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[preemiemama]

It took 65 minutes to get on a bus. Not fun.

That sucks. Sorry. Hope the rest of the trip is easier.

 

[Linkura]

Hi there!

Do you mind me asking which ride service you used and the price? Thanks for any help!

Tony Hinds, r/t for WDW is $140. In 2018-19 it was $100 r/t to Universal. He came recommended by the good folks here in the Universal forums. aobh607@gmail.com

Obviously not a bargain but service is A+. Met me at luggage claim, escorted me right to his car right outside the terminal, offered an included grocery trip. Was very punctual for the return to the airport as well.

 

[nevergrowup826]

It took 65 minutes to get on a bus. Not fun.

imho that’s just about par to every other busy time I’ve been there. After having a 5 hour snow delay, arriving after MCO monorail closure at 1am (for construction) being hoarded like cattle into shuttles to get to the main terminal, picking up our luggage we had not planned on doing, and then waiting for more shuttles (not busses as it was after hours) to get to our hotel and finally arriving at our hotel at 3am a few years ago (and making a 7am rope drop the next morning) - I will never complain about DME again, it will truly be missed!

 

[SwanVT2]

We just got home from 5 nights yesterday. Here’s a quick recap of our trip.
Sunday- drove over from the west coast. Left our house at 9 and was at Pop by 11. I was trying to beat the rain that was looming over us. Thankfully we made it before the crazy storm came in. We had reservations at beaches and cream for 2:50 and had planned on using the sky liner but with the storm it was shut down so we took an Uber with the hopes of it coming back on when we were done eating. We loved beaches and cream and decided to try to go here once every trip! The rain had slowed down when we were done but the sky liner wasn’t running yet so we took an Uber back. Since the storm had passed we spent the rest of the evening in the pool.
Monday- HS- we werent trying to make rope drop any day but we were just planning on being there close to opening. We were up at 6:30 and I was able to score boarding group 28 for ROTR at 7am. We got in line for the sky liner a little after 7:30. There was a line to get in HS as it wasn’t open yet by the time we got off the sky liner. It opened and we walked on MMRR and then went to our Hollywood and Vine breakfast reservation. When we got off we headed into toy store land and got in line for TSMM. It was posted at 35 mins but we only waited about 15/20. When we got off our boarding group was called so we headed over to Star Wars land. When we got over there it was down so we waited a few minutes and it came back up so we got in line. My 5 year old hated the escape pod part and cried but we loved it. After we got off we walked around and saw Chewy and Rey and then saw some storm troopers interacting with the crowd. They were fun. We decided to skip Smugglers Run since my daughter didn’t like ROTR. We did Alien Swirling Saucers next and then had lunch at Sci-Fi. On our way over to lunch we saw chop and dale having a picnic. After lunch we went on Star Tours and then headed back to Pop. We spent the rest of the day in the pool and did mobile ordering at Pop for dinner.
Tuesday- MK. Got up at 6 and put in our mobile order for 7am breakfast at Pop. We were done eating a little after 730 and got in the bus line. We were on the bus at 7:48 and in MK a little after 8. I put in our mobile order lunch time for 1230-1 at cosmic rays. We didn’t want any headliners since my 5 year old decided she didn’t want to do them anymore she just liked watching them on YouTube. We did Haunted Mansion, PP, It’s a Small World, Winnie the Pooh, and Tea cups. We decided that we wanted lunch a little early so I changed the time and we ate. After lunch we did buzz, the speedway, dumbo, Ariel, and then went over to Tom saywer island. On our way we saw the princesses by the castle and then saw Gaston, moana, Alice, and Peter Pan in Frontierland. We spend some time at Tom saywer island and then headed out for the day. Spent the evening at the pool, did another mobile order for pop for dinner. We took a walk over to AOA and on the way back played at the playground before going in for showers.
Wednesday- Epcot- we slept in a little this day and then got breakfast at Pop. Got on the Skyliner and got to Epcot around 1045. We headed over to Frozen and when we got off Elsa was out so we got in line for her. We went to Mexico and when we got out the princesses were riding by and then Mickey and the gang passed by. We then headed to figment and did the Pixar shorts show. Pooh was out with his butterfly net and then did some excerises. It was so cute. We then went to the land. We decided to skip soarin and test track since my 5 year old didn’t want to be brave . Instead we did living with the land and ate at sunshine seasons. Next up was Nemo and the aquarium where we found an awesome CM with a scavenger hunt book for us to do. then we checked out the butterfly garden. We stopped to get an orange bird cup and I got the wine slushy it was so good. We went walking around the countries and my daughter fell asleep in her stroller. We hung out at the American pavilion got a bit until she woke up. Then we went to Italy for dinner at via Napoli. After dinner we finished up the countries and headed back to pop on the Skyliner.
Thursday- MK- same plan as Tuesday and got to MK a little after 8 and I placed our mobile order for cosmic rays. This time we headed to adventure land and did jungle cruise, flying carpets, and pirates. Then we hit haunted mansion, it’s a small world, and mickeys philarmagic. We went to lunch and relaxed for a bit. Next was buzz, Pooh, teacups, and Ariel. We decided to do some shopping so we went to sit mickeys where I saw the stepsisters out so we ran over to talk to them. We had planned on stopping on Main Street for some cupcakes. But they were closed for refurbishment we left and went back to pop for swimming and dinner.
Overall we had a great trip even though we missed some of the big rides since my daughter didn’t want to try them. We didn’t have very long waits and I really liked mobile ordering. Can’t wait until our next trip!

