My DH won a trip to Disneyland!!!! Updated with Pictures

[mikayla73]

That's great news! Congrats again!

 

[Donald is #1]

Congratulations!!!

 

[Belle_Beauty]

Cogratulations & good luck!!

I won the contest too, but thru our local Fox tv station. My family & I are SOOO excited. But since we live in So. Cal we only get to stay at the Disneyland Hotel for one night. Oh, I'm not complaining, this will be our first time ever staying there.
And we get 2 day park hopper tickets, so we'll definitely be visiting both parks.

Again, GOOD LUCK to ya

 

[almacdonald]

Congrats! I'm sooooo jealous! Good luck with winning the $50000, that's a whole lot of disneyland trips!

Be sure to catch the fireworks, not to be missed!

 

[MATTERHORN]

Congrats! I'm sooooo jealous! Good luck with winning the $50000, that's a whole lot of disneyland trips!

Be sure to catch the fireworks, not to be missed!

That would be wonderful if she won!!! Have a great trip!!!


Andrea

 

[deekaypee]

I heard about the Disney Soda Fountain Store is that worth going to and eating the huge Sorcerer's hat sundae? and how far away is it from Disneyland?

First, congratulations! I'm soooo jealous.

Second, I loved the Disney Soda Fountain (you're talking Hollywood, right, next to the El Capitan?). If you combine it with a movie at the El Capitan it's well worth the drive.

I don't know precisely how far away from DL, as my trip to the Soda Fountain was on our non-DL day; we went to museums first, not directly there. I do remember that the MapQuest estimated times were not accurate and that we needed to pad them quite a bit. HydroGuy probably knows.

 

[got2travel]

That's so cool, congratulations. And the pictures are great, thanks for sharing.

And not sure if you've stayed there before, but the DL Hotel is fantastic. I loved the pixie dust in the rooms.

There's not much in the way of perks with the visa anymore. You already know about the merchandise and food discount. And someone else mentioned the free photos. That's about it.

Have you tried to add priority seating for Fantasmic? Usually it's a big splure, but with so much of the trip already covered, it might add a nice touch. The balcony seating is probably already full, but you could probably get riverside, which is my favorite anyway. I can't remember the number to call off-hand, but if you search the board for Fantasmic you'll find it. It's $59 per person and you get special seating and some great desserts.

As for the soda fountain, I think it took us a little less than an hour to drive to DL from Hollywood and that was early evening on a Saturday. We stopped in Hollywood on our drive down from N Calif to see Pirates 3 (for the 3rd time) and visit the soda fountain. We didn't have the huge Mickey sundae but a group did while we were there. I posted pictures in the food thread that is a sticky on top of this board.

 

[Leofoenget]

We finally got the call back today with all the details. We are staying at the Disneyland Hotel. Whoohoo!! They also changed the dates on us so instead of 9/27-9/30 we now go 9/26-9/29. She said it was a long story as to the change in dates so I didn't ask any further, luckily we were all able to change our work schedules without any problem. She also let me pick which flights we wanted so that we could spend as much time at Disneyland as possible. So we leave a week from today!!!

Did everyones dates get changed or just yours? So much for my "off season quite trip" instead I have a gazillion contest winners invading the park.

fun fun

 

[DizneyDogs]

Well, here's how it turned out.

As I said before, I was lucky enough to be there for the QFG party. I'm home now, and have had a chance to download my pictures to the computer. Here are a few of them to share.

The contest started outside the gates of DL. They had a tent setup for the 1700 finalists (and all of their friends and family) to check in throughout the day. Everybody got a scratch ticket that revealed if they were a finalist or not. Only 50 of the 1700 were finalists (unfortunately, I wasn't one of them)

From the beginning of the night, there was a pirate flair to the entire party, even the Matterhorn was dressed to suit.

The Columbia came out into a bank of fog carrying the lucky 50 finalists. All 50 got t-shirts.

Our Pirate hosts for the evening kept things moving right along through the whole ceremony.

The 50 finalists each got a medallion with a symbol in a bag when they boarded the Columbia. There were 5 different symbols (10 of each type). A large version of the one with a ship's wheel was unveiled, and the 10 with the symbol moved on - the other 40 sat down.

The 10 contestants left each got a large gem, and a framed Pirates of he Caribbean lithograph. The gems were added to the treasure pile on board, one at a time. A dead pirate's voice boomed out announcing if the gem had been part of his treasure hoard or not. The 3 who had the gems that were a part of the hoard stayed in the hunt. The other 7 sat back down.

The final 3 each got 2 deluxe annual passes. To move on, they each got a mug of drink (we met one of the 3 people later, and she told us it was unsweetened tea). When they finished, a number was revealed in the bottom of the mugs (I, II, or III).

The final hurdle to determine the winner was for the 3 remaining contestants to unveil their sails, according to the number in the mugs.

The lady with the Golden Sail was the winner.

"Lucky" Debbie didn't seem to believe she had won the Golden Pirate Hat - or the $50,000.

 

[Donald is #1]

Wow! That sounds like an awesome time!!!

 

[thmar]

WOW...Now that truly was a Disney moment...sorry, you didn't win the $$$..but just the trip sounds fantastic!

 

[dohgusgus]

wow thatd be SO awesome to attend something like that!

 

[Martha7]

Thanks so much for sharing your experience with us! Loved the pictures! What an amazing event!

 

[disney-super-mom]

Thanks for the pictures. They were terrific!

It looked like a very fun event. The young woman who won looked shocked and stunned!

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

Thanks for sharing your experience, plus the pictures! That was really something, and I'm glad you were able to participate!

 

[Ginarella]

Just to be part of that experience must have been amazing. Thank you for sharing your photos with us and Congrats on winning the trip to Disneyland.

 

[mikayla73]

That's so awsome! Thanks for sharing.

 

[hlbtimes2]

Wow, what an awsome contest. Such great details.

 

[eatmypixiedust]

I love Disney magic! Thanks for sharing the pics. What an exciting contest!