Meryll83's SBP/Citrico's/Morocco PJ - Update: Trip Report now underway!!

[meryll83]

if you friend books direct with disney he doesnt have to pay single occupancy! they just charge per room! might be a way to go for him

Thanks for this advice!
We did look into this actually, and booking a seperate charter flight, but this was when there were two of them, and they were dividing the cost between them, and even then it only worked out marginally cheaper than doing a package with Travel City.
Good idea though
I did notice a tour operator (can't remember which now) that had a few advertised hotels that didn't charge single occupancy, but they're all offsite, and for a first-timer to Florida who would only be going on his second trip abroad, we wouldn't want him to be out on a limb on his own, or travelling on his own either.

 

[meryll83]

Guess I'll have to rethink the Adventurer's Club portion of the Hen Night.

Gutted.

 

[Chilly]

Can't believe PIs closing so soon.

 

[JonetteA]

Why not do a hen night at epcot. Or rent a van/limo and go to citywalk? There are plenty of places right around property if you wanted to. If you wanted to stay closer and do it a bit cheaper and it is all about the girls, why not buy alcohol from a store and just get a big room and have your hen night in. I would think that some of the bar's that are there that serve food will still be there. I am thinking of the Irish bar. I can't remember the name right now. I saw a fun hen party there!

 

[DecemberBride]

I'm going through the same thing right now as well Merryl.... We were doing PI in December... not an option now... we're looking into alternatives, I'll let you know!

 

[scottish/canadian]

We did Jellyrolls and had a blast.

 

[meryll83]

I'm going through the same thing right now as well Merryl.... We were doing PI in December... not an option now... we're looking into alternatives, I'll let you know!

Defo let me know what ideas you come up with.....

Can't believe PIs closing so soon.

I know, 2 months is not a lot of notice at all is it? The cast members must have been so shocked!

Why not do a hen night at epcot. Or rent a van/limo and go to citywalk? There are plenty of places right around property if you wanted to. If you wanted to stay closer and do it a bit cheaper and it is all about the girls, why not buy alcohol from a store and just get a big room and have your hen night in. I would think that some of the bar's that are there that serve food will still be there. I am thinking of the Irish bar. I can't remember the name right now. I saw a fun hen party there!

The boys are planning on drinking their way around the world (or as far as they can) at Epcot, but I suppose we could always set off the other way! Food and Wine festival will be on so that could be extremely dangerous, best stick to the normal countries I think!
The park will be closing at around 9pm though, so we were gonna go over to PI afterwards.

I think I'd rather stay on property than go out elsewhere, but be out somewhere making the most of the Disney experience rather than staying in a hotel room or whatever, Raglan Road should still be open shouldn't it, I wonder how long before the new restaurants etc will be open? It might be fun to try one of those for a meal if they're ready!

Our original plan was to have an optional meal at somewhere like Ohana first, then all meet for a drink at each of the monorail resorts, ending at the Contemporary, and then go on the Wishes pirate themed Grand Gathering thing, but you need a minimum of 8 in your party, and there'll only be 6 of us girls, so that got blown out of the water by that which is a real shame as it sounded like a great plan and then we were going to head over to PI for some Adventurer's Club action...

We did Jellyrolls and had a blast.

We luuuuuuuuuuuuuurve Jellyrolls, but we've already planned a group meal at Le Cellier followed by Jellyrolls for everyone, we want to take everyone there with us to two of our favourite places.




I thought Cirque would be fun, but too expensive for me to pay for everyone, and I don't like to ask people to pay to go when they're already paying to get to Florida for us!

MNSSHP? Not sure if it would be everyone's cup of tea though, and we'd probably get split up more with people wanting to do different things.

I think maybe reverse World Showcase might be our best option at the moment, but what do do after 9pm. Mind you, we might all be pooped by then already!!

We could rent the Grand 1 - but that's gonna end up expensive too, especially if people want a couple of drinks onboard. And we'd probably only get it for 1 hour so still leaves the problem of what to do for the rest of the early evening / night.

There must be a million things we could do, but I just can't think of them!!
What do you guys think?




On a totally different note, Adam and Anna are STILL yet to book, if they don't do it tonight (tomorrow the 10% flying club discount drops to 5%) then they obviously have more money than sense!
But hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to tell you that we're all booked!!
Except perhaps Geoff, but I really don't know what's going on with him at the moment, and I highly doubt he's found another buddy who wants to come (and that we want to come!) to make it affordable for him.

 

[hannah_montana]

Hello!!

