 5/14 to 5/20. Normally I avoid midweek to midweek trips but the airfare was such a steal we took it!! I am just glad Pop had so many openings that time that it was esy to fiddle with the airfare and get the hotel to match!
Goofy- enjoy the cabana! This was my favorite indulence last trip!!
DH still gives me grief about the $65 strawberries and says the cabana was money spent more wisely It's a shame we are going to the GF in December and not this trip (although there was room at the GF the week we are going, hmmm.... ) Anyway, I won't rent the cabana then since the weather is too unpredictable. We are planning a pool day this trip on the day we go to the P&P Party so the cabana would have been great!!! Thanks for the tip on CBR, I figured that was why there were so many rooms available over there (I think the only mod for my dates too). The pool is the main appeal to me at CBR. I mentioned the moderate upgrade to DH but he thinks it is silly to upgrade from value to mod since the ammenities aren't much better (not to mention CBR is SO much bigger and more spread out than Pop) He said he would only upgrade to Deluxe... still wish he would go for AKL but it would add $600 to the trip price and when we are going for $2400 for the week (including DDP and airfare) he isn't about to splurge (Unless I agree to stay somewhere other than the GF in December
NO WAY JOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)Tinklvr & Vanessa- The Wilderness was where we were booked at the Dells
We were going for 2 nights. After lodging, minigolf, go-carts, food, gas etc. it was going to cost us at least $600 just for 2 stinkin' nights. We are coming out WAY ahead with the Pop trip (Even DS4 told DH last night he was glad we were going to WDW for his birthday instead since "There's more to do at Disneyworld, Daddy... besides, Wisconsin Dells isn't going anywhere..." From the mouths of babes!! Mommy has trained him well! )Lindsay- I hope we aren't disappointed with Pop. When I was chatting with the WONDERFUL CM who booked it all for me (airfare, dining etc.) she got real quiet when I mentioned we were sandwiching this Pop trip between the 2 GF trips. I laughed and told her not to worry, we were only looking at this as a place to sleep with a couple of cute statues to amuse DS!!
We were nervous about staying at POR since it was our first time not staying Deluxe and it was getting horrible reviews here on the Dis at that time. We had low expectations and they were greatly exceeded!! I just hope the same is true for Pop!! Thanks for all the tips about the noise and how to avoid it... We usually bring a small fan to travel with as a white noise maker (we all sleep with them year round at home) and that helps drown out almost everything!!
Airfare is still so horrendous for our Decmber trip that we might fly down on Friday night and roll into Pop around midnight just for the night before heading over to the GF... if this trip goes well we will probably consider it, if not we will probably stay at the Airport Hyatt- I used to stay there for business on my last night in Orlando all the time!!
Hi to everyone else I missed!! I am just going to take a quick tour around the boards to see what is new and then I have to clean. My IL's are coming over around 2pm and I still have all our Easter decs out... might as well take them down as I am cleaning. Also I need to mentally prepare for the "Oh! I wanna go too!!!" speech that is coming when we tell them about this trip... Since MIL is allergic to heat/sun, maybe I can convince her that it will be 100 degrees in May and it will be too hot!!
Have a great weekend!
Kristin
We're fairly sure that was the culprit.
) But we are trying it again this December since DH really wants to go back (I will just stick to steak 
