***October 2012 Thread*** MNSSHP + Food & Wine - Does It Get Any Better?

[NOLAdisneymom]

I think I"m under 300 days now! We are trying to decide on 5 nights or 6 nights.. and king room or regular room.. We did decide to get the DP, instead of QS, so I'm making some headway!

 

[TinyDancer]

I just read on the FD thread that we should know in July if they are extending FD or not...

 

[jenny105]

hello everyone, new to posting, but thought i would add myself to your list. We are going October 2012 as well. Nothing is booked yet, still waiting for time off work to be set up for my husband but our plan is the week of October 20th. We will probaly go a few days earlier and probaly stay at a disney resort. But the week we will be staying in a timeshare through my parents. Probaly sheridan vistana.

Welcome!

WOW...this thread is LONG! I am going to apologize now for not being up for reading the whole thread, but I would seriously fall asleep after about 10 pages.

We are planning a trip for Oct. 26-Nov. 4 and will likely stay at POP. Hoping to get free dining, but we'll be going discount or not.

This thread just keeps growing and growing! I can't believe how many of us are going to be there in October. Are the other 2012 threads this long or are we just a chatty bunch?

 

[rentayenta]

and for fixing my dining countdown Jenny.

 

[jenny105]

and for fixing my dining countdown Jenny.

Aw shucks.

 

[nellyru]

Planning on a surprise trip sometime in the first half of October for our kids!! Can't wait!! And TOTALLY praying for free dining this time round!

 

[HeatherLassell]

Planning on a surprise trip sometime in the first half of October for our kids!! Can't wait!! And TOTALLY praying for free dining this time round!

Cool. Let us know when you firm up your dates and Jenny can add you to the first page!

 

[ADznyDrmr]

I kept wondering why I wasn't on the list, and then realized this morning that my post was deleted! Odd. Our family is driving down from Missouri, and we will be at DW from Oct 13-20! We usually fly, but thought we'd give driving a shot at least once! We're staying off-site this time, at WH. There was just no way we could cram both Grandma's in a room with us and our 2 kids! I'm so incredibly excited about the trip!! I talk about it every day, and I think my kids and DH think I'm a little crazy!

 

[nellyru]

We are trying to plan around MEA at our school so we don't have to take them out for too many days. Maybe they have the schedule already!??

 

[dreskates]

We are heading from KS down to WDW Oct 13-20 as well!! Getting so excited - almost daily checking the websites. I think my husband thinks I'm a bit neurotic about planning and getting ready. My motto is you can't be too prepared, ready to be ready and flexible!

 

[jenny105]

I kept wondering why I wasn't on the list, and then realized this morning that my post was deleted! Odd. Our family is driving down from Missouri, and we will be at DW from Oct 13-20! We usually fly, but thought we'd give driving a shot at least once! We're staying off-site this time, at WH. There was just no way we could cram both Grandma's in a room with us and our 2 kids! I'm so incredibly excited about the trip!! I talk about it every day, and I think my kids and DH think I'm a little crazy!

You're on the list now

 

[Lilo&Stitch]

We are heading from KS down to WDW Oct 13-20 as well!! Getting so excited - almost daily checking the websites. I think my husband thinks I'm a bit neurotic about planning and getting ready. My motto is you can't be too prepared, ready to be ready and flexible!

This must be a popular date ! those are our dates as well !! Oh and we'll probably be staying at POP again, unless of course we win a trip

 

[disneymom88]

Well I just had some pixie dust added to my day. I was going through some old disney emails and I noticed that I had a pin sent back in october. I called disney pin in hand and of course it was expired but the nice cm told me she could check if I had another pin attached to my name and I did!!!! It's only 10% off which doesn't sound like much but it saved us $200 the cm told me they encourage ppl to call and find out if they have some kind of discount. Anything is better than nothing, so go and call!! Lol

 

[rentayenta]

Is anyone thinking about planning a meet for a drink or something?

