Question to those who do trip reports.

[maslex]

I LOVE reading trip reports!!! I remember reading many last year before taking our first cruise and it was a blast. I wanted to do one for when we got back but somehow never did.

So now since I have 10 days before I leave for DisneyWorld I would like to know the secrets of making a great trip report. Just wondering if each night when you get back to your hotel, do you write everything you did, ate, shows you watched, etc into a little journal or something???? And then when you get back, write a complete report?

I just got a brandie new camera so believe me when I say, I'll be taking MANY pictures and will be including them into my report (I'm also a scrapbooker so that's another reason for the hundreds of pictures) That's one of the best things, to me, when reading a trip report, is to see a lot of pictures.

So, do ya have any suggestions? Tips? Anything?? What's the easiest way to conjure up one of these?

 

[PoohGal05]

I haven't tried this, but you might try one of little mini recorders that you can carry with you and as you do, see, experience, taste, enjoy, not enjoy quite as much, you have it voice recorded. Be sure to either say the time and date or jot it down on the cassette.

 

[oybolshoi]

I have a small notebook that I write things down in at night before going to bed - of course the notes are really cryptic so if anyone else tried to read them they'd know I was crazy.

I also use all of our photographs to "jog" my memory once we're home and I start writing. That, and a nice drink.

 

[OhMari]

As the above poster said, your pictures are your best memory jogger. I have a Passporter, and they have great questions that you can answer at the end of the day in their book.

I only did it for 1/2 the time I was there. I found when I got to my room, I was exhausted and usually fell asleep really fast. Unless you can find some time in the morning. It is hard to do. But if you take lots of pictures than you should be okay.

 

[Ragetti]

I don't know that I write a "great" trip report, but it's there (see the link in sig). I used the Passporter book to keep track of what we did when and what we thought of it. I think it's a great tool for planning and using on the trip.

 

[tiggerbell]

I don't take notes (but my next trip will be longer, so I'll have to!). I use the pictures and sometimes my receipts to jog my memory.

I also brought back a "Time Rover" from Dinosaur in the Animal Kingdom and use that to go back in time when I sit down to write.

 

[SavvyMom]

I also brought back a "Time Rover" from Dinosaur in the Animal Kingdom and use that to go back in time when I sit down to write.

I knew I forgot something.

 

[twob4him]

I had a small spiral notepad and a pen which I kept right in my fanny pack. I kept jotting notes everytime we did something...just the time and what we did, very cryptic. I am writing a TR now and between that, the itinerary and the pictures I am able to just keep writing along. I type everything in "Word" then cut and paste onto my trip report. I loaded the pics into photobucket and add them into my report. I hope that makes a good report. I like lots of pics and wish I could have taken more!

 

[Donna]

i usually take small notes in a mickey notepad and then translate them into the report onto my laptop each night or early the next morning. if you don't have a laptop, just take notes each day and try to get the report written as soon as you get back. Another suggestion i have is to save each day in a WORD document and cut and paste into your DIS report. That way you can write/edit each page, save, and then copy/paste the finished product into your DIS page, or whereever you plan on posting it.

Another suggestion, this is just a personal one, it seems everyone tries to outdo each other on DIS with their clever names of their reports. Whatever happened to someone posting their "OUR DISNEY TRIP REPORT" and show the dates. I bypass the cutesy name ones, i just want to read the report and maybe see the pictures. My reports from years ago are still on Mouseplanet, no cutesy names, just your basic trip report, a nice easy read!