Nothing to See Here...

[mariezp]

Well, Sherry, it is good to see that you are still churning out new ideas! I do believe you will get there yet! I do have to say that I think Plan 4 sounds very good in that it would have a starter plan in place for next year as well. At least you would already have your admissions covered for those future trips. Now to just keep building on those funds for this year! It was very nice (or I suppose very evil, depending on how you look at it) of Disney to send you that nifty little pin code. It would be a shame for it to go to waste. Here's hoping the AP rate will be even SWEETER! Anyway, crossing my fingers for one of these plans to work!

 

[kaoden39]

I hope it all works out for you the way you want Sherry. I am crunching numbers and trying to plan constantly. I think Shawn is a lost cause, that is sad.

Marie, your vacation is sooooo close. How exciting!!

 

[Sherry E]

N/A

 

[mvf-m11c]

I'm sorry that you won't be able to enjoy the Halloween season at DL, but for the price of the PPH at $163 a night is a great deal. You can't beat that deal with or without an AP. I have seen the price for a standard room at PPH a little bit higher for the month of December, but that is a good deal with the pin offer. I hope you and any of your friends and family that go with you during your trip will have a magical time during the Holiday season. I am looking forward to your pictures when you get back and I will keep tracking your TR when I am in Orlando during my Holiday trip.

It would have been very interesting if I have not gone to DL next month and WDW in December 10-17, I would have been at DL during that weekend for my birthday trip like I have been doing the last few years. If I gone to DL during my usual years, I would have been there on Dec 9-12. I would have just missed you when you show up.

Have a great time during your trip.

 

[kaoden39]

Yeah, number crunching does get pretty tiring.

Sounds like you got a good rate. And I am thrilled for you and I can hardly wait to hear about all of the planning and everything.

 

[bumbershoot]

woooohooooo!!!!!!!!!

What a great rate! And a good time! (do you miss the later-than-normal CM party nights?) And what a great time you will have!

The one mistake you made was booking it while we're still in WDW...maybe I could have gotten off the plane on the 17th and just gotten onto another plane, LOL, coulda been your roomie. (hi, psycho much, Molly?)

I'm so excited for you!

 

[Belle Ella]

Shoot, at this point Sherry, I'd totally try and get down there that Sunday through Wednesday with you, lol. Since those are pretty much my guaranteed days off at this point. But it sounds like you've got a good plan worked out!!

 

[Sherry E]

N/A

 

[Belle Ella]

Jazz, you have days off during the time I'm going to DLR (12/12 - 12/15)? Well, shucks! You should head down to Anaheim then! I didn't realize those days were an option for you - I thought that only post-Christmas was possible. I'm sure you'd like to stay onsite, get your own "Key to the Magic" with your name on it, get your own set of the mouse ears bath products, get two Magic Mornings (Sunday and Tuesday), etc. You could stay at the PPH with me!

Although that's probably too smooshed together with your post-Christmas trip, I assume. And you need to be able to go post-holiday because that's when a certain someone has time off work, right?

Correct. The whole reason for going after Christmas is that a certain someone will have days off that week, rather than just the weekend. This way, in case I can't get a weekend off in December, I should still be able to drive down maybe Sunday after work and a nap and have Monday and Tuesday, possibly Wednesday and then whatever extra days I can finagle. Because I will be pretty much guaranteed to work Thurs/Friday and Saturday into Sunday my usual days off are Sunday past 6 am, Monday and Tuesday for sure so I can't accidentally work 6 days in a row with Wednesday being up for grabs.

Ideally, those days would be best for me to make a trip down, but it defeats the purpose of spending time with someone when said someone is at work!!

Buuuut, if you'd like to have a roomie, I'll keep it open as an option since I'll be getting an AP in December so both trips would be covered (going premium so I don't have to worry about planning around weekends that are blocked out, and if all goes well it will more than pay for itself). If it did happen I probably wouldn't be able to give you an answer until a couple of weeks before.

Now I just have to be a good girl and remember to sign up for classes and do everything I'm supposed to be doing so my family can't give me too much grief over my planned trips down south ...

