Eight Days a Week - the Bakelin Invasion - PreTR **Updated 4/2** - Page 4 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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So excited to see you writing another TR! I love your writing style and always feel like I could be there walking through it with you. Your trip last spring break was the first TR of yours I read, and I can't help but think (and hope) that this trip will be a lot more fun for you guys. Can't wait to read more!
Can't wait to read about all the wonderful adventures! I know you'll have a great time!
We've stayed at All Star Movies twice, Dalmations Bldg. once and Toy Story Bldg. once. I love the themeing! My DH maintains that it is the only true "Disney" hotel!
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Okay, first I have to start by adding that everytime I look at my sig pic I get totally freaked out because with that short, light colored hair on my head, I look like my mom, with a moustache! Creepy….
So, we were booked for 4 nights, April 14 - 18, at Pop. Then that fabulous deal came out where you could pay for 4 nights and get 3 free. I’m assuming you’ve heard about this deal However, on every commercial, website, email, etc. I read it said that our dates were blocked out. Oh well, we’d just keep our plans as is. For Christmas my in-laws gave us $$ which was great. We told them that really they gave us APs So we went ahead and ordered our AP vouchers, and added on the Quick Service AP dining plan while we were at it. We knew we’d be eating mostly CS anyway and Andy loves knowing his food is already paid for ahead of time, so we figured we’d give it a try. So we were all set…….until…….
One afternoon at work I was killing time at the end of the day and looking at *gasp* another board for discount rumors and saw that folks had been able to apply the 4/3 deal during Easter week WHAT??? So I immediately called up to see if this was true. Sure enough, she could do it for us. There were a couple of catches though. Catch #1 we’d have to move to All Star Sports in a preferred room, Catch #2 we’d have the QS plan extended to all 7 nights, and Catch #3 we’d have to get at least a 1 day ticket. Okay, I can deal. How much? It was only about $300 more so I called Andy and asked his opinion. He wasn’t really keen on spending more money at the moment as times are tight right now with everybody and we still owed about $600 on the trip. So I decided we’d just keep it the way it was. That lasted until I got home and did our tax return. We finally, after 2 years of paying, were getting back money! And it easily covered what we still owed, and the extra $300 if we wanted to add on the extra days So I called Andy at work again and simply started the conversation by saying “so you wanna go to Disney for all 7 nights?” He knew what I was hitting on and said absolutely! So I called and booked it. Only change was that the one room left at AS Sports was now gone and we had to move to All Star Movies in a preferred room. That was fine by me. We haven’t stayed there yet so it’ll be good to stay some place different. I booked it and we were all set. We’ll save our 1 day tickets and apply the cost towards our APs next year
So now we knew we’d be there for Easter, which I know will be crazy, but we plan on taking it easy….and speaking of plan…. Planning……I’ll share our ADRs and dining choices in the next update
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Okay, first I have to start by adding that everytime I look at my sig pic I get totally freaked out because with that short, light colored hair on my head, I look like my mom, with a moustache! Creepy….
I'm sure your mom would be thrilled to know that you think her hair looks like Ringo's.
What a nice surprise - finding out you could get the "free" 3 nights, and finding that you'd be getting a tax refund to pay for it all! COOL! Looking forward to hearing about your plans.
Good going with the tax return...see even Uncle Sam wanted you to take advantage of the 4 / 3 deal . We stayed at the ASMo last June and while I was not expecting to love it, that is exactly what happened. I would definitely stay there again. I also found that during the morning and evening rushes we had our own bus (I am sure during a busy time like Easter they might do it then too). And worse case scenerio if a Sports / Music bus came first we would hop on that and just walk through the parking lot.
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Love the photo ! Great start , glad you were able to extend your stay. I'm going to guess that you will finish this TR 5 weeks before your next planned holiday to WDW.
I'm sure your mom would be thrilled to know that you think her hair looks like Ringo's.
I guess I should say I didn't mean Ringo's hair looks like my mom's hair. But rather that pic makes me look like I have short, light colored hair just like my mom and since I have long dark hair..it's kind of strange to see
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However, on every commercial, website, email, etc. I read it said that our dates were blocked out. Oh well, we’d just keep our plans as is. For Christmas my in-laws gave us $$ which was great. We told them that really they gave us APs 
So we went ahead and ordered our AP vouchers, and added on the Quick Service AP dining plan while we were at it. We knew we’d be eating mostly CS anyway and Andy loves knowing his food is already paid for ahead of time, so we figured we’d give it a try. So we were all set…….until…….
WHAT??? So I immediately called up to see if this was true. Sure enough, she could do it for us. There were a couple of catches though. Catch #1 we’d have to move to All Star Sports in a preferred room, Catch #2 we’d have the QS plan extended to all 7 nights, and Catch #3 we’d have to get at least a 1 day ticket. Okay, I can deal. How much? It was only about $300 more so I called Andy and asked his opinion. He wasn’t really keen on spending more money at the moment as times are tight right now with everybody and we still owed about $600 on the trip. So I decided we’d just keep it the way it was. That lasted until I got home and did our tax return. We finally, after 2 years of paying, were getting back money! And it easily covered what we still owed, and the extra $300 if we wanted to add on the extra days 
So I called Andy at work again and simply started the conversation by saying “so you wanna go to Disney for all 7 nights?” He knew what I was hitting on and said absolutely! So I called and booked it. Only change was that the one room left at AS Sports was now gone and we had to move to All Star Movies in a preferred room. That was fine by me. We haven’t stayed there yet so it’ll be good to stay some place different. I booked it and we were all set. We’ll save our 1 day tickets and apply the cost towards our APs next year 
and since I have long dark hair..it's kind of strange to see 
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