Sun, Sand, and Disney!-A Disney and Beach Club PTR!!-Update 8/6 mini update

[stacikristine]

So, so cute!!! I'm so glad you picked out one that you really like! I've decided I'm gonna buy a regular hipster too. That way, I can trade off for the days I want to take more... I'm sure you'll love it!!

 

[jenny105]

Good choice! I love the pattern and purple is my fave color.

 

[10_Kyle_10]

Just finished reading your trip report! Good work so far, your much more motivated than I am with these. We sort of overlap trips, we are going 14-21! I havent heard much about your nightlife plans? What do you guys plan on doing at night?

 

[amandaluvsgoofy]

LOVE the bag!! With all this talk about how good they are, I might have to buy one for my trip!

 

[livinlife25]

Subbing!

 

[pinkpixie0920]

Subbing!

Thanks!

LOVE the bag!! With all this talk about how good they are, I might have to buy one for my trip!

Thank you! You should! I really like how light the material is.

Just finished reading your trip report! Good work so far, your much more motivated than I am with these. We sort of overlap trips, we are going 14-21! I havent heard much about your nightlife plans? What do you guys plan on doing at night?

Thanks for reading. Thats so cool our trips will overlap. Most of our nights we pretty much wing it. But a lot of the times we will go to some of the EMH's or we go to downtown disney. We also both love to swim so we usually have a late night swim.

Good choice! I love the pattern and purple is my fave color.

Thanks! I really loved it in person.

So, so cute!!! I'm so glad you picked out one that you really like! I've decided I'm gonna buy a regular hipster too. That way, I can trade off for the days I want to take more... I'm sure you'll love it!!

That is def. a good idea! The mini is absolutely perfect if all I knew I had to carry were my KTTK card, my phone and camera. I just know me and would probably get there and wish I had a bigger bag. Now if you get both you can switch them up. Are you going to get the same pattern you have in mini?

 

[stacikristine]

That is def. a good idea! The mini is absolutely perfect if all I knew I had to carry were my KTTK card, my phone and camera. I just know me and would probably get there and wish I had a bigger bag. Now if you get both you can switch them up. Are you going to get the same pattern you have in mini?

Thanks! I'm excited about it. I just figured some days I'll want to take more than others. I will prob end up using the regular during the days and the mini at night (since it will be more chill and I won't need water, ponchos, etc). No...I want to get a different pattern. That way, I can match my mood, clothes, amount, whatever!

 

[Dancegrl624]

Subbing! Just thought I'd join in your PTR fun since you've been reading mine! I have the VB hipster in Pink Elephant. It's now retired, but I used it on my trip to WDW in January. It was awesome! I'll be using it again on this June trip coming up. For Mother's Day, my DH let me buy a new VB bag! I got the Morgan in Purple Punch! Isn't that pattern so pretty? Now, time for me to catch up on all I've missed!

 

[pinkpixie0920]

Subbing! Just thought I'd join in your PTR fun since you've been reading mine! I have the VB hipster in Pink Elephant. It's now retired, but I used it on my trip to WDW in January. It was awesome! I'll be using it again on this June trip coming up. For Mother's Day, my DH let me buy a new VB bag! I got the Morgan in Purple Punch! Isn't that pattern so pretty? Now, time for me to catch up on all I've missed!

Hi! Thanks for reading and subbing! I love Pink Elephant I wish they didn't retire that one. Were you able to fit a lot in your hipster? That is great you got a second one and in Purple Punch! IT is such a pretty pattern.

 

[Dancegrl624]

Hi! Thanks for reading and subbing! I love Pink Elephant I wish they didn't retire that one. Were you able to fit a lot in your hipster? That is great you got a second one and in Purple Punch! IT is such a pretty pattern.

In my hipster, I carried a small wallet, my camera, my trip journal and pen, sunscreen, cell phone, chapstick, sunglasses (at night). I loved it! In the small zip pocket (which I believe is now a flap) I carried flat things like band-aids and hand wipes.

 

[pinkpixie0920]

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I have been super busy. While I sit and wait for the September hours to post I figured I would list where we would like to dine in the world. And since we are on the deluxe dining we will be eating a lot!

Breakfast:
Chef Mickey's
Cape May (since we are staying at Beach Club)

Lunch:
Sci Fi Dine Inn
Yak and Yeti
Beaches and Cream

Dinner:
Tony's Town Square
Narcossee's
Ohana
Le Cellier
Hoop Dee Doo
Crystal Palace

Now the seventh dinner that we had was for Chef Mickey's but I figured since we are already doing this for breakfast and we are doing Crystal Palace for dinner this might be over kill on buffets. Can anyone recommend somewhere I don't have listed above that is on their must do dining list?

Also, I went to JC Penney's tonight and picked up a new piece of luggage. We had some issues with my pretty pink luggage that I took on our honeymoon. One of the wheels broke off when it was in our hotel room and then the other one broke off when we got it at the airport. My DH was not a happy camper carrying that through the airport. I am not a light packer, my bag is always around the 50 lb mark! So I was allowed to buy something new for this trip. I wasn't able to copy the picture to post in here but it is a Platinum Gray 30" duffel. It is so big and super lightweight, only 7 lbs. DH liked it so much we might go get a second one . It has wheels and the pull up bar to pull. It is wonderful!

