Trips, Dips 'n' Dole Whips - August 2010 - Hopefully LIVE! Pre-Trip Report

Ah so exciting I can't wait to read your trippie looking forward to lots of pictures
 
Thank you so much for my Mickey and Minnie ears! And our buttons thank you so much you and your family are brilliant
 
No probs Leanne, it was a pleasure to be able to bring some magic home for someone else. The trippies never really got off the ground, as I started doing them over on "that other site", but after a couple of days I kind of felt that it was eating into our holiday time. It was okay for the first couple of days because everyone was tired and not up to much in the evenings, but once we were into the swing of things we didn't really spend much time in the Condo. we managed to do pretty much everything we planned, including swimming in the Gulf of Mexico and being chased by dolphins in Little Toot (both trip highlights) and crazy golf at both WinterSummerland and Fantasia Gardens. DS11 and I also managed to be the very first two people on Tower of Terror the day we went to DHS, which was weird!

We did change our dining plans slightly as youngest was struggling with the heat and didn't feel up to some of the places we'd planned to go (Olive Garden and Longhorn were the main casualties). We did manage two trips each to Smokey Bones and Ruby Tuesday, both of which were excellent. We ended up cancelling most of our ADRs, apart from Kona and Plaza and the first day, Tusker House during our first week, HoB on the Friday night before our last day, and Captain's Grille on our last morning. Where we'd expected to pay $20.99 per person at Tusker House, plus tip, it ended up being $25.99 per person, plus tax, plus tip, so it cost us $130 where we'd thought we'd be paying $100. It was nice food, in a nice setting, but it wasn't THAT good, and we certainly ate better for less than half the cost in off-site restaurants.

Anyway, I think Orlando is being put to bed in our house for quite some time now. We've been every two years for the last three trips, but two years' time is the Olympics, and we want to go up and see some of that, and it won't be cheap so it'll have to be instead of Florida!
 














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