I would say AK is usually the least busy on a holiday. Or skip the parks and hit mini golf, the pool or resort hop and have a nice meal.
I doubt it would make any difference at all- i don't know that they base it on reservations necessarily and if you've already done all the tricks online, then that is probably all you can do for now.
to everyone. I need names, dates and places you are staying to be able to add you to the list if you want too...LMK! I am sorry Iv been away! Little thing called 'life' keeps coming between me and the DIS! We are now trying to redo our upstairs bathroom and the the windows get put in on monday so I might not be around much til everything settles.
thanks I had Epcot as my day
Y'all were busy yesterday!! For TGM...I used his site 2 times with pretty good results--a lot of the info I already knew, but loved having his suggestions back me up on what I had planned, or help me decide on a few tricky days. Last year not so good. His sister died, so he was waaay behind, we all felt bad for him-people that work with him, or that he contacts kept coming back and saying how sorry he was and that his family was all upset--it was a sudden thing they werent expecting I think...ok..then he got the flu or something...and it was WEEKS going by and nothing was happening we just kept getting the repeated message (I paraphrase here): Mike is so sorry, he is working nonstop to get your best park days updated and to you so those of you going in November can make your ADRs next week. Well, I can't tell you how many times we got that message and guess what...our time frame came--and went and nothing. So, I emailed and asked for a refund..I was very disappointed, and he never said anything there or on the FB site that I can remember about what/when he actually planned to have the updates ready-if someone would have said "hey, this is NOT gonna be ready for yall, make your adrs to the best of your ability" i would have been much happier than them stringing us along not knowing what was going to happen!
I know I am behind in this discussion,..I missed a day!
Also, none of the major things had been updated for quite a long time, like a few years! I hope this year he has all the updates he has been promising- I know on other threads it was a major discussion because everyone was paying for an upgrade and not getting it...
we are going to drive rahter than fly. It will mean quite a bit of time in the car but its do able, over two days each way. Even with the price of gass it will save money since we would have the cost of flights and a rental car for the entire trip. My son will be disappointed because he is so eager to get on an airplane but he'll adjust.
She said hers was Disney Visa and GP would be available soon-maybe next week or so..
And to me leaving the parks to go back to the room and make something or go off site is a big drag, we like to stay in the parks all day. So with our food costs and family size we can only afford to stay on site if we get free dining. Even a 30% room discount would only save us about $60 a day, which will not feed our family in the park each day, plus we wouldn't get to do all the cool and expensive character meals etc. If they don't offer free dining we'll be looking at staying offsite.
Since you'll be at Epcot- my favorites would be Le Cellier (probably insanely popular for T-day), Chefs De France, and the character meal at the Land (Garden Grill) will probably have more Thanksgiving type food!
Yeah- we are there the same dates!
We are hoping to catch F&W too- planning to come in Thursday night the 8th and hit it on the am on the 9th and 11th.
Ugh- i hate driving. I've done the drive many times as a kid and then as an adult when I had to drive down there for the college program (kept my car down there). Well I'll hope that prices for flights will magically go down, for all of us!!!! The drive can be fun though too!if my boss will give me the extra days off
If you aren't a big table meal person, then free dining isn't as great of a deal vs the room discount. If you do like doing a sit down each day, then FD might be better. It just depends- plus the mix of your party, if you have folks that don't eat a ton etc. Be sure you are registered on the disney site- order the free DVD, custom maps, play with book a trip/itinerary tool and have some 'saved trips' in there.
Yeah!
