LarryFmScotland
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Larrys Wonderful World Trip Report.
The Pre Trip Report.
Thursday 25th March to 8th April.
The Crew.
Larry 44 Social Work Manager
Jill 43 Nursing Home Inspector.
Gregory- 16 Moped Rider
Edward -12 Oboe Player
Pal Mickey - 1 Electronic Mouse.
Dear Friend,
Welcome to the Wilmots Eighth trip to Walt Disney World. I guess we can call ourselves veterans these days. This is our second of three trips to the world on our current annual passes. The first was in August of last year, the TR can be found on Mouseplanet, if you are keen to read more of this witty English prose. The next will be in just three months in June/July.
You as a qualified Disney Expert will have come across the buy one annual passport every two years and go every year system. I suspect that we have now got it off to a fine art. Considering we live in the North of Scotland, Haggis Territory, I think we may be able to claim the most travelled award for an annual pass. During the 12 months of the pass we will have travelled 26,000 miles and spent six weeks in WDW, minus a couple of days spent in the Hard Rock Café last trip.
The consequence of all this Disneyfication of our lives is that we live like poor church mice for the rest of the year, eking out a living on droppings of barley and household dust which we grind together into nutritious paste and make a soup with. Things are so bad, I cant afford a servant to clean my British Racing Green Jaguar these days. (Im a show off I know..)
Well to anyone to whome you pass this trip report to who havent read one of my Trip Reports before, then Hello, We are the Wilmots we come from Yorkshire England, but for the last ten years, we have lived in Scotland. To you my old chum, nice to see you again, I hope that you enjoy this trip report. I keep saying that I wasnt going to write any more, mainly because, I find it hard work writing the flipping things, if you do it live, as this one is going to be, you end up writing the thing up when you should be sleeping, and if you wait until you get home, you cant remember a thing, especially if like me you cant read your own writing and it makes the notes more or less useless. However, I have been persuaded by you, to carry on, and I thank you for that, because writing Trip Reports is what I do, and you shouldnt forget who you are.
Now during the last few reports I have been told off by some readers, for calling Celebration a Gated Community, and for bragging about parking my car, in the car park of the Beach Club Villas, which is reserved for the DVC elite. Can I say in advance that I welcome criticism of my reports, I am not perfect and if you have a complaint to make, remember this .. My name is really Michael Eisner and I would like you to send your comments to me at GuestServices@disney.com, where they will get my full attention and printed out sent to china, with all the other complaints, where they will come back processed three months later as fire lighters for the big log fire at the Wilderness Lodge Hotel. Well at least that is what I thought happened to them, but read on McDuff.
This trip should have been at the Pop Century the new, cutting edge hotel where your historical cultural fantasies can come to life with the kiss of Disney Pixie Dust. Sadly, this was not to be (or so it seemed), the reason why? Well I booked well in advance at the rack rate, the day AP rates came out, Robin Goble, (thanks!) sent me an email and I booked at the Annual Passholder Rate, when I hadnt two weeks later received my confirmation letter, I rang again and the booking was at the original price ..grrrrrrrrrr
By then all the AP rates for the Pop C. had gone so I had to book at the All Star Movies, or Swamp City as I call it, (please read previous report if you want to know why.) So I was a bit miffed as you probably guessed, being a very angry young man by nature I wanted to rebel and do the un-thinkable, and book Off World but we had a family vote on it and I lost 3-1. Soooo Swamp City it is. I wrote to guest services, and it went un-answered for ever.
I even went as far as figuring out where we could stay off world for our July trip. Two weeks before we were due to fly on this trip. (Are you confused I know I am!) both Robin and Sue Holland, told me the AP rates for July were out, so I rang and they told me that I could have an AP rate for Pop Century for that trip, but also that Guest Services had swapped my Reservation to Pop Cent for this trip . Hurray for Guest Services!
Tip, write a very nice letter to Disney and you might receive some Pixie Dust after all.
OK thats enough of that side of things, I wouldnt want to bore you dear friend too early in the report, we are stuck together for the next too weeks, I dont want you asleep this early in the experience.
Whats the Plan,
Well we are flying from Aberdeen Airport, to Manchester, then we skip over the pond to Chicago .where else would you want to fly to. We arrive at Terminal 1 and have to get our British Bums (Butts) to Terminal 238, in about 3 minutes then we fly to Orlando. Then it is pick up a hire car, (we are getting it free again, from the use of Tescos Vouchers, I always explain this in my TRs but my mate Kevin says it is boring so I wont this time.) I will try my best to get through the process at the Dollar Desk without coughing up for an up-grade, but I have failed miserably in the past.
My secretary, has been laughing at me at work, because of my cheap flight option, she seems to think that I should pay for a proper flight, and quite frankly I agree with her, this may be the cheap way to get to Disney but it isnt the fun way.
