VWL Lovers & Groupies thread: It all started with a Moose

[franandaj]

Fellow groupies. I would like your opinion, please. What do you think about the following scenario?

Fly into LA
Stay at Grand Californian Villas for a week
Drive from Disneyland Resort to Zion National park for the start of the Southwest vacation
Finish up Southwest vacation
Drive to Las Vegas to drop off car and fly back home.

Sounds like fun! Hope you're planning at least three weeks!

 

[wildernessDad]

franandaj, it's a little over 2 weeks and I just booked VGC!

Muushka, are you still doing the vacations? Whoever is doing them, please add the following.

Arrive VGC: May 7, 2011
Depart VGC: May 14, 2011

Thank you!

 

[horselover]

Hey Groupies - We're Back!
Hawaii was wonderful, fabulous, beautiful, a magnificent tropical paradise. We stayed at Marriott's Ko 'Olina Beach Club - outstanding! The progress at Aulani was more than I had expected and looks to be a huge resort complex.
I never had a great desire to go to Hawaii, now I can't wait to go back!
I'll catch up on the thread and will hope to get some pics posted before too long.

For you facebookers - I kept an online journal so the folks at home could have a front row seat for our sons wedding. Would be happy to 'friend' you, if interested, just send me a pm.

WD - I've missed your countdown. We're at 149 days, how about you?

Welcome back Di! I agree with your assessment of Hawaii. It is a phenomenal place. Sent you a PM!

Fellow groupies. I would like your opinion, please. What do you think about the following scenario?

Fly into LA
Stay at Grand Californian Villas for a week
Drive from Disneyland Resort to Zion National park for the start of the Southwest vacation
Finish up Southwest vacation
Drive to Las Vegas to drop off car and fly back home.

Sounds like a great plan to me WD. Can't wait to see those pics.

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

IThank you for the well wishes.
My friend was able to go on their annual Provincetown vacation last week.
Hospice is a wonderful organization.

Glad to hear that!

I have not been on the DIS since you started the new thread. Love it! I am trying to read and catch up on all I've missed.

Just wanted to check in & say hello

12 days until my son's wedding!

Missed you Dory! Congrats on the wedding! I hope everything goes well!

Forgot to say just how much I missed all of you!

Missed you too! Glad everything went so well!

Remember back in January when I was complaining about the 30 inches of snow....
Remind of today when I start complaining about the cold... 100 F in Philly today and tomorrow.



I'm off today and thinking about Disney. It's hotter in Philly than in Orlando. LOL

Flying into Philly on Thursday. Hope the weathere is better then! Stay cool Eliza!

Hi all.....back after being "mia" for a couple weeks.

Maria

But you are always Mia! Glad you are back!

Fellow groupies. I would like your opinion, please. What do you think about the following scenario?

Fly into LA
Stay at Grand Californian Villas for a week
Drive from Disneyland Resort to Zion National park for the start of the Southwest vacation
Finish up Southwest vacation
Drive to Las Vegas to drop off car and fly back home.

If you are trying to make me jealous, you are doing a great job!!!!

 

[claire_ont]

Happy Birthday Oshawa!!

Jimmy glad to hear you are feeling better.

Dory - Congrats on your son's upcoming wedding. It will be a busy next week and a half for you. Our best wishes to you and yours.

It is good to be back on the list. You guys are just such a great group of people...

166 days to go for me until the next visit.

Claire

 

[Dizny Dad]

Hi All. As said by many, Hawaii is a wonderful and most beautiful place. DiznyDi is now working hard on how we can work it out to afford buying in at Aulani.

I began signing "How you going to keep them down on the farm, . . . " while we tried to fall asleep the first night home. Man, the siren's song is great, but the lucky thing is there is a rude awakening when looking over the point chart and buy in cost, along with TAT for every stay. Added points at our beloved VWL just didn't seem to bring her out of it.

The fog is lifting and each day seems to bring her back around to the fact that we visit VWL in just 140+ days. We began planning the ADRs last evening. There is hope of recovery.

Fellow groupies. I would like your opinion, please. What do you think about the following scenario?

Fly into LA
Stay at Grand Californian Villas for a week
Drive from Disneyland Resort to Zion National park for the start of the Southwest vacation
Finish up Southwest vacation
Drive to Las Vegas to drop off car and fly back home.

The first thing that comes to mind here is the guarantee of the car you can rent. One Way Cars tend to be less in selection and least in maintenance (let the next guy do the oil change). Car Rentals make the most and treat the best their "Loop Cars" (out and back).

I don't mean to imply that you can't make it happen, just that I have had limited choices in the past when not returning the car to the same place.

Hey, and don't forget Brice Canyon! It is not far from Zion and is well worth the trip!

 

[wildernessDad]

The first thing that comes to mind here is the guarantee of the car you can rent. One Way Cars tend to be less in selection and least in maintenance (let the next guy do the oil change). Car Rentals make the most and treat the best their "Loop Cars" (out and back).

I don't mean to imply that you can't make it happen, just that I have had limited choices in the past when not returning the car to the same place.

Hey, and don't forget Brice Canyon! It is not far from Zion and is well worth the trip!

Thanks for the info!

 

[wildernessDad]

Getting back to what you said, Dizny Dad, we could fly from LAX to Las Vegas and get a car from there. It would shave off about 4 hours worth of driving, I think.

