Official May 2011 thread!

[mickeystoontown]

I've had quite a few messages and requests that I post pictures of the Disney (and non-Disney) themed backsacks that I sell. If you'd like to check them out, just click on one of the two links below.

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=40536379&postcount=339

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=40536565&postcount=341

If you haven't joined our Official May Countdown thread yet, please do so.

 

[witchesbrew]

What a fantastic surprise!!! Where you expecting to see him at that time? or was that a surprise also???

Have a great time planning

How awesome is that????? I'm sure it will be WONDERFUL for you to be together AND at the happiest place on earth to boot! It doesn't get much better than that!

Can your husband call up my husband and give him some tips on how to surprise his lady with a trip? Granted my hubby is great at going along for the ride, but never in FIVE MILLION YEARS can I see him planning a trip on his own. What can I say? He needs me or he'd sit at home every day of the year saving money for nothing.

Thanks guys!

ocalla His tour actually got cut short by two months, so it was awesome to hear he planned a WDW trip on top of coming back early!

MellyBeans hahaha! My DH still needs help with the planning too! But I was impressed that he took the initiative to book our resort without me! If there is hope for mine there is hope for yours too!

 

[momto2greatkids]

Doin' the paid-in-full happy dance

51 days to go!!!

 

[Sawhiskey]

Since I see a lot of other people posting theirs here is mine. I am going to be solo again, just a heads up.

May 15- Check into Pop Century, Head to Epcot to catch the last day of the Flower festival. dinner is 6:50pm at Tutto Italia. Maybe MK for EHMPM.

May 16- 8:25am is breakfast at Crystal Palace, spend the day and night in MK dinner is 6:35 at The Plaza.

May 17- Get to Hollywood Studios as early as my mind allows, dinner is 6:05 at Sci Fi- Dine In, stay for Fantasmic.

May 18- Again get to Animal Kingdom as early as I can, dinner is 5pm at Yak n Yeti.

May 19- No real plans lunch is 12:40 at The Grand Floridian Cafe.

May 20- Head to Hollywood Studios in the morning to enjoy some Star Wars!!! Dinner is 5:00 at Boma.

May 21- No real plans again, except breakfast is 8am at Boma and dinner is 6pm at Raglan Road.

May 22- Hit up Hollywood Studios again for some more Star Wars!! Dinner is 5pm at Kona Cafe. Magic Kingdom til 2am probably!

May 23- No real plans, lunch is 3:30 at 50s Prime Time.

May 24- Last day in Disney. Breakfast is 9:35am at Kona Cafe.

May 25- Pack the car, check out, and head north!

Cannot wait!!

 

[Blackbeltdisneygirl]

Our itinerary (I'm working off memory because I left my notes at work.....Ummm, yes sir, Mr. Bossman, I'm really doing the job you pay me to do. Ummmm, no sir, Mr. Bossman, I don't have a clue why the Disboard site is on my computer screen ):

May 24th: Leave Louisiana after we get off work and drive as far as we can

May 25th: Finish up the drive to Walt Disney World; check in Port Orleans Riverside

May 26th: Nothing really planned other than doing a little grocery shopping and swimming. Dinner ADR at Rainforest Cafe to celebrate our son's 14th birthday (His birthday is actually the 24th but we'll be on the road)

May 27th: Check out of POR and check into Caribbean Beach Resort. This is also our Magic Kingdom day. Dinner ADR at Whispering Canyon Cafe

May 28th: Our 1st Epcot day. Dinner ADR at Coral Reef

May 29th: Hollywood Studios and Star Wars Weekend! Fantasmic Dinner Package at Mama Melrose

May 30th: Nothing planned. May go offsite for a little while and shop in Kissimmee and pick up a slaw dog from Checkers. Dinner ADR at Grand Floridian Cafe.

May 31st: Animal Kingdom. Dinner ADR at Ohana

June 1st: 2nd Epcot day. Dinner ADR at San Angel Inn

June 2nd: Nothing planned. Will probably swim in the morning, rent a surrey bike, eat lunch at the resort or possibly go to DTD. Dinner ADR at Turf Club and Cirque du Soliel at 9:00 p.m.

