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I realized there is not much left to add for the PTR since most of the planned details have been covered. So here are the rest of our trip plans....
Monday, August 13
This is our last full day in the Disney bubble and “officially” another off day. If we have an extra park ticket day we may use it here. Otherwise, we will visit DQ or a water park one more time…
Tuesday, August 14
This is the day we check out and start our drive to Cooper City, near Fort Lauderdale. DH’s sister lives there with her husband and child. We are thrilled to be able to fit in a visit to their home.
We will start the day at Olivia's Cafe 10:15 am. The eggs benedict here sound very yummy!
Wednesday, August 15/Thursday, August 16
Beach and Family!
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Great job with Opinion Outpost! I love that site, it's one of my tops. I think I might try the saving all points till a big cash in once FFP is saved for. I tend to cash in as soon as it's economical. Like with EPolls, you can get $10 for 6750 points or $30 for approx. 17,000 points. Otherwise, I tend to cash in as soon as I get money and put it in my savings.
Sounds like fun to visit with family, and relax some before going home. Your plans for the last couple days sound perfect.
Great job with Opinion Outpost! I love that site, it's one of my tops. I think I might try the saving all points till a big cash in once FFP is saved for. I tend to cash in as soon as it's economical. Like with EPolls, you can get $10 for 6750 points or $30 for approx. 17,000 points. Otherwise, I tend to cash in as soon as I get money and put it in my savings.
Sounds like fun to visit with family, and relax some before going home. Your plans for the last couple days sound perfect.
OO was always my #2 behind Toluna...but when Toluna changed...OO really stepped up!
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I'm sure you know this already and maybe you have your rental car stuff all in place by now but.........I get alerts all the time from Hotwire for car rentals about good deals in Orlando. I get them because I saved flight info as a watch on their site before. I got one today and it made me think of you.
congrats on all the points. Don't you hate this part of the trip planning. Everything is done but still too early to pack and do the last minute stuff - just in the waiting game.
Love that you are ending the trip at the beach perhas you may actually come home from a Disney trip being relaxed rather than exhausted.
I'm sure you know this already and maybe you have your rental car stuff all in place by now but.........I get alerts all the time from Hotwire for car rentals about good deals in Orlando. I get them because I saved flight info as a watch on their site before. I got one today and it made me think of you.
I do get them as well...but everyone I look into is more than we are paying. Our base price is right around $300 but the total with taxes and fees is $384 (for 8 days). This is for a standard SUV that holds 5 people and 5 bags. We will pick up in Orlando and return in Fort Lauderdale, which seems to add about $100 to any estimate we get. We did not prepay--or even give any of the personal information yet that will make pickup easier--so I feel like I still have the chance to do more research before we leave. What seemed high at first seems like a decent deal so far.
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Congrat on the points to get the gift card!! Plans look great with your family, gotta love being at the beach!
Thanks! It just occurred to my kids last trip that we were in FL and did not visit the ocean--it was impossible to comprehend! . So we promised to make it happen this trip!
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congrats on all the points. Don't you hate this part of the trip planning. Everything is done but still too early to pack and do the last minute stuff - just in the waiting game.
Love that you are ending the trip at the beach perhas you may actually come home from a Disney trip being relaxed rather than exhausted.
That is my hope as well! Although last trip we planned an off day on our last full day to relax from the vacation. We made that decision after a good friend of ours pointed out that the day after arriving home from WDW is terrible no matter what. He said he ould rather be crabby at work than crabby to his family. Besides---is is not better to take a "vacation from your vacation" while still on vacation? LOL! We are planning our last day at WDW to be another down day in order to be a bit more energized before seeing family.
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Congrats on cashing in your rewards!! Hope you enjoy your time with family!!
Thanks!
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Originally Posted by Colexis Mom
Great plans!
Thanks!
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I have found that OO also has lots of surveys available. Seems like more than the others...not that I qualify for all of them, but....
I seem to get a lot of them. I wish I kept better track of how often I have earned rewards there, but since I have been saving all the points I do not have a good sense of how often I could have earned the $25 reward. I have been saving them up because I used to cash them out with a check sent to me. When they went to the citicard....I decided to save up in order to have less taken off my amount by having the real card sent to me. Now that I realize I can instantly turn a virtual visa into a disney gift card....I will start cashing out as soon as I hit the $25 mark. On 6/16 I cashed ou $250. 4 days later I cashed out another $25. I did one "BIG" thing that was thorugh OO--It was an online panel that paid $75 in OO points. It was a 2 hour online discussion group one evening. It took about 6 weeks for those points to hit my account.
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