The all New *OFFICIAL JUNE* 2011 thread! Some like it hot!

[shine87]

Hi everyone!


Illuminations for fireworks show, or Festival of the Lion King (we always seem to end up sitting the giraffe section though?! lol)





Emma x

Me too!!! I always wanna yell THEY BAA! at the poor confused person they pull up, but I let them have their fun.

 

[anjalee6]

Arriving June 23rd, staying till June 30th at CBR.

ADR's at:
June 23 @ 12:40pm Hollywood & Vine
June 24 @ 8:35am Akershus Royal Banquet Hall
June 27 @ 5:20pm Whispering Canyon Café
June 28 @ 8:00am Chef Mickey's

Welcome to our thread! I added you to the list on page 1.

if it wasn't for tax returns, we would never be able to go. I consider that 'money i never had'. another day closer!

Yay for tax returns. We based our trip on last year's tax return and how much we thought we would get back. We ended up getting a little more than I expected. This begs the questions...should I save it and just wait for next year? Or...do we book two more days (with a little tax refund still left over)? The practical side of me says to save it. The DISNEY FAN in me says to go for it. My husband wants to save it, but I am not convinced.

I've been away from the DISboards for a little over a month (life got in the way) and I can't believe how much I've missed in this thread alone! I feel like playing along with all the fun stuff, but by the time I go back and get everything sorted I feel like there wouldn't be a point...also, the tips are awesome!!! I never thought to take a photo of contact info in case my camera gets lost, and it never even occurred to me to take photos of my place before I left just in case...can't wait to get fully caught up

Welcome back. Jump right back in! I love to see the answers to the questions. It makes me think of things I missed, things I need to try, etc. I love other opinions of things.



Now off to price out two more days with the room discounts. Two more days would be so much fun.

 

[cookieswithangel]

Now off to price out two more days with the room discounts. Two more days would be so much fun.

Oh how I wish we could do that! Unfortunately work won't allow much more time off, and if our teenager of the party goes back to community college this summer, we need to be back in time for class, and maybe should save money for the classes...

 

[mrssmith06]

Making a list for a CD to play during the car ride to WDW!! Can anyone think of any good songs that I'm missing and must put on here?

Disney Music CD for the road!
1. When You Wish Upon a Star / Pinocchio
2. Beauty and the Beast / Beauty and the Beast
3. Can You Feel the Love Tonight? / The Lion King
4. The Bare Necessites / The Jungle Book
5. A Whole New World / Aladdin
6. You've Got a Friend in Me / Toy Story
7. Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo / Cinderella
8. You'll Be in My Heart / Tarzan
9. Under the Sea / The Little Mermaid
10. Reflection / Mulan
11. The Best of Friends / The Fox and the Hound
12. Hakuna Matata / The Lion King
13. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious / Mary Poppins
14. A Spoonfull Of Sugar / Mary Poppins
15. I Wanna Be Like You / The Jungle Book
16. When I See An Elephant Fly / Dumbo
17. I Just Can't Wait to be King / The Lion King
18. Dalmation Plantation / 101 Dalmations
19. Part of Your World / The Little Mermaid
20. Life is a Highway / Cars
21. Hot Dog Song / Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
22. You Can Fly / Peter Pan
23. The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers / Winnie The Pooh
24. 104 Days of Summer Vacation / Phineas & Ferb
25. Heigh-Ho / Snow White
26. Once Upon a Dream / Sleeping Beauty
27. The Siamese Cat Song / Lady and The Tramp
28. Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride / Lilo & Stitch

 

[itsalebeau]

I can only answer "how many miles are you from WDW?" (answer: 3,040 miles) because this is our first trip! I have no favorites. Yet!

 

[shine87]

Making a list for a CD to play during the car ride to WDW!! Can anyone think of any good songs that I'm missing and must put on here?

