You Just Got Married at WDW - What're You Gonna Do Next? LIVE Blog from WDW (p.24)!

[accountingbabe08]

I just found your pre trippie adn read the whole thing. You have a gift of writing.

Belinda

 

[ProudMommyof2]

Isn't nuts how we have to wait in line to fork over hundreds of our dollars- if we can find the piece of electronics we crave!!! I do not like the mind game!

Having said that - yipee!! I found a Wii Fit last night!!!

 

[lurkyloo]

Isn't nuts how we have to wait in line to fork over hundreds of our dollars- if we can find the piece of electronics we crave!!! I do not like the mind game!

Having said that - yipee!! I found a Wii Fit last night!!!

Ooh - congratulations. THose sound like an awful lot of fun!

I just found your pre trippie adn read the whole thing. You have a gift of writing.

Hey, thanks! I hope some more interesting things will happen in my trippie soon!

Good luck with the flight! I'll be checking out Yapta next year for our flights!!

As for HM, i agree with option A. How far is it from LAX to DL?? How long will it take you to get from terminal, to car, to DL, versus just taking a taxi straight from LAX to DL? Is that an option to save a bit of time?

That's a really good idea - I will check it out. The one thing that might be tricky is getting back home from Dland without a car. But maybe I could do a three-legged trip with a car service....

I was very tempted to get the origional iphone when my contract ran out last year, I went with a Sony Ericsson as it had a better camera I hope my MP3 player dies soon (got it in 2004 when 20GB was the highest capacity!) as I want an itouch

It's good you didn't get one - they were waaaaaaaaay slow. And by the time you're in the market again, there'll prolly be a 32 Gig iPhone out!

A little OT but I will be posting those crisps and choccie bars next week - the store I went to didn't have the Twisted bars but we have some coming on our grocery shop being delivered Sat.

Oh boy - is it Saturday in England yet?

I can actually see you swinging the iPhone around in my head. LOL

I am so totally gonna drop it one of these times...

 

[lurkyloo]

OK, this is not on topic for THIS trip report, but it is for the next one.

Theoretically our ADR ressie window for our anniversary trip in February opens Monday. But with all the changes at Disney Dining right now, I don't think I'm allowed to make ADRs til October 25th (when everybody and their brother will be calling to make ADRs between Jan and April 09 - joy.)

But I got my little reminder email about the 180-day mark for ADRs from Tour Guide Mike just now and it's making me antsy to make ADRs! I wonder what would happen if I called on Monday and tried to make ADRs... I guess the worst is they could say no.

More importantly, will I even know by Monday what we want to eat in February?

 

[Sleeping*Beauty]

More importantly, will I even know by Monday what we want to eat in February?

Of course you'll know what you want to eat in February. You are a diser.

 

[lurkyloo]

I've decided this is what I want to eat:

 

[Camster0307]

I have no idea what's going on with the ADR system either. I want to make dining plans for a quick trip during President's week; I'm just going to call at the 180 day mark and if they let me book then - great! I'll have my confirm.# so no one will be able to take them away from me!

 

[Becx N Gav]

Ooh - congratulations. THose sound like an awful lot of fun!

I really want one fo these too - just don't have enough money and plenty of games to complete first



It's good you didn't get one - they were waaaaaaaaay slow. And by the time you're in the market again, there'll prolly be a 32 Gig iPhone out!

Good to know, yeah I'm about 6 months into an 18 month contract I have to have a contract to get a phone for a reasonable price - pay as you go costs so much more. I can't wait to see what the next gen phones will have - I can't wait for holographic displays or have I been watching sci-fi too much



Oh boy - is it Saturday in England yet?

Well now it's come and gone - your package is all packed and ready to be posted tomorrow on my way home from work
I hope the crisps make it ok hope they aren't crumbs by the time they get to you



I am so totally gonna drop it one of these times...

Oh no, please don't do that I can just see it, if you accidently catch your hand on something, have you got a wrist strap? (you could always nick one from someones WII )

 

[Becx N Gav]

OK, this is not on topic for THIS trip report, but it is for the next one.

Theoretically our ADR ressie window for our anniversary trip in February opens Monday. But with all the changes at Disney Dining right now, I don't think I'm allowed to make ADRs til October 25th (when everybody and their brother will be calling to make ADRs between Jan and April 09 - joy.)

But I got my little reminder email about the 180-day mark for ADRs from Tour Guide Mike just now and it's making me antsy to make ADRs! I wonder what would happen if I called on Monday and tried to make ADRs... I guess the worst is they could say no.

More importantly, will I even know by Monday what we want to eat in February?

I have no idea what's going on with the ADR system either. I want to make dining plans for a quick trip during President's week; I'm just going to call at the 180 day mark and if they let me book then - great! I'll have my confirm.# so no one will be able to take them away from me!

It is such a pain knowng what's going on with this do you have to get up early to call at 7am Florida time? That's one good thing being 5 hours ahead, you can just call up at lunch time

I guess you will just have to wait and see - goodluck to both of you

 

[Camster0307]

It is such a pain knowng what's going on with this do you have to get up early to call at 7am Florida time? That's one good thing being 5 hours ahead, you can just call up at lunch time

I guess you will just have to wait and see - goodluck to both of you

Thanks. I'm on the east coast, so yes, I have to get up to call at 7am. But poor Lurkyloo will have to get up at 4 am because she's on the west coast! YUCK!

