Pre-Trip Report: Our Dream Disneymoon (12/16-23) COMPLETED - Page 5 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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GREAT news!! With the new room-rate deals, our Travel Agent was able to get us into the Contemporary for our FULL stay. And, of course, that meant we could move some things around and change our ADRs ... it changed our trip a lot ... so I think I might start this whole PRT over!!!
Congratulations on your upcoming wedding, Melissa Sue! I am so excited for you and your Disneymoon sounds wonderful. My DH and I spent our honeymoon at WDW in 1986 but, we were so broke we had to stay at a motel offsite and it was still a magical honeymoon. We've only been back twice since then and finally stayed on property (POFQ) for the very first time last October. All I can say is Vive la Difference! I can't wait to read more from you when you get back in December.
Sharon
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Congratulations on your upcoming wedding, Melissa Sue! I am so excited for you and your Disneymoon sounds wonderful. My DH and I spent our honeymoon at WDW in 1986 but, we were so broke we had to stay at a motel offsite and it was still a magical honeymoon. We've only been back twice since then and finally stayed on property (POFQ) for the very first time last October. All I can say is Vive la Difference! I can't wait to read more from you when you get back in December.
Sharon
Thanks so much, Sharon!! I'd love to hear more about your memories from your Disneymoon!! What do you most remember from that first trip??
We are so very, very blessed that we're able to afford this trip, and I never for a second forget it! We'll probably not be able to do Disney this big and fancy again, so we're going to enjoy the heck out of this adventure!
When I read about the new discounts that came out last week, I went into Disney overload. I was hung up with Disney math, trying to figure out what would be best for us … and, frankly, I just didn’t have the brain space for it at the time. We’re in an incredibly busy time at work, and I really didn’t have time to be distracted by Disney.
So I decided to turn my reservation over to Judi, the magically wonderful TA that so many other PPers recommended to me. I just turned it over and tried to turn my Disney-planning brain off. It turned out to be the best thing I could have done … within two days (with only minor obsessing from me) she had not only saved me money, but she had managed to figure out how to un-split our stay!!!
What was most amazingly magical about this is that I didn’t even ask her to look into unsplitting it!! As you may remember from earlier in this PTA, we had initially planned to spend 5 nights at the Contemporary, then later decided to add 2 additional days onto the beginning of the trip. When I called WDW, I was told there was no way to add 2 days onto the front of our stay because there were no rooms available. I called another time a week later and was told the same thing. I never even asked Judi about the possibility of un-splitting. After being told “no” twice, I just figured it wasn’t possible.
Who knows what kind of magic Judi worked. I am just so glad she worked it for me!! Thank goodness for good Disney experts!
What are the results from this bit of magic? Simply, it means that we don’t have to move from one resort to another (big time saver!). It means lots more access to the Magic Kingdom and other monorail resorts. And, best of all, it means we’re on the DDxP the whole trip! Lots more meal credits! Lots of yay!!
The way things came out, I immediately recognized that we could move some things around to make our trip even more amazing.
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Melissa Sue! I am so excited for you and your Disneymoon sounds wonderful. My DH and I spent our honeymoon at WDW in 1986 but, we were so broke we had to stay at a motel offsite and it was still a magical honeymoon. We've only been back twice since then and finally stayed on property (POFQ) for the very first time last October. All I can say is Vive la Difference! I can't wait to read more from you when you get back in December. 
Liz 
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