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So glad to have you here! We had a great trip with a few bumps along the way, pretty standard for long trips!Joining in for all the fun!
So glad to have you here! We had a great trip with a few bumps along the way, pretty standard for long trips!Joining in for all the fun!
Thanks for joining in! I’m worried about your trip, the ticker says you leave tomorrow, are you going with Dorian out there? If so I hope it is just fine and you have a great trip!Can't wait to read all about your summer trip! Sounds like everything started off just right.
Thank you so much for following along! I’m so happy you enjoy reading along and you travel with your momJoining in! I recently started reading TRs and yours have been some of my favorites! I mostly do Disney trips with my mom, so I love reading about mom-daughter trips . We are doing a Disney and Universal trip together in a few months so I'm sure I will get lots of ideas from your TR!
That shuttle trip would have had me panicking inside . Glad to hear the airport security went quickly, I'm from Minneapolis and I know the airport has been going through some security location changes...I'll probably get there extra early for our next trip.
I was a little nervous, I have done this shuttle to airport many times and normally we end up sitting around the airport for almost 2 hours and that is why I lived on the edge this time!Oh my goodness.....I hate when anyone is late, or makes me late, so yes, I`d have been ill thinking we might not make it!!!! Thank goodness it worked out.....seeing long queues at airports are horrible though! Glad you have precheck......
But, sounds like a fabulous departure day....aside the turbulence, which I strangely love......lol......I know......crazy!!!
Portofino Bay is a lovely hotel, happy you liked it and were pleased with where your room was! And Sal`s too!!! Yay........
FJ can knock me a little funny too at times, sometimes I can only do it once.....on an empty stomach isn't good for me! But, so glad your visit was fun and yes, EP is priceless!!!! Wouldn't be without it.......
So much looking forward to your next day in The Studios!!!!
So glad to have you here, it should be a fun time!Joining in! This looks to be fun!
Yay Glad to have you joining in again, Thanks!Signing up again!
Portofino Bay looks great. I’ve never stayed in a Universal Resort but it’s impressive.
I really like the Spider-Man ride too. But it reminds me how much in Universal is actually Disney property now, especially after the Fox merger.
Not a bad travel day at all, even with a few little hiccups!We were in Orlando a little early, this is always a plus! We headed down to pick up our luggage. I love the Delta app, it tells you when your luggage is on the plane and when it is on the carousel. We ordered a Lyft to take us to Portofino Bay, our driver looked like Jon Snow! We arrived and checked in by 6:15pm, not bad!
The Hotel was beautiful and our room was on the lobby floor and not far from it. We had a pool view! We dropped our luggage off and headed to the boat dock. I love the boat rides here. The Captain’s are so nice and who doesn’t like listening to Sweet Caroline, my song!
Gorgeous room and it looks like you had a fun night!We ordered a Margherita Pizza from Sals and it was delicious! I forgot to take a picture of it. We took it to go and ate in our room and got ready for bed! We had a wonderful day overall!
Thanks for joining in! I’m worried about your trip, the ticker says you leave tomorrow, are you going with Dorian out there? If so I hope it is just fine and you have a great trip!
We have found each time we go now in August, it is getting more crowded, grrrr!
Perfection. Nothing better than this!
It was pretty successful overall, we have had some bad ones. I was glad we didn’t have any problems with our timing!Not a bad travel day at all, even with a few little hiccups!
The room was very nice and big! I loved how roomy it was, it did remind me a little of the GF.Gorgeous room and it looks like you had a fun night!
Those middle of the night wake ups are brutal even when Disney is the destinationYay sleep!
It was a little nerve racking especially without any cushion time!Oo no! I would've been in a major panic.
I really like the app and the airline!That's really nice. I don't think we've ever flown delta
I agree, so cute and funny!I really want to meet the troll that farts glitter and Mike thinks I'm crazy lol
It was a hot trip! We did have a lot of fun despite the large crowds, boo!Sounds like another fun trip!
We always take this shuttle and I knew it takes exactly 2hr 30 minutes to get to the airport so I decided to live on the edge, it was a little stressful when I realized I didn’t really give us much if any cushion time!What? Oh, no! That would make me super tense! I always drive to the airport and park there so I on't have to worry about any of that. I'm glad you made it there in time!
