I stopped by AAA today with the DD - and my math was good - roughly $3,000 for the week (including $135 for travel insurance and $125 for MVMCP ...)
And fortunately the DD was too occupied with pulling the drawstring on my hooded sweatshirt to pay attention to what I was doing ... (this trip will be a birthday surprise for her, too ... and she wants to go back to WDW ... )
However, all the standard rooms at WL were ALREADY booked for the week we want to go in December (at least the AAA rooms were booked) - and Courtyard Views were another $250 ...
And at some point, you just have to say - "This is the budget - no more" and stick to it ... otherwise, when you keep adding a $100 here and a $100 there ... you end up a couple of trillion $$$ in debt ...
So -by "default" it looks like it will be AKL (which I think was DW's first choice anyway ...
Can't go wrong at either place ... but I think the DD would appreciate AKL more when she's a little older ... We'll just save WL for the next time ...
So I just gave AAA a call and told them (well - left a voice message ...) to "hold" a room for me at AKL - we can do that for 2 weeks without putting down a deposit. And I'll have the TA check every few days to see if something opens up at WL - i.e. if someone else put a "hold" on one of those AAA standard rooms and changes their mind ... ... maybe we can end up at WL after all ...
Or should I just go with the "flow" and stick with AKL (and make the DW even happier ... ? You know - go where karma leads you? (or have I been watching too much "My Name is Earl"? ...)
... and keep waiting for that 40% discount PIN to arrive ... :
And fortunately the DD was too occupied with pulling the drawstring on my hooded sweatshirt to pay attention to what I was doing ... (this trip will be a birthday surprise for her, too ... and she wants to go back to WDW ... )
However, all the standard rooms at WL were ALREADY booked for the week we want to go in December (at least the AAA rooms were booked) - and Courtyard Views were another $250 ...
And at some point, you just have to say - "This is the budget - no more" and stick to it ... otherwise, when you keep adding a $100 here and a $100 there ... you end up a couple of trillion $$$ in debt ...
So -by "default" it looks like it will be AKL (which I think was DW's first choice anyway ...
Can't go wrong at either place ... but I think the DD would appreciate AKL more when she's a little older ... We'll just save WL for the next time ...
So I just gave AAA a call and told them (well - left a voice message ...) to "hold" a room for me at AKL - we can do that for 2 weeks without putting down a deposit. And I'll have the TA check every few days to see if something opens up at WL - i.e. if someone else put a "hold" on one of those AAA standard rooms and changes their mind ... ... maybe we can end up at WL after all ...
Or should I just go with the "flow" and stick with AKL (and make the DW even happier ... ? You know - go where karma leads you? (or have I been watching too much "My Name is Earl"? ...)
... and keep waiting for that 40% discount PIN to arrive ... :