Our last trip to Disney was October 2010, and that was our first Disney trip as a couple. After being home for less than a week, we decided we needed to plan another trip immediately. After some discussion we settled on Christmas time, and when I say Christmas time I don’t mean just anytime during the two months long period that Disney has their decorations up, I mean CHRISTMAS - December 25! Yep, we’re those crazy people actually going to Disney from December 25th to January 3rd. We figured if we are going to hit one holiday while we are down there might as well hit them all…Christmas, New Years and my 25th Birthday (January 2). We are super excited about going so please no comments on how ridiculous it is during that time of year, trust me we know, we’ve read everything on this site (and others) about it and are well prepared for it! We will however accept helpful tips.
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Now that we have the dates out of the way, on to where we’re staying. When we were discussing where to stay after we finally decided our dates (that I had to convince my boyfriend a bit that we’d be fine going on Christmas day) we had knew that we wanted to go a little bigger than our last trip when we stayed at All-Star Movies. We had no problems with this resort at all, we actually liked it a lot actually, but this time around we wanted to stay at a moderate. We had rented a SeaRaycer at DTD last trip and really liked the look of the Port Orleans resorts, one of my uncles also stayed at POR with his family the same time we were there and we went over to hang with them for a couple hours and he raved about the place. With this info in mind we decided that we like the old Bayou feel a little more than the French Quarter (what do we know though, honestly) so we booked POR.
We were pretty excited about staying at POR but the more we looked into the crowds at the hotels at the time we’re down there and from what we read it seems that POR is one of the busiest. My boyfriend’s family had stayed at CBR with his little brother and sister a few years back and they still haven’t stopped talking about it so we looked into CBR and decided that we could definitely stay there and enjoy it. CBR wasn’t just a hotel we picked out of the air it was on our list of places we were thinking about staying but it was definitely third behind the two Port Orleans resorts. Eventually we switched our reservation over to CBR and I think I can say we both couldn’t be happier. We don’t mind a big resort or having to walk a good amount to get places; we’re both young and have no children so it’s just us that we have to deal with.
Now that I’ve somehow managed to stretch where we’re staying into two unnecessarily long paragraphs about our decision making processes I feel that I should mention who we are. First there’s me, Lexi (Alex to anyone I didn’t go to college with or that doesn’t know me from this site. Then there’s AJ (ArtieJim on this site, he wrote our previous trip report which you can find here - October 2010 Trip Report).
We both had a secret love of Disney the first six months or so we dated until one of us brought up how much we love the soundtracks from Aladdin and Lion King and AJ suggested we should go to WDW one day. We both kind of chuckled about that and then he started looking into it for fun and realized it was much more affordable for us than we thought it would be for the budget we would have to set. Soon enough we booked and we were on our way.
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Now that we have the dates out of the way, on to where we’re staying. When we were discussing where to stay after we finally decided our dates (that I had to convince my boyfriend a bit that we’d be fine going on Christmas day) we had knew that we wanted to go a little bigger than our last trip when we stayed at All-Star Movies. We had no problems with this resort at all, we actually liked it a lot actually, but this time around we wanted to stay at a moderate. We had rented a SeaRaycer at DTD last trip and really liked the look of the Port Orleans resorts, one of my uncles also stayed at POR with his family the same time we were there and we went over to hang with them for a couple hours and he raved about the place. With this info in mind we decided that we like the old Bayou feel a little more than the French Quarter (what do we know though, honestly) so we booked POR.
We were pretty excited about staying at POR but the more we looked into the crowds at the hotels at the time we’re down there and from what we read it seems that POR is one of the busiest. My boyfriend’s family had stayed at CBR with his little brother and sister a few years back and they still haven’t stopped talking about it so we looked into CBR and decided that we could definitely stay there and enjoy it. CBR wasn’t just a hotel we picked out of the air it was on our list of places we were thinking about staying but it was definitely third behind the two Port Orleans resorts. Eventually we switched our reservation over to CBR and I think I can say we both couldn’t be happier. We don’t mind a big resort or having to walk a good amount to get places; we’re both young and have no children so it’s just us that we have to deal with.
Now that I’ve somehow managed to stretch where we’re staying into two unnecessarily long paragraphs about our decision making processes I feel that I should mention who we are. First there’s me, Lexi (Alex to anyone I didn’t go to college with or that doesn’t know me from this site. Then there’s AJ (ArtieJim on this site, he wrote our previous trip report which you can find here - October 2010 Trip Report).
We both had a secret love of Disney the first six months or so we dated until one of us brought up how much we love the soundtracks from Aladdin and Lion King and AJ suggested we should go to WDW one day. We both kind of chuckled about that and then he started looking into it for fun and realized it was much more affordable for us than we thought it would be for the budget we would have to set. Soon enough we booked and we were on our way.
