I just booked our room for The Villas @ Grand Californian on Friday at the 7 month window. I was excited to get one of the last 3 1BR for October 4-8.
We will be visiting family in San Diego and then making my very first DLR trip later in the week. We visited So Cal a few years ago for the Rose Bowl, but this is really our first vacation trip to the area. I am sure I will have plenty of questions!
Welcome to the October Check In thread. I've added your travel dates to the first post.
for booking a VGC one bedroom at the 7 month window! I am hoping to do the same with my SSR points later this month. I wanted to use my VGC points for a two bedroom for Christmas week. Christmas is the hard time to book without VGC points. so that left my SSR points for my October trip (which we do every year). Wish me luck! I'm hoping it won't be too difficult.
For more information on the Grand Californian Hotel, I would suggest two threads. The Grand Californian Hotel Superthread is a thread that offers information on the hotel itself like room views, maps, services and dining. You can find it
here.
The second thread, The Villas at Disney's Grand Californian offers information on the villas and is a great place to ask questions as DVC member on VGC rooms and locations. You can find that thread
here.
There is a lot of the same information that is covered in both threads, but I have found them both useful. Have fun planning!
Liza - congrats on the weight loss! I am working on that myself
You should do a costume, you worked hard to lose it now show it off
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I am just thinking of going the shirt route since DH will not play nice and wear one. And I cannot sew a button so it will have to be store bought - good for your DD getting all creative, it must have been fun for her to make an outfit especially at Halloween. Maybe she will make one for you this year.
Thank you, tzeitel. You know how it goes with weight loss. It is a slow and unpredictable progress! I'll keep chugging along, and hope that I can lose 30 more before October. So I'll wait until summer before I even look at costumes. Or maybe, I should look now and get inspired to keep my eating plan in place.
At least the shirt is a comfortable way to go, but dressing up would be fun, too. As a last resort, I could do a cowgirl outfit, since I have everything I need (we have horses and ride western), but that would be too easy. DD(15) doesn't like it when I do that. Thinks it is
her thing. Teenagers! I have time to work on her if it comes to that. I really want to look at other alternatives and see what is out there before I turn to the old standby t-shirt and cowgirl look.
There is going to be an eventual WoC overlay for both Halloween and Christmas. When WoC first debuted, the people behind it/Imagineers said that it's already pretty much programmed to switch to Halloween and/or Christmas overlays.
Same thing for Toy Story Midway Mania - Mr. Potato Head is already programmed with Halloween-related dialogue and Christmas songs.
And then there is the rumor of the Candlelight Processional moving over to DCA and out of DL.
It's just all a matter of when DLR will decide to roll out these changes. My guess is that it will not be before all the major work in DCA is complete. Since there were almost no traces of Halloween in DCA last year at all - literally, all traces that had been there in 2007 - 2009 were gone - they will have to once again get to a point where they can include DCA in the Halloween festivities and put up some decorations, and then run the WoC and/or TSMM overlays as part of the overall seasonal celebration.
That definitely would not be this year, I'm sure. I wish it were going to be this year, but I just don't see how it would be possible yet unless they are way ahead of schedule with the construction.
One CM I spoke to at length in December was saying that the Disney VIP's and people at TDA do, indeed, pay attention to message boards and surveys and things like that to get a sense of what the public wants. He said they received tons of complaints about Candy Corn Acres being yanked out of DCA last year. He thinks that after all the work in DCA is finished, they will once again start building up Halloween Time and making more of the Christmas season as well.
Sherry, how awesome would WOC and TSM be with the holiday touches in place. I got lucky last year and was able to see the testing done from my DVC room for the Tron segment for the WOC before it debuted. I can tell you, it wouldn't be difficult to make the holiday changes based on what I saw last October. I can only imagine how exciting a Halloween theme WOC and beautiful and touching a Christmas WOC would be. My guess is that we will have to wait for 2012 at the earliest for those changes. I can't wait for the renovations to be completed.
I am still trying to decide what/when/how to do everything we want!
Spam! That's a riot! Ok, so where did you get the shirts from? My DH would get a kick out of that t-shirt. I think he would go for that one.
