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

[Dizny Dad]

WOW Jimmy! Great pictures and it sounds like, once again, you are finding all the fun there is to have in The World!

DiznyDi keeps asking me if I am excited yet - our trip is in about 40 days. These pictures of your family in The World do indeed rev me up for The Happiest Place On Earth! All the views, flowers, and food pics - Wow.

Thanks!

And by the way, did you have the sushi or the corn dogs?

Have a great time and enjoy the family! Tell everyone DiznyDi & I said Hi.

 

[sleepydog25]

One of these days we are going to do the DxDP for just 1 night. And spread it out over 2 days. That would make it work great! Do they shut off your credits at 12 the next day?

I believe it is midnight of the following day so, yes, you can spread them out that way, too.

Great pics, JT! Makes me miss "home."

 

[jimmytammy]

Oh guys, Im glad yall are enjoying the pics. Granny, Mickey is looking better than ever!

teapot the weather is warm, but no complaints! 89* today, saw ext. weather at home, looks like we will need the sweatshirts we packed that we dont need here when we get home

Mia glad to be of service

Muushka T did the Photoshop, I did the posting Im getting better at it, (especially with help from this new Macbook Pro)

Dad, glad to be helping you get excited, though a trip to the World probably doesnt take much help. Having dogs, though of a diff. variety, read below for exp.

Sleepy I find a planning stage helps me, in fact we are in planning stage for up coming Oct trip right now. Our dilema is do we stay at OKW for size, BWV for conv. to Epcot for F&W, or stay with our current VWL ressies, which we all know can never be a wrong choice

Had a change of plans today, skipping Epcot since we will be there Thurs with AnnieT and her DH. Still doing MK but waiting til later, hoping crowds will die a little at night. So Kristian is having a huge craving for Chick Fil A Banana Pudding Milkshake, now that she works PT at one, she craves the food more than before). So while near that we are gonna try Hula Dog, a new place on Intl. Dr. that I read about in Orlando Attractions magazine. Reviews are good, so willing to give a shot. They are based on hotdogs, hawaiian style that these folks have eaten in Hawaii. Let you know how it goes!

 

[sleepydog25]

Sleepy I find a planning stage helps me, in fact we are in planning stage for up coming Oct trip right now. Our dilema is do we stay at OKW for size, BWV for conv. to Epcot for F&W, or stay with our current VWL ressies, which we all know can never be a wrong choice

If one planning stage is good, then how about three at once? Yes, three. . .but I have my reasons!

 

[jimmytammy]

If one planning stage is good, then how about three at once? Yes, three. . .but I have my reasons!

Not a bad thing at all...have fun planning!!

 

[jimmytammy]

We just visited Hula Dog on Int. Dr. It was unique and good at the same time. Bread was amazing, dogs were good(Boars Head brand) and sauces were complimentary. The guy is a former contractor just looking for a different career path. Literally a hole in the wall, sit outside, cash only place. But it was worth. Took about 15 mins to get there. Went via Apopka-Vineland Rd. to Sand Lake Dr. then to Int. Dr. It was Wet N Wild, Titanic area. Lots of commercial places, but tastefully done. Not a rough area.

 

[Muushka]

I believe it is midnight of the following day so, yes, you can spread them out that way, too.

Great pics, JT! Makes me miss "home."

Thanks Sleepy, I think I know what we are going to do in Nov!

 

[Corinne]

Enjoying your fab photos~thanks for posting JT!!

 

[horselover]

Thanks for all the pics JT! Hope you enjoy the rest of your trip.

Just 3 more sleeps!!!!

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Great pictures jimmytammy!!

Woohoo Julie!!!! Have a great trip!

 

[Corinne]

Just 3 more sleeps!!!!

Nice! Have a great trip Horselover!

 

[nanajoyx2]

We were there Jan. 29-Feb. 12. The Mickey topiary returned sometime during our second week.

 

[stopher1]

JT...thanks for all the WDW pictures, especially those WL ones of course!

And about this picture....




....so now we're back to having a Mickey topiary? Minnie must have been just giving Mickey a little time off to relax? I always love going past that sign for the first time during a stay...our own little "welcome home" from the Big Cheese.

I was going to ask about this one myself... Mickey's back? Yay

 

[stopher1]

So how is the weather down there this week?

We're heading down so soon !
10 Day Happy Dance

I hear you and join you in that little dance!

 

[twokats]

Nicoal13 - sorry I am late in offering sympathy and prayers for your loss.

JimmyTammy and family - glad you are having a good time. Kati and I may not get to go in December of this year as we had hoped. Too many uncertainties right now with my Mom. She has had a not so good week with side effects from the chemo, so we are taking a very short break. Just a couple of weeks, but hopefully enough to get her to feeling better.

Ok, back to my pixie/moose dust request of a couple of weeks ago. We got the biopsy back and I will be having surgery this Friday the 25th. The lump was breast cancer. I will be having a lumpectomy and they will also remove a few lymph nodes. After I heal about a month they will then do about 6 weeks of radiation. That is the plan as of right now. We have a bright outlook as of right now and I have not had any really bad feelings, just want to get it over with. Coming in the middle of tax season has not been good for me. Hopefully I will only be down a couple of days and then back to work for me.

