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Hi everyone! Not a whole lot to update right now--I'm just waiting to hear back from the IPO since my booking window has opened -- I'm hoping they were able to get all the ADRs we asked for. Fingers crossed!
My DH was on vacation last week and we took DD to WoD in the City. I'm sad that the store will be closing down so I took a bunch of pics to remember it by. I thought I'd share these with you guys while I'm waiting for trip-related news. Hope you enjoy!
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Thanks! I always feel like I've taken an itty-bitty Disney trip after visiting there!
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Neat pics! Good luck with the ADRs!
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with your ADRs. Hope you get everything you wanted. Great pictures from WoD.
Thank you! I got my itinerary this afternoon and we got everything we wanted within 10 mintues of the requested times. There was one glitch in that they didn't have DD's BBB appointment listed but I called the IPO and they made it for me while I was on the phone.
Now I need to get working on booking our one night room-only for the day we arrive. I've been procrastinating hoping that a discount code would come out but I think I need to bite the bullet and just reserve.
All caught up...we'll be arriving at WDW on the 29th. Your plans look great. And I'm all about trying some of the same snacks...I can't wait for the cinnamon roll at MSB.
All caught up...we'll be arriving at WDW on the 29th. Your plans look great. And I'm all about trying some of the same snacks...I can't wait for the cinnamon roll at MSB.
Ugh, I did something stupid this morning and I had to share with my friends who get it.
I noticed that our SWA flight to Orlando had dropped to $100, which was less than what we paid. I then had the bright idea to cancel and rebook the flight so that I could add the additional passenger info that SWA is now collecting for TSA (we booked before they were collecting it, but I figured it couldn't hurt to have it in there. I know, I always have to give myself something to worry about).
So I'm in the process of booking the new flight and I get an error trying to retrive the credit. When I finally get it to show up, I finish entering all the info and hit submit and I get a message, "OOPS, no seats available on this flight". I totally panicked. Then I opened another browser and searched again to find that the flight had gone up to $126. Luckily I had credits from another flight to cover the difference, but still - ugh!
So by now I'm typing as fast as I can so I don't clock out again. Once I finished I started worrying that maybe I entered something wrong in my rush so I called SWA to confirm I got everyone's birthdate in there right. (everything's fine)
Just got caught up with your trip report. Sounds like you are going to have a fabulous time over at the Grand Floridian, and Club Level, sweet! Love the pictures too from World of Disney, they are great. We lost all of our Disney stores around here.
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Not a whole lot to update right now--I'm just waiting to hear back from the IPO since my booking window has opened 
-- I'm hoping they were able to get all the ADRs we asked for. Fingers crossed!
so I took a bunch of pics to remember it by. I thought I'd share these with you guys while I'm waiting for trip-related news
with the ADR's! Great pics from WoD!
Deb
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Then I opened another browser and searched again to find that the flight had gone up to $126
. (everything's fine)
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