maddiebee
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 8, 2013
HEY!
So here we are again, in another September, trying to cure my PDD by reliving my trip through a TR!
A WARNING! IF my last TR is any indication, this one may take till next August to finish BUT I PROMISE IT WILL BE TOTALLY WORTH IT (I mean, I think we're super interesting and worth reading about, so...)
Sooooo you probably have no idea who we are.
So Hi! I'm Maddie!
I'm a very sweaty and emotional Princess. I'm a crier for sure, so stay tuned for some really lovely photos of me in tears (usually happy, but spoiler alert, we did have to leave home and go back to the real world at SOME point)
I'm pretty Disney obsessed and love all things Disney. The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast were my favorite movies growing up, but that is now a very complicated answer for me. I have so many favorites for different reasons, and really I just love them all SO WHATEVER.
I work as a Vet Tech and live with my guy in Boston with our French Bulldog, Kimmy.
My partner in crime is my best friend/boyfriend of over 5 years, Pete!
He's much more coy about his Disney love. He usually won't be the first to bring it up, but once you get him started on it, he doesnt stop talking about Disney. He works as a teacher and works at a bar on the weekend and has found he gets better tips when he has Disney tshirts on because everyone wants to talk about Space Mountain!
He's the best and puts up with all my crying and actually encourages a lot of my crazy Disney antics. He's the best.
Because he's a teacher, the summer is really the only time we can get a good vacation in. My tireless research showed that August is the best time to go in the summer, and last year we did the second to last week in August and had a great trip. This year I wanted even shorter lines, so we did the last week of August.
The original plan was August 24-31st (and Pete was like whoa 8 days that's WAY too much while I was like WILL WE EVEN GET ANYTHING DONE?!) at Port Orleans Riverside. There was then chatter on the August boards about great deals at a lot of the Deluxes through a TA, so I asked for a quote just to see what all the hullabaloo was about. And so, whoa, we could stay at the Poly for the same price we were going to have to pay for POR. UH DUH YEAH.
And then? DUN DUN DUN.
POLY CONSTRUCTION MANIA! DISBOARDS FREAKS OUT! NO ONE IS HARMED BUT WE ALL DIE INSIDE!
I tried really hard for a few months to keep a positive attitude and was all hey I'm getting a discount, we'll be on the monorail, it's fine.
But, I sat on the Disboards way too much. I decided to make our trip a split between the Beach Club and the Poly. That was a good compromise right?
And then the pool was confirmed closed at the Poly. And I was like hey, I burn so easily, screw the pool.
And then construction photos started popping up.
And I just couldn't do it. I wanted to stay at the Poly SO bad but I also want my first stay there to be PERFECT. So we made the Poly half of our trip Wilderness Lodge and WOW what a weight was lifted off of me. It was so nice to tune out of the Poly panic threads (even though I did dip into a few of the WL panic threads, but we dodged that bullet by a couple days).
So we were all set for 3 nights at the BC and 4 at the WL, with park hoppers and with a day at Universal on the day we were switching resorts. Perfect. Wonderful.
But Delta thinks they are super cute.
I had specifically booked direct, non stop flights because the first time we flew to Disney, we had to change planes in Atlanta and got stuck overnight. Since then, Pete has gotten stuck in Atlanta 2 other times while flying on Delta. We had perfect flights. Arrival day we'd be at MCO by 10a and we would fly out 7pm on departure day. Then one day, while doing a Cancer Walk with some friends (Team Double D!) I got an email, saying Delta had changed our return flight from a non stop, direct, to a flight with a stop IN ATLANTA with 50 minutes to change planes.
The other catch here, is that our landlord had informed us in May, months after I had finished paying for the trip, that she wanted us and our roommates to move out Sept 1st because of our dogs (which she ok'd when we moved in). So, we couldn't get stuck in ATL on the 31st because we had to freaking move out of our apartment. I could go on and on about this and will never fly Delta again, but eventually I got them to get us on an earlier flight departure day, so we could catch another plane if we missed the first tone, and then change our arrival day to a day earlier.
A day earlier meant we would be there August 23rd...
I immediately bought Villains party tickets.
And so we added on another BC day and that was it. No other crazy planning things popped up. I changed our FPs and ADRs a million times because nothing else changed and I didn't know what to do with myself!
BUT IT WAS THE BEST. WE HAD THE BEST TRIP! I CAN'T WAIT TO SHARE IT WITH YOU!
So here we are again, in another September, trying to cure my PDD by reliving my trip through a TR!
