It Only Gets Better From Here...Right?! WDW TR July 2025

[kclark9830]

Hi everyone! We are live this morning from Disney's All Star Sports Resort !

We checked in yesterday for our weeklong of fun...at least that's what we're hoping, because check in day didn't go so well . More on that later, and I think you'll totally understand this trip report title.

I've done a handful of trip reports over the years, most recently our Disney cruise from January. Let me re-introduce my family!


(Us last night in the pool at Sports)

We are Katie & Micheal, married for 22 years. With us are our kids Ashlyn and Miles. I'm a teacher and I help run a small private school. I'm also a writer. Micheal works for a large pest control company in the southeast, in the corporate office. He travels all over the southeast inspecting offices.

We're staying at Sports because we got the room for $99/night, and we honestly didn't plan on going to WDW this year at all, after taking our Disney Cruise. But when I saw the Disney+ subscriber deal, I was like...we could totally swing it. We made plans that changed a few times, with who was going and who wasn't, as well as which parks we were doing or weren't.

Do I prefer the nicer resorts? Yes I do . But seriously, this one is perfectly suitable and we are in Disney!!!

I will be getting into updates a little at a time, going backwards a bit to make travel day notes. For now, the family is sleeping in, and I am awake because I am always awake . So, I thought I'd go ahead and get this trip report started!

Our schedule this week looks like this:

Saturday - check in day/Blizzard Beach
Sunday - relaxation day/Disney Springs
Monday - Animal Kingdom
Tuesday - Magic Kingdom
Wednesday - Epcot
Thursday - Hollywood Studios
Friday - driving home, womp womp

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We checked in yesterday for our weeklong of fun...at least that's what we're hoping, because check in day didn't go so well

Oh no! can't wait to hear why!

We're staying at Sports because we got the room for $99/night,

Awesome deal!

 

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Travel Days

Hi Again everyone! We are relaxing in our room before we head over to the food court for some supper.

I'll go ahead and give you a rundown of our travel days, which were Friday and Saturday (yesterday). It was a super busy week leading up to Friday. School is starting soon, and I have about a million things to get ready at the school before that happens. It was stressful, but by Thursday I finally felt like I'd done enough to focus on Disney .

Friday, hubby worked all day. We would be meeting up with my parents, and my sister and her family, to begin the drive to Orlando. My sister and her family are staying here at All Star Sports too, and my parents are over at Riverside.

The plan was to drive halfway Friday night, stop at a hotel, and finish the drive Saturday morning.

We did get a late start, but the halfway drive was uneventful. We were driving straight down Alabama, from top to almost the bottom! We got to our hotel shortly after midnight. It was a Hampton Inn in Dothan, and it was clean and comfortable. We had a nice big room.



Nothing fancy or unique, but we would be here only briefly. In the morning, we had breakfast in our hotel (not good ), and then we got back on the road.

Again, it was a completely uneventful drive. Saturday traffic was decent! Before long, we passed into Florida!



We stopped at two different rest stops, but shortly after 2pm we were passing under *the* sign!



I'm going to leave you there, and then we will get into what is the same day, but I'll call it *arrival* day . Again, this was only yesterday (Saturday), just to orient anyone reading this today (Sunday).

I'll be back!!!