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So glad you enjoyed your WDW trip, and even get to bounce back in November. Annual Passes are such a great purchase and going more than once a year is too fun. Every port on your cruise looks stunningly beautiful!
I did have fun and look forward to more WDW adventures and maybe even a meet and greet with a couple of Passporters. They do look beautiful, don't they?
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Wow!!! Those are amazing photos!! Your plans sound terrific!!
Tara
I do think they will offer the best of what we can see in such a short time.
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Glad you had a nice trip to WDW and a few more to look forward to.
The excursions look amazing!
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Not much has been going on as we are in the hurry up and wait phase of the trip. Disney posted more about the Frozen party the other day and it looks like it is going to be a day long celebration, so I expect it will be on one of the at sea days. I noted today that GT rates have been released for our cruise, so apparently it isn’t selling as well as hoped. It makes me think that just maybe we could score an upgrade to a verandah at the port, but who knows. I’ll just put that out of my mind for now and see what happens in June. I wrote the Copenhagen chamber of commerce asking about walking tours a few weeks ago and received a nice city map in the mail. Now I just need to plot our walks. I need to start getting in gear and getting Danish and Norwegian money in hand soon as well.
Thanks. I've looked at the map and it looks good. I even downloaded to my phone and iPad an app the tourist bureau supports called iSpot Copenhagen. Now I just have to figure it out. It seems to have maps in it, that you can have direct you and tell you how to get "there from here." I assume it will use CPS to see where we are at the time.
How neat that they sent you a map - have fun planning your walking tours! I'll be interested to see what you do, as we'll now have a day in Copenhagen next summer on our Baltic cruise.
How neat that they sent you a map - have fun planning your walking tours! I'll be interested to see what you do, as we'll now have a day in Copenhagen next summer on our Baltic cruise.
Someone on cruise critic had mentioned getting a map from them, so I requested it online.
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Your trip really is getting closer!! AND!! You get to go to WDW first!! How fun!! Enjoy planning your tours!!
Tara
Yes indeed! I am really looking forward to this WDW trip with DD.
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Do you have Rick Steves' book? I used that for a great walking tour of Copenhagen (as well as Oslo and Stockholm).
No, I'll have to look into that one. I've heard great things about his books.
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Today has been a productive Copenhagen day. I started out looking at Rick Steve’s information on line and even watched his 30-minute video on Copenhagen. Next I googled walking tours and came up with a couple from Frommer’s website. I copied and printed them. I also found a neat app called Tripomatic. It allows you to create your own walking tour and then save it to the app. The only problem is that it isn’t interactive off line (without paying about $15!). I do believe it will hold your information and show what you have planned on the map, as I checked by putting my phone in airplane mode. That’s when I pulled out the map I received from Copenhagen and started aligning them.
Then I thought about all the walking. It’s not really a whole lot for an active person in good condition, but that’s not really us, especially Wade. I would be tired, but he would be miserable, as he really isn’t into sightseeing to begin with. And, if he’s miserable, then I will be as well, if you know what I mean. I knew we wanted to do a canal tour, and I thought of the HOHO busses, so I started googling again. (How did we ever plan trips before google?!) Anyway, one company (Stromma) has a combo HOHO cruise and bus package. Yes, even the boats are HOHO. It was about $35 per person for a 48-hour ticket. We will be in Copenhagen for about 48 hours, so that works. I ordered two on line reservations for our dates. [Side note here: our new foreign transaction fee credit card got denied 2 times, so I used the Disney one which went right through. I then got an email from BoA (new card) of a fraud alert. I called them and got everything confirmed that the charges I was attempting were legitimate and then got the card tagged for travel in June. When doing that I realized that we will be in the Amsterdam airport on both legs of our trip, meaning we might be able to spend a few of the euros we saved from last year’s trip, so I dug them out and placed them in a good future travel spot.]
So, my tentative plans are as follows. 1) Arrive in Copenhagen at 11 am after leaving Memphis at 10:15 the previous morning. We will be exhausted, but we must trudge on. 2) Spend that afternoon wandering the area near the hotel. It is right by Tivoli Gardens, Town Hall with the Hans Christian Anderson statue and other interesting sights. I think dinner will be in Tivoli Gardens somewhere. 3) After what I hope is a good night’s sleep, we will wander the town making full use of our HOHO tickets. I’m still making a list of the things I definitely want to see, but it will not include going into any museums, galleries, etc. We will just be seeing the sights. 4) The next day is embarkation and we have Disney transportation to the port, but I don’t know what time that will be. We will probably just have a late morning and get the earliest transfer we can snag.
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They do look beautiful, don't they?
Those are amazing photos!! 
Your plans sound terrific!!
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I'll be interested to see what you do, as we'll now have a day in Copenhagen next summer on our Baltic cruise. 
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2) Spend that afternoon wandering the area near the hotel. It is right by Tivoli Gardens, Town Hall with the Hans Christian Anderson statue and other interesting sights. I think dinner will be in Tivoli Gardens somewhere. 3) After what I hope is a good night’s sleep, we will wander the town making full use of our HOHO tickets. I’m still making a list of the things I definitely want to see, but it will not include going into any museums, galleries, etc. We will just be seeing the sights. 4) The next day is embarkation and we have Disney transportation to the port, but I don’t know what time that will be. We will probably just have a late morning and get the earliest transfer we can snag.
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