I have just come across your posts and thought I would join in as I am also a UK Disney Bride-to-be! I'm geting married at Sea Breeze Point on November 19th (not long now, pretty scary!). What location have you decided on? And when is the big day? I'm sure I could find out this information by reading all your posts but I will never find the time! I saw the pics of your dress, its gorgeous.

I've been trying to decide on what to do for hen/stag nights, I also had the idea of drinking at every country in Epcot with boys going one way and girls going the other!! We did decide it could get a bit messy though, not to mention expensive! And my sister and brother won't be old enough to drink which I suppose is kind of unfair for them. And now my plan of going to Pleasure Island has been ruined, which I only found out last night

 

[meryll83]

Hello!!

I have just come across your posts and thought I would join in as I am also a UK Disney Bride-to-be! I'm geting married at Sea Breeze Point on November 19th (not long now, pretty scary!). What location have you decided on? And when is the big day? I'm sure I could find out this information by reading all your posts but I will never find the time! I saw the pics of your dress, its gorgeous.

I've been trying to decide on what to do for hen/stag nights, I also had the idea of drinking at every country in Epcot with boys going one way and girls going the other!! We did decide it could get a bit messy though, not to mention expensive! And my sister and brother won't be old enough to drink which I suppose is kind of unfair for them. And now my plan of going to Pleasure Island has been ruined, which I only found out last night

Welcome to my ridiculously long PJ! (I don't blame you for not reading the whole thing! ) I was just thinking actually, now we're supposed to merge our PJ's and TR's together as one thread, but by that time mine would just be so stupidly lengthy (not that it isn't already ) I don't think anyone will have a clue what's going on! I wonder if they'll let those of us with over so many pages have a seperate thread for our TR's? Pretty please mods, it's for the welfare of others!

Anyways, we're very similar to you actually Hannah, Escape SBP wedding, next October though, and we're doing a 3 night cruise at the end of our holiday as well.

I'm not especially a big drinker, so it would be nice to think of something we could do after having just a couple of drinks on the hen/stag do. I think you're right it could get extremely messy, I think your siblings will be ok not drinking as long as there's other stuff for them to do, I mean they can always explore the countries a little more than the people who literally just wanna stand there drinking! How many are in your party in total?
That's why our original hen plan would have been good, a drink in each of the 3 monorail resorts, a break while we were on the Wishes GG, then we'd go to the Adventurer's Club and meet the boys, where people could choose to drink again if they wanted, or just enjoy the show.

I suppose we could still do Epcot, and not feel obliged to have alcohol in every country, I mean you can walk around 2-3 countries with the same drink, but whether the boys would see reason in this I highly doubt! Then we could all go to Jellyrolls after Epcot instead of doing it on our Le Cellier meal night, or those who want to go back can do of course. Hmmm, decisions decisions!

You must be getting excited now, not long to go at all!!



Adam and Anna have finally booked yesterday so.....
EVERYONE'S BOOKED!!
They're doing 10 nights at Pop with all the rest of us and then 4 nights at the Ritz-Carlton in Miami, although which one I don't know, coz Virgin seems to offer two.
Is it at 11 months out you can get DVC booked in at your home resort? Will have to contact our renter from last year in a couple of months to see if he'll have some spare points he can rent us again for our couple of nights at the BWV, otherwise I'll have to go hunting again!

I'm really impressed actually that at 15 months out everyone is booked already. Gah, 15 months out and my PJ is this long already - eek! I might be going for a record here!
However, I can just see Geoff coming back to us a couple of months before the wedding and saying "actually I still wanna come, can you help sort me out?". Which of course I'd try and do if it did happen, but I've offered my help already, and now it's up to him to decide if he wants to organise himself, apply for a visa etc. I'm just gonna leave it now and see if he approaches us again about it at all. Sigh.

 

[orangetiggs]

sounds like its all going smoothly, I'm 9 weeks out today and panicing so much!

I iwsh i had been as organised as you at 15 months out

 

[meryll83]

sounds like its all going smoothly, I'm 9 weeks out today and panicing so much!

I iwsh i had been as organised as you at 15 months out

Thanks Sarah,

Sometimes I feel far too over organised though, and I wish we were getting married this October, the waiting is horrendous!!

Wanna swap?

You really are getting close now aren't you, what do you have left to organise?

 

[orangetiggs]

almost everything!!!!!! We still ahve so much to decide on and i'm a nightmare with decisions! I cant make them!

I have started writing a list and working through it which helps so much!