I don't think I knew you were going to UO. Can't wait to hear all about it!
And Thanks for joining in! Our Disney/US trips are such a nice change to the everyday work stress, ugh!great pics thanks for sharing!
Nothing better than Orlando and Disney to decompress the stress from working in a hospital!
We also love Portofino!
I do hate them, I get no sleep! I unfortunately did it to us in January, we leave at 5:15am, kill me now, lol!!I'm with you. I hate those 3 am wake ups for flights. I vowed never to do it again and my next 2 trips have much better departure times. This lady needs her sleep!!!
Hi Fallon! , thanks for joining in! Glad to have you here!Joining in! Looking forward to hearing all about your trip with Andi!
I have flown so much and I knew in my mind we would be fine except I didn’t really plan for delays! I do think you need a little more cushion time even with TSA pre check! We always have to connect from our smaller airport in Duluth or we have to shuttle 2.5 hours to Minneapolis. Connection can be stressful especially if flights are delayed, ugh!!I would have been freaking out with the shuttle fiasco . I am a nervous air traveler. I make my family get to the airport early so we won’t miss our flight . I fly direct if possible - luckily , we live in Atlanta so most of the time this is possible. We had connecting flights on our last family vacation and sweated it out both ways. I kept trying to tell myself the airlines do this everyday .
I am going to Universal in Nov so looking forward to that part of your TR . FJ got me last time ( and the Hulk too ) when I went on an empty stomach. ( I was excited and running late for early entry ). Lesson learned .
So nice to have you join in! I’m so glad you and your daughters are enjoying Disney! This trip Andi was sentimental and she kept saying I can’t believe how many memories we have from our Disney trips. I hope your daughters continue to like it as they get older. I think they will because of all the memories!Hi! Longtime lurker joining in! I have enjoyed reading many of your trip reports and wanted to let you know that your trips with Andi inspired me. My DH is not a big Disney fan, so I stopped dragging him along and last year I started taking my 2 daughters on my own to WDW. They are almost 11 and 14 now, and I hope we are still taking these trips together when they are Andi's age and older!
I really liked the resort, it really made you feel like you were in a little seaside Italian town!Portofino is so pretty, I love those rooms! I also like King Kong to a point as I miss the original Kong ride.
Express pass is expensive but great to have! Ugh Hagrid's, I should be able to ride in Dec. but the lines are crazy not to mention the staggered opening times and days it doesn't open in the morning
Karamie!! So glad you are here!Hi hi hi, I'm here! Wouldn't miss it!
Yes being a nurse is such a stress free job!What do you mean? it's so easy!
You lucky girl!!Having Dad pay for everything alleviates my stress too
Thank you, that skirt was so nice for Florida weather, I really liked it!Cute look!
MCO is terrible, the TSA agents are liked the militia! Lol!Security lines are always so stressful!
He was dreamy, a little young for me, haha!My friend would have died!
It really was nice, I wish we had more time there!Portofino is so lovely! The room looked really nice too!
Hi Kari, Glad to have you here! Wow it was hotter for you wasn’t it. Here I thought our feels like temps of 102 were badHi there! Figured I'd be on time to your report since I'm so behind on everyone else's Can't wait to hear more about your adventures. Certainly seems like the weather got slightly better for you all. We had heat indexes of 110 the early part of the trip and a storm every day. You are so right on the crowds. They were much higher than I remembered the last few Augusts being. I wondered if the Star Wars previews ended up bringing more people in.
Nice to have you joining in! The bathroom was so nice and big, I really liked it! The room was much larger than some I have stayed in! We did many different things this trip and it was fun to add new things!Thankfully, your journey to Orlando ended up being uneventful. While I don't mind turbulence, there is a point when it no longer becomes fun for me. Once the flight crew have to strap themselves in , no thank you.
I don't know why it is, but a nice bathroom always impresses me. I really liked your room's bathroom at Portofino. Also, your pictures seemed to indicate a larger, roomier room. If that is the case, then kudos to you. Looking forward to hearing about more details of your trip. Your initial description of your plans included things that I will be neglecting on my October trip, so it will make for great reading.
Have a wonderful trip, crowds should be so nice and low!Thanks! We are leaving a day early (today) hoping to beat the storm. I've heard the new TSA lines at MSP are ridiculous too, so we are planning to be there 3 hours early