Just a little over a month away! Oh and I hope you had a great birthday today!!
Thank you
It was a really nice day, especially considering the kids were off from school! But that also meant 2 of my closest friends who are teachers were off so I got to go to lunch/shopping with them before going out to dinner with the family at night
I can't wait for F&G myself! And I'm really liking the lack of planning going into this trip myself. I feel like I have sooo many options...
I always feel like we have more options when we have less planned. It's kind of silly because even with plans they can be cancelled and changed, but I think we're just less inclined to changed things around when we've carefully planned stuff out.
Also guess who finally watched Avatar?!?!? I am now ready and super excited for Pandora opening!
So what did you think of it??? I'm glad we watched if a few weeks ago, too! Not that I fell in love with it but I definitely feel more ready for Pandora!
I'm glad you'll get a chance to see Wishes again. We're excited about a lot of things for our August Disneymoon, but I'm pretty disappointed that Wishes will be gone by then. I know I'm still pretty young, but I remember watching it as a kid on family trips and it's just so nostalgic and means a lot to so many of us...
I feel your disappointment
and I hope the new show is super good so you enjoy that just as much! I also understand the nostalgia part. I have fond memories of riding Peter Pan, HM and the Skyride with my grandmother when I was VERY small. Even though I completely understand why they had to take down the Skyway I was still very sad when they did so, and each time I ride PP and HM I think of my Grams
I agree that it's easier when you're a small group/adults to go without too much of a touring plan. That's how we're planning to spend a lot of the Disneymoon, with the exception of some ADRs and FPs
Awesome! Yeah for a major important and special event like that I'd do ADR's too, and we do FP's even when it's the 2 of us because, well, why not??
But I'm already worrying about DF's family who will be visiting for the first time for the wedding and won't likely be very open to the idea of arriving at the parks before rope drop and having a touring plan...there'll be 5 of them...Canadians in the heat of a Florida summer...most of them hate waiting in line for stuff...still working on persuading them... haha (I wish we could tour the park with them and give them a little guidance, but they're planning to do their park day [possibly only one day...] the day before our wedding, and we expect to be a little busy that day!
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Here's what I have to say about this: you can lead them to water but you can't make them drink
Give them a rough itinerary; give them pointers, tell them
even though it might not be their preference the benefits of getting to the park early are A,B,C. If they're doing a TS meal, maybe suggest it be so they have a break from the heat in the middle of the day; if not, give them some of the indoor attractions and suggest they do them during the afternoon. You definitely don't want to be worrying about them the day before the wedding!!
Can't wait to hear your review of RoL. I'm not sure how I'll feel about it, but I'm definitely looking forward to experiencing it at least once no matter what.
I'm not sure how I'll feel about it either.....after reading early reviews I'm afraid I won't love it
But like you mentioned I do like to experience anything new they do at least once. I did it with Jungle Book, Alive with Magic
lol!
Love your mini PTR looks like you squeezed a lot in a 3 night trip
Thanks! I wanted to do a tour but then with RoL debuting and Wishes ending I didn't want to add anything else. I'll say it again, thank goodness we go in May!
I'm so sad about Wishes but glad we are staying at the CR, plan to walk over to MK several nights during our 10 days stay.
CR is like the perfect resort to be at to catch Wishes multiple times
There are so many yummy new food and
choices at the F&G this year.
Right?? When the menus came out I couldn't believe it, they just kept going and going lol! And every booth has multiple things I need to try!
I saw someone else post it was your birthday so I wanted to wish you a belated
Once again thank you
Yes it was yesterday and it was very nice
I also wanted the chance to see ROL and on the advice of some other "experts" I have also booked a Dining Experience package...but with Tusker House instead of Tiffins. We just really enjoyed Tusker House and I couldn't see us getting our money's worth out of Tiffins...and probably won't for Tusker House either.
We have always enjoyed TH too and if the kids were with us I'd have booked that, but since it's just the 2 of us I want to try Tiffins. I know the kids won't like it so now's our chance! I did check for a FP once I got back from Universal but none were left; I could have possibly gotten one if I'd jumped online down there asap but I couldn't, so I'm glad I have the dining package for now.
I will have the added complication of the fact that Avatarland will be opening on our arrival day so I'll need to probably hold off until the end of our trip to even attempt to hit AK, which is going to be tough.
Man, I don't envy you that
Yeah no sugarcoating, it's going to be mobbed. Even when
@ArielSRL goes down not long after you I think she's in for some big AK crowds lol
I think you'll be fine with eating and drinking around the various booths. I just love the EPCOT park during Flower and Garden. We haven't been there during that time since I think May 2009?
I love it then, too! We went for the first time during F&G in 2013 as a family, then Steve and I went during it on our first kid-free trip in March 2015. We barely tried any of the food booths then so this will be *almost* a first for us
I have been following along since the beginning of your trip report but haven't commented yet so I thought I would now.
I'm glad you did, so
My husband and I are going for our adults only trip the exact same dates you are! Well, me be being me, I decided to change our flight to Friday night (3/24) because our original flight was scheduled to leave CT at 5AM on the 25th which means we would have needed to get up at like 1:30 in the morning to get ready. No way.
That's cool! And I don't blame you for switching to the night of the 24th. We'll be up around 3:30 in the morning on the 25th to catch our 6:30 flight which isn't ideal, but Steve likes to get down there early. The next flight would have gotten us to MCO around 2:30 which works fine for me but I let him do the choosing......
No way. We also leave late on the 28th (10pm direct flight home!) AND the flights were super cheap so I feel like we really lucked out.
Nice
We got $74 flights each way for this trip and then $80 ROUND TRIP for our May trip. We almost never have good luck so I'm waiting for the other show to drop
We just went in Sept and Dec but we took our kids so I am REALLY looking forward to his quick trip
Is this your first adults-only trip or have you done them before? I love going as a family but the kid-free trips are so different and so awesome. I'm fairly certain we'll all go in August but I'm 100% looking forward to these 2 trips with just Steve. What are your plans?