MamaMouse0920
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Hello and welcome to my latest PTR!! I am a bit behind on this one, as our trip is already <60 days away (got our ADRs in yesterday!!) but better late then never, right?
This trip was booked before Matt & I took our kid-free trip back in February, as we have accepted our fate of being a "goes-to-WDW-at-least-2-times-per-year" kind of family. The kids ask to go back basically every single day, so what's a parent to do?
....I will accept any answer other than "tell them no & don't go to Disney"
I hear you, but, we're still going.
We were initially booked for 7 nights at Caribbean Beach Resort (love that Skyliner!) which we were super excited about, especially since we were able to snag that Disney+ Free Dining promo! So it was 7 days at CBR + free (I'll use quotation marks and say "free", because I'm not stupid, I know they get their money one way or another) dining, with 4 days at the parks.
... initially.
Then I was like "mmmm, is 4 days enough? Let's ask our TA if we can tack on a 5th park day. Cause, YOLO." So then it became 5 park days.
....and then I was like "mmmm, is 7 nights in the Disney Bubble enough?! Let's ask our TA how much more it would be to stay for 10 days instead of 7. Cause again, YOLO." She informed us that CBR didn't have the availability, but Art of Animation did and it was going to be CHEAPER than our 7 nights at CBR (makes sense since it is going from moderate to value, but still - you had me at cheaper with more days at Disney!).
.... and then I was like "mmmm, if we are staying for 10 nights, and have free dining, why am I limiting myself to 5 days of park food + 5 days of hotel food?! Let's ask our TA how much more it would be to do TEN park days instead of 5. Cause, YOLO." And it was a difference of $350. $350 to be able to walk into ANY Disney park all 10 days of my vacation?! And grab dinner at Epcot instead of Landscape of Flavors?!?!
Are you still with me, through all these changes/modifications??
So now it is 10 nights at Art of Animation (Little Mermaid Standard Room, unfortunately, but I'll take what I can get!), 10 park days, with the "free" QS dining plan. So each of us, for all 10 days, get 2 QS meals (& Matt and I get a free boozy drink with ours!), 1 snack, and a refillable resort mug. YES PLEASE.
DD5 starts kindergarten literally 4 days after we return (hopefully we don't bring home any illnesses!!) so we figure this was our way of ending her pre-school days with a bang. (excuse me while I go cry)
.............which also means we'll have to do literally the same thing next year when DS4 starts kindergarten. See what I did there?!?!?! Genius if you ask me.
Fair is fair!!
This trip was booked before Matt & I took our kid-free trip back in February, as we have accepted our fate of being a "goes-to-WDW-at-least-2-times-per-year" kind of family. The kids ask to go back basically every single day, so what's a parent to do?
....I will accept any answer other than "tell them no & don't go to Disney"
I hear you, but, we're still going.
We were initially booked for 7 nights at Caribbean Beach Resort (love that Skyliner!) which we were super excited about, especially since we were able to snag that Disney+ Free Dining promo! So it was 7 days at CBR + free (I'll use quotation marks and say "free", because I'm not stupid, I know they get their money one way or another) dining, with 4 days at the parks.
... initially.
Then I was like "mmmm, is 4 days enough? Let's ask our TA if we can tack on a 5th park day. Cause, YOLO." So then it became 5 park days.
....and then I was like "mmmm, is 7 nights in the Disney Bubble enough?! Let's ask our TA how much more it would be to stay for 10 days instead of 7. Cause again, YOLO." She informed us that CBR didn't have the availability, but Art of Animation did and it was going to be CHEAPER than our 7 nights at CBR (makes sense since it is going from moderate to value, but still - you had me at cheaper with more days at Disney!).
.... and then I was like "mmmm, if we are staying for 10 nights, and have free dining, why am I limiting myself to 5 days of park food + 5 days of hotel food?! Let's ask our TA how much more it would be to do TEN park days instead of 5. Cause, YOLO." And it was a difference of $350. $350 to be able to walk into ANY Disney park all 10 days of my vacation?! And grab dinner at Epcot instead of Landscape of Flavors?!?!
Are you still with me, through all these changes/modifications??
So now it is 10 nights at Art of Animation (Little Mermaid Standard Room, unfortunately, but I'll take what I can get!), 10 park days, with the "free" QS dining plan. So each of us, for all 10 days, get 2 QS meals (& Matt and I get a free boozy drink with ours!), 1 snack, and a refillable resort mug. YES PLEASE.
DD5 starts kindergarten literally 4 days after we return (hopefully we don't bring home any illnesses!!) so we figure this was our way of ending her pre-school days with a bang. (excuse me while I go cry)
.............which also means we'll have to do literally the same thing next year when DS4 starts kindergarten. See what I did there?!?!?! Genius if you ask me.
Fair is fair!!
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So here is my LOOSE itinerary for the 10 days we're there:
the kids did great, no sea-sickness (or falling overboard) on their part! I on the other hand.. have decided cruising past 30 is not for me 
we had THEE smoothest seas, it literally looked like we were on a lake the entire 7 days and I still just felt blah the whole time- despite daily dramamine. DS4 had some temper tantrums (unsurprising, but still upsetting in the moment) but overall it was still a really great time and we made some awesome memories. I think the kids would love to go again and even my TA texted when we got back "ready to book a 
