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My first pre trip report - draft two (a few changes in red)
My Wonderful Family
DH: David
DD: Jessica
DS: Jaymie (not coming this year he is in the Navy and cannot get leave)
and me
This will be our first ever stay on property at a Disney Resort words can not describe how excited I am.
Although our budget does not cover staying the whole 17 days on property we are not to far away when we move to our next location at the Hilton at Seaworld (really hoping its a good place to stay).
As we have quite a few days to budget we have made the decision to eat off property for some of our meals and pay OOP for any TS or CS meals lets see if that goes to plan.
If anyone has any recommendations for off property dining or budget Disney dining please let me know I would love to try lobster at some point of our holiday but need to find a place that has non seafood items for DH and DD.
Day 1
Flight lands 18:15 enough time to pick up the rental car to check in at 20:00 for our first ever stay at a Disney resort POFQ.
Must do list: First trip on the boat to DTD in the evening and dinner at Wolfgang Puck Express
Now dinner changed to Earl of Sandwich
Day 2
Park of the day: Epcot - Extra evening magic hour tonight wooo hooo
Must do list: Test Track, Soaring, Living with the Land and Innoventions.
The plan is to hit FW in the morning for our favourite attractions and get fast passes for later in the day for Test Track and Soaring if possible but not to worry we have an extra three hours of magic if we don't :-) tonight. Tour WS until 15:00 then possibly go back to POFQ for some time at the pool and a nap before returning at 19:00 to finish where we left off. Will be a late night hope we can get up early in the morning.
Day 3
Park of the day: Disney Studios
Early start with a morning extra magic hour and thanks to all your feedback we will probably be heading back to POFQ around midday for a nap/pool break
Must do list: TOT, Star Tours, One Mans Dream and The Backlot Tour but not RRC as it will be closed today :-(
ADR added for 20:20 at Ohana - really looking forward to this as all the reviews I have seen have been great and we are celebrating our 21st anniversary
Day 4
Park of the day: Animal Kingdom
Must do list: Safari, Dinosaur and Expedition Everest, Its Tough to be a bug and Kali River Rapids.
ADR:Trails End for dinner.
Day 5
Park of the day: Magic Kingdom
Must do list: BTM, SM, Haunted mansion,
ADR: Crystal Palace for breakfast.
Day 6
Park of the day: Typhoon Lagoon
ADR: Breakfast Ohana - yep you guessed it Ive added another one.
Day 7
Park of the day: Universal
Day 8
Park of the day: IOA
Day 9
Park of the day: Disney Studios
Star Wars day hope to get some good pictures for good friends.
Day 10
Park of the day: EPCOT
ADR: Chef Mickeys breakfast
Day 11:
Park of the day: Animal Kingdom until 17:00 break for downtime and MK until 23:00
ADR: 18:20 Dinner at Jiko I saw a lovely review - thanks passporters and had to add it to our list - can't wait to stroll round the resort after dinner
Day 12
Park of the day: Blizzard Beach
Day 13
Park of the day: Magic Kingdom
Must do list: Pick up a button for DH birthday, then hit the three mountains and haunted mansion.
ADR: Park Fare for birthday breakfast and wait for it Disney Wishes Dessert Party to finish of our birthday celebrations – what a wonderful way to end the day. (seriously cannot believe I got ADR for Dessert Party)
Day 14
Park of the day: Typhoon Lagoon
Day 15
Park of the day: Universal and Magic Kingdom in the evening as our Disney passes run out today
Day 16
Park of the day: IOA
Day 17
Shopping DTD and check bags in.
Return home
Soooo looking forward to visiting the Florida sunshine from rainy UK Manchester
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Welcome. Great start. Your plans look great. The only thing I'm not sure about is the evening EMH followed by the morning EMH. You may be able to pull it off since your DD is older, but we would never be able to do that. Our boys, ages 4 and 8 would be very grumpy. Who am I kidding? I'd be grumpy too. Can't wait to hear all about your trip.
Welcome to the boards..... great ptr, you sound like you have some great times planned. I also agree that Evening EMH followed by morning EMH might be hard. If you do manage to make that, I would go back to the hotel early.... like maybe 12:00 to relax, otherwise by 3:00 your body might shut down.
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Welcome to the boards..... great ptr, you sound like you have some great times planned. I also agree that Evening EMH followed by morning EMH might be hard. If you do manage to make that, I would go back to the hotel early.... like maybe 12:00 to relax, otherwise by 3:00 your body might shut down.
