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Great wrap up. I will definitely agree with you on the rooms at AKL. They are small and the storage space is horrible. It was hard trying to organize where to put everything. Plus, the lighting is a factor for me as well. But I'll be back, and I'll deal with it because it really is a lovely resort, and it has such a cozy feel to it.
Great wrap up! I really learned a lot from your TR. I was nervous about taking DS to WDW and it really helped me to read TR's from people who were taking little ones along with them. Sorry your trip was a little stressful at times, but overall it looks like you had a great time. I'm with you in hating having my bags transferred all over the place. I always consider a split stay and never do it because just waiting for my luggage from DME drives me nuts (but it beats lugging it through the airport). And I hated that all before I had DS.
I hope your trip in Sept is magical. How old will the baby be by then? My son was 18 months and I think it might have been easier to take him at 9 months. At 9 months he wasn't as mobile... But even with my little mover our trip was great and I'm sure yours will be too!
Great wrap-up Linny! I think I learn something from every trip and then it changes the next time anyway. I think having little ones it's just what happens.
I will take away that when we do go on a cruise to not expect to do everything. So thanks for that!
I can't wait to hear all about your September trip. I wish it was sooner or ours was later in the month so we could meet though.
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Great finish, Linny. It definitely sounds like it was a fabulous trip! I always learn stuff from reading TRs, even after all my trips. Thanks for allowing us to tag along, and don't worry about grammar - your TR was great!! I look forward to reading about your September trip!
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Great wrap-up and finish! Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful trip with us! I'd sure love to stay at the Grand Poly Beach Lodge... sounds perfect!
Loved reading your TR. We are hoping to take a Disney cruise one of these years. I enjoyed all your pictures. Your kids are precious and you make such a beautiful family
Great wrap up! And I totally agree with you on your "what was I thinking" moment, I've had plenty of those while travelling with may girls. We probably all have! Travelling with young children is certainly difficult, no matter how low key you try to keep the trip But, you survived and had a great trip, and gave your kiddos some great memories to treasure. That's all that matters
I wish Disney had a resort called the “Grand Poly Beach Lodge” The location of the Grand, the room sizes of the Poly, a pool like SAB with the views of AKL. I would be all over that joint!!!
This sounds like a place I would be hanging at too!
Great final thoughts. I have been tossin around the idea of a land/sea trip and trying to decide when we should stay for the land part, before or after the cruise. I'm leaning toward the after part cause we drive to FL and even though there is so much to do at WDW I know I could relax and chill the day before the drive back to TX.
Thanks for sharing! If its ok, I may have some questions about cruise related stuff for planning my upcoming Oct cruise. Never cruised before and need all the help I can get.
Great final thoughts! So true about the cruise not always being the relaxing vacation you expect. Especially the first time out.
Looking forward to the next trip!
I have a feeling none of our trips will be so "relaxing" for quite some time. But truth is, I'm OK with that...........for now
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Great wrap-up! I think you did an amazing job of organizing it all. The idea of a day before and a day after the cruise made perfect sense to me when you were in the planning stages.... Some things you only know in hindsight. It's hard to make people understand just how much there is to do on the DCL ships! I've been on 2 cruises, a total of 18 nights, and haven't begun to do it all. I love your idea of combining the best of all the resorts, but unfortunately we'll never see the room sizes as large as the original resorts again. The Poly rooms are huge, as are the rooms at OKW. The room size at AKL doesn't bother me, but I'm usually the only one in the room! Thanks for writing up this report-- I'm sure it will really help others traveling with small children.
Yeah it all made great sense, In my head
I wish Disney wouldn't skimp on room space, I get why but still a little wiggle room is nice.
Thanks for following along, I do hope someone with small kids learned something from my craziness too!
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This line made me giggle! I know how you feel! When we first took in our youngest two children(we later adopted), we had a huge trip planned to WDW anyway, so adding two young children would be a piece of cake. Ha!
Gabby was 8 months old, Michael was just 2 plus my 9&10 year olds. Fortunately we were at WDW the entire 10 days and even though we switched resort halfway I still had those same thoughts: what were we thinking??
I can only say one thing about it.......it only get easier. Each trip the kids are a little older and before you know it, you will be traveling easy-breezy style!
We were right on the verge of getting easy-breezy until my sweet prince came into the picture I'm just happy we can do these adventures with them while they are little. Thank you for tagging along!!
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Great final thoughts! I like your idea of a GF/Poly/BC/AKL hotel! Thanks so much for taking us along for the ride!
Wouldn't that be a sweet hotel right?? Did you change my title to COMPLETED? Thank you so much to you, or whoever did!
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Great wrap up. I will definitely agree with you on the rooms at AKL. They are small and the storage space is horrible. It was hard trying to organize where to put everything. Plus, the lighting is a factor for me as well. But I'll be back, and I'll deal with it because it really is a lovely resort, and it has such a cozy feel to it.
