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Finally got to read through everything - love that you will be doing a May trip, and getting to enjoy something new the Flower & Garden Festival and then a favorite with the SW weekends. Sounds like a perfect plan....the girls first trip was during the Flower and Garden Festival and we all loved it.
The bathroom looks amazing. Love the theme....you did a great job and that lamp, just perfect.
Love the FP+ plans, I have to say I loved them when we tried them in October and the girls are super excited to try them when we head back in August. I thought it would give us some leeway especially for DHS - no more running for FPs but of course the girls have decided we will have to run there anyway, grab a standby and use our FP later.....LOL (and too think I thought the FP+ would get me out of running through the park )
Your plans look really good! I'm glad to hear that the site was working well for you. Maybe noonish on a weekday is the magic hour! I'm really surprised that the character meets were all gone at 60 days. When I was there I was able to schedule the Mickey meet at MK on the day of my visit with several time choices. Characters aren't a priority for me, so I didn't check any of the others.
The bathroom is amazing!!! I love it!
Score on the flights - and a credit for the fall too!
Happy to hear the FP+ worked well for you! Strange about no princesses being available though.
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Finally got to read through everything - love that you will be doing a May trip, and getting to enjoy something new the Flower & Garden Festival and then a favorite with the SW weekends. Sounds like a perfect plan....the girls first trip was during the Flower and Garden Festival and we all loved it.
The bathroom looks amazing. Love the theme....you did a great job and that lamp, just perfect.
We're very excited about trying something new, especially something we've wanted to do for quite a few years. I picked out all the accessories but that one, so that makes Luke very proud that he was the one to find it.
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Love the FP+ plans, I have to say I loved them when we tried them in October and the girls are super excited to try them when we head back in August. I thought it would give us some leeway especially for DHS - no more running for FPs but of course the girls have decided we will have to run there anyway, grab a standby and use our FP later.....LOL (and too think I thought the FP+ would get me out of running through the park )
I've thought if we get to the DHS at opening of walking very fast back to TSMM for a stand by ride first. But it will depend on whether we get up earlier enough.
Your plans look really good! I'm glad to hear that the site was working well for you. Maybe noonish on a weekday is the magic hour! I'm really surprised that the character meets were all gone at 60 days. When I was there I was able to schedule the Mickey meet at MK on the day of my visit with several time choices. Characters aren't a priority for me, so I didn't check any of the others.
FP+ still had openings for Mickey, but not for the princesses. I had thought about getting one for Mickey as I want to see him now that he talks, so we might change one out later for that.
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The bathroom is amazing!!! I love it!
Score on the flights - and a credit for the fall too!
Happy to hear the FP+ worked well for you! Strange about no princesses being available though.
We were really surprised that the princesses were totally booked.
Great job planning your FP+ experiences! I'm so glad the website worked for you! SO GLAD!
As for your comment on the Princess FP availability . . . the character meet and greets have the lowest number of FP+ available--so they tend to sell out first. Those attractions have the lowest volume of guests possible per hour.
Great job planning your FP+ experiences! I'm so glad the website worked for you! SO GLAD!
As for your comment on the Princess FP availability . . . the character meet and greets have the lowest number of FP+ available--so they tend to sell out first. Those attractions have the lowest volume of guests possible per hour.
I had kind of wondered if that was the issue with the princesses. I'm just thankful we weren't interested anyway.
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Nice job on the fast pass+!
And it sounds like you took into consideration the distance and time between attractions!
What is neat about the site is that little balloons pop up for choices on a park map we could see how far apart attractions were. Of course, we knew, but if we didn't, this would have been very useful.
What is neat about the site is that little balloons pop up for choices on a park map we could see how far apart attractions were. Of course, we knew, but if we didn't, this would have been very useful.
That's interesting! Very helpful to those that are new......or those of us who just didn't "think"
They did not have that when we tested back in August
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FP+ still had openings for Mickey, but not for the princesses. I had thought about getting one for Mickey as I want to see him now that he talks, so we might change one out later for that. 
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