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I Flipped. I Flopped. I Flipped. Again. And Than I Finall Popped. PTR/TR
I'm 55 days out and got back from Disneyland last night so thought I'd start my ptr/tr. Hope you like it.
Who: Me. Laura 38
What: DW Trip #4
When: 30 November - 10 December 2010
Where: Disney's Pop Century
Why: Because I can & I want to see DW during the holidays & actually remember the trip
The name of this ptr/tr comes from the fact that I keep making changes which isn't like me at all. I've changed dates, room type (standard/preferred), room only to package, and finally back to room only. I even changed my requests for the room. The only thing I didn't change was the resort although I might have if a room at POFQ had been available for my dates at the annual pass holder rate when I called. I've ended up with 10 nights in a standard room at Pop Century. I'm not going to go in to all the changes I made partly because it would take too much time & partly because I don't really remember the details.
I also haven't told very many people as I'm determined to make this a truly solo trip. So far I've had a family member or two with me for some portion of every trip. So if they don't know I'm going until the last minute the less likely I am to end up with company.
This has turned out to be a pretty cheap trip in terms of airfare, hotel, & airport shuttle. I got 10 nights in a standard room at Pop for $661.56. Airfare was $79.19 ($75 change fee & $4.19 airfare) & 10,000 miles as I had an unused round trip ticket to Redding California that I had purchased for $230.51 & 10,000 miles for a friend's wedding which was canceled. (Total for airfare including change fee $309.70 & 20,000 miles) Shuttle to/from home/airport was $45.50 which I had already paid when I booked it for my friend's wedding that was canceled so I just had to call & change the dates & times. So the total cost for airfare, hotel, & shuttle is $1016.39 if you include the $276.01 I had already spent on airfare & shuttle for my friend's wedding that was canceled or if you don't include that the total cost is $740.75.
Admission will be a Premier annual pass as I renewed my Disneyland premium annual pass the end of August & upgraded it to the Premier annual pass while I was at Disneyland on September 29th..
I've purchased a ticket to MVMCP on 09 December & got the annual pass holder discount and also booked & paid for the Fireworks Dessert Party that night. I have a lunch adr at Liberty Tree Tavern at 1:45pm on 30 November, a 5:25pm dinner adr at Kona Cafe on 09 December, & finally a late lunch/early dinner adr at TRex on 06 December at 3:30pm. I originally had a breakfast adr at Chef Mickey's on 10 December but realized with the late night the night before for the party & it being my departure day that I wouldn't make it so I canceled that adr.
I've requested a fridge for my room so I'll be able to have breakfast in my room as well as other snack type foods. I'm now trying to decide what to bring in terms of food. I already have some 100% juice pouches from Capri Sun, individual serving packets of cashews, some of the tuna salad kits that come with crackers for about a $1 at WalMart, some Quaker granola bars, & some rice crispy treats to bring. I'll bring some cereal and buy milk at the resort store or food court for cereal in the morning. Other than that the only thing I'm considering getting to bring are the individual serving cups of Dole mandarin oranges.
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I'm now 44 days out and have the food I'm going to bring. Today I pulled stuff out & am going through it. I've sorted the food out in to daily bags as much as possible and am now considering canceling the fridge. I could bring the individual serving boxes of shelf stable milk & I have 2 or 3 smaller softsided coolers I could bring & use ice in. This is a very tempting thought as it would save me about $100. I think a run to the grocery store is in order to check out the pricing on the individual serving boxes of shelf stable milk but first I'm gonna check out my softsided cooler collection & see what would work. As for breakfast/snack food that I'm bringing with me here's what I'm bringing: Quaker granola bars, mini rice krispy treats, cherry lifesavers, pb cracker "sandwiches" the kind that come 6 "sandwiches" to a package, individual serving packs of cashews, 100% juice Capri Sun pouches, cereal, & 5 of the Bumble Bee ready to eat fat free tuna salad with crackers packages.
How fun, I'll be on the look out for you as we'll be there at the same time. I hope your dreams of a solo trip work out, and what a great bargain price.
Stop obsessing over juice boxes and daily food bags. Just go and have a good time. If you are flying you have a one bag/weight limit. We took snacks, and didn't use one on the whole trip.
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I broke down and told my mom about the trip a few weeks ago and she told her older sister (my aunt) Joyce. So a couple of weeks ago Joyce calls me saying she wants to go to Disney and can she share my room like last time (my first trip back in 2007) and how did we work the tickets etc. The result being that Joyce is joining me for the last half of my trip. Of course that big change has resulted in a number of smaller changes. Those being that I've cancelled all adr's except the Liberty Tree Tavern on my arrival day and bought a second ticket for MVMCP on the 9th. The really cool thing is that she sent me my birthday present early since it has to do with Disney. It's these 4x6 cards that she found on a scrapbooking site and after reformatting the size to 4x6 (they were originally 5x7) printed off. They have some really cute/cool/neat graphics and there's one for pretty much every ride and show at Disney World as well as ones for eating and some blank lined ones for notes. I've picked up some window clings to decorate the room with and if I can find a small cheap fake tree I'll bring that and some cheap ornaments for the room. I've also gotten a flanell backed vinyl tablecloth that has a red background with white printing on it that says ho ho ho on it to put on the table in the room (it was $1 at Dollar Tree).
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