LOL Well, I suppose planning is all relative. But I am aware that I still need to put a lot of work into the other planning, i.e. what and when we want to eat, which nights we dine together or separately, which days at which parks, which rides to get FPs. That's a lot. And I am the planner for everyone, including one pair of notoriously flaky adults. They are lovely, but they are also prone to saying, on Tuesday, "Oh, we scheduled a group dinner for Thursday? I made a plan to meet up with local friends Thursday. Oops!" Or booking plane tickets for the wrong dates. That kind of stuff. I have the responsibility of hustling these people into some order of a plan. I would like to have a
travel agent on top of executing that, for example, sorting through the restaurants to know which have a large table open on these dates, and hopefully which have a table open on closer dates when we suddenly have to change plans because someone flaked.
Also, I travel out of the country a lot, often with spotty wifi, so can not depend on being available online at the exact time reservations open up to get things booked. I want someone who can handle that. That's a freaking JOB.
Animal Kingdom is not ruled out, but if we do it, it will be one day, and with local family members. Which is more of the anomaly of the trip.
Yes, I am open to this. My question is if anyone knows, and can highly recommend, agencies that do offer something like this, as opposed to just commission based work.
The kids are not the only reason for the monorail requirement. My choice was for the 4 seasons. I was outvoted - strongly - by adults who prefer to stay on property. I didn't really lay out every single minutia of our our lives in my initial post, lol, but yes, we do have our reasons, and we are very set on monorail. And we don't want to plan around the hope that the kids are different sleepers, because honestly, they are great sleepers. The kind of sleepers that other parents envy. They just require a quiet, dark room. We are not making plans based on hoping their sleeping patterns undergo an immense change, because we really do everything possible to prevent that. They are very scheduled, very structured kids, and that works for everyone.
By unbiased, I mean that TAs earn their commission through hotel bookings, so obviously will point me there. I don't expect them to point me towards renting points, even though that may be the better option for circumstances. Thus, I am looking for someone who is open to looking at BOTH options and giving me unbiased advice. Someone who straddles the line of both broker and travel agent. Even if their payment structure is then fee-based.
So about a year or so ago my sister stayed at the Swan and Dolphin as it was selected by her in-laws and she had little say in the matter. They guaranteed connecting rooms. She did not get connecting rooms. It was a disaster. Which has led to a vow to never trust another Disney connecting room reservation again.
This would be lovely. And I have read that many of the resort suites offer connecting rooms to increase the number of bedrooms, and that would be the absolutely IDEAL circumstance. Just keep adding on the bedrooms. We could have the whole party together.
However, it still seems to rely upon the connecting room which is NOT guaranteed. So thus, just like any regular connecting rooms, not a viable option. If, however, people here have further knowledge about how connecting rooms to suites are more guaranteed than their standard room counterparts, I'd definitely be all ears!
A ferry is definitely more appealing than a bus, but my party has been pretty firm. Monorail. Again, the 3 bedrooms exist in the monorail resorts. And I am open to either of the 3 resorts, and I am somewhat flexible on dates. I think the prices being quoted here are actually much more reasonable than I was expecting. I do think it can be done. I was just hoping to hire someone to determine the BEST possible way to do it, and to handle it all.
Well now, that is a new potential problem no one has mentioned before!
