Hi there! I just started reading your trip report and I'm hooked! Your kids are adorable!! As for hotels, have you looked into the WDW Hilton? It's right next to, if not on property. We stayed there on our first trip and it was wonderful! It have family suites and seems to be fairly inexpensive if you get a good deal (priceline!) Anyway, good luck and happy planning!
Plus the pool had a giant python waterslide...can't be that! 
I've stayed at the Sheraton Safari before and it was a beautiful place. I enjoyed it. The beds were so comfy! The blankets so soft. Sigh.
I needed to be able to get some rest to deal with the kids in the airport and on the flight. I was able to get this same hotel for our last night for $81! 
Yes, it sucks. We never have good luck with the return flight. There has been so many flight cuts from Detroit to Orlando.Southwest doesn't even do non-stop flights anymore. So if we wanted to stay later we would have had to pay a major fee, so we just added on another night. That's Disney math for ya.
Ugh! When we decided to fly in early so we didn't have to rush around our first day and feel like we miss a whole day of our vacation I was pumped! Rob said that I could just pick an offsite hotel and whatever was fine.
Well...you know I just can't pick a hotel and "go with it".So, back to square one.
Anyone have any suggestions?
As for the last night, a very nice poster named Madge from the Jon & Kate thread, suggested that we stay at the airport Hyatt since our flight leaves at 8am. GREAT IDEA! I hadn't even thought of that! So I start to look into it today and apparently it isn't offered on Hotwire for the day I need.
I was going to work on all this tonight, but I need a break.
Any ideas or suggestions for hotels? Priceline? Finding cheap hotels?
Look what came in the mail today!!! Rob wants Goofy, so I guess that leaves me with Pluto. The Jr. ticket was already Minnie so that worked out perfect for A.
Also, after staying up way to late last night researching hotels and taking into consideration that Rob wanted at 1 Bedroom I decided to try to get one on Hotwire for our first and last nights.
Our thinking is that we are arriving in Orlando one day early so that we will be in a good mood on our first Disney day. So, if we got a regular room then it is possible that B. would sleep all night, but we didn't want to take that chance.
So after doing my Hotwire research I was able to get a 1 Bedroom at the Sheraton Vistana Village for $80!
For our last night I had originally wanted to stay at the airport but Rob talked me into getting the 1 Bedroom on our last night as well. His thinking was that we needed all the sleep we could get since we had an early flight and since I'm not the best morning person under regular conditions
Here are some pix of the hotel:
So, now that our accomodations are all settled I can start writing things in my Passporter. This is my first time buying one and I already love it.
Congratulations! Now everything really is booked. The hotel is gorgeous and having an extra room will be really nice. Yea for tickets in the mail!
Oh girl, I love that Disney Math!!!!
Wow! $81 what an awesome price!!The one bedroom suite will hopefully give you lots of space too! Yay, congrats on getting all of your accomodations worked out! Can't wait to hear more!
It looks like you found a beautiful hotel for your last night. I can't wait to hear all the details. It's so awesome to get to Disney nice and early but I hate early departures. We left last Oct. quite early from SSR and found ourselves trekking across the resort pulling our luggage in the dark, it must have been like 4:30 AM. I never want to do that again.
First of all YAY for Mickey Mail!!!!!!! Don't you just love getting things from Disney!!!!
Secondly what a great deal on your hotel!!! That is fabulous and the hotel just looks gorgeous!!!!!
Just getting caught up! Great job on your ADRs.
So....last night on our walk to the park I was telling Rob about the new free dining deal and he said "Wouldn't it be nice to go back in December right before free dining ends?" Yes it would be great!!!!
I think he was just "thinking out loud" but wouldn't that be great...ah, a girl can dream.
