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you know how i didn't have a room booked for our first night? yeah. well, today i was puttering around on facebook (because i have a ton of work to do so of course i was procrastinating) and i found a post from the points guy about how you can now transfer marriott points to SPG points.
*a primer for people who don't know me: i travel for work. i have a lot of marriott points.
*a primer for non hotel people: marriott and SPG (sheraton/westin) merged. until now, the rewards programs were separate. today it became possible to link your accounts and easily transfer points from one account to the next.
what this means is: i can now use my marriott points to stay at SPG properties.
why is this exciting?
the swan/dolphin is an SPG property.
according to the seven emails in my inbox, it took me 11 minutes from creating an SPG account to booking a room at the dolphin for our first night. this included the points transfer process.
i'm floored that it was so easy, and even more floored that a room was available on a friday night during food and wine fest.
so NOW our whole trip makes sense! we will arrive friday afternoon, head to the dolphin, and spend some time in the pool before going over to DHS (for star wars fireworks) or epcot (for illluminations) and then end our day at jellyrolls on the boardwalk, which i LOVE. and then when we get up the next morning, we can just WALK to epcot.
you guys--i'm so excited! this is the best plan! and it was FREE. and it took ELEVEN MINUTES to do. wooo!
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Congrats onfinding that info and having things work out and so quickNotfhing like falling into a pile of stuff and coming up with a huge bouquet of roses
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
i read this and was like: oh! and it's FRIDAY! even better!!! thanks!!! (seriously, days of the week are hard for me.)
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Congrats on finding that info and having things work out and so quick. Nothhing like falling into a pile of stuff and coming up with a huge bouquet of roses
yeah. i've fallen into a lot of piles this year. i'm glad i found a rose.
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Awesome news about the rental car and the hotel stay!!
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ok fine. i made an ADR. i know i said 'all bar meals all the time', but i really, why make a rule if not to break it?
since we will be staying at the dolphin on arrival day--and since i'm certain i won't eat at all that day while traveling from PA to WDW (i have issues)--i decided that we are going to make the most out of a stay at a new-to-us resort and start off the trip with a proper meal in that resort. so we now have a 5pm reservation at bluezoo, which is a not-really-disney dining locale i've been wanting to try for actual years. i even went so far as to buy one of those restaurant dot com coupons for it a few years back, but my travel companion may have gotten a little too drunk at epcot and i had to skip dinner to put her in a cab. (sad trombone.)
anyway. yeah. we are having dinner at bluezoo. yay!
the plan for the rest of that day is then: DHS for the star wars fireworks and then jellyrolls.
i'm super happy about this plan, as it means that the very first park-thing we do will be the park-thing my husband most wants to do.
DHS has evening EMH until 10pm that night, which is awesome because that means that after the fireworks, we don't have to leave! i love doing night time shows on evenings with EMH because it helps to spread out the crush of people exiting the park. and since we are now technically staying on property, we can take advantage of EMH on this fist night
but hmm. this makes me wonder something. since i booked through the swan and dolphin site, that one night's reservation isn't linked to my disney experience in any way. how the heck does one do that? looking into that now.
well gee. that was easy. you link your swolphin reservation to your my disney experience account just like any other hotel stay. huh. i keep expecting it to be slightly more annoying to stay there. but no. super easy and logical. yay.
More good news. Glad this is all proving so easy! Perhaps your karma has caught up to you - after the last year or so, things HAD to get better, right?
Do they still offer coupons for the restaurant?
Congrats on the ADR! I dined there several years ago and liked it quite a bit!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
More good news. Glad this is all proving so easy! Perhaps your karma has caught up to you - after the last year or so, things HAD to get better, right?
Do they still offer coupons for the restaurant?
well, they couldn't have gotten much worse. i just hope things STAY ok.
related: i have my 6 month follow up scan four days before this trip begins. i'm thinking of moving it up so that i definitely have my results before WDW. that or moving it back. i can't decide. because if it's good, we can celebrate. but if its not...? thoughts on this? you'd be the one to ask, i suppose.
and yeah, i checked for coupons--nope. i did find one for 20% off, but nothing like the $50 certificate for $10 that i bought last time. oh well. we are doing dinner instead of MNSSHP, so we are still 'saving' money.
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Congrats on the ADR! I dined there several years ago and liked it quite a bit!
It's been about 7 or 8 years since I was there. I remember having a good fish filet of some kind. It may have been halibut? They are well known for their raw oysters and have quite a selection of them. They also have seating up at the oyster bar, which is quite big, if you'd rather do that instead of sitting at a table.
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
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They are well known for their raw oysters and have quite a selection of them. They also have seating up at the oyster bar, which is quite big, if you'd rather do that instead of sitting at a table.
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