*** Official January 2024 Thread ***

[Disney loving Iowan]

30 days! This is both exciting and intimidating. I'm so excited to go and ride Tron and Guardians for the first time and see the new Moana area. Also to get to spend a week with my daughter. At the same time though I'm already dreading the Disney blues I know I will have afterwards. Plus my trip anxiety is starting to set in. Ugh. Gotta do my DAS application tomorrow. Hoping it goes well. Got my suitcase out today lol
What are your countdowns at?!!!

 

[BadgerMom99]

30 days! This is both exciting and intimidating. I'm so excited to go and ride Tron and Guardians for the first time and see the new Moana area. Also to get to spend a week with my daughter. At the same time though I'm already dreading the Disney blues I know I will have afterwards. Plus my trip anxiety is starting to set in. Ugh. Gotta do my DAS application tomorrow. Hoping it goes well. Got my suitcase out today lol
What are your countdowns at?!!!

I found the DAS application process fairly simple. I believe I had a 12-15 minute wait to start the chat, but after that it was super simple. The CM I spoke with was very friendly.

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

I found the DAS application process fairly simple. I believe I had a 12-15 minute wait to start the chat, but after that it was super simple. The CM I spoke with was very friendly.

I have done it twice for DL but not for WDW yet. Not sure of what the differences are.

 

[Araminta18]

Ooh add me?! We're going Jan 14th-Jan 18th, for Festival of the Arts! We're at Beach Club

 

[NikkiDP]

Happy Disney Month!! We are at 10 days and packing plans are starting to take form

 

[bjscheel]

8 days so starting to be able to see extended forecast. Showing a bit of snow here the day before and day we leave so now I'm nervous. 1-3 inches so maybe not a problem getting to the airport but if the plane has to de-ice we don't have a lot of room for delays. It has time to change...

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

8 days so starting to be able to see extended forecast. Showing a bit of snow here the day before and day we leave so now I'm nervous. 1-3 inches so maybe not a problem getting to the airport but if the plane has to de-ice we don't have a lot of room for delays. It has time to change...

Fingers crossed for you.

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

Got my DAS done this morning so all that is left to do is making sure I have everything and pack. 29 days.

 

[BadgerMom99]

8 days so starting to be able to see extended forecast. Showing a bit of snow here the day before and day we leave so now I'm nervous. 1-3 inches so maybe not a problem getting to the airport but if the plane has to de-ice we don't have a lot of room for delays. It has time to change...

I’m at 7 days and it looks like the snow is coming that afternoon. I leave at 5am.

Fingers crossed the weather does not impact your trip!

 

[MamaJessie]

This trip was originally a November one I had to postpone. Looking forward to heading to the Poly the 6th-13th with DH and 3 of our kids.

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

This trip was originally a November one I had to postpone. Looking forward to heading to the Poly the 6th-13th with DH and 3 of our kids.

Staying at the Poly also. Will be our first time staying there.

 

[MamaJessie]

Staying at the Poly also. Will be our first time staying there.

I stayed there on a short girl's trip before but no one else in the group has been there, I'm excited!

 

[KNovacovschi]

Just in case no one was aware but Big Thunder is closing for refurb on Jan 16-Jan 21 and Frozen will be down Jan 24-25.

 

[Euby]

Add me, please. Solo trip 1/20-1/27 @ All-Star Movies for Festival of the Arts!

 

[tinabina919]

11 days for us! Getting so excited! Still waiting on menus for Festival of Arts. This has to be the latest they’ve ever released the menus. I wonder what the hold up is.

I really miss FP… I used to be able to plan so much better. I’ve been checking my tip board on MDE to try and get a sense of what will be available for LL in the morning and how fast they sell out but with FP I could really plan which rides at which times. For Epcot especially, we have park hoppers and plan to hit Epcot twice. I used to be able to split Epcot in half and make FP for the front of the park one day and world showcase the next. Now it’s just whatever is available the morning/day of. I feel like we will just be walking back and forth all day.

Taking my parents back for the first time since I was a kid so I just want my planning to be on point.

 

[momof2gr8kids]

8 days so starting to be able to see extended forecast. Showing a bit of snow here the day before and day we leave so now I'm nervous. 1-3 inches so maybe not a problem getting to the airport but if the plane has to de-ice we don't have a lot of room for delays. It has time to change...

Crossing fingers for you! I've got travel anxiety from our Christmas trip last year that got cancelled twice. We just got snow Dec 30th finally here. We're in Canada so this is not normal. I told everyone I know when we will have a storm - Jan 20th! (the day we leave to drive to USA to fly out!).

 

[PrincessGidget]

I ran into an old friend at the grocery store over the weekend. Her family finally bought DVC (we have been talking about it since the boys were eight, they are now twenty.) Her January dates line up with mine and we are so excited. We are making plans to hang out like old times (but with more alcohol and no kids!)

 

[bjscheel]

Starting to run other scenarios through my head in case of snow, looking at SW's availability Monday/Tuesday and thinking about managing our pets if the pet sitter can't make it out right away.

I've seen a lot of storm predictions fizzle into nothing. But doesn't hurt to have some ideas I guess.

DD22 and her fiancé shouldn't have trouble flying out of STL so they can go ahead and enjoy Epcot if we're late. I have a Mears bus reservation for all 6 of us- I assume we don't all have to be on the same bus.

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

Not sure if you all saw this but it is something you may want to look into. Sadly it won't benefit me since we are renting DVC points.
https://allears.net/2024/01/02/free...F5M9JnmtMYc7DNaDsi5m3ORBwZlLdH9Fk5R_JUG--dz3Q

 

[momof2gr8kids]

Not sure if you all saw this but it is something you may want to look into. Sadly it won't benefit me since we are renting DVC points.
https://allears.net/2024/01/02/free...F5M9JnmtMYc7DNaDsi5m3ORBwZlLdH9Fk5R_JUG--dz3Q

It's not for trips until July though. So you're not missing out in Jan!