Disney Music CD for the road!
1. When You Wish Upon a Star / Pinocchio
2. Beauty and the Beast / Beauty and the Beast
3. Can You Feel the Love Tonight? / The Lion King
4. The Bare Necessites / The Jungle Book
5. A Whole New World / Aladdin
6. You've Got a Friend in Me / Toy Story
7. Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo / Cinderella
8. You'll Be in My Heart / Tarzan
9. Under the Sea / The Little Mermaid
10. Reflection / Mulan
11. The Best of Friends / The Fox and the Hound
12. Hakuna Matata / The Lion King
13. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious / Mary Poppins
14. A Spoonfull Of Sugar / Mary Poppins
15. I Wanna Be Like You / The Jungle Book
16. When I See An Elephant Fly / Dumbo
17. I Just Can't Wait to be King / The Lion King
18. Dalmation Plantation / 101 Dalmations
19. Part of Your World / The Little Mermaid
20. Life is a Highway / Cars
21. Hot Dog Song / Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
22. You Can Fly / Peter Pan
23. The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers / Winnie The Pooh
24. 104 Days of Summer Vacation / Phineas & Ferb
25. Heigh-Ho / Snow White
26. Once Upon a Dream / Sleeping Beauty
27. The Siamese Cat Song / Lady and The Tramp
28. Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride / Lilo & Stitch

Colors of the wind from one of my personal favs pocahontas!

 

[itsalebeau]

Making a list for a CD to play during the car ride to WDW!! Can anyone think of any good songs that I'm missing and must put on here?

Disney Music CD for the road!

Some stuff on my Playlist that isn't on yours...
Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)
What a Dog/He's a Tramp - Lady and the Tramp
Bella Notte - Lady and the Tramp
So This is Love - Cinderella
Other stuff from Beauty and the Beast (Belle, Be Our Guest, my dd is in love with this movie right now)
Some Day My Prince Will Come - Snow White
Everybody Wants to Be A Cat - Aristocats
Its a Small World
and I have a whole Los Lobos Goes Disney in there too, so I could at least have one song from Robin Hood (Not in Nottingham).

 

[Singledad]

we've got $100 set aside for tips I guess that's what we get for doing the deluxe dining plan

ditto! But, last year on our super short trip, we nearly didn't eat because I hadn't set times to do so outside of one ADR I made... (was planing on QS but even then, I 'forgot' what time it was, so it was super late before any of us thought, wait a min, when did we last eat? )

So with my full 'plate' of character meals, and set times to eat... this trip we shall have much more fun! (and not be nearly as crabby!) If that means 100 bucks in tips, than so be it!

and there's NO way we would do all these places otherwise (4 character meals, plus a few other TS)

exactly! I have planned so many meals that would totally not happen without dining plan. rather than eating 2-3 meals a day (like we do at home) we would end up eating QS once or twice a day. so much happier just thinking of sitting down inside a restaurant even if they are buffets!

We live in Georgia, so flying would be more expensive...

oh, don't get me wrong, I could have saved about 200 dollars or so by driving, I just would not be happy. and why vacation if you can't be happy?

Thanks for the website! It does all the math a lot faster than I can

I can't tell you how many times I've used that site! it really is a lifesaver sometimes for planning ahead. don't *just* use the trip guide, there is also a price finder. you enter a state and city (or a zip) and they tell you (this is using my middle of nowhere info)

"Area Average : $3.705
Last Week: $3.587 Last Month: $3.475 6 Months Ago: $2.728 Last Year: $2.833"

"Average Cost To Fuel A Vehicle With a 15 Gallon Tank: $55.58
Last Week: $53.80 Last Month: $52.13 6 Months Ago: $40.93 Last Year: $42.49"

AND, current prices of area gas stations, so you can get a good idea of where you should go to fuel up. (they even tell you when the price was last updated, so you know how current the info may be. like for mine:
$3.679
Apr 06 04:26 AM
$3.979
Apr 06 04:26 AM

(that is reg first, dsl second)
best of all, the info is all FREE!