Then, well the aims of the trip are to spend the first few days, when we have the time difference on our side, doing the parks. It was a bit too hot in August to do much, so this is the trip for commando mode. Then we aim perhaps on the second day to go to Tampa for Busch Gardens as we have never done this park and it will be a nice trip out as we Yorkshire folk are want to say. See a few lions and ride some roller coasters. (Actually about two weeks ago I bought Annual Passes for the family to go to Busch Gardens, these cost a mere $6 over the cost of a one day entry, This will allow us to go back in July if we like the place, it also means I have a whole new Park to write to you about, even if it isnt Disney. Not that my TRs need a new injection to keep them alive or anything!)
Ah roller coasters, now for the down side, I have been a little poorly recently, I will be seeing a specialist a few days before I fly, so I will have to check the situation out, I may have to give the g-forces a miss. The only ride that actually worries me is Mission Space where you get Gs for a few seconds at a time. (The doctor actually told me I can do Roller Coasters .woops you now realise that I actually wrote this weeks ago .. I was practicing, to see if I could find some funny jokes to tell you . OK, it was only a practice, the church mice thing is quite funny!!)
I have also had to go on a diabetic diet, so there will be no more hot Chock for breakfast and no Pop either, well unless I can learn to love the caffeine free, sugar free coke. (Just what is in Caffeine Free, sugar free coke, personally I think they just dip an old tea bag in some water to make it go brown, at the factory myself) Mind you as we will now not be in he All Stars I will not be tempted to sneak in my old re-fillables, (Of Course I wouldnt have sneaked them in, even if we were in ASM Swamp City, I would never do that, it would be morally wrong, I mean -reducing the profits of one of the wealthiest companies in the world, obviously I wouldnt !!!!!!! -AND - I would rather be locked in a room with 250 Pal Mickeys all talking at once than illegal parking at the Beach Club in the DVC section, to avoid using the main Epcot Car Park, honest I would, would I lie? - Ha ha. )
One other high spot is that between the 3rd and 5th of April our friends Sue, Tom and Leanne will be in the world, and we will spend lots of time with them, which will be fun, we do this most trips. So lots of Comedy Warehouse with Sue and a trip on Its a Small World with Leanne. Followed by a trip to a hypno-therapist to have the tune removed from my damaged psyche.
.
Well that is about it, Im not a big planner. I think the only new things are Wishes and Mickeys Philharmonic, so we will do them. Greg is saving up for a trip on the Jet Skis on the big lake, and hopefully Ed will be 5 foot so he can finally Captain the Water Mice. (Nearest he is likely to get to a Disney Cruise)
Thanks for reading this far.
See you Thursday.
Cheers Larry.
The Pre Trip Report.
Thursday 25th March to 8th April.
The Crew.
Larry 44 Social Work Manager
Jill 43 Nursing Home Inspector.
Gregory- 16 Moped Rider
Edward -12 Oboe Player
Pal Mickey - 1 Electronic Mouse.
Dear Friend,
Welcome to the Wilmots Eighth trip to Walt Disney World. I guess we can call ourselves veterans these days. This is our second of three trips to the world on our current annual passes. The first was in August of last year, the TR can be found on Mouseplanet, if you are keen to read more of this witty English prose. The next will be in just three months in June/July.
You as a qualified Disney Expert will have come across the buy one annual passport every two years and go every year system. I suspect that we have now got it off to a fine art. Considering we live in the North of Scotland, Haggis Territory, I think we may be able to claim the most travelled award for an annual pass. During the 12 months of the pass we will have travelled 26,000 miles and spent six weeks in WDW, minus a couple of days spent in the Hard Rock Café last trip.
The consequence of all this Disneyfication of our lives is that we live like poor church mice for the rest of the year, eking out a living on droppings of barley and household dust which we grind together into nutritious paste and make a soup with. Things are so bad, I cant afford a servant to clean my British Racing Green Jaguar these days. (Im a show off I know..)
Well to anyone to whome you pass this trip report to who havent read one of my Trip Reports before, then Hello, We are the Wilmots we come from Yorkshire England, but for the last ten years, we have lived in Scotland. To you my old chum, nice to see you again, I hope that you enjoy this trip report. I keep saying that I wasnt going to write any more, mainly because, I find it hard work writing the flipping things, if you do it live, as this one is going to be, you end up writing the thing up when you should be sleeping, and if you wait until you get home, you cant remember a thing, especially if like me you cant read your own writing and it makes the notes more or less useless. However, I have been persuaded by you, to carry on, and I thank you for that, because writing Trip Reports is what I do, and you shouldnt forget who you are.
Now during the last few reports I have been told off by some readers, for calling Celebration a Gated Community, and for bragging about parking my car, in the car park of the Beach Club Villas, which is reserved for the DVC elite. Can I say in advance that I welcome criticism of my reports, I am not perfect and if you have a complaint to make, remember this .. My name is really Michael Eisner and I would like you to send your comments to me at GuestServices@disney.com, where they will get my full attention and printed out sent to china, with all the other complaints, where they will come back processed three months later as fire lighters for the big log fire at the Wilderness Lodge Hotel. Well at least that is what I thought happened to them, but read on McDuff.
