*** Official January 2024 Thread ***

[Disney loving Iowan]

Hello- I'm late to post but our dates are Jan 17-24 and I'm getting so worried about the weather. We've been to wdw many times and had only one cold trip ( December 2009). The forecast looks like rain and cooler temps. It's disappointing. We are staying at club Wyndham bonnet creek and I was really looking forward to the lazy river . I haven't even packed any clothes yet. Who else is still packing?

I have stuff sat aside but I'm not packing my clothes until the last minute and I see the weather. Either way I'm taking a variety of layering clothes and rain wear.

 

[Mintycake]

Hello- I'm late to post but our dates are Jan 17-24 and I'm getting so worried about the weather. We've been to wdw many times and had only one cold trip ( December 2009). The forecast looks like rain and cooler temps. It's disappointing. We are staying at club Wyndham bonnet creek and I was really looking forward to the lazy river . I haven't even packed any clothes yet. Who else is still packing?

I've added you to the roll call. Yes the weather certainly looks rainy and cold. I haven't started packing either and I leave on Sunday! We are having snow up here in Toronto. Am seriously considering switching park days around based on weather at this point. We have our rain gear packed just in case but fingers crossed for sunny skies!

 

[tinabina919]

Ahhh! We leave tomorrow! Just checked into the flight and set up our Uber for the morning. How am I going to get through work all day now?!?

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

Ahhh! We leave tomorrow! Just checked into the flight and set up our Uber for the morning. How am I going to get through work all day now?!?

Have a great trip!!!

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

Gonna be lots of videos coming out on the Festival in the next few days. Ear to Ear is doing a live stream this morning.

 

[Mintycake]

Gonna be lots of videos coming out on the Festival in the next few days. Ear to Ear is doing a live stream this morning.

I hope it isn't too bad with vlogers! We go to Epcot on Monday!

 

[momof2gr8kids]

I hope it isn't too bad with vlogers! We go to Epcot on Monday!

Did you get the Canadian Resident Tickets? If so, can you report back if you had to go to guest relations first with ID before you could get into park.

 

[Mintycake]

Did you get the Canadian Resident Tickets? If so, can you report back if you had to go to guest relations first with ID before you could get into park.

Yes I did - really old ones (bought in 2017 I think!). I had to make park reservations since they are not date based. I would imagine we'd have to go to guest relations first. We are staying at Swan so plan to do this at International Gateway on Monday.

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

I hope it isn't too bad with vlogers! We go to Epcot on Monday!

I have never seen any problems there with vloggers. Plus I think most of them will do there big videos this weekend and then just every now and then after.

 

[momof2gr8kids]

Yes I did - really old ones (bought in 2017 I think!). I had to make park reservations since they are not date based. I would imagine we'd have to go to guest relations first. We are staying at Swan so plan to do this at International Gateway on Monday.

We used our ones from 2017 on our last trip in April. Oh how I wish I had purchased a couple more of those non expiring Canadian Resident tickets!
We have the tickets from the Current Promo. Someone on the Canadian board mentioned a CM on the phone said you don't need to show ID, they are good to go. Not sure I want to test that theory when I'm trying to get near the front of the pack for early entry with 8 of us!

 

[momof2gr8kids]

@Mintycake
I think you're in the GTA area? If so, hope everything is OK with your flights. Not sure from where or what day you are flying out, but I thought it's this weekend.

 

[Mintycake]

@Mintycake
I think you're in the GTA area? If so, hope everything is OK with your flights. Not sure from where or what day you are flying out, but I thought it's this weekend.

Yes I’m in Toronto but we fly out tomorrow night. Looks all clear! Fingers crossed!!!

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

Yes I’m in Toronto but we fly out tomorrow night. Looks all clear! Fingers crossed!!!

I hope everything goes well and that you have a magical trip! Can you believe it's finally here?!

 

[bjscheel]

We are back home! It was tricky since we got about 20" of snow while we were gone and we live in the country. Our Saturday flight was cancelled but SW put us on another one that arrived around the same time...had to spend the night in Omaha to let roads get cleared more. Then had to figure out how to get to our home on gravel roads. We made it via the neighbor's tractor, hours of DH's work with his tractor, and coming in through the pasture instead of the driveway. Probably won't go in January again.

Everything at Disney went great, when we weren't stressing about home!

 

[honeymo78]

Heading to Pop 1/27-2/3 with my mom and brother. It's killing me that I can't really pack until a few days before leaving since I need to have a better idea of the weather. My April and Sept trips are much easier to pack for.

 

[Rocketeer53]

We will be at AKL KV from 1/27 till the 1/31. I've started packing and checking the weather. I really hope it stops raining before we get there. It's are to walk around with art in the rain.

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

We will be at AKL KV from 1/27 till the 1/31. I've started packing and checking the weather. I really hope it stops raining before we get there. It's are to walk around with art in the rain.

I hope so too because I really want to see the chalk art.

 

[Euby]

I'm driving down on Friday, that is if I can find someone to clear off my driveway. 8.5 inches of snow is very pretty, but not the norm for Middle Tennessee.

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

I'm driving down on Friday, that is if I can find someone to clear off my driveway. 8.5 inches of snow is very pretty, but not the norm for Middle Tennessee.

Yikes. My niece is in the Nashville area. I'll have to check in on her.

 

[Mickeystar3864]

I'm driving down on Friday, that is if I can find someone to clear off my driveway. 8.5 inches of snow is very pretty, but not the norm for Middle Tennessee.

Hope you made it okay. I live in Knoxville. We got about the same amount of snow but that ice is no joke. Today was the first day I’ve left my neighborhood since it started snowing! We head to Florida, on Friday. We will have to contend with the flooding rain.