"The Only Place I Don't Want to Eat at is Tony's!" PTR June 3-8, 2017 - Page 2 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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That was interesting in how you've settled on this WDW trip! Glad it has worked out overall and hope the finances are a lot better now as there was a bit of a problem with this a few years ago! Hoping for a nice tax refund for you this season as that will make an even better WDW trip for you and your family!
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That was interesting in how you've settled on this WDW trip! Glad it has worked out overall and hope the finances are a lot better now as there was a bit of a problem with this a few years ago! Hoping for a nice tax refund for you this season as that will make an even better WDW trip for you and your family!
No return unfortunately, but we will be okay. But thanks!
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Wow, you have had lots of changes already to this trip!
Signing on! I'm doing everything I can possibly do to squeeze out one more Disney trip with my dd before she goes off to college. She's a junior now, so I have a year. I really want that "one last trip" with her before everything changes.
Signing on! I'm doing everything I can possibly do to squeeze out one more Disney trip with my dd before she goes off to college. She's a junior now, so I have a year. I really want that "one last trip" with her before everything changes.
After deciding where you are going to stay, the next logical step is to decide on where to eat. So I began like I always to and asked each person where they wanted to eat. Caden said 50's Prime Time. He always says that. Preston took a long time deciding and came up with Homecoming. Tim said he didn't care. Connie wanted to eat with Mary Poppins so 1900 Park breakfast was a must. I just wanted to try new places. So I had everything reserved and all was good.
And then Rivers of Light dining packages were released so I had to do some shuffling but got us a dinner reservation at Tusker House for that.
And then the Bon Voyage breakfast was released and Rapunzel is one of my favorites so we had to get that. Some shuffling occurred but it is now w on our last day so that's perfect.
And then Pandora announced their opening date and all that entails so I started rethinking our days. But do you think I could get a Rivers of Light package on another day? Nope. And there was always the Fastpass option but at the time we weren't sure if there would be a tiered system. And I was throwing out about a thousand options. I drove my husband absolutely crazy. To the point he finally just exclaimed, "I don't care where I eat! Just not Tony's!" Okay then.
So that was helpful. Cough cough.
Well I planned a few scenarios. Then the Fastpass information came out about Pandora and the extra magic hours info. Well that was helpful! So I reshuffled again and kept my Rivers of Light dining package,
Now, if any of you have followed my other reports you know that my husband has always wanted to eat at Coral Reef. But for one reason or another it has not happened. Well, I talked to Preston about giving up Homecoming due to the timing f things and told him we need an Epcot restaurant. He chose Coral Reef. Tim says he will believe it when we are actually there.
One thing I also wanted to do was go to The Grand Floridian for tea. If I was going with Connie, it was a must. Plus I will be meeting up with some friends that day, so why not all go to tea? So tea for 4 it is. I'm very excited about this one.
So here is the line up:
June 3: Tusker House Rivers of Light Dinner. I don't know if we will like dinner there. We've only done breakfast. But you can't go wrong with hugging Mickey.
June 4: Prepark opening breakfast for Be Our Guest that morning. Grand Floridian tea for the girls, and who knows what the boys will do with that ur buddy Mark. This is friend day!
June 5: Coral Reef for dinner. Or as Tim says, yeah right. Sigh.
June 6: 1900 Park Fare breakfast
June 7: 50's Prime Time. We are actually meeting up with other friends that day from out church. It will be a group of 12 of us. That will be fun!
June 8: Bon Voyage breakfast at the Trattoria. Departure day. Boo!
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Ok, I'm intrigued about the Fastpass info for Pandora - a couple of days ago, I read an article which said that there was still no news about whether it would lead to a tiered system at Animal Kingdom or not and when Fastpasses would be available for Pandora's attractions. Is there something I'm missing?
Ok, I'm intrigued about the Fastpass info for Pandora - a couple of days ago, I read an article which said that there was still no news about whether it would lead to a tiered system at Animal Kingdom or not and when Fastpasses would be available for Pandora's attractions. Is there something I'm missing?
The new info on FP and EMH for Pandora is in a post on the parks blog today.
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She's a junior now, so I have a year. I really want that "one last trip" with her before everything changes.
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