Thank you for the trip report! It sounds like you had success! So are characters doing meet and greets again? Also, were the stores open on Main Street in Magic Kingdom? Finally, what characters were at Hollywood and Vine?

 

[lorileahb]

Were these mailed to your home?

We received the extra magic card and luggage tags a couple of weeks ago - mailed directly to our home by themselves for our trip at end of April.

 

[eileen2664]

Yes! They arrived yesterday and there are reports on another thread that people are receiving daily envelopes with luggage tags to their homes. One person received 8 in a row so perhaps there are some IT issues???
Edited: to clarify he has one trip upcoming but has received several separate mailings referencing the same single upcoming trip and containing the luggage tags/mini golf/espn coupons like there was some glitch while other were reporting the same thing happening to them:they were receiving way too many mailings. Then there were people saying theirs arrived AFTER their trip so there do seem to be some odd things going on with the package coupon/tag mailings.

lol I think that might have been me. I lost count but we got something like 13 shipped to our house (we had a 3 way split stay). When we arrived yesterday there was another waiting at the desk for us .The ones at home all got the same luggage tags, the one we got here was a different character.

 

[HiStitch626]

Thank you for the trip report! It sounds like you had success! So are characters doing meet and greets again? Also, were the stores open on Main Street in Magic Kingdom? Finally, what characters were at Hollywood and Vine?

No
Yes
It's Disney Jr. Vamperina, Doc McStuffins, Fancy Nancy, Goofy

 

[Makmak]

Can someone link the May “I’m going to cancel park res and ADR” thread? I can find other months but I can’t find May. I know a lot of people looking here are going soon also so I’ll mention it here since people are friendly and will let me know/delete if it’s not allowed! (We are resort package ppl)

May 3 cancelling Epcot and a Garden Grill at 7:55 for two and San Angel Inn for two at 9:45.

Saturday May 8 cancelling HS and Hollywood and Vine 12:20 for 4 and Ogas 8:25 for two

I’ll wait to get the link for the cancellation board or to hear from someone if they want to coordinate. Please delete if not allowed.

 

[scrappinginontario]

Can someone link the May “I’m going to cancel park res and ADR” thread? I can find other months but I can’t find May. I know a lot of people looking here are going soon also so I’ll mention it here since people are friendly and will let me know/delete if it’s not allowed! (We are resort package ppl)

May 3 cancelling Epcot and a Garden Grill at 7:55 for two and San Angel Inn for two at 9:45.

Saturday May 8 cancelling HS and Hollywood and Vine 12:20 for 4 and Ogas 8:25 for two

I’ll wait to get the link for the cancellation board or to hear from someone if they want to coordinate. Please delete if not allowed.

This information is normally found on the dining board rather than on this thread. You should be able to find more information there.

The thread found here is the one to list and follow dining cancellations: https://www.disboards.com/threads/may-2021-cancelled-adr-thread-guidelines-in-first-post.3831462/

 

[Jennyonecoin]

Hi, can someone in the parks recently tell me if anyone saw clip on hand sanitizers or clip on hand sanitizer holders in the shops? Looking for something cute/Disney themed to clip on my bag for the parks. Thanks!

 

[Gearbm95]

Just got here yesterday...staying at Gaylord Palms (reallyyyyy great pool complex) and spent the evening bouncing around Disney, some observations...

- Wanted to do a truncated Monorail bar hop last night, but out Uber driver missed the turn for TTC and ended up just dropping us off at CR. The gate guard asked the driver and he said we had “dinner reservations”, she waved us on through.

- Wave Lounge was at capacity 6pm, didn’t put name down. CA Grill Lounge was quoted as a 90min wait for the lounge area, ended up taking about 60mins.

