"Official" 2017 Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party - Boo to You!

[lovingeire]

Yeah, I would be stalking up on food if I were there and would likely have the return home/trip impacted by Irma, Jose or any of their other nasty friends. Better safe then sorry. I know that there are shortages in the area too, so I would do what I could - uber to different stores or work with Garden Grocer. Or you can always hit up the quick serve locations at your resort or the Speedway, or whatever gas station it is, on property. Better safe than sorry. And there is a powdered milk you can get if really at a loss and it's needed for kids.

 

[FoxC63]

Disney has a notification on their website home page that takes guests to their Hurricane Policy page.



https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/

 

[alisonslp]

Tomorrow's party I assume is unaffected by the potential hurricane?

Yes, you will be fine. Storm isn't supposed to gear up until Late Sat/early Sun, if it hits at all. Keeps tracking more east with each update

And now they are saying there is another tropical depression forming behind Irma. Though I don't come down for another month, this is hitting close to home

They have known about this. This is why they kept predicting IRMA would stay west because the other storm would keep it there (block it from moving east, which is what it would "want" to do given the patterns on the western side). I don't think they are worried about Jose as it is supposed to stay at sea - at least for the USA.

Kids' ears and shirts are here!

Now we just need to work on those puppy poses! Lol!

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ADORABLE!!!!

This is great advice, but I've read plenty of reports of staple items like milk, bread, and water being cancelled from orders already because all the stores in Orlando and surrounding areas are out. So just an fyi - I'd make sure every bottle/cup you have in your room is filled with water. Go buy more if you can find them in the gift shops, food courts, etc.

I would try amazon Now. I am in NC and just planning on buying some of the shelf stable milk for cereal. Thankfully we are driving so we are bringing everything down with us. (though may have to worry about flooding car)

So far, yes. The current forecast is Irma hitting Florida on Sunday.

Edit to add: Looks like NOAA is predicting winds/rain to begin Saturday.

The most recent one is bringing the storm even more east and I think moving slowing because my weather app is now saying fine for sat but rain all day sun. With the storm predictions still constantly moving, I don't think they can predict very well yet.

I googled but didn't really see anything........

who didn't eat? park was only closed 1 day - how did that effect the hotels, except that everyone stayed in.

Were you there? We were and I have to say, it was a bit chaotic. Too chaotic for such a large business like Disney who should have had plans in place. We were at boardwalk and everything there (including the restaurants) closed from 5pm thur to 5pm Friday. Then only a couple restaurants opened at that point. By sat, everything was open again but for those 24 hours, if you weren't prepared and relying on Disney to feed you, you were out of luck. We were only in a studio and we brought snacks. It was enough to get us through but we had the luxury of driving down with our food. This time, we are coming prepared with a lot of staples since we will be able to cook in our villa. Hopefully we won't need it but I would rather be prepared.

 

[Chris Anglin]

When I got my email confirmation of purchase for both of my party tickets, they had a pdf attachment to print. I didn't know selecting "hard tickets/cards" was an option or I would have done that, but I have the PDFs printed which is fine for us.

I didn't see any options when I ordered.

 

[Roxyfire]

Were you there? We were and I have to say, it was a bit chaotic. Too chaotic for such a large business like Disney who should have had plans in place. We were at boardwalk and everything there (including the restaurants) closed from 5pm thur to 5pm Friday. Then only a couple restaurants opened at that point. By sat, everything was open again but for those 24 hours, if you weren't prepared and relying on Disney to feed you, you were out of luck. We were only in a studio and we brought snacks. It was enough to get us through but we had the luxury of driving down with our food. This time, we are coming prepared with a lot of staples since we will be able to cook in our villa. Hopefully we won't need it but I would rather be prepared.

It sounds like it varied based on resort. Pepper Market was open by mid-morning Friday, we went at around 11 am and they were serving a few breakfast and lunch offerings through buffet. It was limited but you could get a square meal very easily if you were at CSR. Not sure about the other moderates or values. I hope that people don't think that because it wasn't that bad last time, it won't be bad this time.

 

[sherlockmiles]

Thanks @alisonslp. I appreciate the info/response.
DIS people are the best disney people!