 

[livinlife25]

So Im waiting on Sept hours as well!!! I am also redoing my ADR's bc the calendars look like I wont be able to do Fantastmic and then I saw someones review of Cali grill and have to have it My suggestion to you for dinners were some that I wanted to do but cant fit into my menu bc I needed to do 2 credit places so we werent constantly eating. I was wanting do Cape May and Whispering Canyone.

 

[Roxychica7]

Hmm..I see you're already doing Tony's (for Italian I mean, haven't done that one yet though), but Tutto Italia was really good.
Or if you're in the mood for something more laid back, we really really liked The Grand Floridian Cafe, amazing desserts! You get 2 mini desserts per person! Dbf got a steak for his entree and crab cakes for his app, but I got a sandwich and their pear salad was out of this world! Plus you get to see the gorgeous GF lobby while you're there!

If you're looking for strictly a breakfast idea, I've heard that Kona Cafe is supposed to be really good too!

 

[jenny105]

Maybe I'll see you at Ohana's or Hoop Dee Doo!

 

[pinkpixie0920]

Maybe I'll see you at Ohana's or Hoop Dee Doo!

Have you ever gone to Hoop before? I have never been there but am very excited for it!

Hmm..I see you're already doing Tony's (for Italian I mean, haven't done that one yet though), but Tutto Italia was really good.
Or if you're in the mood for something more laid back, we really really liked The Grand Floridian Cafe, amazing desserts! You get 2 mini desserts per person! Dbf got a steak for his entree and crab cakes for his app, but I got a sandwich and their pear salad was out of this world! Plus you get to see the gorgeous GF lobby while you're there!

If you're looking for strictly a breakfast idea, I've heard that Kona Cafe is supposed to be really good too!

Thanks for the ideas! I think we may switch our Tony's to Tutto, the menu there looks so good! And we ate at Tony's last year on our honeymoon. Now it was our first day there and we were absolutely starving so I don't know if that is why we liked Tony's or if it is really good. So I am excited to try Tutto!

So Im waiting on Sept hours as well!!! I am also redoing my ADR's bc the calendars look like I wont be able to do Fantastmic and then I saw someones review of Cali grill and have to have it My suggestion to you for dinners were some that I wanted to do but cant fit into my menu bc I needed to do 2 credit places so we werent constantly eating. I was wanting do Cape May and Whispering Canyone.

Well half of them have posted but I am still waiting for the HS and Animal Kingdom to post on teh disney site. I found the site that is on the front of the dis though so I used that. I am so made that Fantasmic is only going on twice that week. I have heard Whispering canyon is good and really fun!

 

[jenny105]

Have you ever gone to Hoop before? I have never been there but am very excited for it!

No, this will be a first! I've heard nothing but great things about it. It should be fun.

 

[stacikristine]

Have you gotten the Sept hours yet? They're posted!! Great dining plans so far! I really liked Teppan Edo when we went a few years ago. You might think about going there...

 

[pinkpixie0920]

I wish June 21 would just get here so I can make these dining reservations. This is going to sound crazy but I actually had a dream last night that I was trying to call Disney Dining but I couldn't figure out the new system and had to keep hanging up. I don't know if I ever got my reservations because I woke up before that. I wish it were still 180 days, it seemed less stressful then.

We changed some of our dining plans around over the weekend. We have switched out Tony's Town Square for Tutto Italia, I have read so many good reviews on this and the menu looks amazing. We also replaced our Chef Mickey's dinner for Hollywood Brown Derby-Fantasmic Package. Fantasmic is only showing on the 20th and the 25th that week. Well the 20th is out because that is our 1 year wedding anniversary and I am not rushing from dinner to try and make it to Fantasmic so that only leaves us with the 25th, our last night. So I figured it would be easiest to eat at Brown Derby with the fantasmic package. I am also kind of upset because from the looks of it the only park that has EMH that evening is Animal Kingdom, I was really hoping for MK EMH but I guess we can't have everything. 103 days to go! and only 13 until we make our reservations!

In other good news, our park tickets came in the mail this weekend!!!

 

[jenny105]

It's getting closer and closer! Let me know how the Hollywood Brown Derby is. We were thinking of doing the Fantasmic Dinner Package but decided against it. The restaurants we love there aren't part of the package! 2 weeks to go until we can make our ADRs!

 

[stacikristine]

I know--I can't wait for it to be time to make ADRs! Then a big chunk of the planning will be behind us!

We were thinking about doing the Fantasmic package, but now everyone has to line up in the same line...so I've heard it's not as good of a deal as it used to be. I also heard that they start giving away the reserved seating after a certain time...so if you're far back in line, they might give away your section before you get there Maybe what I've heard is wrong...hopefully it is!

We're going to Fantasmic that same night! Maybe we'll run into each other...and every other person who is there for Fantasmic...it's going to be packed!

Are you checking in on the 19th or 20th? I forgot...and I'm guessing it's the 19th if your ADR day is the 21st... It's getting closer and closer!