A WARNING! IF my last TR is any indication, this one may take till next August to finish BUT I PROMISE IT WILL BE TOTALLY WORTH IT (I mean, I think we're super interesting and worth reading about, so...)
Sooooo you probably have no idea who we are.
So Hi! I'm Maddie!
I'm a very sweaty and emotional Princess. I'm a crier for sure, so stay tuned for some really lovely photos of me in tears (usually happy, but spoiler alert, we did have to leave home and go back to the real world at SOME point)
I'm pretty Disney obsessed and love all things Disney. The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast were my favorite movies growing up, but that is now a very complicated answer for me. I have so many favorites for different reasons, and really I just love them all SO WHATEVER.
I work as a Vet Tech and live with my guy in Boston with our French Bulldog, Kimmy.
My partner in crime is my best friend/boyfriend of over 5 years, Pete!
He's much more coy about his Disney love. He usually won't be the first to bring it up, but once you get him started on it, he doesnt stop talking about Disney. He works as a teacher and works at a bar on the weekend and has found he gets better tips when he has Disney tshirts on because everyone wants to talk about Space Mountain!
He's the best and puts up with all my crying and actually encourages a lot of my crazy Disney antics. He's the best.
Because he's a teacher, the summer is really the only time we can get a good vacation in. My tireless research showed that August is the best time to go in the summer, and last year we did the second to last week in August and had a great trip. This year I wanted even shorter lines, so we did the last week of August.
The original plan was August 24-31st (and Pete was like whoa 8 days that's WAY too much while I was like WILL WE EVEN GET ANYTHING DONE?!) at Port Orleans Riverside. There was then chatter on the August boards about great deals at a lot of the Deluxes through a TA, so I asked for a quote just to see what all the hullabaloo was about. And so, whoa, we could stay at the Poly for the same price we were going to have to pay for POR. UH DUH YEAH.
And then? DUN DUN DUN.
POLY CONSTRUCTION MANIA! DISBOARDS FREAKS OUT! NO ONE IS HARMED BUT WE ALL DIE INSIDE!
I tried really hard for a few months to keep a positive attitude and was all hey I'm getting a discount, we'll be on the monorail, it's fine.
But, I sat on the Disboards way too much. I decided to make our trip a split between the Beach Club and the Poly. That was a good compromise right?
And then the pool was confirmed closed at the Poly. And I was like hey, I burn so easily, screw the pool.
And then construction photos started popping up.
And I just couldn't do it. I wanted to stay at the Poly SO bad but I also want my first stay there to be PERFECT. So we made the Poly half of our trip Wilderness Lodge and WOW what a weight was lifted off of me. It was so nice to tune out of the Poly panic threads (even though I did dip into a few of the WL panic threads, but we dodged that bullet by a couple days).
So we were all set for 3 nights at the BC and 4 at the WL, with park hoppers and with a day at Universal on the day we were switching resorts. Perfect. Wonderful.
But Delta thinks they are super cute.
I had specifically booked direct, non stop flights because the first time we flew to Disney, we had to change planes in Atlanta and got stuck overnight. Since then, Pete has gotten stuck in Atlanta 2 other times while flying on Delta. We had perfect flights. Arrival day we'd be at MCO by 10a and we would fly out 7pm on departure day. Then one day, while doing a Cancer Walk with some friends (Team Double D!) I got an email, saying Delta had changed our return flight from a non stop, direct, to a flight with a stop IN ATLANTA with 50 minutes to change planes.
The other catch here, is that our landlord had informed us in May, months after I had finished paying for the trip, that she wanted us and our roommates to move out Sept 1st because of our dogs (which she ok'd when we moved in). So, we couldn't get stuck in ATL on the 31st because we had to freaking move out of our apartment. I could go on and on about this and will never fly Delta again, but eventually I got them to get us on an earlier flight departure day, so we could catch another plane if we missed the first tone, and then change our arrival day to a day earlier.
A day earlier meant we would be there August 23rd...
I immediately bought Villains party tickets.
And so we added on another BC day and that was it. No other crazy planning things popped up. I changed our FPs and ADRs a million times because nothing else changed and I didn't know what to do with myself!
BUT IT WAS THE BEST. WE HAD THE BEST TRIP! I CAN'T WAIT TO SHARE IT WITH YOU!
This should of been over in the trip report board. My bad. Mods, could you move me over?
Love to hear your trip reports. 
I'll figure something out! 
Resort decisions ARE so hard! Decisions in general are hard! I'm very indecisive!
sad
I don't know if i actually took any pictures of the pool which I'm kind of bummed about, but we never took our phones when we went down there.