 

[Altoqueenkelly]

1) How many miles do you live from Disney World?
I live 11 hrs 43 mins, 748.07 miles from WDW

2) What is your favorite show: Finding Nemo The Musical

3) What is your favorite gift shop?
Art of Disney & World of Disney in DTD

4)What is your favorite breakfast meal? (include name of restaurant, cart, etc. and the specific name of the menu item or be as specific when describing it as possible)
Not a huge Breakfast person, we are a muffin/bannana from the food cart on the way to bus station make ropedrop kinda people

5) What is your favorite lunch or dinner meal? (include name of restaurant, cart, etc. and the specific name of the menu item or be as specific when describing it as possible)
Wolfgang Puck Cafe in DTD, everytime!

6) What is your favorite dessert? (include name of restaurant, cart, etc. and the specific name of the menu item or be as specific when describing it as possible)
Nothing stands out in my memory!

 

[Singledad]

Yay for tax returns. We based our trip on last year's tax return and how much we thought we would get back. We ended up getting a little more than I expected. This begs the questions...should I save it and just wait for next year? Or...do we book two more days (with a little tax refund still left over)? The practical side of me says to save it. The DISNEY FAN in me says to go for it. My husband wants to save it, but I am not convinced.

for me it would depend on a few things, first of all being how long is the trip to start with, would I have to take more days off work (I do not get paid vacation, so this a BIG). Along with just how much extra are we talking about? lol, I mean this as in, would spending it on adding two more days make it to where you might be stretching your food budget, or for tips, or other 'extras' over just the basic room and ticket prices? Would I rather book only one more extra day, and use that other days money for some thing REALLY COOL like any of the aqua sea/divequest/dolphins tours. something that I would always want to go do, but the price tag scares me.

personally I would end up either doing something REALLY COOL (dolphins! (if only my DD was old enough!) or seas aqua tour! (also still not old enough.)) or 'saving' it. see if I end up using it to splure at disney, or even on other items before/after the trip... maybe see about a 'stay-cation' or somewhere nearer to home we could visit for a weekend.

the possibilities are endless! have fun with whatever you end up doing with the extra!

 

[Altoqueenkelly]

Our ADR list:

Sunday, June 19
Planet Hollywood, Downtown Disney
8:15 PM

Monday, June 20
Sanaa Restaurant at Disney's Animal Kingdom Kidani Village
5:15 PM

Tuesday, June 21
Le Cellier Steakhouse at Epcot
1:35 PM

Wednesday, June 22
Fairytale Lunch at Cinderella's Royal Table at Magic Kingdom Park
11:50 AM

Thursday, June 23
Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano Fantasmic, Hollywood Studios
4:25 PM

Friday, June 24
'Ohana, Disney's Polynesian Resort
7:10pm

Saturday, June 25
Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater, Hollywood Studios
3:20pm

Sunday, June 26
Tony’s Town Square
7:20pm

Monday June 27
Chef Mickeys, Disney's Contemporary Resort
9:20am

 

[Juliealto]

Re: Making a list for a CD to play during the car ride to WDW!!

How about adding "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" (Cinderella) and "A Friend Like Me" (Aladdin)?

 

[Singledad]

Making a list for a CD to play during the car ride to WDW!! Can anyone think of any good songs that I'm missing and must put on here?