 

[wildernessDad]

Btw, 152 days to go!

 

[eliza61]

You know you're hot when you get excited because the weather man is calling for weekend temperatures of a high of "only 93" degrees.

Dreaming, dreaming....

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Getting back to what you said, Dizny Dad, we could fly from LAX to Las Vegas and get a car from there. It would shave off about 4 hours worth of driving, I think.

If you do that you can figure that it's approx an hour drive to LAX from VGC plus the hour or so you wait at the airport for your flight. Then the flight and then waiting for luggage at LAS. I'd price compare but I think the drive time from DL to Vegas is maybe 4 to 4.5 hours tops. And if you fly you'll miss Barstow, CA!

I think the one way depends on the company you rent from. Alamo/National still just send you out to the same set of cars you'd take for a round trip. Smaller companies may do differently or even other large rentals but I've done one ways a couple of times recently with Alamo and it's been the same car selection. Price is hit and miss. They may zing you or may not. Best guess is that LA to LAS has quite a few of these rentals so you might get lucky on the pricing.

 

[sleepydog25]

You know you're hot when you get excited because the weather man is calling for weekend temperatures of a high of "only 93" degrees.

Dreaming, dreaming....

Thanks for the quick "pix-me up"!

 

[wildernessDad]

If you do that you can figure that it's approx an hour drive to LAX from VGC plus the hour or so you wait at the airport for your flight. Then the flight and then waiting for luggage at LAS. I'd price compare but I think the drive time from DL to Vegas is maybe 4 to 4.5 hours tops. And if you fly you'll miss Barstow, CA!

I think the one way depends on the company you rent from. Alamo/National still just send you out to the same set of cars you'd take for a round trip. Smaller companies may do differently or even other large rentals but I've done one ways a couple of times recently with Alamo and it's been the same car selection. Price is hit and miss. They may zing you or may not. Best guess is that LA to LAS has quite a few of these rentals so you might get lucky on the pricing.

If I read you correctly, you're saying that I could get a one way from LAX to Vegas and then pick up another rental car there?

 

[twokats]

You know you're hot when you get excited because the weather man is calling for weekend temperatures of a high of "only 93" degrees.

Dreaming, dreaming....

So sorry ya'll are experiencing our kind of summer. We have had some high heat indexes, but so far have stayed in the 90's lately. We do have some awfully high humidity with all the rain showers we have had in the last couple of weeks. But there are many a day of every summer that we get excited by a cool front that brings us down to the low 90's. But please stay as cool as possible and as hydrated as you can.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

If I read you correctly, you're saying that I could get a one way from LAX to Vegas and then pick up another rental car there?

You could do that, and I would price out that option. But if the pricing isn't very different I would go with what I think was your original plan to rent the car when you fly to LAX and then drive to Zion and return to Vegas. You probably wouldn't save a whole lot of time flying LAX to Vegas.

If you do decide to fly from Los Angeles to Vegas then take a look for flights from Orange County (John Wayne). It's closer than LAX to DL.

Are you planning to tour S. California or mostly hang out at VGC?

(BTW - I think it sounds like a GREAT trip!)

 

[wildernessDad]

You could do that, and I would price out that option. But if the pricing isn't very different I would go with what I think was your original plan to rent the car when you fly to LAX and then drive to Zion and return to Vegas. You probably wouldn't save a whole lot of time flying LAX to Vegas.

If you do decide to fly from Los Angeles to Vegas then take a look for flights from Orange County (John Wayne). It's closer than LAX to DL.

Are you planning to tour S. California or mostly hang out at VGC?

(BTW - I think it sounds like a GREAT trip!)

Mostly hang out at VGC.

 

[jimmytammy]

You know you're hot when you get excited because the weather man is calling for weekend temperatures of a high of "only 93" degrees.

Dreaming, dreaming....

Theres no place like home,(click, click, click) theres no place like home(click, click, click) it aint working( oh, wait, Moose Dust sprinkle, Moose Dust sprinkle, Moose Dust sprinkle) Oh yeah, that did it!(in my mind anyway)

Thanks for the pic Eliza, gets my day going in the right direction!!

 

[stopher1]

Hello Groupies! It's been a little while since I last posted, and I'm still computerless. Dumb I.T. department, taking their own sweet time. Since I can work from home they think they don't need to hurry. Ugh.

Anyway, it's been a very full week here at home, and I have barely had a chance to get on the DIS at all. So I know I have pages to go back and read through, and probably some trips to find and add to our list, but I WILL get to it after my campout this weekend. By early or mid next week I should be all caught up again and hopefully - fingers crossed here - have my laptop back once more.

Until then - I hope you all have a great weekend!

 

[stopher1]

If you would like to add some trip dates to our calendar on page 1....

PLEASE
PM
ME

It's much easier than trying to pick them up from the thread... especially when your laptop dies and your access to threads is limited.

so please - just PM me. I'll be happy to add you, but please do just send me a PM. THANKS!

I appreciate it!

 

[wildernessDad]

Okay, thanks first, for helping me plan my upcoming vacation. The transportation is the issue now.

Now I'm thinking that we could get the Disneyland express to DLR and then a rental car from Disneyland at the end of the DL vacation to do the Southwest tour with a drop off at Las Vegas. Comments on the DL Express and my car rental idea are most welcome.