My Trip DO's and DON'Ts....I really don't have any DON'Ts

[SandraC]

DO’s

·Pack super light! I packed 2 shorts, 2 skorts, 2 t-shirts, 4 dresses, PJ’s, bathing suit, undies, toiletries and STILL didn’t wear everything. I wore the shorts all the time, one skort once, 2 dresses & both t-shirts several times, PJ’s, swim suit and all the undies….I tosses out the old ones during the trip. Next time I’ll pack 3 shorts, 4 t-shirts, one dress.

·It’s okay to pack liquids, just follow the airline instructions. We even managed to bring sunscreen.

·We likely won’t book a Buffalo hotel before flying BUF….or at least we won’t do the hotel too early…it was painful to wait to soooo long before doing Florida. However, if we do book again, we will use Homewood Hilton…it was great!

·Rent a car! The freedom is great….especially if you want to do off-site stuff and the beach!

·Saying that….Use WDW buses if you are park-hopping. We could not have managed 4 parks in one day if we took our rental car.

·A few off-site restaurants….we really enjoyed off-site meals and service. We love Disney, but the prices off-site can’t be beat! Try Sizzler and Sweet Tomatoes!

·Leave Mousekeeping a daily tip…they do a great job and leave loads of extras and towel animals.

·Mickey wake-up calls!

·Buy a resort mug!

·“Walk-ups” to sit-down restaurants. We called Disney Dining to book a same-day ADR for Tony’s in MK but were told they were books. We “walked-up” at 5pm and got right in as a “walk-up”

· Try and get to the ocean! It’s so beautiful!

·Resort HOP! See as many resorts as possible and try a meal while there.

·Go to the parks early! It’s special and we got to do EVERYTHING we wanted!

·Rest in the afternoon ~ I love my naps.

·Do ALL the evening fireworks and show ~ we never miss them!

·Rent a Sea Raycer at a monorail resort ~ we all loved doing this!

·Do DTD, it’s fun and festive!

·Water parks! Water parks! Water parks! We are WATER people!

·Swim with the sharks! Sure the water is cool, but we were so freaked out about the sharks, we did not feel the cold.

·Bring a little pair of scissors, we used them all the time.

·Bring Tylenol…came in handy a couple of times.

·Enjoy your resort offerings….we adore CBR!

 

[murcor]

thats a great list

I can see by your list that you had a wonderful time

 

[maryliz]

Excellent list, Sandra. Sounds like you had a MAGICAL vacation! We are "water people" too ... can't wait til our trip in August.

 

[Joann]

Sounds like you had a great trip, I was waiting to hear from you on here how your DD was doing after the last post about her! Welcome home

 

[SandraC]

She's doing much better, thanks. She's happy to be home! S

 

[SplashMom]

Sounds like you had a great time and the list looks very similar to lists I have made! Good advice!

 

[BitsnBearsMom]

Sounds like you had a great time!

Glad to hear your dd is doing better too!!

 

[sammi]

Welcome home Sandra and hope you're daughter is on the mend!

 

[Joann]

Great that shes doing well!

 

[TimNDansMom]

Welcome home Sandra!

Glad to hear that DD is feeling much better and that you were all able to enjoy the last days of your trip!

 

[mtmbyck]

Hi SandraC. Oddly enough, I thought of your countdown when we were at WDW - we went a week earlier and you were there a week later. I did not see the post about your DD. Hope all was ok. Good list. We too LOVE resort hopping! And this is easiest with a car since the buses don't do resort to resort. Polynesian is my favourite to hang out at!

Curious to hear if you had any dreams from the dream team? I expected to see them everywhere and they certainly were not. What they are doing is transparent to most guests I think - expecially when it is busy in the parks. But they found us at the exit to BTMR so that was special - I AM ONE IN A MILLION they told me!

Typhoon Lagoon was still closed while we were there. I think it just opened when you got there. So we did Blizzard Beach twice!

I guess neither of us stayed in Cindy's castle! Oddly enough, it doesn't really matter once your there since everything else is so perfect!