Monday, Epcot - Part 2
Okay, so we're heading to Guest Relations and there is a bit of a back story here that you must hear.
When I first booked my trip, I booked room only (with
AAA discount) through Disney Reservations. I talked with a wonderful man who was extremely helpful and knowledgable. Or at least I thought he was. He had asked me why I was doing room only and I told him that I was still trying to decide which park passes to buy because we would be coming back in Dec for Christmas so I was trying to get the best deal for my money. I was still trying to figure out if it would be cheaper for one of us to have a season pass, or should we buy no expiration, but oh, it was soooo expensive etc. So this nice Disney Reservation Agent tells me that he would buy the 10 day base and at the end of my stay purchase the no expiration option while I was down at Disney. He said that since I would have already used 5 days of my passes that at that point they would only be 5 day passes and not 10. (I really hope this is making sense and ya'll are still following me.) I was in shock. I had no idea you could do this, but I still didn't purchase any tickets at that time.
About a week later I purchased 2 10-day adult base tickets from
Undercover Tourist and was really excited about my sneaky little trick.
That is until I was on the Dis Boards a couple of days later and found out that you CANNOT do what I was just describing. SO FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DIDN'T JUST CATCH THAT - THE DISNEY RESERVATION GUY LIED TO ME!!!
At that point, I was near vomiting. I hadn't spent a lot of extra money mind you, but I was so disappointed. When I purchased our other 2 tickets, I just bought 7 day base passes so as not to waste any more money.
Back to the actual Epcot Day:
So we are going over to Guest Relations to see if by any chance I can find another unknowing cast member or maybe at least make 1 of the passes no -expiration (did I mention it's really expensive???) because I'm out of fundage to do them all. We get in there and are met by the nicest gentleman who shall remain nameless from Berlin, Germany. I explain to him that I'm wanting to make my passes non expiring and inquire as to how much it will cost. Well, first he gives me the official Disney sheet (it's laminated) that shows the "official" pricing. I also explain to him that I had been given false info from the Reservation person and that we're coming back for Christmas. Then he says to me, "You know you could just exchange in the remaining days on your tickets for the cash value and purchase a new ticket with that." I say, "what?"
And he goes on to explain while the ticket has no official "cash value" and they won't give you actual money for your ticket, the ticket does have some value and he proceeded to look it up. Then you could take your remaining days value and put that towards a new ticket. I know this is wordy so if I'm not making sense you all will have to let me know.
So basically, the cash value of all 4 of my tickets would have been enough to purchase 1 new 5 day ticket. I would have been out maybe $10 bucks. Cool, huh? The only problem is that we were leaving Epcot and coming back that night. So since my Prince Charming wasn't sure if he'd still be there when we came back later, he even put a note in their computer system and gave me the reference number so that someone else could look it up and give me the same deal. So we leave Epcot pumped up and excited
over something that we didn't think was even possible.
We head back to the Resort and take the kids swimming. While at the Piano Pool, my kids start a club and meet several great kids to play with. They even agree to meet the next day. How cute.
Now it's getting close to 6pm and our PS at Garden Grill is at 7pm so we need to be running along. The only problem is nobody wants to go back except for DH. I am just tired, the kids just want to swim and DH just wants to eat at Garden Grill (it's all about the darned salad). Well, needless to say, I win this battle (if you haven't figured it out by now, I'm the boss around these parts) and we eat at the Food Court. It was fantastic! We got real food - turkey, mashed potatoes, etc. Very, very good!
As we're about to leave, we run into some people that we met on the bus on the way back from Downtown Disney when we were still residing at ASSp. They had one of the new family suites and had told us that when we moved over to Music to look for them and they'd let us come and see it. I never thought in 3 million years that we'd bump into them again, but there they are! How cool is that! They invite us over and I must say those family suites are really awesome.
Basically, they have combined 2 all star rooms into 1 suite. So when you walk in, it looks like a living room. There is a couch, a chair with an ottoman, a table and 2 chairs, and a dresser with TV. The bathroom is still in the back of that room but then when you go towards the other room, there is another bathroom, a kitchenette with refrig and microwave. Very cool. and then you go into the Master Bedroom with a queen size bed, dresser with 2nd TV and I think another table and chairs. Very, very nice. I'm sold!
We all exchange email etc. and thank them for their generosity. We talk about our next trip all the way back to the room.
Then we remember....THE TICKETS!!! It's okay, we're still here tomorrow. We'll take care of it then.
Or will we...........and yes, Fizban, that's another tease.
Afterwards, I was on a mission.......we had to meet Figment. I had promised the kids the other day that we would get a pic and we missed the meeting times by running all over the world - literally. So this was it, our last chance. We go into the meeting place and nothing. Nothing. I couldn't believe it. It was listed on the times guide, but nothing. We went outside to wait on the gang and we sat and played in the jumping fountains. We were just about to leave and a CM appeared and said that Figment was now greeting!!!! YAY!!!
to myself 2 days in a row...I'll fight you for him 
will be telling all about it if I ever start my TR..... 
hi all Hi Angie! 
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