Disney Music CD for the road!
1. When You Wish Upon a Star / Pinocchio
2. Beauty and the Beast / Beauty and the Beast
3. Can You Feel the Love Tonight? / The Lion King
4. The Bare Necessites / The Jungle Book
5. A Whole New World / Aladdin
6. You've Got a Friend in Me / Toy Story
7. Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo / Cinderella
8. You'll Be in My Heart / Tarzan
9. Under the Sea / The Little Mermaid
10. Reflection / Mulan
11. The Best of Friends / The Fox and the Hound
12. Hakuna Matata / The Lion King
13. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious / Mary Poppins
14. A Spoonfull Of Sugar / Mary Poppins
15. I Wanna Be Like You / The Jungle Book
16. When I See An Elephant Fly / Dumbo
17. I Just Can't Wait to be King / The Lion King
18. Dalmation Plantation / 101 Dalmations
19. Part of Your World / The Little Mermaid
20. Life is a Highway / Cars
21. Hot Dog Song / Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
22. You Can Fly / Peter Pan
23. The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers / Winnie The Pooh
24. 104 Days of Summer Vacation / Phineas & Ferb
25. Heigh-Ho / Snow White
26. Once Upon a Dream / Sleeping Beauty
27. The Siamese Cat Song / Lady and The Tramp
28. Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride / Lilo & Stitch

I second the suggestion of everybody wants to be a cat.

also missing: grim grinning ghosts, laughing/happy place (splash mt song) and my personal fav of main street electrical parade.

 

[itsalebeau]

So, for those of you that have been in June or are familiar with park touring...
How many rides can you get in before lunch if you got there at rope drop?

I've read the Unofficial Guide and I've seen the touring plans from the book but I'm not subscribing to their online stuff. I tried to get a feel from my kids about what they want to do on the first day there (our first of 3 MK days), and they want Dumbo, Teacups, and Tomorrowland Speedway.

Anyway, I've put a guide together for rides in a certain order, getting FP along the way, etc etc. But I've got like 10 rides before we leave the park for an afternoon break. Is that realistic? For reference, they are:
Dumbo
Get Peter Pan FP
Ride Winnie the Pooh
Ride Teacups
Get Buzz FP
Ride Tomorrowland Speedway
Ride Peoplemover
Monster's Inc
Ride Buzz
Ride Peter Pan
Ride Philharmagic
Ride It's a Small World
-break-

Again, I don't know where we'd be in FP maturity, so things might shift a bit, but we'd cover two lands and not be running all over, while trying to hit early the rides that are the slowest to load and stuff.

I was just looking at someone elses plans from a February trip and they did 10 rides in one day! So I thought maybe I was crazy.

 

[toomanycars]

I made a chart to see what effect gas prices were going to have on our trip to the world. Not as bad as I thought.

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[cookieswithangel]

For your playlist, I would add Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, Ever Ever After from Enchanted, and Circle of Life or I Just Can't Wait to be King from the Lion King.
I need to get working on my Disney playlist, since we'll be in airports for a while, and after having to wait because our flight got cancelled for, in our opinion, no reason, we now know to be extra prepared with music.

 

[Singledad]

I was just looking at someone elses plans from a February trip and they did 10 rides in one day! So I thought maybe I was crazy.

Well, it really depends on crowd lvls, if you use the fastpasses and how fast you walk! Plus, are you taking time to wait for characters?

I really didn't pay attention to how many we went on, nevertheless by when. I just played it all by ear, and it worked out.

I do think maybe 10 rides before noon might be pushing it, I mean, if RP is at 9am, and you want to be done with 10 by noon, that is 3 hours to do 10 rides, or about 3 rides an hour. I guess that might be do able if the lines are 20 min or less each. you hit any 1 hour long lines and you wont do it.

 

[Gummie Bears]

So excited just saw on disney blog that Disney Cruise Line announced 2012 itineraries and there are a few new home ports, Galveston,Tx being one of them! So it might possible to finally do a Disney Cruise next year. But first things first we gotta do our 1st Disney World trip!


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[Singledad]

So excited just saw on disney blog that Disney Cruise Line announced 2012 itineraries and there are a few new home ports, Galveston,Tx being one of them! So it might possible to finally do a Disney Cruise next year. But first things first we gotta do our 1st Disney World trip!


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seriously!?! will totally have to look into that myself. got family all around tx so could couch surf the night before/after.

 

[toomanycars]

Game time!

I have uploaded a photo from Disney world. Can you tell me where in Disney World the photograph was taken?

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