Hello all! My two teen daughters and I returned from our first trip to WDW on 12 February. We stayed in a pirate themed room at CBR and had a great time. On the flight home my youngest daughter and I began planning our next trip, which we would like to be at POR.
I read this entire thread (and a couple of others), over the span of a couple of days, and while it seems some folks have had some pretty major issues, it also seems as if that is isolated to the time frame and will be fixed by the time we want to go. It also seems that some of the most knowledgeable folks hang put here, I was on the edge of my seat for a while reading about the RGR debacle and how that would work out with the upgrades. So glad everyone got what they wanted on that and crossing my fingers for everyone who has issues with the queen/double beds.
I'm planning for my youngest daughter's 16th birthday in late March 2013, so I have plenty of time to plan. We want to stay in a royal room. I am military, so we get a 40% discount on the room and the 4 day stars and stripes tickets. I'm trying to figure out what the best deal would be, and since the prices for next year won't be out for some time yet (and CMs won't hazard a guess until they are) I was hoping I could get some help around here. If I get the room only +
DDP with our military tickets, can we still qualify for
free dining if it's available? I know that stacking of discounts is not permitted, but we do get the dining plan even when we don't purchase the tickets through Disney because of the military thing, and I don't know if that affects the promotion or not. I'm trying to decide if it will be less to pay full price for the room to get free dining, or full price for dining to get 40% off the room. Dilemmas!
I want to do a whole Princess theme vacation if possible, my girl is a major tomboy, so it will be a fun change. We plan to get her all dolled up at BBB (do they have larger dresses? She's small for her age but this is a year away) and then have a dinner at Cinderella's Royal Table with the cake and tiara package.
I appreciate any help that any of you folks can give, and hope to chat with all of you more often between now and our trip.