AGAIN this dang thing will not let me post!!! WHY!!!
Did you say it was CHEAPER then Disney?!?!
Oh and i just LOVE LOVE all the pictures! I NEED TO GO HERE!
What is this thing it has for not letting you post?!
Sort it, DISboards!
We found it to be cheaper (than when we bought everything OOP at WDW) food/drink-wise, the refillable mugs at US saved us a fortune! There are drink stations all over the parks, and your mug has a chip in it like WDW resort mugs, but only valid for the day of purchase. I believe you can pay more for a longer stay, but as we didn't know which days we would be there we didn't bother and shared a refillable mug. I think they were about $9.99, so if you work it out in WDW drinks for a whole day for two people (and we hydrate a LOT, I'm a magnet for heatstroke), you save a fair bit there. Merchandise, some bits are cheaper than Disney, others not. The HP merchandise is certainly WAY cheaper than it is here in the UK, for example I paid £24.99 for a T-shirt at the HP Studio Tour in London, whereas at Universal the same one was $21.95. Wands too, they pretty much just swap the $ for a £ so we end up paying a lot more. That's why we spend like lunatics when we are in the States!!
That's true for most items though, we hit up Walgreens like crazy people at least once a trip (why pay £6 for an EOS lip balm when you can pay under $3?! Ibuprofen and cold and flu remedies are way cheaper/better too, so we stock up on those too). This is why we can't afford to go every year, haha!
Thank you! I could have stayed there all day with my camera getting all the little details, it's fabulous.
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Just a little life update...
This is an update of mixed emotions. You see, we will most probably have to postpone our hoped-for 2017 10th wedding anniversary trip/possible vow renewal.
Why is that mixed emotions, you ask? Why is it not accompanied by the customary anguished wails and much rending of garments? Well…
We are moving house!!
I will spare you all the drama, but I am not fond of our current place. Too small, not the nicest area, etc, etc. It was never bought as a "forever home", put it that way. My parents are down-sizing to a ground-floor flat, so we are buying their house (which is also my childhood home)!
We gain two rooms, two fenced-in gardens, a shower (I'm so excited to get a shower again, believe it or not we have managed for 9 years with just a bath and a rubber shower attachment), plus it's a much nicer area so all of our insurance premiums will get cheaper too!
We might still get to Disney next year, but at the moment plans are on hold until we finish the move, hopefully over the summer. Then again, we could always just tag a little extra onto the new mortgage for "renovations"
Or that was my idea anyway! Good job I keep a responsible adult around….