 

[mickey1968]

It's like, part of me of thankful that Disney provided some food. Another part of me says, isn't that a little greedy? People gotta eat! But that's not worth $12.99, maybe $7 at the most and that's still pricey to me.

I was at the Contemporary on the tail end of a conference during Hurricane Matthew. I was easily able to buy sandwich stuff and some fruit at the hotel store. But in the end the Contempo Cafe and Chef Mickeys staid operational. Actually they opened up Chef Mickey's buffet with a "to go" option where you could fill your plate and go back to the Contempo or elsewhere to eat. I think the price for that was around $16.99 for breakfast.

For entertainment they set up movies all day in one of the conference rooms by the escalators, had Goofy and Mickey out for meet and greets and brought the pool games like hula hoops and corn hole inside. Personally, I ended up sleeping through most of the storm and had a nice resort day but I didn't have to worry about entertaining anyone but myself.

ETA: I was grateful that I was at the CR even though it was Garden Wing. I would probably not have been as comfortable if I had been at my regular spot at Pop Century.

 

[Mollymovacca]

This is great advice, but I've read plenty of reports of staple items like milk, bread, and water being cancelled from orders already because all the stores in Orlando and surrounding areas are out. So just an fyi - I'd make sure every bottle/cup you have in your room is filled with water. Go buy more if you can find them in the gift shops, food courts, etc.

I was in a hurricane with family at the beach as a kid... we were told to fill the sinks and bathtubs too!

 

[LadyRayado]

I was in a hurricane with family at the beach as a kid... we were told to fill the sinks and bathtubs too!

Yep! We did this in Colorado during a massive flood.

 

[garthbarth1]

How fun! You have got to post us a picture.

Fun! Are you allowed to do lights? I thought it was Window Decals only? I would love to do lights if we could!

 

[cuteandfluffy626]

I googled but didn't really see anything........

who didn't eat? park was only closed 1 day - how did that effect the hotels, except that everyone stayed in.

Yeah I'm confused too? Do you mean the cast members or something? Or did I read your thing wrong? Cuz I'd be a pretty PO guest if I was stuck in my hotel room with little access to food and told they ran out or something.

 

[cuteandfluffy626]

Yeah I'm confused too? Do you mean the cast members or something? Or did I read your thing wrong? Cuz I'd be a pretty PO guest if I was stuck in my hotel room with little access to food and told they ran out or something.

Never mind I was able to read the thing correctly. English language had be reading "not every body HAS to eat." Whoops

 

[mickey1968]

Fun! Are you allowed to do lights? I thought it was Window Decals only? I would love to do lights if we could!

Yes, just buy some of the tiny clear command hooks (look in the Christmas decorations area). They come off easily and don't look ugly. Here also is a link to a search on Pinterest for decorations. You can only do these at the value and moderate resorts.

https://www.pinterest.com/search/pi...erm_meta[]=decorations|autocomplete|undefined

 

[cuteandfluffy626]

I was at the Contemporary on the tail end of a conference during Hurricane Matthew. I was easily able to buy sandwich stuff and some fruit at the hotel store. But in the end the Contempo Cafe and Chef Mickeys staid operational. Actually they opened up Chef Mickey's buffet with a "to go" option where you could fill your plate and go back to the Contempo or elsewhere to eat. I think the price for that was around $16.99 for breakfast.

For entertainment they set up movies all day in one of the conference rooms by the escalators, had Goofy and Mickey out for meet and greets and brought the pool games like hula hoops and corn hole inside. Personally, I ended up sleeping through most of the storm and had a nice resort day but I didn't have to worry about entertaining anyone but myself.

ETA: I was grateful that I was at the CR even though it was Garden Wing. I would probably not have been as comfortable if I had been at my regular spot at Pop Century.

So it definitely varied by resort pretty much.

Our trip isn't planned till after Irma passes but I'm concerned about the storm after it that's developing. And we are staying at POP so I'm REALLY researching right now.

 

[cuteandfluffy626]

Fun! Are you allowed to do lights? I thought it was Window Decals only? I would love to do lights if we could!

Yep never heard anything about not doing lights. We got battery operated ones though so I'm not sure if it matters if it's a plug in or not

 

[Cluelyss]

Thanks! I suppose we'd like a spot where we could stay for fireworks, so that'd be Main Street... right? Or doesn't it matter so much for these fireworks?

