The NEW Official November 2010 Countdown & Planning Thread ~ Come join us! (Part 2)

[lizzyb5280]

33 days, and our Mickey Mail came today too! By this time in five weeks, we'll have finished our day at DHS!

 

[Hmom]

36 Mickey heads on the wall,
36 Mickey heads,
ya take one down,
ya pass it around,
35 Mickey heads on the wall (in about 40 minutes!!!!)

 

[Momof2Disneyboys]

I got my big Disney envelope in the mail yesterday!! All my paperwork, vouchers and confirmations!!

 

[Px4]

I want my Disney Mail! But it is going to take forever since I am going so late in Nov. Plus, it has to go to my TA first, then she will send it to me. BLAH! But atleast time is still flying by.....

But..... with time still remaining, I have started the dreaded "Are my ADRs really what I want?" thinking.... And I have decided, all but 1 I am 100% sure of. I am debating my Narcoossee's. Wondering if I should try to switch it to Cali Grill? I have been looking forward to Narcoossees forever, but now with all the mixed reviews, esp about the bad service, I am nervous. Right now there isn't a time open I am interested enough in to mess with changing, but if something opens up, I may switch.

 

[ThreeKMom]

Hmmm . . . Nov. 8 and 11 are MVMCP, Nov. 9 park closes early for a private party, that leaves me Nov. 10 to see the castle lit up. Does anyone know if they do this right at dark or after Wishes or some other time?

The castle lights show is really cute, my dd7 loved it last year. I think it starts about 5:45 - 6:00ish. It has Mickey,Minnie, Cinderella and the Fairey Godmother! You can definately see it before the park closes to people without party tickets.

 

[shinysparklybubbles]

QOTD. Did you book with a pin, free dining, public room discount or other?

We booked free dining but upgraded for the 1 table service meal. My parents booked with a FL resident discount.

 

[Pumba's Truth]

QOTD. Did you book with a pin, free dining, public room discount or other?

Booked with Pin-Free Dining during Blackout Dates Thanksgiving week.

 

[Momof2Disneyboys]

QOTD. Did you book with a pin, free dining, public room discount or other?

We booked free dining but upgraded for the 1 table service meal. My parents booked with a FL resident discount.

We booked with a PIN! It came last November shortly after we got back from WDW. It was the 20% off Values, 30% off Moderates, and 40% off Deluxe. Since we were wanting to go deluxe this time, 40% off is better than Free Dining!

 

[summerlady]

QOTD. Did you book with a pin, free dining, public room discount or other?

Booked back in April with an email 30% room discount PIN; 3 days later I got a postcard in snail mail with a 35% off PIN, called and changed to the better discount; free DDP was offered in July so I called and changed to FD.

 

[sharig5576]

We booked with a PIN for free dining for the 1st week in November (blackout date).

 

[mickeymyfavorite]

I got my big Disney envelope in the mail yesterday!! All my paperwork, vouchers and confirmations!!

THAT IS THE BEST FEELING

 

[Hmom]

QOTD. Did you book with a pin, free dining, public room discount or other?
QUOTE]

Renting DVC & bought tickets from Undercover Tourist

 

[ethansmommy]

QOTD. Did you book with a pin, free dining, public room discount or other?

We booked with the bounce back rate when we were at Disney last November. It was for 45% off select villas.

 

[Px4]

QOTD. Did you book with a pin, free dining, public room discount or other?

We originally booked at full price. Didn't have any pins at the time and our week was blacked out. We had no hope of getting any sort of discount considering we were going during a Holiday. But... about a month or so after we booked, I got a 40% pin that ran to the 23rd. So we applied it. Then we got the Free Dining pin that ran to the 23rd and could be extended the entire week (the 40% couldn't), so we went with it because it was a better deal.

 

[ThreeKMom]

We also booked with a pin. It came in Jan. - 40% off deluxe.
Better than free dining!

It seems like a lot of us got pincodes!

 

[Disney Mommy 3]

Mine was a 40% pin code also...FD didn't come out as good for us as the room discount.

 

[MAGGIED]

We booked with free dining... with 6 adults it worked out better for us.... the room discount would have been about $77 a day per room... where the free dining gives us $129 per room per day...

 

[jillyb]

Started out with a pin code then when the new discounts came out I gave up the pin code and went for the $200 gift card.

 

[sjs314]

QOTD. Did you book with a pin, free dining, public room discount or other?

I also recieved the 20/30/40 pin back in January so on Feburay 4th I booked DH and myself at AKL, then DS and Ddil said they would like to go so I did some calculations and since if I added two adults to our room it would be $50 more a night but if I booked a 1 bdrm Villa there was no extra charge for two additional adults for $46 more per night than the cost of adding them to our original reservation so 10 days after I first reserved our room I called back and booked the 1 bdrm Villa which gave us so much more space, a full kitchen,living area with pull out sofa, laundry, jacuzzi and two balconies

 

[princessmom29]

We have gone over Thanksgiving the last tow years, but were planning to wait until March 2011 to go agian. We got like 3 pin codes when we didn't book as expected for November, and eneded up using the Goofy FD pin when we changed our dates b/c GP free dining would have required us to get there a day earlier.