June 3rd: 2nd Magic Kingdom day. Dinner ADR at Crystal Palace

June 4th: Check out and head home. Start planning our next trip during the 16 hour drive.

You'll be at POR for a couple of the days we are. Here's our itinerary:
5/23 flight arrives at 10:00ish AM ME to POR. Epcot with dinner ADR at Teppan Edo.

5/24 Hollywood Studios with Fantasmic dinner package at H and V. Then Fantasmic at nine.

5/25 Animal Kingdom with dinner ADR at Boma and hanging out to use night vision goggles.

5/26 Magic Kindom with dinner ADR at Ohana then back to MK for Wishes.

5/27 Move to Coronado Springs, Bkfst ADR at Epcot for princess story hour.

5/28 Star Wars weekends! HS with 2 ADR's: lunch at sci-fi, and dinner at 50's Prime Time.

5/29 MK with Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique and lunch at Cinderella's Royal Table. Probably sneak over to DTD so my niece and nephew can see it before they have to leave the next day.

5/30 AK with dinner ADR at rainforest cafe. Then probably extra swim time.

5/31 open schedule, but we'd like to fit in the chip and dale campfire.

6/1 Epcot with lunch ADR at Coral Reef.

6/2 open schedule then back to stinky Ohio.

 

[budcollector]

my intinerarys not as planned as others , but then i mostly just wing it. so far my plans are;

May 28 - 7am flight arrive 9:10
May 28 - AK for the day
May 29 - hollywood studios
May 30 - MK for the day
May 31 - Epcot for the day
June 1 - undecided day
June 2 - head back home

as far as eating its whatever park i'm in and which place has the shortest lines

 

[shera]

Just wanted to say how AWESOME!!! your trip will be!! I would totally love to stay that long at WDW/IOA. You guys are going to have a great time!

Thanks,it's only doable because my kids are older now.They can handle all the craziness of so many days.Some how every trip we have been, we always think it would have been nice to have a few more days,so we added them this time,lol.I am sure we will be exhausted when we get home.

 

[StEpHandMiKe<3Disney]

We are doing Fantasmic on the 3rd too. Do you think this is the best night this week to do it? Friday has a lower predicted crowd level than Tuesday, but I thought being a Friday and the fact that MK will be closed for a Grad Night that Tuesday would be the better F! day. What do you think? Also, I'm hoping they add a second show to Tuesday...if so, we may just shoot for that instead of the earlier one.

I'm thinking the same thing about Friday. I think there will be a crowd since MK will be closed for Grad nights. I think Tuesday is definitely the better day. I wonder how soon they would add another show if they were going to. Does anyone know?

 

[PoohsFan1]

Boy I hate this.....I thought I had less days left than I really did. I have been off by one day in my countdown. As of today we have 35 days left . It feels like my ticker is going at a snails pace, with this extra day added on to it, it seems even slower. I need to brush up on my math skills

 

[mickeystoontown]

Boy I hate this.....I thought I had less days left than I really did. I have been off by one day in my countdown. As of today we have 35 days left . It feels like my ticker is going at a snails pace, with this extra day added on to it, it seems even slower. I need to brush up on my math skills

I count my days like this. You don't count today because, well, it's today and it's here already. You don't count the day you leave, because, well, it's the day you leave. I only count the days in between!

 

[jenbarnwell]

Just wanted to say how AWESOME!!! your trip will be!! I would totally love to stay that long at WDW/IOA. You guys are going to have a great time!




3 days is not too long IF he is a big SW fan. I heard some of the lines can get a bit crazy and long, so if he is going to wait in lines to see the special guests, get photos/autographs of the characters in their SW outfits, so the special shows, etc, then you may very well need 3 days...esp if you want to do any non-SW things like TSMM, RnR or ToT a few times.

Enjoy!

