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I am crazy!!!! I am all paid in full for MVMCP, flights and four nights at All Star Music with DME too. I reserved lunch at Marrakesh for the Candlelight Processional with Whoopie Goldberg. I am ready to cry. This has been my best Disney year to date. February was the quadruple birthday celebration at OKW, Oct holds my first solo trip at F&WF then holiday magic a month later. 40 is shaping up to be so much better than I thought!!
I reserved lunch at Marrakesh for the Candlelight Processional with Whoopie Goldberg. I am ready to cry. This has been my best Disney year to date. February was the quadruple birthday celebration at OKW, Oct holds my first solo trip at F&WF then holiday magic a month later. 40 is shaping up to be so much better than I thought!!
LOVE that everything is working out so great!! Awesome about the SW airfare change, going to both parties and seeing Whoopi do the candlelight processional! I cant wait to hear all about it!!
They do! SWA started flying out of EWR this spring
they do?!??!!!?! They're not showing up on air fare searches. Must investigate more!
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I am crazy!!!! I am all paid in full for MVMCP, flights and four nights at All Star Music with DME too. I reserved lunch at Marrakesh for the Candlelight Processional with Whoopie Goldberg. I am ready to cry. This has been my best Disney year to date. February was the quadruple birthday celebration at OKW, Oct holds my first solo trip at F&WF then holiday magic a month later. 40 is shaping up to be so much better than I thought!!
I don't think SW will show up on a search through Expedia, Travelocity, etc., I've never seen them when I've done searches that way. BUT, they are there, I promise DH works at EWR, I've got the inside scoop
I don't think SW will show up on a search through Expedia, Travelocity, etc., I've never seen them when I've done searches that way. BUT, they are there, I promise DH works at EWR, I've got the inside scoop
OK, then please ask him why there are no non-stop flights to Disney That's why it won't show up for any search I would do on any site - I want non-stop. Their flights are usually 6+hours (direct flight is 2 1/2) and you have to change planes. Also, they're charging almost twice what I paid Continental - even with the "web only" fare. I guess they don't run good deals out of EWR.
Your 40th year is certainly a great one!! I'm excited for you...and yes...a bit green with envy, but I did celebrate my 40th there as well. Where else can you feel like a kid again on your 40th birthday?
LOVE that everything is working out so great!! Awesome about the SW airfare change, going to both parties and seeing Whoopi do the candlelight processional! I cant wait to hear all about it!!
Funny how I have everything squared away for my Nov/Dec trip but haven't finalized the Oct one yet! Wish the ressie system wasn't down for maintenance.
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Such a great Disney year!
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Awesome! This is a great Disney year!
BTW - love the new sig pic.
Don't think I've visited this much since I was a FL resident! Thank you, love that pic, feeling in a celebratory mood today and felt that pic was appropriate.
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OK, then please ask him why there are no non-stop flights to Disney That's why it won't show up for any search I would do on any site - I want non-stop. Their flights are usually 6+hours (direct flight is 2 1/2) and you have to change planes. Also, they're charging almost twice what I paid Continental - even with the "web only" fare. I guess they don't run good deals out of EWR.
I wonder why, Newark is such a huge airport! I used to fly Continental to MCO they were so cheap on those flights. We just got SWA here in Greenville in March, before that the only cheap flights were Allegiant to Sanford and no DME.
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Your 40th year is certainly a great one!! I'm excited for you...and yes...a bit green with envy, but I did celebrate my 40th there as well. Where else can you feel like a kid again on your 40th birthday?
True! Hoping to see a few additional 40th items since the offical date for MK is Oct 1.
Great news Booking MVMCP and your December trip. Is there going to be a PTR or just run this one into that one?
I actually thought about that this morning. If I start one now I'll be doing two simultaneously. If I wait till I get back, I'll be writing a PTR and a TR at the same time. What about writing them both here just using two different colors? Hmmm....
I'm seven weeks from the first one and 15 out from the second. I'm bursting with excitement and got to share. Plus, since I'm going solo, it would be nice to meet up with some PPs even just in passing so announcing my dates might make that happen.
Welcome to the PTR within a PTR. Geez, you folks are getting spoiled with this PTR - a TR and a PTR inside the orginial PTR. A wee introduction (again)
Who: Me, Jennie (40) workaholic and impulsive Disney trip planner
That's it, just me, again.
When: Wednesday, November 30th - Sunday, December 4th
Where: All Star Music
Why: I got me an AP and it's just screaming to be used
How in the world did I end up planning two trips so close together you ask? Well, let me tell you.
It started way back last year, I was just returning from a long weekend in Orlando for F&WF and Halloween Horror Nights at Universal. We were hot in the middle of planning our huge February trip to OKW but I was already looking ahead to the next F&WF my favorite time of Disney year.
I had missed the first (2010) Swan & Dolphin Food & Wine Classic by a week and started looking for possible dates for the next one. So I booked a room at the Dolphin for what I thought would be the weekend of the F&W Classic and left it alone.
Fast forward to April. Deep in Disney Withdrawal, I pulled up the ressie for the Dolphin and started the wheels turning again. At that point, my ex and I were having problems and I thought perhaps a solo trip would be a great idea. The only thing left to do was wait for F&W Classic, MNSSHP and F&WF details to be announced.
Once the official dates of the F&W Classic were announced and my guess at the dates proved correct, I purchased airline tix. A month or so later, Southwest threw a birthday party and my airfare went down, giving me a $133 credit. Seed ONE planted.
After I purchased tix for MNSSHP, I was looking at MVMCP and thought about how wonderful it would be to experience the holidays at WDW.
Seed TWO planted.
In talking with a coworker about his upcoming trip, we agreed the week after Thanksgiving was one of the best times to visit Disney due to low crowds, holiday decorations and good weather.
Seed THREE planted.
This brings us up to last weekend when I purchased the exchange ticket for the AP. Once the AP was mine, I could take advantage of all the wonderful discounts. Oh, looky looky!! Value resorts at $65 a nite, hmmm.....
Seed FOUR planted.
Then came Wednesday and Southwest announces a Fall Special of $59 one way. Golly, with my credit, I could get roundtrip airfare for $55!!
Seed FIVE planted.
ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT!!! Enough seeds already, let's grow something!! So I booked the flight, booked the room, bought MVMCP tix and reserved a Candlelight Processional Dining Pkg all within 8 hours.
Guess I'm going to Disney, again!
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That's why it won't show up for any search I would do on any site - I want non-stop. Their flights are usually 6+hours (direct flight is 2 1/2) and you have to change planes. Also, they're charging almost twice what I paid Continental - even with the "web only" fare. 
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