 

[lurkyloo]

I have no idea what's going on with the ADR system either. I want to make dining plans for a quick trip during President's week; I'm just going to call at the 180 day mark and if they let me book then - great! I'll have my confirm.# so no one will be able to take them away from me!

Let me know how this goes!

Well now it's come and gone - your package is all packed and ready to be posted tomorrow on my way home from work
I hope the crisps make it ok hope they aren't crumbs by the time they get to you

Hooray!!! Thanks!

It is such a pain knowng what's going on with this do you have to get up early to call at 7am Florida time? That's one good thing being 5 hours ahead, you can just call up at lunch time

I guess you will just have to wait and see - goodluck to both of you

Yeah, for our honeymoon I got up at 4am to make the first ressies. Then, a few weeks later, we moved our wedding date earlier by two weeks, so when I called to change our ADRs the window had been open for almost a month. However, I had no trouble getting anything we wanted - even dinner at CRT! - except a decent time at Le Cellier.... But then I've called at 7am 180 days+10 out for Le Cellier and never gotten a time after 5pm.

Thanks. I'm on the east coast, so yes, I have to get up to call at 7am. But poor Lurkyloo will have to get up at 4 am because she's on the west coast! YUCK!

I didn't do it - I actually forgot to do it! Were you able to make your ADRs?

 

[jackdis]

Yeah, let us know how it goes with trying for ADRs in Feb. Thanks!!!
I've been so excited with the upcoming trip this month that I haven't even thought about the next one!

 

[Camster0307]

I didn't do it - I actually forgot to do it! Were you able to make your ADRs?

Oh, my 180 day out mark isn't until 8/18 - so I'll try then. Although there is a thread on the dining board that says the only ADRs you can make at 180 days out right now is for Chef Mickey's and CRT; all the others are 90 days. I'm still not believing it until I hear Disney Dining tell me themselve. I'm not taking any chances with my ADRs!

 

[lurkyloo]

Well, I heard it from Disney Dining themselves... I phoned to try to make a Le Cellier reservation for Feb. 2 and was told exactly what we've all heard on the boards but Disney hasn't announced anywhere: No ADRs can be made for dates after January 25th, try back at the end of October.

When I pointed out that their phone lines would be jammed the day they opened it up in October, the agent laughed and said "Yeah, I think I'm gonna take that day off!" She also said that the latest and greatest info shows up on the message boards before they even know it.

So I guess I have a little more time to think about where I ... ahem, I mean we want to eat in February....

 

[lurkyloo]

OK, so DH and I found some people on the boards to share an IllumiNations Cruise with during our trip. We got the last 2 slots available on their boat, and it's a real bargain if we all chip in.

However, someone just told me that there is a high rate of flakiness for shared IllumiNations Cruises and a good chance we will be stuck having to pay the bill for all the people who don't show.

Have you guys heard of this? We didn't make the ressie, so Disney doesn't have our CC info, but it would be sad if we got there and couldn't go cuz no one showed...

 

[lurkyloo]

I finally bought our plane tickets, which means I can finally start making REAL plans!!! Like car rental and dinner on our first night and stuff....

The ticket prices dropped about $40 below the extremely hard-to-swallow$400 that they've been, so I figured I'd better go for it. Of course, now when I see them go to $300 or below in a few weeks, I'm gonna be like

I picked the flight that leaves MCO at 6:30pm, which means we can sleep in and have a leisurely breakfast at Kona or in our room at the Poly - hooray! Of course, that night we'll be bustin' our patooties trying to get to Disneyland when our plane lands at 9pm, but... it could happen!

So... anybody have any input about the IllumiNations cruise flake phenomenon? Am I worrying for nothing?

 

[ProudMommyof2]

I have heard about the cruise flaking. I would not worry if I were you though. The person that booked the cruise has to pay up front with a CC# when the cruise was booked. This risk is really all his/hers. What can be uncomfortable is if someone does flake and the others that show up wonder if they should kick in extra to cover the loss of the person that booked the cruise. I would totally go- it sounds awesome!!!

I just booked BCV for May with rented points- tell me I will love it!!!!

 

[Camster0307]

I looked into the Illuminations Cruise for our family's grand gathering in Nov. I agree with the pp - it's awkward for the person that actually books the cruise becaue their name is on the cc; but I think it's weird if you show up, and no on else does. I think the captain is out of the money. I also heard that the weather really affects if this is worth it or not; if the wind is blowing the wrong way, you could really be eating alot of smoke. I don't know what to tell you; because we couldn't fill the whole boat, we decided against it.

 

[olydizknee]

I feel your pain. Our flights were also over $300 dollars which is the most we have ever paid to go to MCO. However, our flight date prices keep going up & up so we made the right decision to purchase when we did. Hopefully, you made the right decision too.

Have you figured out your dash to DL yet? I really hope you make it this time!

 

[tlhbdm]

I finally bought our plane tickets, which means I can finally start making REAL plans!!! Like car rental and dinner on our first night and stuff....

The ticket prices dropped about $40 below the extremely hard-to-swallow$400 that they've been, so I figured I'd better go for it. Of course, now when I see them go to $300 or below in a few weeks, I'm gonna be like

I picked the flight that leaves MCO at 6:30pm, which means we can sleep in and have a leisurely breakfast at Kona or in our room at the Poly - hooray! Of course, that night we'll be bustin' our patooties trying to get to Disneyland when our plane lands at 9pm, but... it could happen!

So... anybody have any input about the IllumiNations cruise flake phenomenon? Am I worrying for nothing?

Yay for buying airfare!!!!!!