We are not doing celebrities, but he wants to see ALL of the Star Wars characters, the parade, the hoopla, and do jedi training.....And a couple of non star wars things!!

 

[jenbarnwell]

I count my days like this. You don't count today because, well, it's today and it's here already. You don't count the day you leave, because, well, it's the day you leave. I only count the days in between!

Thats how I count TOO!!! So excited...cannot wait!

 

[PoohsFan1]

I count my days like this. You don't count today because, well, it's today and it's here already. You don't count the day you leave, because, well, it's the day you leave. I only count the days in between!

Thats how I count TOO!!! So excited...cannot wait!

WooHoo....I feel so much better thanks. Can't wait to be there, so sick of this cold and ugliness of winter.....Come on May

 

[AKL LOVER]

I'm thinking the same thing about Friday. I think there will be a crowd since MK will be closed for Grad nights. I think Tuesday is definitely the better day. I wonder how soon they would add another show if they were going to. Does anyone know?

Last year I didn't know until we got down there that they had added the extra shows. But it never occurred to me to check the week before to see if they had been added. Maybe we'll know once steve soares updates his page for our week?? Do they update the calendar on the Disney website to reflect the extra/added show?

 

[Marshay]

Thanks,it's only doable because my kids are older now.They can handle all the craziness of so many days.Some how every trip we have been, we always think it would have been nice to have a few more days,so we added them this time,lol.I am sure we will be exhausted when we get home.

Actually, you may be quite the contrary. With extra days you won't have to rush around as much!

I always said that my ideal time to spend would be one month minimum.

one week - wdw
one week - sea world/ioa
one week - relaxing
one week - wdw a second time

If I every won the "unlimited-lottery of time and money" I'd love to see how long it would take until I got bored with WDW/Orlando. I just really can't imagine it...

 

[MoDisneyCamper]

I've enjoyed looking at others plans, so here's ours:
April 29-Pack up the RV and head out!!
April 30-On the road
May 1-Still on the road
May 2-Fort Wilderness!!! and DH BD dinner at WC
May 3- Cp for breakfast, Via Napoli dinner
May 4 ?
May 5- pick up rental car
May 6? Maybe Kennedy space center?
May 7 La Nouba
May 8 Boma - dinner-rental car goes back
May 9 Sy Fy- Fantasmic?, MK EMH
May 10-?
May 11 Last full day, San Angel Inn - late lunch, wishes desert pary
May 12 leave.
We should be back home and back to work on the 16th.
We bought 10 day ph, no-exp. tickets, last year before the price increase and we're going to try and get 2 trips out of them, so 5 days (or less) to the parks this trip. We love camping at the Fort and are going to try some different things this year-minature golf?
Can't wait!

 

[littledreamer7]

Hello everyone! We are heading to WDW May 27th - June 4th. Actually our trips start the 26th but we are driving so won't hid disney until the 27th! We are so excited!! First trip for our DS 4, DS2 - they are both May/June birthdays so going to celebrate their birthdays. We also have DD 14 and DS 12.

Angie

 

[sassyredhead]

Hello everyone! We are heading to WDW May 27th - June 4th. Actually our trips start the 26th but we are driving so won't hid disney until the 27th! We are so excited!! First trip for our DS 4, DS2 - they are both May/June birthdays so going to celebrate their birthdays. We also have DD 14 and DS 12.

Angie

Our dates exactly match! Where are you staying? Have a fun trip!

 

[Jonesloonybin]

May 3- Cp for breakfast, Via Napoli dinner

What time is your CP Breakfast??? There are three of us her on Dis that have CP ADR for 8:05am on the 3rd!! Maybe we will see you then!!

Terri

 

[MoDisneyCamper]

What time is your CP Breakfast??? There are three of us her on Dis that have CP ADR for 8:05am on the 3rd!! Maybe we will see you then!!

Ours is at 8:20! We've only eaten at CP for dinner, so I'm really looking forward to being there for breakfast. And, what better way to start out a stay at the parks?