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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
Wonderful plans so far! As I was reading, and got to your second night of viewing Wishes, I thought I'd suggest watching it from Top of the World lounge. Then I see you had that on the itinerary for the following night. So, good! Great minds think alike!
Plans look good so far. For us, when the parks close early, we either have an early night or enjoy a leisurely dinner somewhere.
hmm. i wonder if i could have a leisurely dinner by myself? my issue is that mom goes to bed around 8 (maybe 8:30 if she can stay up for wishes) and then i'm on my own. maybe i'll make myself a solo ADR!
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Wonderful plans so far! As I was reading, and got to your second night of viewing Wishes, I thought I'd suggest watching it from Top of the World lounge. Then I see you had that on the itinerary for the following night. So, good! Great minds think alike!
so our last two days--doug's days with me alone--are all kinds of up in the air. here's what we have so far, but honestly at this point, who knows? the issue is crowd levels. they are high. but he bought his flights and we got a room so we are going to be there. here's the current plan:
Saturday: ?
we wake up. we are at caribbean beach resort. we get on a bus to DHS, where we will presumably have fastpasses (we can't make them until 30 days out because reasons.)
we leave DHS by noon.
we walk to epcot and do fest things, which again are TBD because disney is saying nothing about this new fest (which is kind of annoying, am i right?)
we walk back to the boardwalk, have a drink at abracadabar, and take an uber back to CBR (i do not wait for busses at the end of the day unless i'm at AK and there's no other option. even then, i think there's a taxi stand, no?)
and then it gets silly.
see, we are staying at CBR and likely we will want to go back and rest but then we also want to go out because it's my actual birthday. so do we:
a. take an uber from the boardwalk to disney springs and do a disney springs food crawl?
b. take an uber from the boardwalk to the floridian for a dinner reservation i made at narcoossee's at 7:25 because wishes is at 9?
c. go back to CBR and rest and then take yet ANOTHER uber to one of the afore mentioned places?
d. something i'm not thinking of?
you can see how this day is complicated. suggestions? anyone???
sunday: the final day
like my mom, my husband loves MK. so that's where we are spending this final day. we will make FPs as best we can, and we have a reservation at skipper canteen at 12:30 for lunch. we do not have dinner plans.
monday: bye!
my husband's flight leaves at 7am and i don't have a flight yet but i'm definitely going to try to get on an early one.
Hmm.... the Saturday night is tough. I take it you definitely want to go to the BoardWalk? Can you find somewhere around there for dinner to save too much travelling? How about somewhere like Il Mulino's or Shula's? We did bluezoo a number of years ago and loved it and are going back in the spring. Would that help?
Do you already have an ADR for Narcoosee? If so, I like that, followed by wishes. Although did you have Wishes on the schedule 3 times already? I'd suggest back to Jelly Rolls, but on a Saturday night that might be a little crazy by 9:30 or 10....
Hmm.... the Saturday night is tough. I take it you definitely want to go to the BoardWalk? Can you find somewhere around there for dinner to save too much travelling? How about somewhere like Il Mulino's or Shula's? We did bluezoo a number of years ago and loved it and are going back in the spring. Would that help?
we actually don't need to go to the boardwalk. that's just how i always exit epcot. because i'm typically in world showcase, and it is as close to walk to the boardwalk as it is to walk to the actual park exit. and also i hate the busses and i can get an uber at the boardwalk.
if we DON'T go to the boardwalk we could take the monorail to the floridian. i realize we'd have to switch monorails, but that's still way faster than the bus (seriously, i hate busses with the fire of a thousand suns.) hmmm. that may work.
i love il mulino. but we did blue zoo on our last trip and we never have to do that again. i was excited about it but yeah, not great. it could have been because they were having a GIANT conference at the time though.
i could do the flying fish (thus getting to the boardwalk) but i've heard that the prices are insane.
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Do you already have an ADR for Narcoosee? If so, I like that, followed by wishes. Although did you have Wishes on the schedule 3 times already? I'd suggest back to Jelly Rolls, but on a Saturday night that might be a little crazy by 9:30 or 10....
we do have an ADR for narcoossee's, yes. at 7:25. wishes is at 9 i believe. and yes, i realize we are seeing wishes a lot and that by this point i may not care anymore. valid point!
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Great plans! I'd probably go to Narcoossee's for dinner, as I would think Disney Springs would be crowded on a Saturday!
ah. i didn't think about DS being crowded. i've never seen it crowded. but i guess a holiday weekend saturday night would be, huh? duh!
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