November Pre-Trip Report About This Page:

[PoohBearFreak32]

Cast of characters:
Me (PoohBearFreak32) – 33 – 6th trip to the World
Hubby – 35 – 3rd trip to the World

Reason? Just because. Also, we would like to buy a house so this will probably be the last vacation we can afford to take for awhile, so we plan to live it up.

The trip planning for this particular vacation started before we had even left to go on our vacation in May ’06. We decided why not? So, after scanning the websites for available suites in the World, we settled on a Garden Suite at the Boardwalk Inn. After calling our wonderful travel agent at AAA, everything was booked and we left to make the $200.00 booking deposit on the trip. Man, this is gonna be one heck of an expensive vacation (we’ve included the dining plan on it)

So, we’ve got three more payments on the vacation package then we’re home free. I love the dining plan because it allows us regular folk to eat at fancy places that we could never afford before. Not to mention that the room we’ll be getting at the Boardwalk Inn should be incredibly fabulous. We’ve got reservations for the following: Nine Dragons, Spoodles, Le Cellier, Chef Mickey’s, Crystal Palace. That should do nicely, don’t you think? It’s very exciting, although it’s way too much food for mere mortals to try to eat.

The only draw back for the trip was the airfare. When we went back in May, we flew Air Tran. I love the airline; however, the Atlanta airport is a train wreck and they never offer direct flights at a time when we would like to go (early morning). Also, when we flew back last May, we were offered the chance to upgrade to business class for one leg of the journey, now my husband is spoiled and won’t go back! Which is fine because business class is awesome and way more comfortable and since hubby isn’t a very good flyer to begin with, the extra room and immediate beverage requests was a bonus. Now, hubby will only fly business class and let me tell you, for a connecting flight from Indy to Orlando through Atlanta in business class, that would have cost us $1300.00. I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t about to shuck out that much money just to fly and travel most of our first day for six or so hours. Then the dreaded words:

“Let’s just drive it then”. Gee, thanks honey. I’ve only driven the trip from Indianapolis to Orlando once before and that was the longest drive of my life; of course, it could have been because of the company that I went with. So, hubby’s all excited about the Roadtrip of a Lifetime. Here’s the schedule:

Leave on Sunday, November 12th. Overnight in Macon Georgia.
Leave Georgia Monday morning and arrive in Orlando by noon on the 13th.
Leave Friday evening, November 17th and overnight in Daytona Beach. (Oh yeah, did I tell you that hubby wanted to have an excursion?)
Leave Saturday evening, November 18th and overnight in Smyrna, Georgia
Leave that Sunday and arrive back home.

Tiring, no?

But for better or worse, there it is. The only thing left to do is secure a rental car. That I’m still shopping for. I just hope it’s not like that Seinfeld episode where he reserves the rental car then they don’t’ have it when he gets there.

So, the next you hear of the report will be an accounting of Day One!

[jimmymac]

Good luck with the trip. Long drive, but once at BWI it will be all worthwhile! Enjoy

[SharonK0527]

Sounds great. Can't wait to hear about your Suite at the Boardwalk!

[Colexis Mom]

Great start [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zwavin.gif[/img] I hope your drive goes well [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/luck.gif[/img] Can't wait to hear all about your adventures [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]