Trying to lose weight so my dress fits is my main one at the moment!

 

[meryll83]

almost everything!!!!!! We still ahve so much to decide on and i'm a nightmare with decisions! I cant make them!

I have started writing a list and working through it which helps so much!

Trying to lose weight so my dress fits is my main one at the moment!

It'll all come together, don't worry, you just want everything to be perfect, you just haven't decided what perfect is yet though

 

[DecemberBride]

Hey I live in Miami! The ritz is awesome down here.... you'll be very happy.

 

[meryll83]

Hey I live in Miami! The ritz is awesome down here.... you'll be very happy.

I found two on Virign's website, one at South Beach and one at Key somewhere - but they both looked really close, I'm not sure which it is.

It's not actually us staying there, it's Si's brother and his finacee, we'll be DCLing it at that point instead!

 

[meryll83]

Ok,

So I got a reply to my second letter to Virgin yesterday, which, in all fairness, was a bit pap.

They said "We're sorry you found our service to be poor but we pride ourselves on our service" at one point, and I was just like what, you pride yourself on poor service Oh, and they had passed these comments on to the service team manager. Great.

They did confirm that my mum has the dining plan booked and is sharing accommodation with my dad, so at least I have that in writing now, but they also said your updated invoices showing this should be with you by now - when I look online I can see that no new invoices have been generated at all

They didn't confirm our transfers were all booked in either, and I specifically asked them to do this given that mine and Simon's weren't booked in originally even though we were told they would be, and Virgin's invoices don't ever seem to show any transfer info.

Well I know we get vouchers for transfers when our tickets arrive so we'll know if they've been booked in correctly at this point, but I didn't want to leave it this late to be sure.

If we have any problems when checking in with my mum's dining plan, will this letter be sufficient do you guys think, or will Disney wanna see the non-existent updated invoices?

I really can't be bothered to write another letter complaining they haven't resolved all my queries, but they frustrate me so much!!!!!! There is a phone number on this letter, unlike the others, but I've grown to despise the call centres so don't want to ring them either with my concerns.

They finished the letter by saying "We will do all we can to ensure you have a fantastic wedding and honeymoon holiday" or something along those lines What a crock.

They make me so mad I think I'm just gonna leave it now and hope that everything has been done properly, but so help me if we have any problems when we get there, there'll be hell to pay

Ok now breeeeeeeeeeeeathe..... I shouldn't have to feel this stressed already

 

[Eeyore's Tailfinder]

Ugh! That's so annoying!! How hard is it to confirm everyone should be in the right place at the right time and that everyone gets what they pay for?

I know what you mean about the call centre though - we know more than them. I called them last year to add the free DDP promotion and was told the first time I called that they do no such promotion - I was like, uuuh I'm looking at it on your website right now - nope, sorry can't help you.

I feel your pain! I hope everything else runs smoothly!!

 

[linzwylie]

Wow, took me 3629405674437 hours but I read your PJ

You are uber organised and make me feel worried

Your dress is beautiful !!

Linz xxx

 

[meryll83]

Ugh! That's so annoying!! How hard is it to confirm everyone should be in the right place at the right time and that everyone gets what they pay for?

I know what you mean about the call centre though - we know more than them. I called them last year to add the free DDP promotion and was told the first time I called that they do no such promotion - I was like, uuuh I'm looking at it on your website right now - nope, sorry can't help you.

I feel your pain! I hope everything else runs smoothly!!

I know, right?!! Surely all this is a fundamental part of their daily job, why is it so hard for them? I can't believe how little knowledge they have, you're right we do know a lot more than them and could probably teach them a thing or two!

Wow, took me 3629405674437 hours but I read your PJ

You are uber organised and make me feel worried

Your dress is beautiful !!

Linz xxx

You're a crazy lady!
I would take one look at the length of this PJ and run away screaming although you probably don't realise how long it is until you start!

Well, I'm glad you're joining the journey, and don't worry, I'm not uber organised, I'm uber OVER organised

I love my dress just 3629405674437 hours til I get to wear it now

 

[meryll83]

Well I got an updated invoice for my Mum yesterday which clearly says at the bottom that she has the DDP booked, although this does come under the Special Requests, Not Guaranteed section, but I suppose I'll have to let them off if it's the only places they can add notes

Bizarrely though, when I look online it's still got down the invoice details from April and no newer updates

Oh well, at least we have some progress!

How is everyone enjoying their new location in the Sub Forums by the way? The view from up here is awesome!