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First Pre-Trip Report: 12/07/09: POP: **First Time Visiting WDW In December**
Here it goes - my First Pre-Trip Report: Going Into Jr. High Already: Lets Go To Disney!
We will be traveling from August 17 - August 26, 2009
We will be staying at the POP Century Resort
We have chosen the Deluxe Dining option (since we are traveling during the Free Dining Promo, Deluxe was a great price!)
We have the park hopper tickets with water parks and more (we love Disney Quest and H2O parks)
We will be celebrating our DS Zac going into Jr. High this September (and DD Rose going into 3rd grade).
Here is the Cast:
Me (Melissa)
DH (Joe)
DS (Zac) 11 Yrs old
DD (Rose) 8 Yrs old
I have created a website with all the information I have in this pre-trip report. I figured it would be a nice thing to have for my kids to look back and see what went into planning. Take a look if you would like. It is a shutterfly share site. Very easy to create and fun to update.
I believe my 90 day mark is tomorrow (today now... 5/18/09) to make dining reservations. Here are the dining options we are hoping for:
Day 1: Arrivial 08/17/09 at 6pm
Dinner at Raglan Road 8:30pm
Day 2: Magic Kingdom 08/18/09
Breakfast: Crystal Palace
Lunch: OPEN (Quick Service)
Dinner: Tony's Town Square
Day 3: Animal Kingdom & Epcot 08/19/09
Breakfast: Tusker House
Lunch: OPEN (Quick Service)
Dinner: Akershus
Day 4: Epcot 08/20/09
Breakfast: Chef Mickey's
Lunch: Les Chefs De France
Dinner: Le Cellier
Day 5: Typhoon Lagoon OR Disney Quest 08/21/09
Breakfast: 1900 Park Fare
Lunch: OPEN (Quick Service)
Dinner: Disney's Spirit of Aloha Show
Day 6: Animal Kingdom Lodge 08/22/09
Breakfast: Boma
Lunch: OPEN (Quick Service)
Dinner: Hoop-Dee-Do Revue
Day 7: Typhoon Lagoon OR Disney Quest 08/23/09
Breakfast: Cape May Café
Lunch: OPEN (Quick Service)
Dinner: Mickey's Backyard BBQ
Day 8: Hollywood Studios 08/24/09
Breakfast: Hollywood & Vine
Lunch: OPEN (Quick Service)
Dinner: Sci-Fi Dine In Theatre
Day 9: Epcot & Hollywood Studios 08/25/09
Breakfast: O'hana
Snack: Beaches & Cream Soda Shop
Lunch: OPEN (Quick Service)
Dinner: Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano Fantasmic Package
Day 10: Magic Kingdom 08/26/09
Breakfast: Cinderella's Royal Table Breakfast
The day I am questioning the most is: Day 6
We are going the Animal Kingdom Lodge for Breakfast at Boma.
We have no plans to go to a park this day. We were going to go to the Petting Zoo and Horseback Riding at Fort Wilderness. We were going to go to a quick service lunch somewhere... Then the Hoop-Dee-Do Revue for dinner. After this we will stay for the Camp Fire Sing-A-Long.
I am planning to wake up at 6AM EST and call my dining in. Hope I have counted my days properly!
I will write more after my dining is confirmed. (Hopefully Monday Night! )
This morning I woke up at 7am. Tried for 12 minutes to get through to WDW Dining. Finally got thru at 7:12am. I was on hold for 77 minutes.
Thank tinkers for speaker phone!
Here is the hold music (in order) for the Disney Dining phone line:
-It's a small world
- Clang Clang !! (My DS favorite - see pic below)
- Tiki Room
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Splash Mountain
- Haunted Mansion
After all that, My 90 day mark is tomorrow!!! I have to go thru this all over again!
I have a good sense of humor - so I did laugh at this. I wish that in between the repeated music they would say:
"You can make dining and other Disney entertainment reservations if you are checking in on or before August 16."
I will wake up much earlier tomorrow.
Clang Clang!!
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Reason: forgot to add pic of Zac & the Trolly
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Just found your TR and I'm looking forward to hearing more. We're only doing two table service meals this time and I ended up doing just like you, I called a day before the 90 day mark. I agree, there should be some sort of announcement when you call.
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We're only doing two table service meals this time and I ended up doing just like you, I called a day before the 90 day mark. 
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