kittylady1972
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- Oct 20, 2003
Having done several EPCOT Festivals over the years: many Food and Wines, a few Flower and Gardens, some of the Holidays, we had never managed Festival of the Arts.
But that's about to change.
Searching for a fun Valentine's Day trip, not necessarily on Valentine's Day as we tend not to go out on that day because it's always crazy. Still any reason to celebrate...not that we need a reason. So of course I started stalking for cheap flights.
Flights from our local airport to MCO on Spirit are SUPER cheap...especially if only going for a day or two and we've become Spirit experts. They seem to get a bad reputation but I feel like most of the people (because I was one of them) bash them having never tried them. Yes there are a lot of extra fees, all stated up front on the website so no reason to complain about them. They charge for seats up front, but if you don't pay they assign you one at checkin for free (yeah no cattle call). Free personal item (and you'd be amazed what you can pack in a Spirit sized personal item bag if you try) but you pay for carry on luggage and checked luggage. I could go on and on. However when I can buy TWO roundtrip tickets on Spirit to Florida for a quick overnight trip in February and they cost me $75....TOTAL for two not EACH...why not?
Our DVC Membership means "free" room if I can find one. No luck initially so we booked a room at Pop for about $230. Our plan was to fly early in the morning, spend our day at Universal (because we have annual passes there that cost me $200 and Disney still won't sell me a WDW Annual pass), have a nice dinner at Flying Fish (a favorite), stay overnight and then come back the next afternoon.
However I'm me...and always stalking...so when I found that I would save us $230 by booking a free DVC room...and I could get 1 Day Park tickets for about that price...why not?
Yet I still wanted some time for Mardi Gras at Universal...so I cancelled my super cheap flights...and booked a return flight the next day that was later to allow a full day at Universal...on SWA (please don't fail me now...thankfully I'll have no luggage). I have SWA points...easy. Now I just have to rebook my outbound day 1 morning flights which should cost me less than $50.
What one Disney park should we visit for the day? Well we will be getting in after rope drop, and we hope to stay in the EPCOT area (still stalking for a DVC Resort there...right now we are at Copper Creek/Wilderness Lodge), and we have dinner at Flying Fish...so EPCOT makes sense. Which means we could experience Festival of the Arts for the first time.
Gotta say I'm pretty excited about this trip, and since our plan is to visit the booths, I will try to remember to update with our experiences in terms of food and drinks. DH is a beer person, I am not (but a good cider or wine will work) so I'll see what we can try and report back here.
It's been six months since we've visited Walt Disney World, and we already have a longer planned trip in March, but this will hopefully be a fun and short getaway.
Stay tuned as I finalize our plans!
But that's about to change.
Searching for a fun Valentine's Day trip, not necessarily on Valentine's Day as we tend not to go out on that day because it's always crazy. Still any reason to celebrate...not that we need a reason. So of course I started stalking for cheap flights.
Flights from our local airport to MCO on Spirit are SUPER cheap...especially if only going for a day or two and we've become Spirit experts. They seem to get a bad reputation but I feel like most of the people (because I was one of them) bash them having never tried them. Yes there are a lot of extra fees, all stated up front on the website so no reason to complain about them. They charge for seats up front, but if you don't pay they assign you one at checkin for free (yeah no cattle call). Free personal item (and you'd be amazed what you can pack in a Spirit sized personal item bag if you try) but you pay for carry on luggage and checked luggage. I could go on and on. However when I can buy TWO roundtrip tickets on Spirit to Florida for a quick overnight trip in February and they cost me $75....TOTAL for two not EACH...why not?
Our DVC Membership means "free" room if I can find one. No luck initially so we booked a room at Pop for about $230. Our plan was to fly early in the morning, spend our day at Universal (because we have annual passes there that cost me $200 and Disney still won't sell me a WDW Annual pass), have a nice dinner at Flying Fish (a favorite), stay overnight and then come back the next afternoon.
However I'm me...and always stalking...so when I found that I would save us $230 by booking a free DVC room...and I could get 1 Day Park tickets for about that price...why not?
Yet I still wanted some time for Mardi Gras at Universal...so I cancelled my super cheap flights...and booked a return flight the next day that was later to allow a full day at Universal...on SWA (please don't fail me now...thankfully I'll have no luggage). I have SWA points...easy. Now I just have to rebook my outbound day 1 morning flights which should cost me less than $50.
What one Disney park should we visit for the day? Well we will be getting in after rope drop, and we hope to stay in the EPCOT area (still stalking for a DVC Resort there...right now we are at Copper Creek/Wilderness Lodge), and we have dinner at Flying Fish...so EPCOT makes sense. Which means we could experience Festival of the Arts for the first time.
Gotta say I'm pretty excited about this trip, and since our plan is to visit the booths, I will try to remember to update with our experiences in terms of food and drinks. DH is a beer person, I am not (but a good cider or wine will work) so I'll see what we can try and report back here.
It's been six months since we've visited Walt Disney World, and we already have a longer planned trip in March, but this will hopefully be a fun and short getaway.
Stay tuned as I finalize our plans!
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