October 2011- who's in? Let's plan and countdown together!!

[donnajean17]

It may seem like a long way off, but it will be here before you know it!! Just 18 short months!!
So who is in for October 2011? Who's hoping for FD and a pin code? (is it too early to obsess about offers?) Who's staying where and doing what? Let's share and plan together!

Here are my plans (though we are settled on Oct, all the rest is tentative of course there is 18 months to go afterall!)
Traveling Party
ME (by then I will just 2 months shy of my 40th! )
DH (by then he will be 37)
DS (by then he will be 9)
DD (by then she will be 7)

Where are we staying?
Polynesian!
This has been our dream resort for so long! Which is why (among many reasons) we are not going in 2010 (as a family anyway, I went in March for the 1/2 marathon). I've got 18 months to save up! We plan on going garden view, (unless an incredible deal comes out) for 8 nights, 9 days with PH passes and the WPFM addition.

What will we do when we get there?
All parks of course, likely 2 full days at MK, and we love the Waterparks so we will be hitting both in some form.

Our touring plan has traditionally been to hit the parks early (read- rope drop), head back to hotel for swimming and resting mid afternoon and hit whatever late park is open extra hours. We love Epcot at night, so we will be doing quite a few nights there.
We don't usually do many other "excursions" (like fishing or boat rentals etc) or tours as the parks are really what we enjoy the most.

So who wants to share their plans and strategies? Join me!!

 

[mickeyfan71]

I will be there Oct 8th-11th on an ALL GIRLS trip to celebrate my 40th! Couldn't think of a better place to celebrate! (and with no kids) We are staying at Pop Century-first for all of us. Most of our time will be spent at EPCOT drinking around the world but we will visit AK for a day and a split day at HS and MK. I am looking forward to it! I already have the ressies picked out!
Happy Planning!

 

[donnajean17]

I will be there Oct 8th-11th on an ALL GIRLS trip to celebrate my 40th! Couldn't think of a better place to celebrate! (and with no kids) We are staying at Pop Century-first for all of us. Most of our time will be spent at EPCOT drinking around the world but we will visit AK for a day and a split day at HS and MK. I am looking forward to it! I already have the ressies picked out!
Happy Planning!

Yeah! All girls trips are fun, I just did one in March! (though I did miss the kiddos a little!).
I've stayed at Pop before and of all the values I've stayed at (I've done them all..) I did like this one the best! The food court rocks!
I think we might be there the same time...our dates are not 100% (other than we know Oct) but it's looking like Oct 7-15th... thought it's going to depend on flights...
Hope you have a great time!!!

 

[monkey0816]

Oh good--I'm not the only one planning so far ahead! My husband and I will be taking our daughter on her 1st trip for her 5th birthday (also 1st trip for my husband and 1st adult trip for me!) from 10/1-10/8. We plan on staying at POP. Can't wait!!!

 

[Travel Mum]

Count me in please! We are planning to visit WDW and Orlando for our first time October 1- 15, 2011. It will be myself, DH and our 3 DD's who will then be aged 13, 10 and 6. The first 7 nights will be onsite at POR (we are a family-of-five) during which time we will focus on doing the Disney parks and DTD. The next 7 nights we will hire a car and stay offsite (in more spacious accommodation) but not decided where yet. During this week, we will visit Sea World, Universal and IOA plus have a shopping day or two. We will get Park Hopper passes with the Waterparks so will probably visit one water park the first week and go back to do the other the second week. We will also go back to MK to do MNSSHP one night in the second week. We will then drive to Cape Canveral and visit the Kennedy Space Centre, spend the night and then we are booked to do a 7 night Western Caribbean cruise on Freedom of the Seas. It will be the trip of a lifetime for us as we have to travel far to get there and spend an absolute fortune to do it. However I'm so excited and just can't wait It still seems so far away though and I wish for this to make it happen faster!!

 

[mickeyfan71]

Trip in October is cancelled due to a family reunion in a cabin in the mountains the week of Christmas/New Years 2011. Sad but excited at the same time-good thing I am going to WDW in March of 2011!

 

[PrincessTaylorsMom]

I am totally in!! We are planning on visiting in October for our DD's birthday. Actually, I say "we", but DH isn't completely on board yet. But since I'm the planner and the one that comes up with the $$ to pay for the trip, he will be

We are:
Me - the planner and compulsive fanatic about all things Disney
DH - doesn't quite understand my love of Disney, but accepts me anyway
DD (5) - Drama queen princess
DD (5) - Roll with the punches, go with the flow princess
We've been going to Disney every two years, and have always traveled with extended family (DMIL/DFIL, DM, DS and her family, etc.). I love our family, but this time, I would really like it to be just us. Is that horrible?

Where we'll be staying
We want to do a split stay between POP and Beach Club. We stayed at ASMu in 2009 and Poly in 2007. We really liked them both and I think that a split stay will be a "best of both worlds" scenario. I'm really looking forward to Beach Club. We've never stayed at the Epcot area resorts, so I'm excited for this.

