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Okay, so in reading and understanding the new vacation packages I am starting to put together our "Save Every Penny Trip" for the Animal Kingdom. I am way excited about planning this!!!
Let me know what you think about what I am thinking about
When: Dec. 7-12, 2005
Accomodations: AK Savannah View Room for 5 nights/6 days
Ticket Plan: Magic Your Way Base Ticket for 6 days (possibly adding on the Park Hopper Option)
Dining Plan: Dining package for 2 adults for 5 nights.
So right now, we're looking at a little over $2300 for the package. The tickets and the meal plan really cut down on the price as compared to what we would do without a package for the same amount of time.
Oh Andy is such a nerd...he wants to tell y'all that he's way excited b/c, according to something he read, Narnia is supposed to come out that weekend and he thinks they might have something cool going on b/c of it... gotta him. If anyone knows anything about when the movie is coming out for sure let me know so I can pass it on to him.
sounds good! i just saved a lot of money by booking a MYW package with park tix and dining for this upcoming, didn't-see-it-coming trip! no time for codes. so since i was paying rack rate anyway, i decided to go for the pakage and saved over $200.
The dining package includes: one snack cart item, one counter-service meal, and one sit-down meal per day, per person. Which would be great for us b/c that's pretty much what we did on our last trip.
Hi there Melissa!!!!!!!!!!! ou r gonna love AKL. Let me put in my 2 cents.....I know the dining option is a great value but let me show u what we did on our last trip. We spent 6 night at AKL in a savanah view room. We got an ap rate of $151 a night. (rack is $275) this alone saved us over $800 on our resort stay. I had 2 days left on my hopper so i used those to get dollar credit towards my AP so that cost me about $300.( just $90 more than the 4 day hopper I would have gotten) DH pass was $215. so lets add it up......
room-- $1,010.00
passes-$$515.00
total--$$1525.00
Do u think u will eat or buy $775.00 worth of stuff???
btw we used melissa at Your Magical Journeys to book our room and she watched the codes for us and it was great !!! I didn't have to stress about paying rack rate!!!!! Hope this helps!!!!
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The dining package includes: one snack cart item, one counter-service meal, and one sit-down meal per day, per person. Which would be great for us b/c that's pretty much what we did on our last trip.
I think the package sounds great. That's about half of what we were planning on paying for a week-long trip last year (which we never did lol) for four people, and that was with staying offsite at a condo. So getting your food covered every day and an AKL savannah view room sounds great! Have fun planning!
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Hi there Melissa!!!!!!!!!!! ou r gonna love AKL. Let me put in my 2 cents.....I know the dining option is a great value but let me show u what we did on our last trip. We spent 6 night at AKL in a savanah view room. We got an ap rate of $151 a night. (rack is $275) this alone saved us over $800 on our resort stay. I had 2 days left on my hopper so i used those to get dollar credit towards my AP so that cost me about $300.( just $90 more than the 4 day hopper I would have gotten) DH pass was $215. so lets add it up......
room-- $1,010.00
passes-$$515.00
total--$$1525.00
Do u think u will eat or buy $775.00 worth of stuff???
btw we used melissa at Your Magical Journeys to book our room and she watched the codes for us and it was great !!! I didn't have to stress about paying rack rate!!!!! Hope this helps!!!!
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Okay I'm kinda confused by what you are saying about your passes... We don't have AP's.. And we don't have leftover days to put as credit towards anything. And I am going to be looking for codes to come out for AK (I used one for our recent stay at POR and saved over 50 dollars a night)
So here is our breakdown:
Accomodations: 5 nights (w/o discount right now) 1561
Tickets: 2 Magic Your Way base tickets (2 adults) for 6 days 417.48
Dining package: $70 for 2 adults per day total = 350
We have done a meal plan before and we loved it. We loved not having to worry about what we were ordering once we arrived. (and that's a good thing...trust me, you haven't eaten w/my husband ) So right now we're looking at a total of 2328.48 Our tickets are actually less than yours (b/c we don't have AP's and we can't go often enough in the year to buy them) And we budgeted on our last trip (3 nights/4 days) and we spent close to $500 on meals and souveniers. So hopefully a code will come out and we can save some money on the room. That would help reduce our trip total.
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Melissa, everything looks great to me except your dates!! Shouldn't they read 11/27-12/4?!?!?
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Hmmmm...now I wonder why you feel this way?? And now that I look at it... You never know... we could move it up a week. I mean that just puts the trip closer I can't complain there!
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him. If anyone knows anything about when the movie is coming out for sure let me know so I can pass it on to him.
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lol) for four people, and that was with staying offsite at a condo. So getting your food covered every day and an AKL savannah view room sounds great! Have fun planning!
Shouldn't they read 11/27-12/4?!?!? 
I can't complain there!
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