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Transportation
I booked our plane reservations soon after Southwest released their September dates. We were able to get non-stop flights both ways, leaving Buffalo at 8:00AM on September 7th, arriving at MCO at 10:40. Return flight leaves Orlando at 6:00PM and arrives in Buffalo at 8:35PM on September 14th. Four RT tickets cost only $903 so I was very pleased!
The only other transportation is a ride to and from Buffalo airport, which my Dad (or brother) is always happy to do, and transportation to WDW which will be courtesy of DME. Once we’re at WDW we’ll get around using Disney transportation and a taxi or two.
Oh, wow! I didn't realize you were taking the early flight!
We love it because we are in Florida by 10:30 and at the resort by lunchtime!
That's what I'm hoping will happen to us - by the time we pick up the luggage and rental car, I want to be at Animal Kingdom Lodge by lunchtime, then we can head out to the Food and Wine Festival at Epcot. Of course, if it's a big enough car, we can always go straight to Epcot, eat and go from there...
Looks like a great trip and glad you have invited Kayla and join you. She seems like a natural for this trip! Glad you were able to book BWI for your stay and hope you get that corner room you so desire!
Your flight times are very similar to mine for my October trip. I like the early arrivals as well!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
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Looks like a great trip and glad you have invited Kayla and join you. She seems like a natural for this trip! Glad you were able to book BWI for your stay and hope you get that corner room you so desire!
Your flight times are very similar to mine for my October trip. I like the early arrivals as well!
The last couple years we’ve done exclusively TS dining. With the 20% TiW discount, some TS meals end up costing just a few dollars more than if we’d eaten at a CS. And we enjoy taking a break mid-day in the AC. So, with that in mind, I made a list of possibilities and over the course of a couple months and after talking it over with everyone, I narrowed it down to 14 or 15 restaurants.
Our 180 day mark was March 11th. I was able to get everything on my list within a few minutes of the times I wanted.
Here’s where we’ll be dining…
September 7 - Arrival day
• Lunch at Big River Grille (no ADR needed)
• Dinner at Mama Melrose’s
September 8
• Lunch at Liberty Tree Tavern – a first for us
• Dinner at La Hacienda
September 9
• Lunch at Tusker House – we’ve done breakfast, but not lunch, so looking forward to this
• Dinner at Trattoria al Forno
September 10
• Lunch at Sci-Fi
• Dinner at Rose and Crown
September 11
• Lunch at Biergarten
• Dinner at Raglan Road
September 12
• Breakfast at Trattoria al Forno
• Dinner at ‘Ohana
September 13
• Lunch at Grand Floridian Café
• Dinner at Beaches and Cream
September 14 – Opening day of F&W and our departure day.
• Lunch - snacking around Future World
Not too many new ones this time and I know that sounds odd because there are SO MANY new dining options these days! But we decided to do a few repeats from last year and threw in some favorites from previous years and this is what we ended up with.
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