Sibling Trips all year long 2026 -- Our March Trip

[Becky2005]

This is the year of trip reports for me! I have never gone to (or planned to) go to Disney so many times in one year I know I am super, super lucky to even be able to do this & it is definitely a once in a lifetime year for me. The background is a repeat from the past trip report but I know not everyone is going to read every trip report, so it is here for context.

Background:

This year all came about due to the Military 250 special year-long pass. My sister qualifies for it. My brother has several timeshares in FL that he uses quite often as well as frequent flyer miles. I am the youngest and tend to get "told" I am going on vacation with them. The catch in this is my siblings are retired & I work part-time that I have to keep reminding them of that, so they have gone MORE than I can go!

The also running joke is that my sister speaks “Dad” and my brother speaks “Mom” and somehow I can speak both so I mediate quite a bit (which you will see happens on this trip!). However, just like all siblings we have our share of bickering with each other and these trips are a team effort to make sure it doesn’t go too far with the fighting. Somehow by the end of it, we all still end up on speaking terms and keep on planning trips together.

The main characters of the trips are:

ME (youngest) – The original Disney fan of the 3 of us. If I had my way, I would stay on site in the Disney bubble and be willing to pay more for the things I deem make the trip better rather than penny pinch. However, I am also practical and know how to do things without extra costs too. I can’t decide if Magic Kingdom is my favorite or Hollywood Studios. Although, if I could choose only 1 it would be Magic Kingdom.

K1 (older sister & oldest of the family): – She is a fan but not like I am, although I think that might be changing a bit after a few trips she has had. She is more a penny-pinching personality that is slowly seeing that sometimes cheap is expensive depending on what it is. Magic Kingdom is her favorite park.


K2 (older brother & middle child): He is not a Disney fan yet, somehow, he is the one who keeps instigating several of these trips. His favorite park is Hollywood Studios (Galaxy’s Edge specifically).


K1 does not live local to us, she is on the East coast. If we fly, she usually does a connecting flight with Chicago being her connection airport. We then all get on the same flight to go to FL. If we are driving, then that’s on each of us to figure it out.

Makes for some interesting travels at times! We usually have some sort of saga each trip!

Our plan this year (so far with all 3 of us going and it seems to keep changing!):

January -- activate the military tickets and not even sure why we picked the dates we did but the airfare was cheap and we were able to make it work with everyone. -- Trip Report Link from our January Trip.

March -- I somehow got talked into this one as I wasn't going to be able to go as I thought I might be going to CA which fell through. -- THIS Report is for this trip!

May -- I already had a trip planned with my friend (which I have a PTR for) and they decided to crash it!!! So this trip will be with my siblings there but not really a sibling trip. We may or may not run into them after we get dropped off at our hotel. My brother is our ride home so I think he will be stuck at our airport for a few hours as they are taking an earlier flight than we are.

June/July -- we have nothing booked but my brother was attempting to get us to book something. I don't think this is going to happen as I don't have enough vacation time to make this work and we already have an August trip on the books. However, you never know with us, so stay tuned on this one!

August -- We have a semi sibling trip planned. We went last year as a big family group and we are going again but not quite the big family group. At this point, we aren't sure who all is going. I know K1 is bringing her entire family so they are going to drive. K2 isn't sure of who all is going from his family and none of my family can afford/wants to go again this summer. I was just trying to figure it out and I think at this point DH is going to come with me & we will go $$$$$$$ due to our last adventure with him (he has mobility issues so uses a wheelchair there & we were at Ft. Wilderness since he wanted quiet...he said next time Contemporary).

After that we don't have anything on the books as this pass does expire December 18 and there are some black-out dates. I would like to get 1 more quick trip in probably late September/October but that will probably not be a sibling trip, it might be my daughter & I or maybe even me going solo???

Now that I wrote a novel *just* for the background and introduction -- next up will be our arrival day!!!

 

[Becky2005]

March Trip

Arrival Day

We are the type that get to the airport early and wait vs. last minute. That would stress me out plus somehow, one of us always has some sort of issue at TSA. This time it was K2 who got pulled out for some reason.

We stayed at Shades of Green and I know that isn’t open to everyone but I’m going to give the details/my opinion for those that it could be helpful for.

Our plane arrived about 10 minutes early. We used Mears to get from the airport this time as it was a very short trip and we convinced K2 that we did not need to rent a car! It went smoothly for us. We had a short wait before we loaded the bus and I expected it to take a bit as I know there are multiple drop-offs. We were the first ones dropped off. I think overall from the time our plan landed until we were at the hotel was about an hour & half. Which I didn’t think was too bad.

We did get there around 12:30 pm which is several hours before check-in, so our room wasn’t ready. Not surprised at all about that, so dropped off our bags with bell services and headed off to Disney Springs. This was our plan all along as I wanted to go to the World of Disney and we planned to have lunch at D-Luxe burger (that tends to be our go-to lunch place there).

Shades of Green bus drops off by Cirque du Soleil, so it was a hike before we even got to security.

As K1 predicted, as we were eating lunch, she got the call that the room was ready. We had predicted it would be about 1:30 pm when our room would be ready. I remembered to take pictures this time (at least day 1) of food just for those who enjoy that. We are *very* basic eaters -- I ordered a bacon cheeseburger plain. The person taking our order was new as it was a little confusing since she didn't know how to input it in & then said fries comes with the burger. They do not there but we knew that. We know their burgers are huge (at least for us), so we got a 1/2 order of fries to share between all 3 of us. It doesn't look that big in the picture but it is.


We made our way over to World of Disney where I bought the Steamboat Mickey Mouse I came for and then just looked around. I saw Mickey Mouse measuring spoons and then I remembered my DH said we needed new measuring cups since a handle broke on a *very* old set we had. He never said it couldn’t be Mickey themed! LOL! I found some and bought those.

We also tend to do matching shirts. We hadn’t planned on doing it this time but apparently it is ingrained in us so much that we ended up buying matching t-shirts while we were there.

Went into a couple other stores but wanted to head back as the Shades of Green bus only comes on the hour for Disney Springs and tomorrow was an early morning.

We ended up with a great room – 2130. It was a long walk when they first gave us the number but it ended up being at the end of the hall by itself which made it really nice as it was quiet. We did see if there was any easier way to get to the room and alas, there was not. You just had to make the long trek down several halls but it wasn’t too bad. I don’t know if this is offered at other hotels but we noticed in the bathroom you can get a sharps container for your room which was extremely nice to make the trip a little easier for us as my K2 uses insulin. That is the first time I have ever been at a hotel that offered it (or at least made it known they offer it).

We just explored the resort a bit, found a ping pong table and went to Evergreen’s which is their pool area bar/restaurant and got a pizza for dinner. Just took pictures of the drinks too for the fun of it. It was pink lemonade & coke zero. I had an ice tea, which I also have a picture of but it is just a basic glass of iced tea. The pizza was edible but it reminded me of Chuck E. Cheese pizza. We didn't expect gourmet though considering it is basically a pool bar type situation. Did it hit the spot for us that night? Yep. Would I go out of my way to get it? Nope.



I then promptly forgot to take pictures of the food mostly for the rest of the trip!

Up next, can we make Early Entry AND Deluxe Extended Evening Hours in the same day?