We've been gone too long - September 2017 PTR

[MrsT2013]

Hello All,

I decided to start a pre trip report because I'm pretty sure none of my family/friends/colleagues care to hear any more of my Disney talk, and think I'm crazy for all of the planning. I know you will all appreciate this talk, and can help me on my way!

So lets get this started.....

Who?

Hi, I'm Chelsea, 25, from the UK. This will be my sixth visit to WDW.

**SORRY FOR THE POSEY PICTURE, BUT ITS ALL I DO **

Coming along with me is my husband, Aaron. Currently 24, but will be 25 when we're in WDW. This will be his third trip.



When?

September 6th - 20th.

Where?

Staying at All Star Sports, in a preferred room!
This was the first place I ever stayed at Disney, when I travelled with my Mum, Dad and Brother in 2004, so i'm excited to be heading back there!

Anyway, that's the basics. More details will be coming soon, and I know you all can't wait to read them!!

 

[MrsT2013]

So a bit more on the trip!

We're flying out from Gatwick on the 6th with Virgin, but we'll probably stay at the airport the night before, so we can get in the holiday mood sooner and relax before our flight. We upgraded our flights to premium economy, because the flight is 9 hours, and Aaron is 6 foot 1, so needs some extra space.

We are on the dining plan, and this will be the first time. Last time we had the quick service dining plan (which came free at the time) but we ended up with about 15 meals left on the final day, which Aaron was determined to eat! Spoiler - he failed miserably!!

I was up bright and early, just kidding, ADR time is 11am over here, to make our reservations. As we hadn't really done too many sit down restaurants before, or any character meals apart from CRT we were excited to plan all our meals. So far these are our food plans....

6th September (arrival day):
Chef Art Smith's Homecomin' - Dinner
7th September:
'Ohana - Late Lunch/Early Dinner
8th September:
Be Our Guest - Breakfast
The Garden Grill - Dinner
9th September:
1900 Park Fare - Dinner
10th September:
50s Prime Time Cafe -Lunch
11th September:
Sanaa - Lunch
Beaches and Cream - Evening Ice Cream
12th September:
Hollywood and Vine (Fantastic Package) - Dinner
13th September:
Crystal Palace - Breakfast
14th September:
Sci Fi Dine In Theatre - Dinner
15th September:
The Garden Grill - Breakfast
Trails End - Dinner
16th September:
Tusker House - Breakfast/Lunch
California Grill - Dinner
18th September:
Planet Hollywood - Dinner
19th September:
Le Cellier - Dinner

We've only eaten at Be Our Guest, but for dinner, and Beaches and Cream before, so I'm excited for all of the new places. I'm sure these plans will change here or there again, because we've already changed them about 12 times already

Anyway.... until next time!

 

[wenpop]

We will be there 9th-15th, we are doing Be Our Guest Breakfast and dinner, we are doing Garden Grill breakfast and dinner..... Ohana dinner and Tusker House breakfast... Cant wait to hear more..

 

[MrsT2013]

So, a little update from last time....

We have now booked our hotel for the night before travel.
We're staying at the Hilton at Gatwick. Our flight is about 11ish in the morning, so we can have a relaxing start to the day, rather than a 2 hour journey round London during rush hour!

Also, another exciting development...

WE GOT TICKETS TO MICKEY'S NOT SO SCARY HALLOWEEN PARTY! For Sunday 17th September.
We haven't done this before, and are really excited for it.

We've also made a few changes to our dining, to hopefully make life easier around MNSSHP, ROL and EMH.

We moved Trail's End to 12th September (5:15pm)
We now have no ADRs on 13th September
We moved our Garden Grill Breakfast to 14th September
15th September we now have Crystal Palace Breakfast (9:45am) although I'm on the lookout for an earlier one, and Hollywood and Vine - Fantastic Package (3:50pm)

No doubt there may be some more changes once I sort out fast passes, but I'm not changing them again until then!!