 

[ADznyDrmr]

We are heading from KS down to WDW Oct 13-20 as well!! Getting so excited - almost daily checking the websites. I think my husband thinks I'm a bit neurotic about planning and getting ready. My motto is you can't be too prepared, ready to be ready and flexible!

I agree whole-heartedly! I need my Disney vaca, it gives me something to plan for, something to look forward to, and something to use as a guidepost for things like...weight-loss. Are you guys driving down as well? Do you do a stop-over otw? We are going to drive straight through, taking turns driving/napping with the kids sleeping in the back. (Lots of coffee will be involved!)

 

[dreskates]

I agree whole-heartedly! I need my Disney vaca, it gives me something to plan for, something to look forward to, and something to use as a guidepost for things like...weight-loss. Are you guys driving down as well? Do you do a stop-over otw? We are going to drive straight through, taking turns driving/napping with the kids sleeping in the back. (Lots of coffee will be involved!)

No, we are going to fly - kids first time (that they will remember! Ha!) We are going to hopefully stay at POR - new/refurbed rooms. I saw that you were there - did you like it? Good luck with the driving/napping schedule. Where are you going to stop for overnight? Def need lots of Coffee!! Congrats on your wt loss - saw the ticker! How old r your kids? Mine are out for conferences half of that week, that's why we chose it. Very hopeful for a FD!

 

[teacherjmc]

Count me in! I'm going with friends the first week of October. I'm a teacher and this is my fall break week--it has coincided with free dining in the past so we are crossing our fingers! We haven't booked yet but are leaning towards CSR... I'm hoping to finalize things within the week so I'll let you know once we've got things nailed down! Can't wait!

 

[ADznyDrmr]

No, we are going to fly - kids first time (that they will remember! Ha!) We are going to hopefully stay at POR - new/refurbed rooms. I saw that you were there - did you like it? Good luck with the driving/napping schedule. Where are you going to stop for overnight? Def need lots of Coffee!! Congrats on your wt loss - saw the ticker! How old r your kids? Mine are out for conferences half of that week, that's why we chose it. Very hopeful for a FD!

How cool! We will fly as well if I can find tickets at close to $200/each before the actual trip

We loved POR itself. It was very pretty, we had a room that was within decent walking distance of the nearest bus-stop, and not so decent walking distance from the big "cool" pool. A smaller pool was nearer to us, but the kids and DH always wanted to go to the big one. Now keep in mind, that was several years ago, and I was even more overweight then...so all of the walking (LOTS at POR) really wore me out, but as far as our room and the resort itself...beautiful!

This trip will be me, DH, DS12, DD6, DMiL, as well as MiL's mom We will be staying at Windsor Hills so that the two of them (they can't walk very far at all) can hang out at the private pool/hot tub all day. They'll be fixing supper most nights, and will even watch the kids if we decide we can afford to go out just the two of us!

Right now I'm trying to decide if it would be worth the drive to go over to BG in Tampa for just one day of the trip. We definately won't be able to spend the night and do two days there and still do all of the days that we want at DW...I want at the very least, FOUR Disney Days lol. So many decisions Just adds to my fun!

 

[TinyDancer]

We are driving also, from southern Ohio.
We will leave on Friday, I'm going to surprise DS up at school (he'll be in second grade) and we'll leave around 2pm.. We are driving most of the way and then spending the night (hopefully in southern GA or northern FL) and finish driving on Saturday am.

 

[smitch425]

We are driving also, from southern Ohio.
We will leave on Friday, I'm going to surprise DS up at school (he'll be in second grade) and we'll leave around 2pm.. We are driving most of the way and then spending the night (hopefully in southern GA or northern FL) and finish driving on Saturday am.

Just wanted to let you know that we have made the drive from just south of Dayton, OH a few times and we stayed the night in Tifton, GA. It is a nice area with hotels and restaurants. We made it to WDW around lunchtime the next day. I want to say it is about 4ish hours from Disney. Last year was the first year we flew. We flew out of CVG (cincy/no. ky) and we got there in less than 2 hours. I have a feeling I will never see the city of Tifton again.