When are you going?
We are going on 13th May 2010 56 days and counting
Thanks for the feedback - I think I may be trying to fit to much in the first couple of days but we are flexible and it will be great that the hotel is on property so not to far to go for a nap. Thanks for all the replies everyone is so friendly.
My first pre trip report - draft two (a few changes in red)
My Wonderful Family
DH: David
DD: Jessica
DS: Jaymie (not coming this year he is in the Navy and cannot get leave)
and me
This will be our first ever stay on property at a Disney Resort words can not describe how excited I am.
Although our budget does not cover staying the whole 17 days on property we are not to far away when we move to our next location at the Hilton at Seaworld (really hoping its a good place to stay).
As we have quite a few days to budget we have made the decision to eat off property for some of our meals and pay OOP for any TS or CS meals lets see if that goes to plan.
If anyone has any recommendations for off property dining or budget Disney dining please let me know I would love to try lobster at some point of our holiday but need to find a place that has non seafood items for DH and DD.
Day 1
Flight lands 18:15 enough time to pick up the rental car to check in at 20:00 for our first ever stay at a Disney resort POFQ.
Must do list: First trip on the boat to DTD in the evening and dinner at Wolfgang Puck Express
Now dinner changed to Earl of Sandwich
Day 2
Park of the day: Epcot - Extra evening magic hour tonight wooo hooo
Must do list: Test Track, Soaring, Living with the Land and Innoventions.
The plan is to hit FW in the morning for our favourite attractions and get fast passes for later in the day for Test Track and Soaring if possible but not to worry we have an extra three hours of magic if we don't :-) tonight. Tour WS until 15:00 then possibly go back to POFQ for some time at the pool and a nap before returning at 19:00 to finish where we left off. Will be a late night hope we can get up early in the morning.
Day 3
Park of the day: Disney Studios
Early start with a morning extra magic hour and thanks to all your feedback we will probably be heading back to POFQ around midday for a nap/pool break
Must do list: TOT, Star Tours, One Mans Dream and The Backlot Tour but not RRC as it will be closed today :-(
ADR added for 20:20 at Ohana - really looking forward to this as all the reviews I have seen have been great and we are celebrating our 21st anniversary
Day 4
Park of the day: Animal Kingdom
Must do list: Safari, Dinosaur and Expedition Everest, Its Tough to be a bug and Kali River Rapids.
ADR:Trails End for dinner.
Day 5
Park of the day: Magic Kingdom
Must do list: BTM, SM, Haunted mansion,
ADR: Crystal Palace for breakfast.
Day 6
Park of the day: Typhoon Lagoon
ADR: Breakfast Ohana - yep you guessed it Ive added another one.
Day 7
Park of the day: Universal
Day 8
Park of the day: IOA
Day 9
Park of the day: Disney Studios
Star Wars day hope to get some good pictures for good friends.
Day 10
Park of the day: EPCOT
ADR: Chef Mickeys breakfast
Day 11:
Park of the day: Animal Kingdom until 17:00 break for downtime and MK until 23:00
ADR: 18:20 Dinner at Jiko I saw a lovely review - thanks passporters and had to add it to our list - can't wait to stroll round the resort after dinner
Day 12
Park of the day: Blizzard Beach
Day 13
Park of the day: Magic Kingdom
Must do list: Pick up a button for DH birthday, then hit the three mountains and haunted mansion.
ADR: Park Fare for birthday breakfast and wait for it Disney Wishes Dessert Party to finish of our birthday celebrations – what a wonderful way to end the day. (seriously cannot believe I got ADR for Dessert Party)
Day 14
Park of the day: Typhoon Lagoon
Day 15
Park of the day: Universal and Magic Kingdom in the evening as our Disney passes run out today
Day 16
Park of the day: IOA
Day 17
Shopping DTD and check bags in.
Return home
Soooo looking forward to visiting the Florida sunshine from rainy UK Manchester
So already my plans have changed and now have only 16 days to go - we are thinking of pre booking the photopass I hope we can get lots of photos to make it worth while I just missed the extra discount code yesterday but never mind
We are already 95% packed (yes really) <----- serial planner and if I could go now we would.
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Don't mention the rain - isn't it depressing here? 
And snow in Scotland again at the moment... lovely....
but never mind 
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