I'll remember the flagpole tip, too. I think most of the family will stake out the spot and YDS and I will go get some party desserts so we have a snack while waiting.

The best views will be from the front of the castle, but location is not as important as it is for HEA. Hallowishes is a bigger, better version of Wishes, so can be enjoyed really anywhere.

 

[garthbarth1]

Yes, just buy some of the tiny clear command hooks (look in the Christmas decorations area). They come off easily and don't look ugly. Here also is a link to a search on Pinterest for decorations. You can only do these at the value and moderate resorts.

https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?rs=ac&len=2&q=disney resort window decorations&eq=disney resort w&etslf=NaN&term_meta[]=disney|autocomplete|undefined&term_meta[]=resort|autocomplete|undefined&term_meta[]=window|autocomplete|undefined&term_meta[]=decorations|autocomplete|undefined

thank you! I will check this out

 

[Disneymom1126]

We are going to Universal this year but are planning one night for MNSSHP. Lots of questions! How far out does everyone buy their event tickets? We have never been to a party before and are planning for a Tuesday night. I know tickets are non-refundable so how miserable will we be if it rains? We'll focus on rides and maybe a parade/fireworks. Can we link our party tickets to last years' magic bands? Is a one-day memory maker worth it if we're not stopping for characters? Thanks in advance

We generally buy our tickets once we know which day we are going to go. Last year a handful of parties sold out in advance and more sold out the day of. The first post on this thread has info on when things sold out last year. How miserable it is in the rain is kindof dependent on how much you do/don't like the rain lol. Depending on how bad it is, some of the party things may not happen, we went to a MVMCP where it rained one year and though we missed the parade, had a lot of fun after the rain stopped in a basically empty park. You can link your party tickets to your magic bands from last year by linking them to your DME - all of your past bands will work as long as they still show as being active in DME. A one-day memory maker is only worth it if you would order more than 3 photos online (each photo is around $14.95 to order individually and the cost of the one day MM is like $55 I think [maybe off by a few $$]). If you are going to take a bunch of other photos (e.g. magic shots, photos in front of the castle, etc.) and you want ride photos, it may be worth it - otherwise I would skip it!

Can someone point me to a post for a good strategy to see characters at the party? Not sure exactly who my son wants to see yet, but I'd like to start game planning. We are at the party on 10/5

There's a thread on here where people are posting their party plans - that may be a good place to start! https://www.disboards.com/threads/m...y-in-the-making.3604086/page-57#post-58126389

Fun! Are you allowed to do lights? I thought it was Window Decals only? I would love to do lights if we could!

We did lights at POP century a few years back. We got battery operated lights that were on a timer (on for 8 hours, off for 16 I think). We worked it out so they came on automatically around the time it got dark even if we weren't in the room and then they automatically went off 8 hours later. I think I got them at Target or Walmart or something like that. We put them up with the command hooks like someone else suggested!

 

[monorailrabbit]

So it definitely varied by resort pretty much.

Our trip isn't planned till after Irma passes but I'm concerned about the storm after it that's developing. And we are staying at POP so I'm REALLY researching right now.

We are too, although we are about 10 days behind you. Irma has really perked our ears, so to speak. I'm not worried about rain, even thunderstorms, (in fact now I'm thinking how cool it would be to see an epic thunderstorm over the castle!) I just worry about flights. We are flying to MCO, then to LAX, then back home. Obviously there is no hurricane in LAX, so if we can't make it to MCO we are really SOL...

 

[only hope]

We are too, although we are about 10 days behind you. Irma has really perked our ears, so to speak. I'm not worried about rain, even thunderstorms, (in fact now I'm thinking how cool it would be to see an epic thunderstorm over the castle!) I just worry about flights. We are flying to MCO, then to LAX, then back home. Obviously there is no hurricane in LAX, so if we can't make it to MCO we are really SOL...

If you are in Fl when there is a thunderstorm, please don't watch it from outside. It is dangerous. We get far more lightening than most of the rest of the country and multiple people are struck every year. Just in the past week, lightening from a single storm caused several house fires and struck multiple cars. You could watch the castle from Caseys, the Plaza Ice Cream shop, or the train station.