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What is left to plan? Are you going to have a specific touring strategy going in, or are you just going to wing it? I know you have to wait to book your tour...are you thinking of doing Art of the Craft at GC? I'm not staying there, but am hoping to do that one.
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Glad you got what you wanted!!!! I thought I heard the angels sing!
Thanks! Finally, some certainty.
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What is left to plan? Are you going to have a specific touring strategy going in, or are you just going to wing it? I know you have to wait to book your tour...are you thinking of doing Art of the Craft at GC? I'm not staying there, but am hoping to do that one.
Really not much planning left. I can call in a few days for the tour, but that hopefully will not be the dilemma the dining packages were. We haven't decided on the Art of the Craft tour, but we may be able to work it in.
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All caught up and glad to see you have the dining finalized.
glad your dad is doing well.
Just read this entire PTR as I have fallen behind on the boards recently. I'm so excited to read about how you like DL and the Halloween party! We will likely go to DL in 2018 in October. I've been to DL a few times, but my children never have. And I've never done MNSSHP or the party at DL though I have always wanted to.
Sorry the dining has been such a pain to sort out. I had no idea that there were even differences in how WDW and DL did those kinds of things. I'm so used to WDW now days and I've been learning about DCL, but I'll admit I likely know nothing about planning a DL vacation.
Hooray for finally getting your dining packages booked!
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Just read this entire PTR as I have fallen behind on the boards recently. I'm so excited to read about how you like DL and the Halloween party! We will likely go to DL in 2018 in October. I've been to DL a few times, but my children never have. And I've never done MNSSHP or the party at DL though I have always wanted to.
Sorry the dining has been such a pain to sort out. I had no idea that there were even differences in how WDW and DL did those kinds of things. I'm so used to WDW now days and I've been learning about DCL, but I'll admit I likely know nothing about planning a DL vacation.
Hooray for finally getting your dining packages booked!
I thought I had an idea about the differences in planning, but I still had quite a bit of learning to do.
I took yesterday and Monday off from Disney planning after my success with ADRs on Sunday. I had begun work on park plans. I was having a bit of trouble deciding how detailed I wanted to make our daily plans. Luke and I are fairly casual with our plans at WDW, which is a much bigger resort. So my thinking is that since we will have five park days we should be able to get everything done in both parks that we really want to do plus some without designing an attraction by attraction timeline. I have downloaded a one-day touring plan for both Disneyland and California Adventure that I got from touringplans.com. That is mainly to help us with when and where to get FastPass for the big attractions.
I was reading through e-mails this morning when I opened the one from the Disney Parks Blog. I went to the site to see what else was new and found on To 9 Disney Parks Recipes for Fall. Several excited me, e.g. gingerbread beignets at Café Orleans, Pumpkin Twists at Maurice’s Treats, and Pumpkin Muffins. Are you noticing a theme here? I love pumpkin. In fact, I’m ready to bake some of my pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. I need to pick up some pumpkin.
Another blog was Top 10 Favorite Items for Halloween 2015 at Disney Parks. I love men’s lounge pants for, well, lounging. They now have a bright orange pair, my favorite color, with Boo written all over them. Check out the photo in this link: Top Ten Favorite Items for Halloween 2015 at Disney Parks « Disney Parks Blog. You’ll need to scroll down to the next to last photo. I also really like the new Minnie witch antenna topper shown in the photo below the lounge pants.
A third blog mentioned that Matt Damon had recently celebrated a family birthday at DLR, and he was photographed on the Matterhorn. That has me know wondering if we might now sight a celebrity, or even two, while we are there. We’ll just have to see.
Looking at food options is definitely one of my favorite parts of planning a trip. Especially the seasonal specialties. Those options sounds so yummy. I hope you do see a celebrity!
I read that blog post, too. I'm a big pumpkin fan as well and those all sound amazing!
I still miss my mom's pumpkin pies, but Sara Lee makes a pretty good one. I'm not sure yet, but I'm hoping they might also have pumpkin funnel cake like we had at Epcot last October.
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The pumpkin treats sound yummy! Makes me want to look through my pumpkin recipes and find something to bake! The lounge pants are so cute!
I love pumpkin bread, too, so now you've got me thinking I need to bake that as well. A lady that worked with Luke used to make us a pumpkin roll every year that was delicious, but I've never thought of trying it myself.
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Looking at food options is definitely one of my favorite parts of planning a trip. Especially the seasonal specialties. Those options sounds so yummy. I hope you do see a celebrity!
It's exciting now that it's September because Disney is releasing more about fall stuff at all the parks. And since I'm missing the F&WF, I'm looking for new foods to try at DLR.
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Yay! Glad you got your dining all set. We did the WOC package at Wine Country Trattoria and the food was yummy, but just so you know, the dining package menu is somewhat limited - you won't get to choose from the full menu. DH was able to make a substitution ( I can't remember what now). We did have a lunch time reservation, not sure how the menu differs at dinner.
We toured in a much more relaxed manner at DL than we do at WDW. Everything is just so CLOSE that it's a lot easier to say, " Hey, let's head here." Two quick tidbits to illustrate how much more compact things are.
1. Sunday night we watched Disneyland Forever by the flagpole at 9:30 pm. After the fireworks were over. we headed back to our resort. We were stopped outside of the park to participate in a survey about Paint The Night We then strolled back to our villa and I was in my room by 10:00!
2. We were out late one night and I was undecided about going to EMH at DCA the next morning at 7 am. I decided to wait and see how I felt in the morning. I woke at 6:45 and decided, "No! I'll sleep in." When I was still awake at 7:00, I decided to hop in the shower and go to the park after all. I entered DCA thru the GC entrance and was in line to ride Soarin' Over California by 7:18.
All your pumpkin talk has got me thinking it might be time to make my pumpkin bread! I think you'll find that the touring schedule for DL is more laid back than WDW due to the sheer size of the parks.
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