DuffyForPresident
wants to live at Epcot
- Joined
- Feb 18, 2016
Hi! My name is Crit. I’ve read and enjoyed a lot of trip reports on here, but this is my first one. It was a great trip, and I’m excited to relive it a bit while sharing it with the boards. I love my friends, but I don’t know anyone in real life who would want to hear about this trip with this level of detail, but I know I’ve come to the right place to find people who do want to hear all about it!
Let’s get some basic info out of the way so you know who and what you’re about to read about! This was a Christmas trip with my wife, Chrissy. We live just outside Boston. I’m a teacher. She’s a librarian. She grew up visiting WDW. I’d never been. But she introduced me to the magic on our first trip together in 2015. I instantly fell in love with the place, we got engaged there, we got married there, we have APs, we just joined DVC, and we just keep going back! This was our eighth trip together over the past three years. When we're not at WDW, we’re often listening to a Disney podcast, watching a Disney vlogger on YouTube, and/or planning the next trip. (Our next trip is already being planned for April. We are doing something new on that trip: bringing a few friends!) We love the history of the parks, the artistry, the design, the food, the drinks, and we are always excited to try the new things that open between our trips.
This is us:
Clockwise from top left: In front of the castle on a rainy (September 2016) day; celebrating our first anniversary at Paddlefish (April 2017); mini-golfing in New Hampshire with a dinosaur; at The Attic with our free APs that we got for getting married at Disney (December 2015).
During our seven other trips, we’ve been at different times of the year but for this trip we wanted to be at WDW for Christmas! We’ve been in January, where we were able to see the beautiful decorations, but we really wanted to wake up Christmas morning at our favorite place. We originally booked six nights (12/23-12/29) river view Port Orleans French Quarter, a place we’ve stayed and loved, but then a great deal from a travel agent came to our attention...so we called an audible and booked a standard view Boardwalk room (a new resort for us!) for the first four nights and POFQ (river view) for the last two nights. We actually paid less at Boardwalk ($300/night) than we did at POFQ ($303/night)! Both prices are pre-tax.
We are all-star hardcore planners, so we made our dinner reservations at 180 days and FP at 60 and got everything we wanted. We used Trello to map each day out carefully, and we were ready to go. The trip was lined up with lots of our faves (Boma, Garden Grill, California Grill, Polite Pig, Flight of Passage x3) but also a handful of NEW things we wanted to do for the first time, including: Wild Africa Trek, Candlelight Processional, Hoop Dee Doo Revue, Flying Fish, Jingle Bell Jingle BAM, Sunset Seasons Greetings, Ample Hills, and Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire (VR experience) at Disney Springs!
If that sounds like something you want to hear about, great! Because we’ve got all of that plus more to cover. Seven days of Disney World magic in all - and plenty of photos!
(Part 1 will be up this evening...stay tuned!)
Let’s get some basic info out of the way so you know who and what you’re about to read about! This was a Christmas trip with my wife, Chrissy. We live just outside Boston. I’m a teacher. She’s a librarian. She grew up visiting WDW. I’d never been. But she introduced me to the magic on our first trip together in 2015. I instantly fell in love with the place, we got engaged there, we got married there, we have APs, we just joined DVC, and we just keep going back! This was our eighth trip together over the past three years. When we're not at WDW, we’re often listening to a Disney podcast, watching a Disney vlogger on YouTube, and/or planning the next trip. (Our next trip is already being planned for April. We are doing something new on that trip: bringing a few friends!) We love the history of the parks, the artistry, the design, the food, the drinks, and we are always excited to try the new things that open between our trips.
This is us:
Clockwise from top left: In front of the castle on a rainy (September 2016) day; celebrating our first anniversary at Paddlefish (April 2017); mini-golfing in New Hampshire with a dinosaur; at The Attic with our free APs that we got for getting married at Disney (December 2015).
During our seven other trips, we’ve been at different times of the year but for this trip we wanted to be at WDW for Christmas! We’ve been in January, where we were able to see the beautiful decorations, but we really wanted to wake up Christmas morning at our favorite place. We originally booked six nights (12/23-12/29) river view Port Orleans French Quarter, a place we’ve stayed and loved, but then a great deal from a travel agent came to our attention...so we called an audible and booked a standard view Boardwalk room (a new resort for us!) for the first four nights and POFQ (river view) for the last two nights. We actually paid less at Boardwalk ($300/night) than we did at POFQ ($303/night)! Both prices are pre-tax.
We are all-star hardcore planners, so we made our dinner reservations at 180 days and FP at 60 and got everything we wanted. We used Trello to map each day out carefully, and we were ready to go. The trip was lined up with lots of our faves (Boma, Garden Grill, California Grill, Polite Pig, Flight of Passage x3) but also a handful of NEW things we wanted to do for the first time, including: Wild Africa Trek, Candlelight Processional, Hoop Dee Doo Revue, Flying Fish, Jingle Bell Jingle BAM, Sunset Seasons Greetings, Ample Hills, and Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire (VR experience) at Disney Springs!
If that sounds like something you want to hear about, great! Because we’ve got all of that plus more to cover. Seven days of Disney World magic in all - and plenty of photos!
(Part 1 will be up this evening...stay tuned!)