jesterrific
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- Dec 1, 2015
Hello!
And welcome to my first official parks Trip Report! We have done WDW quite a few times, and most of the time we do the same stuff each time, so it never occurred to me before to do a trip report. Also with most trips, we normally go for at least a week at a time. BUT this time… as a bit of a last minute decision, we booked a trip for 3 and a half days of glorious park time. And I honestly didn’t think we could get in everything we want to do in this short amount of time. SO HERE WE ARE! A trip report on doing WDW our way, in less than 4 days!
If you want to know of our original plans, I wrote up a PTR. [Click Here if you wanted to read it]
Basically, long story short… Glendon and I would only have to pay for food on this trip, so why not, right? (Flights were paid for by our accumulated amounts of air miles, resorts were booked using Glendon’s DVC points, passes paid for last year when we got our annual passes!)
But as with many plans, things change so quickly once you are actually there!!
SO a very quick intro, and then summary of our itinerary!
WHO ALL WENT!
Mitch, Me (Jessica), and Glendon!
If you couldn’t already tell from my title, we’re all Canadians. And we live in Edmonton, Alberta. Travel to and from Orlando isn’t always the quickest, so this is why generally we don’t decide to do WDW for less than a week at a time. Glendon and I have been together for just over 3 years, and Glendon has known Mitch a very very long time.Mitch, Me (Jessica), and Glendon!
WHAT IS THIS TRIP!
This was my 6th WDW trip, Glendon’s 21st… and Mitch’s first ever! (5th time together for Glendon and I!) (Mitch has literally never done any sort of amusement park, theme park, any sort of rides ever in his life. So his first bang into it and we take him to WDW!) We would have loved for Mitch’s wife to have been able to join us as well, but (YAY) when we had decided to book, she just found out she’s pregnant! (Now, Mitch had such a good time he for SURE wants to bring her back! And we won’t go as fast paced next time haha.) None of us wanted to take any time off work, so we managed to swap some shifts around that made it possible for us to go for 3 and a half days in the parks (with two half days for travel time)WHERE DID WE STAY!
We had to do a resort hop. First night we stayed at Boardwalk Villas, then went over to Animal Kingdom Lodge Jambo House for the remaining nights.Anyways!
Some of the things we REALLY wanted to get done on this trip included riding Frozen Ever After, seeing the new Soarin’ Around the World, take a look at some of the neat foods for Festival of the Arts, and check out the brand new Disney Springs areas! Which then, if you look at our must-do’s, it’s mostly all in Epcot so really we probably could have just spent all our days there. But you can’t pass up visiting the other parks while you’re there! (Would you believe we actually got do do ALL of those in the same day, including Disney Springs?)
SUMMARY of our trip!
- Friday January 20 - Travel Day
- Saturday January 21 - Magic Kingdom
- Sunday January 20 - Epcot and Disney Springs
- Monday January 21 - Hollywood Studios and Disney Springs
- Tuesday January 22 - Animal Kingdom and fly home!
Originally we had planned for the Monday to be our Animal Kingdom day with a full afternoon and evening in Disney Springs, and then a morning at Hollywood Studios before flying home Tuesday. But we really wanted to catch the Star Wars fireworks… and since we were staying Animal Kingdom Lodge on our last night, it made more sense to be at a closer park (Animal Kingdom) on our last day for when we had to run back to the hotel to catch our Magical Express to the airport!
Here are some random photos from this trip… then on to the table of contents!
(All photos from this trip were from my iPhone 6s, with some from Glendon’s iPhone 7, and PhotoPass!)
(All photos from this trip were from my iPhone 6s, with some from Glendon’s iPhone 7, and PhotoPass!)
(I also attempted my very first venture into vlogging on this trip… but I think I was very lacking in talking. SO I may or may not post depending on how everything edits together haha)
And ON to the Table of Contents!
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