- Had some drinks at Outer Rim while waiting for CA Grill text. Watermelon Margarita was amazing! Apps and drinks at CA Grill were top notch!

- Uber’d from CR to Dolphin at 8:15pm to get boat to IG Epcot as we wanted to take the Skyliner to Riviera for our 9:15 ADR at Topolinos. Between the 30min wait for the boat and the 30min wait for the Skyliner at Epcot we missed our ADR lol.

- Walked around Riviera a little bit, nice place. Got a Uber to Disney Springs and scored a last minute 10:45 reservation at the Boathouse. Food and service were all great but service was a little slow, not the servers fault, they’re clearly short staffed and she had a few too many tables, very nice server tho!

- Disney Springs is def a cluster at night, the vibe felt MASSIVELY different from CR and RR to DS. I guess that’s to be expected though, much rowdier crowd and lots of people with no masks.

 

[kristenabelle]

We had this happen one trip. Wasn't fun but it moved and once on the bus we put it behind us and moved on with our trip!
It depends on which resort you stay at. The value resorts have dedicated lines which I love as it keeps things in order. One of the many reasons I enjoy the value resorts. The moderates have bus stations but not actual queues. Not sure how people manage those.

I haaaaate that BoardWalk has a station, but no lines. People clump, and latecomers waltz right up. Normally it doesn't bother me, but when bus capacity is significantly reduced it can be really unfair. /end rant. I do love that AKL/Riviera, WL have stations for specific parks, so you can "line up," sorta, for wherever you're going.

 

[DisneyFive]

We received the extra magic card and luggage tags a couple of weeks ago - mailed directly to our home by themselves for our trip at end of April.

when you say luggage tags, you’re not talking magical express tags correct? I thought that you had to go get your checked bags now at baggage claim and bring everything with you on the magical express bus? They are not still doing the direct to the hotel room service with magical express anymore right?

 

[DanaCeppy]

Thank you for the trip report! It sounds like you had success! So are characters doing meet and greets again? Also, were the stores open on Main Street in Magic Kingdom? Finally, what characters were at Hollywood and Vine?

Not meet and greets like in the past. Elsa was out behind a fence and we could talk to her and take a pic and the step sisters were out at princess hall behind a barrier where we could talk to them. Pooh was in the grassy area by figment catching butterfly’s so he was farther away

 

[DanaCeppy]

Thank you for the trip report! It sounds like you had success! So are characters doing meet and greets again? Also, were the stores open on Main Street in Magic Kingdom? Finally, what characters were at Hollywood and Vine?

Stores were open but the confectionery was closed for refurbishment.
We saw goofy, vamperina, fancy Nancy, and doc mcstuffins
Sorry the pics are sideways In the other post I don’t know how to fix that

 

[scrappinginontario]

when you say luggage tags, you’re not talking magical express tags correct? I thought that you had to go get your checked bags now at baggage claim and bring everything with you on the magical express bus? They are not still doing the direct to the hotel room service with magical express anymore right?

Magical Express is not delivering luggage. Guests need to claim their own luggage at the airport and take it with them on DME.

The luggage tags mentioned above are the ones that have always been included with MagicBands and are used to identify your luggage with your home address and phone number.

 

[DanaCeppy]

Hi, can someone in the parks recently tell me if anyone saw clip on hand sanitizers or clip on hand sanitizer holders in the shops? Looking for something cute/Disney themed to clip on my bag for the parks. Thanks!

There was a bunch of these kind at Pop next to the registers. My daughter had to have this one

 

[scrappinginontario]

Stores were open but the confectionery was closed for refurbishment.
We saw goofy, vamperina, fancy Nancy, and doc mcstuffins
Sorry the pics are sideways In the other post I don’t know how to fix that

Although the confectionery is closed, there is a smaller location beside it with some items available there.

I had the same problem with pictures that were taken with my cell phone. The secret to fixing is to make some sort of change (however minor) and resave. They should then post correctly.

 

[DanaCeppy]

Although the confectionery is closed, there is a smaller location beside it with items available there.

I had the same problem with pictures that were taken with my cell phone. The secret to fixing is to make some sort of change (however minor) and resave. They should then post correctly.

Yes it is open but they didn’t have cupcakes like I had promised my daughter we would pick up on the way out. They did have a bunch of other yummy treats but of course my 5 year old had her mind made up on a cupcake

 

[luv2cheer92]

Magical Express is not delivering luggage. Guests need to claim their own luggage at the airport and take it with them on DME.

The luggage tags mentioned above are the ones that have always been included with MagicBands and are used to identify your luggage with your home address and phone number.

I believe you only get the luggage tags when you book a package. At least that's how it's been in the past.