 

[mvf-m11c]

Hi, Bret! Thanks for joining in over here!! When I've had PIN offers in the past, they have ranged from $129 to $179 (I'm talking about for the PPH only, not counting the other hotels). So the one I currently have - that the CM on the phone had never seen or heard of before - falls somewhere in the middle. But then again, the hotel prices were probably lower a couple of years ago, and higher now. So considering that the rates have likely gone up, the $163 per night rate is a good one!!

Still, since I plan on getting another AP anyway, I will keep tabs on the AP rates for my dates in December. I bet those will not come out until November! I suspect that there should be something better than $163 coming out for my time frame. If so, I will quickly switch to that rate!! I'm all about getting the best bargain I can get!!

You're right - we would have just missed each other at DLR if you were not headed to WDW during that December time frame. I can't wait to get to WDW one day to take in all the holiday offerings there.

At least you are getting the best of both worlds this year - you not only did DLR for Halloween, but you're doing DLR for the holidays and WDW for the holidays too! I'd say that's a pretty great year of trips!!

I always like to read TR from other DISers and pics of their trips. I barely post any thoughts on the TR threads, but I should post more on this part of the forums.

There is barely any discounts with the AP for hotels. Before I was going to DL earlier this month, I got a pin # if I wanted to stay at PPH for only $149 a night. That is not a bad deal, but it is really high for a night at PPH. I have seen rates go as low as $129 last year at PPH. It's like that this year all the prices at the DL hotels are more than $150.

If you were planning on getting another AP, which AP are your considering? Which ever one you get (SoCal, Select, Deluxe, Premium or Premier) I hope that you have a great time with your AP during your days at DL.

This is a great year for all the trips that I have been to DL and WDW this year. This just been crazy for me to be going to DL and WDW this many times in just one year, but they have all been fun. The best part of this year was seeing WoC during its debut week, Mickey's Halloween Party this month and going to the Holiday season for DL and WDW.

 

[bumbershoot]

Sherry, I think the disboards had better clear up some memory just for the trip report that will come out of this trip. That is, if I don't fall unconscious in the middle of it and spend the rest of the time in a haze!

But no, I have my cute little square notebook, I am prepared! I hope.

If you have any free time, come on over to my pre-trip! Read about my recent clothes shopping trip and how awful it was...

 

[Sherry E]

Correct. The whole reason for going after Christmas is that a certain someone will have days off that week, rather than just the weekend. This way, in case I can't get a weekend off in December, I should still be able to drive down maybe Sunday after work and a nap and have Monday and Tuesday, possibly Wednesday and then whatever extra days I can finagle. Because I will be pretty much guaranteed to work Thurs/Friday and Saturday into Sunday my usual days off are Sunday past 6 am, Monday and Tuesday for sure so I can't accidentally work 6 days in a row with Wednesday being up for grabs.

Ideally, those days would be best for me to make a trip down, but it defeats the purpose of spending time with someone when said someone is at work!!

Buuuut, if you'd like to have a roomie, I'll keep it open as an option since I'll be getting an AP in December so both trips would be covered (going premium so I don't have to worry about planning around weekends that are blocked out, and if all goes well it will more than pay for itself). If it did happen I probably wouldn't be able to give you an answer until a couple of weeks before.

Now I just have to be a good girl and remember to sign up for classes and do everything I'm supposed to be doing so my family can't give me too much grief over my planned trips down south ...

I had typed out a whole response to this earlier, but then, as usual, the good ol' PC locked up, which led to me shutting it down...and then somehow this led to a whole mess o' problems with Java and Adobe Reader and all kinds of things.

So rather than re-type whatever I said before, I'll just say...Cool!

I always like to read TR from other DISers and pics of their trips. I barely post any thoughts on the TR threads, but I should post more on this part of the forums.

There is barely any discounts with the AP for hotels. Before I was going to DL earlier this month, I got a pin # if I wanted to stay at PPH for only $149 a night. That is not a bad deal, but it is really high for a night at PPH. I have seen rates go as low as $129 last year at PPH. It's like that this year all the prices at the DL hotels are more than $150.

