DisneyMandC
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- Joined
- Feb 18, 2015
Just checked our February SW flight from MCO to RIC and it dropped 3100 miles! Rebooked and got 6200 SW RR back in my account.
What did we do before packing cubes?!
I used gallon zip lock bags to pack my daughters stuff and would label for each day to make her daily dressing easy. For hubby and I when the roll vacuum seal bags came around I would use those for our bulky items to help compress.
We are so basic (and I mean simple) with our stuff we use. My parents gave us our luggage and I’m sure we’ll use it for a long time until we absolutely have to get a new set. I don’t even know what brand it is lol. We have backpacks that we’ve kept for many years. My purse is a tiny purse from kohl’s. We use drawstring bags at Disney too, just adidas ones. I think we’re just very simple people.No....Me either.....I carry the same bag at home and an old school Disney drawn string bag at Disney....
[/QUOTE]It looks like if you do the 5 nights with the one free night, you get the cheapest one free. So 12/23-28 is 210k with 12/23 (40k) being free.
I feel like I’ve always seen it on the website when I wanted to find it. I can’t say for sure that it’s always there though.Can you only do flexible dates at certain hotels? Sometimes I see it and other times I look for it like crazy then wonder if I imagined it before.
I never joined Sam's Club with previous offers, but I am considering this if I can stack it with something else:
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I had mine stack with an offer of $45 towards an online purchase plus a Dosh offer when I did mine. So I came out way ahead! Plus I just a $45 GC from them because they thought something didn’t work.
Thank you! I should have checked Doc ... I feel silly LOL
just basically throw everything in, squish it down, and pray it zips.
I feel so special to be thought of lol I told my family I need a Cinderella fleece blanket for Christmas, or the Castle.I’m at Dave and Busters and thought of you!
For only 1100 tickets you can have a pillow that turns into a blanket!
I’m joking but honestly there is a DCL version that looks super similar.
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I'm really so very proud of you! You are doing something totally awesome that will WOW your wife and dd's! I can't wait to hear how much they love it (and you for getting them this cool room!!!).At any rate - I booked a Rock Star room and now I'm a ROCK STAR DAD!!! I'm pretty pumped about this if you can't tell. I just needed to look in the mirror and realize that sometimes point optimization isn't the only factor! Sometimes you just gotta do something AWESOME!
Thanks @wendow - I'm glad I have friends like you and others here who remind me that churning decisions don't ALWAYS have to be made solely on point optimization and dollars and cents.I'm really so very proud of you! You are doing something totally awesome that will WOW your wife and dd's! I can't wait to hear how much they love it (and you for getting them this cool room!!!).
So is this room a complete surprise? Will your wife or either daughter know prior to arrival!?!Thanks @wendow - I'm glad I have friends like you and others here who remind me that churning decisions don't ALWAYS have to be made solely on point optimization and dollars and cents.
Also WOW - I just checked and there was only 1 Rock Star suite available for that night!! Somebody must've cancelled opening it up. It's not available again for our nights on AAvacations and on the Universal direct website. Who knows why I randomly decided to check that at 11pm tonight...seriously, I had given up and hadn't checked in a couple weeks. WOW - super pumped now and feeling even better about the redemption since I know I snagged the LAST ONE!!!
My wife knows - but I'm not telling the girls. It will be a complete surprise to them! (I'm gonna earn that dad of the year award in their hearts over this one!!!)So is this room a completely surprise? Will your wife or either daughter know prior to arrival!?!
WOW! I can only imagine how excited they will be. The looks on their faces will be pricelessMy wife knows - but I'm not telling the girls. It will be a complete surprise to them! (I'm gonna earn that dad of the year award in their hearts over this one!!!)
I've had so many things line up for this trip. This is also the trip where I was originally only going to get 2 park days (with maybe a couple of hours on Sat) and then was able to move up to an earlier SW flight so we'll get all of Sat afternoon/evening and 2 full park days after that. My parents and sister & husband are coming. It's gonna be an awesome trip! (Hopefully all goes well with my wife and the flight...that's the only concern at this point).
So I did a little thing tonight ... I changed my November Universal Hotel booking to AA miles (was previously with URs).
Special Shout-out to @wendow who has been super patient with what had to be my tremendously annoying musings and constant over-analyzing! So back in August I discovered that the Hard Rock had a "Future Rock Star" suite - and it was available with AA miles. (But for some reason it does not show with URs...and never did).
If you haven't checked it out before, here's a room tour I watched when I initially got interested in this room. I TOTALLY didn't realize it at the time but it's by that Tim Tracker dude!
At any rate - it's an AWESOME room (especially for a guy who has a daughter who's current career ambition is "pop star"). So I was back and forth on whether to change my UR 2queen room to this awesome suite with my AA miles. It was substantially more expensive so that's why I was pausing, and analyzing, and calculating, and over-analyzing (you get the picture). Well I finally decided in mid-August that if AA miles didn't come for Disney in the next week or so that I'd probably book the room. Well, while I was waiting Disney out...the room sells out for Sunday night less than a week later. I was CRUSHED - it was only then that I realized how badly I wanted that room for my daughters. (And let's face it - for me and my wife too, it's a freakin' awesome room at 800sq. feet - seriously, watch the video!)...
Well...IT CAME BACK tonight! And after being gently nudged...ok ok, STRONGLY PUSHED by @wendow I jumped on it with my wife's AA miles. 130k AA miles has us locked into that awesome room and I can cancel the UR booking and get back 54k URs from that.
This also means that I'm not using AA miles for the 1st portion of my Disney split stay. I'm hoping to book on a Disney Visa discount in a week or 2. I'll look to use a TA to get one of those $100 gift card offers or something like that for booking an expensive package. The nice part about this is that I really wanted the dining plan for the first part of our trip since we have a bunch of super expensive meals planned (it actually will save us $200 believe it or not).
At any rate - I booked a Rock Star room and now I'm a ROCK STAR DAD!!! I'm pretty pumped about this if you can't tell. I just needed to look in the mirror and realize that sometimes point optimization isn't the only factor! Sometimes you just gotta do something AWESOME!
EDIT: I also put $9.90 on my CSR just because... even though I'm fairly certain on a hotel only booking with AA miles, that CSR doesn't give you any protection based on how it's worded, lol.
Garnet Hill is dangerous for me. But everything I get I love.
In a bizarre turn of events, I now know what’s beyond the locked double doors at the end of the hotel hallway.
It’s... a wedding reception??
@DisneyMandC @SouthFayetteFan Zombie Wedding...And they are all alive...right? Nobody is eating other people?
Sure, sure... that's what they want you to think!They appear to be alive... those are not blood spots pictured below on the floor, just rose petals.
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Yay! I always love reading reports anyways, but I'm also excited that this worked because I was hoping it would (and thinking it should count anyways)DH's Amex Plat airline credit covered our upgraded boarding at $40/pp