Right? Small room AND zippo on storage?? I never unpacked so it didn't bother me but I did look around at the lack of it. Poly rooms and the GF room have spoiled us. I need to adapt
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Great wrap up! I really learned a lot from your TR. I was nervous about taking DS to WDW and it really helped me to read TR's from people who were taking little ones along with them. Sorry your trip was a little stressful at times, but overall it looks like you had a great time. I'm with you in hating having my bags transferred all over the place. I always consider a split stay and never do it because just waiting for my luggage from DME drives me nuts (but it beats lugging it through the airport). And I hated that all before I had DS.
I hope your trip in Sept is magical. How old will the baby be by then? My son was 18 months and I think it might have been easier to take him at 9 months. At 9 months he wasn't as mobile... But even with my little mover our trip was great and I'm sure yours will be too!
I have thought about a split stay too, but after this trip.....nope, never gonna happen for us.
Andre will be just about 21 months when we go in sept. I thought him being only 9 months on the cruise would have been easy, but he just started crawling a few weeks before we left so he always wanted to be on the floor moving around. We took Josie at 2 and that was when things started to getting easier with her, so I am hoping for that.
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Great wrap-up Linny! I think I learn something from every trip and then it changes the next time anyway. I think having little ones it's just what happens.
I will take away that when we do go on a cruise to not expect to do everything. So thanks for that!
I can't wait to hear all about your September trip. I wish it was sooner or ours was later in the month so we could meet though.
Girl, our trips are always so close to each other's. We need to plan ahead because our kids are really almost both the same ages so we need to make this happen one day.
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Great finish, Linny. It definitely sounds like it was a fabulous trip! I always learn stuff from reading TRs, even after all my trips. Thanks for allowing us to tag along, and don't worry about grammar - your TR was great!! I look forward to reading about your September trip!
Thanks Sharon, I write like I'm actually talking to someone and well with being from Jersey and all...........eh it get's to be a hot mess Thanks for tagging along with me. BTW.........coming down to the good ol Jersy Shore anytime soon??
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Great wrap-up and finish! Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful trip with us! I'd sure love to stay at the Grand Poly Beach Lodge... sounds perfect!
Right,Who can I speak to about this fabulous hotel anyway??
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Loved reading your TR. We are hoping to take a Disney cruise one of these years. I enjoyed all your pictures. Your kids are precious and you make such a beautiful family
Thank you!!
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Great wrap up! And I totally agree with you on your "what was I thinking" moment, I've had plenty of those while travelling with may girls. We probably all have! Travelling with young children is certainly difficult, no matter how low key you try to keep the trip But, you survived and had a great trip, and gave your kiddos some great memories to treasure. That's all that matters
Thank you. We have always been big travelers and when we had kids that was one thing I never wanted to change. Sure, our choices of places to go have, but the experiences I am sharing with my kids...........man, I wouldn't change it for anything.
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This sounds like a place I would be hanging at too!
Great final thoughts. I have been tossin around the idea of a land/sea trip and trying to decide when we should stay for the land part, before or after the cruise. I'm leaning toward the after part cause we drive to FL and even though there is so much to do at WDW I know I could relax and chill the day before the drive back to TX.
Thanks for sharing! If its ok, I may have some questions about cruise related stuff for planning my upcoming Oct cruise. Never cruised before and need all the help I can get.
I always thought about what I would want with the land/sea thing too, and after this............I'm all about the after. They get you off the ship so darn early, you could quite possibly get to a park for rope drop!!
Please, ask away. I would be more than happy to help in any way. PP'ers are really the best!!!
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Thanks Sharon, I write like I'm actually talking to someone and well with being from Jersey and all...........eh it get's to be a hot mess Thanks for tagging along with me. BTW.........coming down to the good ol Jersy Shore anytime soon??
That's why I like your writing style, it's just like we're just chatting, you know? And I don't have any plans to hit the Jersey Shore at the moment. I've got so much going on right now it's kind of scary. But next time I head down to AC, I will let you know.
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Mickey's so happy to see me back, he can barely contain himself!
What a great wrap-up to the trip. Loved your last day at AKL - so love it there and now I am longing to go back (ok 5 months, 2 weks....lol)
Loved the pictures, the kids are just adorable as ever....I can never get enough of a Linny TR filled with wonderful Andre and Josie. Loved the lemon story...my oldest was just like that, gave her a lemon once and that was it. She loves them...even to this day.
It's not over!!
I loved following along with you here. And we were considering a split stay this trip because I really want to get back to the Poly and I can't drag Craig away from the BC. (Ultimately I guess that's my fault for dragging him there in the first place ). But, I would dread the moving around too.
I agree about the room size and with 5 of us the Poly just had so much more room. But again...Craig and the dragging...
LOVE the combo hotel!! I'm stayin' there too!!
Yeah, as you have noticed, I have decision making issues too. Craig bought me a personal license plate when we were dating that said "UDECIDE" becuase that's all I ever said to him.
Hate that it's over, but looking forward to your September trip...unless you bump it to November.
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Thanks for allowing us to tag along, and don't worry about grammar - your TR was great!! I look forward to reading about your September trip!
I like your idea of a GF/Poly/BC/AKL hotel! 
Thanks so much for taking us along for the ride! 
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