If you were planning on getting another AP, which AP are your considering? Which ever one you get (SoCal, Select, Deluxe, Premium or Premier) I hope that you have a great time with your AP during your days at DL.

This is a great year for all the trips that I have been to DL and WDW this year. This just been crazy for me to be going to DL and WDW this many times in just one year, but they have all been fun. The best part of this year was seeing WoC during its debut week, Mickey's Halloween Party this month and going to the Holiday season for DL and WDW.

Bret, it seems like the good discounts that are released for AP holders these days (when there are any) are beginning to show up much later on the AP hotel calendar than they used to. It used to be that the good AP rates (meaning under $200 per night) would appear a couple of months in advance. Now there are some cases in which the good AP rates don't appear until a couple of weeks before the dates you want to stay onsite!! Last year, they released the good October AP rates in almost mid-September!! How can anyone plan like that? It's almost as if Disney is trying to discourage their AP holders from staying onsite by waiting so long to give them the rates!!

I might be better off just sticking with my $163 per night rate and not count on anything good coming out AP-wise.

 

[Sherry E]

Sherry, I think the disboards had better clear up some memory just for the trip report that will come out of this trip. That is, if I don't fall unconscious in the middle of it and spend the rest of the time in a haze!

But no, I have my cute little square notebook, I am prepared! I hope.

If you have any free time, come on over to my pre-trip! Read about my recent clothes shopping trip and how awful it was...

Between your TR and Marie's 2-week DLR TR that I expect will happen, you guys might need to start a whole new board!!!

I'll be over to your TR! I still get the updates!!

 

[bumbershoot]

Bret, it seems like the good discounts that are released for AP holders these days (when there are any) are beginning to show up much later on the AP hotel calendar than they used to. It used to be that the good AP rates (meaning under $200 per night) would appear a couple of months in advance. Now there are some cases in which the good AP rates don't appear until a couple of weeks before the dates you want to stay onsite!!

I concur!

Between your TR and Marie's 2-week DLR TR that I expect will happen, you guys might need to start a whole new board!!!

 

[mvf-m11c]

Bret, it seems like the good discounts that are released for AP holders these days (when there are any) are beginning to show up much later on the AP hotel calendar than they used to. It used to be that the good AP rates (meaning under $200 per night) would appear a couple of months in advance. Now there are some cases in which the good AP rates don't appear until a couple of weeks before the dates you want to stay onsite!! Last year, they released the good October AP rates in almost mid-September!! How can anyone plan like that? It's almost as if Disney is trying to discourage their AP holders from staying onsite by waiting so long to give them the rates!!

I might be better off just sticking with my $163 per night rate and not count on anything good coming out AP-wise.

I agree with your conclusion. It's almost like they want the non-AP guests to buy the rooms first while they wait until there is still available rooms when it gets closer to the dates. I was waiting for a good AP rate at the GCH when my DA and I stayed there this month. I wanted to book as soon as possible but the standard was just way too high @ $349 a night back in June. I just waited until it got to mid July and it was at $228 for the standard. In a month it would be still at the same 10% discount than it turned into a 40% discount just like that. It just makes it so difficult for AP holders who are not locals to plan a trip to DL if the AP discount price is high and purchase it than it goes down a lot after a few days, weeks or months.

 

[Belle Ella]

I had typed out a whole response to this earlier, but then, as usual, the good ol' PC locked up, which led to me shutting it down...and then somehow this led to a whole mess o' problems with Java and Adobe Reader and all kinds of things.

So rather than re-type whatever I said before, I'll just say...Cool!

I feel your pain Sherry!! But

 

[kaoden39]

I have to tell you I type my long posts on another program like notepad and then copy and paste it to Dis. Our old desktop used to drive me nuts. I feell your pain.

 

[bumbershoot]

Any updates?

 

[Sherry E]

N/A

 

[kaoden39]

Oh yeah your pin beats the heck out of the AP rate. It down right spanks it.