I want to thank all the groupies for being there for each of us in times of need and a quick pick me up in the form of pictures of the world. Y'all will never know how much you mean to me and I am so glad I found this board!!

 

[franandaj]

We usually do the deluxe plan, and we make it work for us by splitting one credit for breakfast, one for lunch and then dining at a Signature restaurant. You can use deluxe credits at either a counter service or table service, but I think it's a better value to use them for table service restaurants. Plus, who doesn't like to take a mid-day air conditioned break with an alcholic beverage (or two!)

Hope that helps!

Welcome!

As you can see by the post from luvvwl above (yep, she's my DSO and that was her first post under that name), she is way more knowledgeable than I regarding most things Disney and especially the dining plans. What I can add to this discussion is that if you typically eat breakfast and lunch in the room, then the DxDP probably wouldn't be worth the cost. With the DxDP you get 2 snacks and 3 TS credits each per day. What we do is split a breakfast using 1 credit, a lunch using another, and then we have 4 credits to splurge on a signature restaurant at night. Now, that IS a ton of food, because that still left us with snack credits out the wazoo, although you can use them for things like bagels, soft drinks/water, or any such snack item. Where we found them most beneficial is during the Food & Wine festival because you can use the snack credits to pay for the food at the food kiosks. I think for our next trip we will either pay OOP, or we've given some thought to buying an AP in order to get the TIW. If you have an AP, then I'd think the TIW might work best for you.

As much as I would like to try and make it work, I don't think we could. We're much better off with the TIW card because the Premier Passport just makes so much more sense. My DSO is quite disabled and that's one of the reasons that we enjoy eating the room so much. She gets really tired going to lots of restaurants, as a result we end up picking and choosing with most of our ADRs clearly planned out and placed sparsely. On our next trip we are there for Destination-D and we know what a madhouse that will be, so we're planning on eating in the room exclusively during the event.

Even when we go there in October the first half we will be at the BCV so we will eat only from the F&W kiosks, but once we transfer to the VWL, I still can't figure out how we could eat enough credits to make it work. We need to take it easy and while we will make reservations at signature restaurants, we will still eat in the room more than will make the dining plan work. I can't help it, between acutally liking to cook and the fact that we just don't want to spend that much time at restaurants, we just are not dining plan people. Thanks for at least sharing how you do make it work for you.

Not picking on anyone here, and mean this in the most humorous way I know how...but back home we call this bait

Some pretty expensive darn bait! But to each his own...that's what makes WDW such a great place for all of us!

 

[Dizny Dad]

Twokats - You know this group will lift you and family up to interupt heaven with our requests for healing and a quick return to good health. Our thoughts will be your way tomorrow.

 

[horselover]

Ok, back to my pixie/moose dust request of a couple of weeks ago. We got the biopsy back and I will be having surgery this Friday the 25th. The lump was breast cancer. I will be having a lumpectomy and they will also remove a few lymph nodes. After I heal about a month they will then do about 6 weeks of radiation. That is the plan as of right now. We have a bright outlook as of right now and I have not had any really bad feelings, just want to get it over with. Coming in the middle of tax season has not been good for me. Hopefully I will only be down a couple of days and then back to work for me.

I want to thank all the groupies for being there for each of us in times of need and a quick pick me up in the form of pictures of the world. Y'all will never know how much you mean to me and I am so glad I found this board!!

Prayers & good thoughts continuing to come your way for you & your mom. Will be thinking of you tomorrow.

 

[Muushka]

Nicoal13 - sorry I am late in offering sympathy and prayers for your loss.

JimmyTammy and family - glad you are having a good time. Kati and I may not get to go in December of this year as we had hoped. Too many uncertainties right now with my Mom. She has had a not so good week with side effects from the chemo, so we are taking a very short break. Just a couple of weeks, but hopefully enough to get her to feeling better.

Ok, back to my pixie/moose dust request of a couple of weeks ago. We got the biopsy back and I will be having surgery this Friday the 25th. The lump was breast cancer. I will be having a lumpectomy and they will also remove a few lymph nodes. After I heal about a month they will then do about 6 weeks of radiation. That is the plan as of right now. We have a bright outlook as of right now and I have not had any really bad feelings, just want to get it over with. Coming in the middle of tax season has not been good for me. Hopefully I will only be down a couple of days and then back to work for me.

I want to thank all the groupies for being there for each of us in times of need and a quick pick me up in the form of pictures of the world. Y'all will never know how much you mean to me and I am so glad I found this board!!

Pixie/moose dust for you Kathy. I'm sorry that the news was not good. But your attitude sure is! Prayers for your surgery and radiation. And for a speedy recovery. Please check in with us with updates.

 

[jimmytammy]

Lifting you up in prayer. So sorry you are having to deal with all these issues. Lean on Him all the way, He will get you through it all.
Give Kati a big hug from us