This trip should have been at the Pop Century the new, cutting edge hotel where your historical cultural fantasies can come to life with the kiss of Disney Pixie Dust. Sadly, this was not to be (or so it seemed), the reason why? Well I booked well in advance at the rack rate, the day AP rates came out, Robin Goble, (thanks!) sent me an email and I booked at the Annual Passholder Rate, when I hadnt two weeks later received my confirmation letter, I rang again and the booking was at the original price ..grrrrrrrrrr
By then all the AP rates for the Pop C. had gone so I had to book at the All Star Movies, or Swamp City as I call it, (please read previous report if you want to know why.) So I was a bit miffed as you probably guessed, being a very angry young man by nature I wanted to rebel and do the un-thinkable, and book Off World but we had a family vote on it and I lost 3-1. Soooo Swamp City it is. I wrote to guest services, and it went un-answered for ever.
I even went as far as figuring out where we could stay off world for our July trip. Two weeks before we were due to fly on this trip. (Are you confused I know I am!) both Robin and Sue Holland, told me the AP rates for July were out, so I rang and they told me that I could have an AP rate for Pop Century for that trip, but also that Guest Services had swapped my Reservation to Pop Cent for this trip . Hurray for Guest Services!
Tip, write a very nice letter to Disney and you might receive some Pixie Dust after all.
OK thats enough of that side of things, I wouldnt want to bore you dear friend too early in the report, we are stuck together for the next too weeks, I dont want you asleep this early in the experience.
Whats the Plan,
Well we are flying from Aberdeen Airport, to Manchester, then we skip over the pond to Chicago .where else would you want to fly to. We arrive at Terminal 1 and have to get our British Bums (Butts) to Terminal 238, in about 3 minutes then we fly to Orlando. Then it is pick up a hire car, (we are getting it free again, from the use of Tescos Vouchers, I always explain this in my TRs but my mate Kevin says it is boring so I wont this time.) I will try my best to get through the process at the Dollar Desk without coughing up for an up-grade, but I have failed miserably in the past.
My secretary, has been laughing at me at work, because of my cheap flight option, she seems to think that I should pay for a proper flight, and quite frankly I agree with her, this may be the cheap way to get to Disney but it isnt the fun way.
Then, well the aims of the trip are to spend the first few days, when we have the time difference on our side, doing the parks. It was a bit too hot in August to do much, so this is the trip for commando mode. Then we aim perhaps on the second day to go to Tampa for Busch Gardens as we have never done this park and it will be a nice trip out as we Yorkshire folk are want to say. See a few lions and ride some roller coasters. (Actually about two weeks ago I bought Annual Passes for the family to go to Busch Gardens, these cost a mere $6 over the cost of a one day entry, This will allow us to go back in July if we like the place, it also means I have a whole new Park to write to you about, even if it isnt Disney. Not that my TRs need a new injection to keep them alive or anything!)
Ah roller coasters, now for the down side, I have been a little poorly recently, I will be seeing a specialist a few days before I fly, so I will have to check the situation out, I may have to give the g-forces a miss. The only ride that actually worries me is Mission Space where you get Gs for a few seconds at a time. (The doctor actually told me I can do Roller Coasters .woops you now realise that I actually wrote this weeks ago .. I was practicing, to see if I could find some funny jokes to tell you . OK, it was only a practice, the church mice thing is quite funny!!)
I have also had to go on a diabetic diet, so there will be no more hot Chock for breakfast and no Pop either, well unless I can learn to love the caffeine free, sugar free coke. (Just what is in Caffeine Free, sugar free coke, personally I think they just dip an old tea bag in some water to make it go brown, at the factory myself) Mind you as we will now not be in he All Stars I will not be tempted to sneak in my old re-fillables, (Of Course I wouldnt have sneaked them in, even if we were in ASM Swamp City, I would never do that, it would be morally wrong, I mean -reducing the profits of one of the wealthiest companies in the world, obviously I wouldnt !!!!!!! -AND - I would rather be locked in a room with 250 Pal Mickeys all talking at once than illegal parking at the Beach Club in the DVC section, to avoid using the main Epcot Car Park, honest I would, would I lie? - Ha ha. )
One other high spot is that between the 3rd and 5th of April our friends Sue, Tom and Leanne will be in the world, and we will spend lots of time with them, which will be fun, we do this most trips. So lots of Comedy Warehouse with Sue and a trip on Its a Small World with Leanne. Followed by a trip to a hypno-therapist to have the tune removed from my damaged psyche.
.
Well that is about it, Im not a big planner. I think the only new things are Wishes and Mickeys Philharmonic, so we will do them. Greg is saving up for a trip on the Jet Skis on the big lake, and hopefully Ed will be 5 foot so he can finally Captain the Water Mice. (Nearest he is likely to get to a Disney Cruise)
Thanks for reading this far.
See you Thursday.
Cheers Larry.
I must confess to having become quite the Larry-trip-report fan over at Mouseplanet. I'm excited to see your reports will be posted here on the DIS Boards. Let the adventure begin!! 
