Carathryn
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Oct 28, 2015
TRIP REPORT INTRODUCTION
Hello everyone and welcome to my first WDW trip report! I am relatively new to posting on the boards but have been reading along for a while now. I wrote a TR for my Disneyland trip in January 2016 and am very excited to get back to writing and picture uploading. Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope to bring some enjoyment and maybe even some valuable information in this report. Look forward to a billion photos pictures of me, plenty of food pictures, and more Poly pictures than you probably thought was possible!So let's start off with the basic, slightly boring trip stats.
What: A trip to WDW and surrounding areas
When: February 24-29, 2016
Where: 2 nights All Star Sports, 2 nights Rosen Centre (offsite), 1 night Poly
Who: Me (Cara) with special appearances by my mom
Why: Does anyone need a reason why to go to DisneyWorld?
I wrote a mini pre trip report but since I started planning really late and was busy wrapping up my DL trip report, it is not a very valuable PTR. Also, a lot of plans changed so I will give a brief introduction here. Feel free to skip if you don't want to know my whole life story and how this trip came to be.
PERSONAL INTRODUCTIONS
Me- My name is Cara, I am a 22 year old college student who like many on this board loves Disney way more than the average person.
Here are some of my favorites:
Favorite Disney movies- Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Monsters Inc
Favorite Princess- Belle, followed closely by Ariel and Rapunzel
Favorite character (non princess)- James P. Sullivan
Favorite Disney parks- Disneyland, Animal Kingdom
Favorite Disney rides- Pirates of the Caribbean (DL version), Expedition Everest, Voyage of the Little Mermaid
Along for part of the ride is my Disney enabler, my mother. This is our 3rd time going to WDW together and we have also enjoyed many DLR trips over the last several years.
Our very first trip to DL which started our annual park visits
Our previous trip was October 2015
And here is my mom enjoying her all time favorite Disney treat in January 2016 at DL.
Here are some of her Disney favorites.
Favorite Disney movies- Frozen, Monsters Inc.
Favorite Princess- Snow White
Favorite character (non princess)- Goofy
Favorite Disney parks- Magic Kingdom
Favorite Disney rides- Tower of Terror
HOW THIS TRIP CAME TO BE
My mom is in the Air Force and was invited to help with a conference in Orlando February 26-28. She invited me down since she had a free hotel room and we decided to add on a night at Disney. Originally I was planning on relaxing, doing some resort hopping, and not doing my normal rushing around all over the place Disney vacation. Let's just say this plan quickly morphed into two extra nights at All Star Sports (I refuse to use the acronym for this resort) because flights were cheaper. Well with a full extra day staying on property how could I not visit a park? So then I bought a one day ticket to Magic Kingdom. Let's just say I ended up with more than one park day but I will share all about that later on. We also got a fantastic military rate on a theme park view club level room so this went from a quick, inexpensive trip, to a self indulgent, dream vacation ending with a magical first stay at my absolute favorite Disney resort. So without further ado, lets get started!
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