Disfriends are awesome! A week ago I had no plans for a trip and now we have a free hotel room (using Starwood points for all but one day. The first night we will stay at OKW. ), airline tickets (which costs about twice as much as they should have - due to my late planning), free one day GAD tickets and now thanks to all of you we have more fun non-park activities then we possibly do.
We have done the movies Downtown Disney on a few trips when we have had multiple non-park days.
That is a great idea. I want to see Alice in Wonderland. Maybe it will be playing. Then I can brag about seeing a "Disney" movie while at Disney.
Not knowing where you are staying, here are some ideas:
Fantasia Mini Golf
Eat at AKL and view the Savanna
I now have both of these on our "to do" list. We always eat at Boma's but have not played mini golf yet - anywhere. We will this trip.
We normally only do 2 park days on a 7 day vacation. DS 18 and DS 14 love to do the following.
Rent a boat and take a ride. We have done this several times.
We have not rented a boat since Squirrel (two legged daughter) was four. I think it is time for another boat ride. Thanks for the reminder.
You can rent bicycles or those 4 people bicycle surreys, you can also rent boats and remember that
DVC members get discounts for those as wll.
At night at OKW we love to take the boat to DTD and go for Girardeli's Ice Cream.
I like both of these ideas, esp if we can rent bikes from OKW area and ride to DTD for Ice Cream. Is that a possibility?
You could also go over to the polynesian, and watch the Wishes fireworks from their beach
This is another great idea which we have never done. I think we will do just that.
Cirque show, shop, fishing at the campground, Horse riding at the Tri circle D ranch at the Fort, dinner show, ......
After reading your post yesterday I went to the member site and looked up member perks. Cirque has a 35% discount happening "now". I gave a call and was told the seats had to be ordered 30 days in advance which for us would be YESTERDAY. After a very, very long time on the phone while they worked out the details we managed to buy tickets for a couple of very good seats. Spouse and Squirrel will go to Cirque while I shop or seat around the pool and enjoy my
. I chose not to go, all that stimuli makes me dizzzzzzzy....
Don't preteen girls like games? There are games (video and board) at the Community Hall as well as DVDs.
I like this idea, while we will not have access to community hall most days I can bring a couple of board games. Don't you need to be staying at a DVC to use the community halls or can you use them just by being a DVC member?
So what to do with DD and the other kids you promised your daughter you would take to WDW? (Inside joke, sorry) In no particular order and some are repeated:
1. The pool. March is still a little early for me but your daughter will love it.
4. Try tea at the GF. Not as stuffy as you may think.
5. If you are near the Boardwalk stroll around there at night. Grab a not so healthy snack and watch the entertainment.
9. Have fun no matter what you do.
I think Squirrel needs to be at least age 14 before I bring on the gaggle of girls. They need to be old enough I can 1. send them out on their own and 2. they can sleep on the balcony cause I am sure I do not want them sleeping in MY room and as much as airline and park tickets will cost me, we will probably need to stay in a studio (so I can save my points for me, myself and I to take a later trip and regain my sanity). You will notice I stole the "MY" from you.
The pool will work for us and is our main plan for entertainment. Hey, we are from Michigan (and before that Washington state and many other states...). Any weather above 65 degrees is good swimming weather.
Love Earl-Sandwich, we can do that before spouse and squirrel go to the Cirque.
I think we will save tea until one of our mother/daughter trips. Good idea though and one that I do want to experience.
Since we will be in the Boardwalk area we can take advantage of the entertainment. And since we will be on vacation, I am sure many of the foods we eat will not be healthy - and I don't care...
Definately go see Bob Jackson's show at Port Orleans Riverside. It is a very kid friendly night club show in the lounge.
Another great idea, in fact, I just called our nephew (a local to the area) and he is now planning to join us for the Bob Jackson show. Thanks!
I was thinking fortwildernes for something new to do on my next trip u might have fun there
I checked out activities at Fort Wilderness and I think this would be the perfect place for a carriage ride. Thank you!!
Now I just have to pull Squirrel out of school for two days for the trip. My college will be on spring break but S's school will not. Oh well, this will be educational.
Up until this year I did not need to worry about Squirrel's school since she attended a private Montessori school where students are taught as an individual or in small groups thus she never missed a lesson. And since the school was getting most of my paycheck they never complained if she missed days for travel. However, when she entered middle school we no longer have the option of either Montessori or private. Now I have to play by the "public school" rules (nothing against public school, they are top-notch in our area, they are just "not Montessori" and I like the Montessori technique). However, the good side to no longer paying tuition is I can now replace my old, old van and drum roll here, take more vacations!
