"The Only Place I Don't Want to Eat at is Tony's!" PTR June 3-8, 2017 - Page 12 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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Keep trying for 'Ohana. I check EVERYDAY. Just yesterday one popped up for June 10th but it was for 3:55 pm. What is it with these early afternoon hours!?
Keep trying for 'Ohana. I check EVERYDAY. Just yesterday one popped up for June 10th but it was for 3:55 pm. What is it with these early afternoon hours!?
See, and men was for 8:30 at night and I am possibly looking for a 4 ish time. Lol! I am obsessively checking every chance I get!
See, and men was for 8:30 at night and I am possibly looking for a 4 ish time. Lol! I am obsessively checking every chance I get!
Really!? I got mine for 3:50 but want one for 6ish or 7ish. Although, now that I think of it, the time isn't that bad. We could have an early dinner and then head to Boardwalk Resort and explore, as I wanted to do that last time but the rain interfered with my plans. Or we could also head to Disney Springs. Hmm, decisions, decisions...
Really!? I got mine for 3:50 but want one for 6ish or 7ish. Although, now that I think of it, the time isn't that bad. We could have an early dinner and then head to Boardwalk Resort and explore, as I wanted to do that last time but the rain interfered with my plans. Or we could also head to Disney Springs. Hmm, decisions, decisions...
And then another monkey wrench thrown into plans today...
So I had everything settled right? Disney mentioned about having a Pixar symphony but we didn't know what that entailed. Well dining packages were dropped today and you know our family is a sucker for dining packages. So I grabbed one. That means June 5 we won't be going to AK first thing. We will head to Epcot. I was able to adjust our Fastpasses thankfully. Then we are hopping over to Hollywood Studios and having a later lunch at Mama Melrose. We will see the 5:00 concert. My boys are so into music, we had to do this. Then afterward we will head back to Epcot eventually in time to watch Illuminations.
Glad you were able to alter your plans for this new offering and all fell into place for it!
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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!
Glad you were able to change things around to accommodate this new offering at DHS! We'll be at Epcot the morning of the 5th and then in the evening we will hop over to DHS.
Wow! This is the first I've heard of this! Guess I should read the Disney Parks Blog regularly.
I just heard about this today on DFB, so it just was announced!
You should subscribe to DFB as lot of great info and well worth it and helps with a lot of my food planning!
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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!
Glad you were able to alter your plans for this new offering and all fell into place for it!
I was so excited it worked out!
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Wow! This is the first I've heard of this! Guess I should read the Disney Parks Blog regularly.
I read it elsewhere first. I was excited to see it.
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Glad you were able to change things around to accommodate this new offering at DHS! We'll be at Epcot the morning of the 5th and then in the evening we will hop over to DHS.
Then we will definitely see if we can meet up since we are doing the same thing!
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Congratulations on the switch to accomodate this offering.
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Thanks!
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Wow finally caught up on your PTR. That was very exciting to keep up with your fun changes. I look forward to seeing what's next.
Thank you! As it gets closer I am becoming more and more excited!
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