Hoping to get a pin or FD offer (we did FD last year and loved it). I'll keep on the look out, but we'll go anyway!!

What we'll do when we get there
All the parks. DDs are still young enough to be very into MK, so we'll spend a good deal of time there, but we love the other parks too. I'm hoping to get ADRs for CRT for DDs birthday as a surprise. We've never been there. Also want to do MNSSHP. Did it last year and it was amazingly fun. I want to spend one day just enjoying Stormalong Bay at BC and doing the boardwalk things that we've never done before.

We also will be taking a side trip to Universal IOA. (DD's are big Harry Potter fans). Thinking of adding a night onsite there to take advantage of their FOTL perk. But not sure switching hotels twice isn't the craziest thing ever.

I'm so glad to be joining you in the planning! Pixie dust to all of us!

 

[Tinkerbella001]

Will be going in october also! Well, maybe late september...early october. Not specific dates yet as it will depend on flights and work schedule. I work for the school district and will be taking the kids out for a week (I know, shame on me!) But that's a different thread! Also wanting free dining, so need to make sure dates coincide.

Looks like we will be staying at CBR or CSR. Haven't decided that yet either! I want CSR, but dd is eyeballing those pirate rooms at CBR. Oct 10 is her bday (she'll be 12) so we may have to oblige, lol! There will be a group of 16 of us all together! Can't wait!

Cast: me and dh, our adult son and his fiancee, and our other 5 children ages 16, 12, 8, 7, 7 (we adopted twins in May!)
Two of my cousins and their children, and of course my mother~ just in case we need a night off, hahaha!

We are going to do waterparks for the first time, and spend a few days at US/IOA. We just went in june, but it was right b4 WWoHP opened oh well, an excuse to go back!

 

[jujubee443]

I'm in! I just booked us at POP for October 14-21, 2011. It will be my DD first trip and we'll be celebrating her 5th birthday. I think I'm more excited than she is!!!

 

[DisneyGirl0102]

Just booked for Oct 8-15, 2011 staying at the Fort Wilderness Cabins. I cannot wait!!

 

[msmith1026]

Hi everyone. We just booked Oct 21-29th, 2011 and are staying at the Grand Floridian. We will be taking our daughter for her first trip to Disney (she'll be 5 when we go). My husband has been making fun of me for doing researching and planning already, so this thread has made me feel so much better!!

 

[jujubee443]

My husband is making fun of me too, he thinks I'm crazy for even planning it so far in advance. It will be our daughters first trip to Disney and we'll be celebrating her 5th birthday so I want everything to be perfect. We're going Oct 14-21, 2011.

 

[joeylynn28]

We are planning our second trip as a family (we went there for our honeymoon) this time we are stayong at the contempory with a veiw of the Magic Kingdom. My parents are joing us this time but they may stay at a different location. We are so excited I have always wanted to stay at the contempory.

 

[n2mm]

We'll be there. As you can see from my list below, I'm always there. I can't book my DVC resort until November (11 months out) for BWV. 2 weeks as always. The EPCOT resorts are hard to get into during F&W and is one of the reasons why I own at BWV (along with others).

 

[Dobby]

I just booked this past week and made my deposit! I've planned it for Sept. 28-Oct. 11 (I think, lol!)

I'm taking my two kids, and hopefully my brother can join us.

 

[stephgles]

Just came home from a magical trip. I am looking at booking Oct 21-29. This will be my first October trip. How are crowds during this time. We have gone the past 5 Septembers and the crowds have been great (hardly any)

 

[lauren_elizabeth]

We are totally looking into October 2011. I am currently 16 weeks pregnant (today!) and so anytime the rest of this year is out. My fiance, Josh, has never been to Disney World and so this will be his first trip, along with the new baby

Jake has been on a day trip in October 2009 and then his first big trip was last Nov/Dec 2010. We stayed at Pop and had a blast!

Anyways, I've never been to the Food & Wine Festival and I think it'd be a blast! I think Josh would definitely enjoy it, too. I'm thinking about doing the Wine and Dine 5k, which is supposedly the weekend of Oct 1st.

This will be so much fun to plan!

 

[NandK]

Just confirmed our stay for Oct. 9th-15th, 2011. Trying something different this year and renting points from a DVC owner. We are staying at Bay Lake Towers in a deluxe studio but paying about the same price as a value resort booked through Disney (saving about $1800).

 

[sjs314]

11 months from today we will be at the Contempory TPV

We had to cancel our trip this year due to an ailing boiler so we are now planning on doing our first MNSSHP, and our first F&W in October 2011 instead.

It will be our first stay at CR someplace we have talked of staying since our first visit to WDW in 1989 and can not wait.

 

[BLTLDZ]

We will be there 10/20-10/24 for F&W..can't wait!