*** Official November 2018 Thread - It's Turkey Lurkey Time! ***

[Airplanes]

So this morning I called in and the CM offered to book all my FPs for me. I just tried the website and I can finally manage my FPs, and it looks like the FPs the CM added are considered bonus experiences so I was able to book some more! I was able to book SDD over the phone, and FOP appears to still have time slots, but I was not able to get 7DMT. Oh well.

 

[cmarsh31]

UGH! I'm so sorry you and so many people are going through all this. Have you tried looking on the website. I feel like people are either having it work on the app and not the website or vis versa.

Only the website. I haven't been able to get the app to work right in months. I've uninstalled & reinstalled it so many times I've just quit. I can see all of my immediate family's tickets... but not anyone we're linked to and traveling with, and I'm in charge of the FPs.

 

[MickyHuman]

Today was FP day for me and I got pretty much everything I wanted! My sister is my travel agent and she's a Disney specialist so I had her do it for me. Now I'm even more excited for our trip!

Day 1 of MK: Haunted Mansion, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Pirates of the Caribbean
AK: Kilimanjaro Safaris, Expedition Everest, Avatar FOP
HS: Star Wars, RNR Aerosmith, Slinky Dog Dash
Day 2 of MK: SDMT, Peter Pan, Space Mountain
Epcot: Soarin', Spaceship Earth, Mission:Space

 

[G719]

My fp day was today! We have a split trip with universal for the first time so I was hopefully optimistic about my choices but knew what the reality was. We are going Nov 13-17, Tues to Saturday.

I was able to get most of our choices. I did not get 7DMT. It was not available Tuesday or Friday. I couldn't get slinky. It was available Saturday but too late in the afternoon to make it work with our flight time.

I was able to get FOP for Thursday.

So we will plan to use morning EMH to ride 7DMT. We will try getting in line for slinky dog right before closing.

Hope everyone is getting their plans finalized!

 

[bpx2]

FYI for those going in early November, they changed the first few days (Nov 1st-3rd) to 10pm closings at MK.

 

[NikkiDP]

FYI for those going in early November, they changed the first few days (Nov 1st-3rd) to 10pm closings at MK.

Thanks for the info! Hopefully that will continue to creep into the rest of November as well! I've been waiting for it lol

 

[Newsies]

My boyfriend and I will be staying at POFQ 11/9-11/17, coming from the Philly area. I'm considering it a first trip for both of us, I've only been once 17 years ago (I'm 28 now) and he's only been once 32 years ago (he's 35). Safe to say we can't remember much from either of our trips!!

I made all of my FPs this morning and got everything I wanted, including FoP. Feeling like things are falling into place!

@Newsies do you mind adding me...Nov 24-29 staying at Coronado Thanks.

Welcome to the roll call!

 

[CynBeth]

My FP day is Monday for the 16th through the 25th. Please send good vibes my way. Thanks!

 

[Airplanes]

Forgot to introduce my plans: My husband and I will be coming from Los Angeles and staying at Saratoga Springs from Nov 12-18! This is his first trip and my 5th, but my first trip doing all 4 parks. This trip is for our first wedding anniversary (although our actual anniversary is the day we leave WDW lol) so I'm so excited! Now that my FPs are done, I've been rearranging some ADRs, but overall feeling so ready to get out there and have fun

 

[SLim501]

I have a crisis on my hands! My favorite pair of flip flops, which I love to wear to the parks, has worn through and almost has a hole in the bottom of them! I have just ordered another pair so I can break them in before it gets cold here. At least I saw it before the trip. I definitely think I have gotten my money's worth out of them as I have had them for 3 year and I wear them ALL the time.

 

[cmarsh31]

FP day is tomorrow. MDE is still all messed up. It's been "escalated". I have no idea if I'll be able to book FPs for our friend who's traveling with us - I can see him on my F&F list, but I can't see his plans or tickets in my itinerary & reservations. Worst case, I'll book 4 FPs for everything, call to get him added to as much as possible, and then DH & I can switch out so he can ride everything.

 

[cmarsh31]

Got FOP but no SDD. Go figure. DD will be bummed about SDD (but I just rode it in July) - this is a short 4-day trip though. Hopefully I can score them for February. Everything else went pretty smoothly. Not perfect but it'll work. I was able to book for our friend, even though I can't see his tickets or reservation any more, so I'm calling the morning a success!

 

[mamaofsix]

Got FOP but no SDD. Go figure. DD will be bummed about SDD (but I just rode it in July) - this is a short 4-day trip though. Hopefully I can score them for February. Everything else went pretty smoothly. Not perfect but it'll work. I was able to book for our friend, even though I can't see his tickets or reservation any more, so I'm calling the morning a success!

I've been hearing that lately the lines for SDD are pretty short both first thing in the morning and later in the evening (less than 45 minutes). I'd try hitting it at night to enjoy the lights and not stress about the lack of FP.

 

[cmarsh31]

I've been hearing that lately the lines for SDD are pretty short both first thing in the morning and later in the evening (less than 45 minutes). I'd try hitting it at night to enjoy the lights and not stress about the lack of FP.

We're doing the JBJB dessert party, so we might try around that. We might rope drop one morning... but I doubt it. MVMCP one night so nothing early the next morning and our last morning is EMM. DD's feathers will be ruffled bc she was "offended" enough that I dared to go in July without her... so this will be insult to injury! Mommy rode SDD WITHOUT her and now didn't get FastPasses She knows I'll RD with her to do it if she really wants but hopefully getting to ride 7D over & over at EMM will fix that. DH & DS aren't big on rides and tend to let us go off on our own - DD is my partner-in-crime. We usually RD together, then the lazy ones meet us around 10am

 

[wdwnut61]

Just booked Tomorrowland Terrace Dessert Party for 11/23

 

[Helvetica]

Everything for my trip is paid off. 54 days until I'm at Disney and 53 days until I start my vacation.

 

[CynBeth]

I was very successful with FPs this morning!

 

[CanadianPrincess]

Just saved close to $200 dollars on our trip! That was a nice monday night surprise! Hurray for Canadian ticket prices!

 

[rdiver]

@Newsies figure I’ll throw my hat in the ring. Been lurking since April.

Staying at Pop Nov 2-9 for Wine and Dine 10k and Half Marathon.

Wife and I decided in March wanted to lose weight and go on a vacation, as we have never been on a week long vaca by ourselves. So two birds with one stone and signed up for the race and booked the room.

Looking forward to it as I have never been to WDW. Grew up going to Disneyland and haven’t been there in over 20 years.

 

[DiaryofaDisneyKid]

Okay my kiddos have been back to school for a couple of weeks and now I can start planning again, LOL. I just realized FP+ day is next Wednesday so I better get going! We have the Canadian discounted tickets I bought last year but I am afraid to link them right now because everyone seems to be having so many problems with tickets disappearing! I am hoping IT gets everything figured out soon because a 2 hour wait to call Disney from Canada might cost more then our trip.