GInormas update...
Does everyone like how i sounded out ginormas..i know Tat will say something about it.
Well I thought it was finally time to share my trip plans in detail with you guys...well i actually wanted to share them more before, but did not want to keep typing them, as i figured they might change around alot.
Okay is everyone ready to follow along.
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Well I almost checked myself into Triple A...::cop: but then i found out that it has nothing to do with the drinking
and everything to do with the travel people and i was all confused.
So let me back up a day. Yesterday i was messing around on the AAA website, and filing out a question thingy to send in. Well i did not finish it and i hit cancel, it was time to head home from work....well at the grocery store on the way home, i got a call from the local AAA office asking if i needed there services, somehow my question thingy went through and they called me...well the nice lady starts to tell me allabout the discounts and such that i can get and what the hotel will cost me through them and sorts. So i say let me call you back tomorrow when i have some paper in front of me and write this down...I had every intention of signing up and actually was going to upgrade to moderate.
So when i am talking with her today, she tells me the prices and everything, and i said okay i will stop in your office later today and we can start the reserving everything. So being the sly one that i am, i called disney reservations myself and asked the nice CM allthe same stuff about the AAA discount.
She said as long as i call them with my member number i can get the discount that way and dont have to worry about another person making my plans for me. She ran the numbers and the prices were exactly the same by calling myself...well great i am thinking lets do this.
I was feeling a smooth at this moment thinking i found a great deal.
Well turns out that all the AAA rates at Pop were sold out, and she said until someone cancels or some more get realesed there are no more right now.
Okay no big deal...check the moderates for me. Well with the discount, the moderate price is $240 more than what i am paying right now for my value resort for the whole stay, well that is pretty tempting..only 40 more bucks a day huh. Now normally i would book this right away without question. But since I am surpsing DW and trying not to spend a ton of money on this impromtu trip, i am digressing for a little bit.
So i call back the AAA travel lady and tell her that with the price she gave me for Pop to go ahead and check with disney and if she can book it, i will sign up for the AAA membership...so she checks and goes oh" i need to call disney let me call you back:"
So she calls backand says that Pop is now booked up with AAA discounts, I say oh okay, (secretly knowing this answer since i just called disney not 5 minutes prior, but giving he a chance to try her luck) so She is now on the notice that is she is able toget me a room discount at Pop for my stay that she can call me back and sign me up for AAA...so that was my morning...I dont have to worry about calling and checking every day on my own, i have people who will do it for me, and she will since she wants my business....
Did everyone follow along okay up there.
Okay now that your brains are rattled a little bit
I feel that it is time to reveal my plans to you all and le tyou enjoy what we will be doing in disney.
The first itenerary that i posted is totally wrong, this is the right one as i have dinning reservations made.
I will do this in more of a tabular form with comments after it so that you can skip them if you want and just see the plans.
December 7th
Leave chi town at 8:53, arrive at 12:21pm
smooth over the desk workers and try to check in early.
Go to DTD and pick up some zip up sweatshirts for the family so we can wear them if it gets cold later in the week.
Ride the monorail around from epcot to the TTC, hit up some of the MK resorts, then take a boat to FW
Dinner reservations at 6:00 for Trails end Buffet
this buffet is really good and is about 12 dollars cheaper than other buffets.
After the dinner, we will see if we can make the 7:00 chip and dale sing along.
head back to the resort to relax for our first day in the parks.
December 8th
Well this is where the plans really start to change from the first time i posted them.
We are going to go into AK for the EMH morning and do the few things that we want to here...then depending on what time we are done, we will either eat lunch here , or wait tillw e get to HS and have lunch over there.
HS has EMH evening hours on the 8th so we will spend the rest of the night taking in the osbourn lights and hopefully having time to watch fantasmic while doing the animation academy at least 5 times.
I dont have any dinning reservation this day, as we would rather eat CS at these parks than have a sit down meal.
December 9th
This is another day that will depend on the weather...see we still have 1 day of water parks left on our tickets, so we will see what day is nicer either today tuesday,or the 11th on thursday. the opposite day we will go to DTD and then hit earl of sandwich for lunch.
Dinner will be at ESPN or our resort, depending on how tired we are and if we want to travel, more than likely we will want to check out the decorations at those resorts so we will hit ESPN.
December 10th
Candis sister will either drive up this morning or the 12th to go into one of the parks with us for the day...she has to see what her college fall schedule is.
We are going into MK today and have reservatoins at Liberty tree tavern for 4 in case she shows up, i covered my basis on that one.
here is a little tip just for you guys in case you need help getting a few reservation times. When i called back and told the lady that i needed to add another person she said no problem i changed it on the reservation. Huh then i asked her, oh i thought that i would have to try and get another time since i added a person...she says nope, we just add it to that reservation that you already have. So this got me to thinking if you can not get a reservation time that you like, try calling back with 1 less person in your party and see if hte times change, then call back and add another person back on later.
December 11th
This is the other day of the 9th that will either be at BB or at DTD relaxing today.
For dinner, though we do have reservations at Chef Mickeys for 5:05 for dinner.
It might be possible that i will still get tickets for Mickeys very merry christmas party on this day and we will go into the park after dinner, but it is still up in the air...that is something we dont need to do, but might depending on how much gift cards DW gets for her birthday.
December 12th My birthday!!!!!
This might be the other day that Candis sister comes up and visits for. It is our epcot day.
they have EMH for the night as well, and if she comes up it will give us more time in the park with her. I dont have any reservations made for this day as we like the CS meals in epcot and are going to chose between a few of them, either The land, and of the countries, or the electric umbrella.
December 13th leaving day.
Well dont be to sad our plan does not leave until almost 4, so that means Magical express will not summons us till about 1:30 or so...i have 10:35 reservations for chef mickeys breakfast, because DW said that they looked really good on the disney dinning unwrapped that we watched the other day. And i was reading that if you make it for a little later, that it is not as busy and the characters do not have as many tables to go to, so they spend more time with you and you can get some group photos ops withmore than 1 character.
We might check out a few other resorts, or just go back to ours and swim in the pool a little till it is time to go...since we never used the pool on our last trip.
So some additional notes are as follows, Disney told me i can add DSIL to a night for 11 dollars and that will give her a parking spot at our resort, or she can park at the parks parking lots for 12...um let me think, i am going to add her to our resort for anight and then she can spent the night with us and leave the next day to go home.
So that takes care of that one...lets see what else can i tell you and have you guys wrap your brain around..whats that stop it, because half of you have already done this.
Okay, that is all for now.
So pretty much that is it for now..the only thing that might change is if i get a hankering and i decide to book a Moderate with AAA discount...although i wanted PORS or POFQ but they are sold out, so we could either have CBR or CSR so we might just end up staying at Pop, since we want to try a different resort every time, Pop is one that is not checked off of our list yet.
did i lose everyone
If you are still there and read everything, give me a little
back and let me know that you are still there.
Well I wouldn't phrase it like that but yeah, just call up Disney and say that you would like to make a room only reservation for x resort and that you have a AAA membership and would like the discount applied. There should be no problem with that unless they have sold out of the limited number of rooms which they allow discounted (not likely this far out). They will probably ask for your AAA card/membership number at the time of booking.
nothing stirring the pot and pressuring you or anything.
