Disney was Great...

dogface

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Literally did every park, and only missed around 3 rides in total. (Inclides water parkls Blizzard Beach, Typhoon Lagoon). It was a bit busy so some waits were 90 minutes for popular rides. Couldn't get the son on the Summit Plummet, but he did almost every other big person ride. Funny, couldn't get him back on the TOwer of Terror though! ;) (He is 6, so was his first time doing the big rides!)

Now, back looking for employment!!!


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it was packed when we went the week before too. What happened to all those rumors about Disney being dead and being able to walk on pretty much any ride? :142smilie Glad u all had a great time.
 

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We can't wait.

Counting down the days until April 18th!!!

My kids keep saying when I tkae them to school in the morning, "Only some many more days"

I am actually getting excited too
 

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The trip was booked prior to my employment situation, but all totalled close to 7k. We did the food plan for disney, basically your room key allows is accepted at all disney parks, you get lunches and dinners. Drink, entree, dessert included. Had concierge level access, so had a continental style breakfast every morning, juice, coffee, milk, fresh fruit (delicious) yogurt, oatmeal, pastries, and 3 types of cereal and one oat/rice/gronola mix.

We also had 2 grand gatherings dinners, one at wild kingdom with Safari after park closes and entertainment, which I thought was great. One at Epcot with preferred seating for the Illuminations shows, dinner was horrible. One Disney character breakfast at Tony's, in Magic Kingdom, and then one other brekafast as well. We also had 10 days of park hopper passes. (Not included was a trip down to Kennedy Space Center, could have went on Saturday to the landing as well, but didn't know how close you could get to watch the landing anyway, so we were at Blizzard Beach all day. 92 degrees or so, so was perfect.

Hope that helps, I will say Orlando is an absolute money pit. Good example, we have a nice SLR Nikon camera.... second day my GF decides to put my sons lemonade in her purse for some unknown reason. It tips in purse, she doesn't notice until we go to take a picture... it is sitting in lemonade in the bottom of the purse. Camera was off, I take out battery, open it up, take out card and let dry for a few hours, turn it on, take 3 pictures works great. SHut it off and figured we escaped the damage, turned it on later, can't get it off menu. No flash, no picture. Two days later, I can take picutres on Manual mode, no flash however. Looks like that will be pricey to fix... but how does this relate to Disney, well I had them take pictures at all the parks, 72 o be exact, and it will cost over 3 bills to get the CD of those pictures. Good grief!!!! Of the 72, I like around 35 of them, but it is like $20 for two pictures if you pick and choose.

I would probabkly not do the meal plan next time, as I left with 13 lunches, and a couple snacks left on card. We stayed at the Boardwalk (great location for ease, and some entertainment by Boardwalk performers nightly!) and when we were leaving on Sunday, I asked ifI could spend some of my lunches on people in line, she said yes. So a couple of families get some free lunches, heck either that or it went to waste!

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Best part of Disney is when you leave and find yourself a nice sports bar and have some beers and wings and leave that madness! Most of the time i had a cooler in the car stocked, to get me to the bar.
 

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On the Boardwalk there was an ESPNZone, to help with my fix!!!! If only I didn't have to stand in line next to an overzealous Pitt Fan while waiting to get into ESPN prior to the Pitt game, glad they lost!!! (He had way to many MN jokes, and didn't even know the professional sports teams in MN.)

LOL! He actually looked at me and said, so do you have any pro sports teams to root for? I didn't know at first if it was a cut, since we are on a downward spiral (except for theTwins, and don't get me started on the Vikes, eternal optimist there!) or he didn't know. Then when he asked if we had in Hockey in MN, then I figured he was just DUMB! LOL! Sorry Pitt guys, and gals!

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so what was the total out of pocket cost for ya? if you dont mind.. and how long?

our trip (excluding souvenir money) was $2950. That included a $250 gift card, the second best meal plan offered which included one nice meal a day which was plenty, a seven night stay, and tickets to the parks including park hopper passes. This was for my family of 4, and both kids were considered adults. We stayed at All Star Movies though which is on the Disney property but a value/budget resort. I'm guessing dogface stayed at a much nicer place.
 

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We are going on April 18th and ours includes:

7 nights, Airfare, 7 day park hopper pass, staying at the Polynesian, a dining plan with 1 sit down meal and 2 regular meals and ours ran roughly $3700

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We are going on April 18th and ours includes:

7 nights, Airfare, 7 day park hopper pass, staying at the Polynesian, a dining plan with 1 sit down meal and 2 regular meals and ours ran roughly $3700

Getting excited:00hour

that sounds great! The Polynesian looks very comfy from the road!
 
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