This will be our 7th trip to Disney. We started going in 2010 when our daughter was 3 years old. I had never been prior and I fell in love with it when she saw it the first time. This is our 5th trip as a family, but 7th trip for Lizzy and myself as we went June 2014 and April 2015 without DH/daddy.
I lost my job in March of this year. The good news is I was only unemployed for 2 months before finding a new, lower paying but better job with flexible hours, closer to my daughter's school and the work from home option! While unemployed I convinced my husband that we needed to take a Disney trip in October for my daughter’s fall break. I was feeling sad with nothing to look forward to and I was positive I would have a job by then plus my Disney fund was just about where it needed to be to pay for a trip so I plead my case. He gave me the okay and I started planning.
When it all started we were staying at POR from 10/3-10/10 and I was happy. We were planning to do eat out of pocket and do no dining plan. Then free dining came out. My agent tried everything to get me a reservation for this to no avail. I was ok with that! A week later she texted me at 10:30 pm on a Saturday saying that if I could move to Caribbean Beach in a Pirate room we could get the free dining. Plus we would have to move our flight one day earlier. I weighed the options by figuring how much we would spend out of pocket to eat would be more than upgrading to a pirate room and getting the free dining, we would be saving money, so why not. I hear the horror stories about how far the pirate rooms are from the food court, but in all honesty, we’ll live! We’d never stayed at this resort before and my daughter loved the looks of the pools so it was a done deal. Thankfully Southwest had a flight the night before at 5pm so we easily switched to that one. Who doesn’t like getting to the DME 12 hours earlier than originally planned?
The details:
Who:
Myself (43)
DH aka Grumpy (44)
DD – Lizzy
Additional Folks:
Grammy (age-she’d kill me if I told)
Dre (my sister)
Max (BIL)
Aidan (nephew)
will be joining us from 10/2-10/5
Where: Caribbean Beach – Pirate Room – 10/2-10/10
Why: Because I'm a nut and Disney is great! Plus, fall break for the kiddo from school so it's either find child care for a week, take a week off work and stay home or go to Disney. No brainer
I would love to have your comments on our plans, will you join me?
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I lost my job in March of this year. The good news is I was only unemployed for 2 months before finding a new, lower paying but better job with flexible hours, closer to my daughter's school and the work from home option! While unemployed I convinced my husband that we needed to take a Disney trip in October for my daughter’s fall break. I was feeling sad with nothing to look forward to and I was positive I would have a job by then plus my Disney fund was just about where it needed to be to pay for a trip so I plead my case. He gave me the okay and I started planning.
When it all started we were staying at POR from 10/3-10/10 and I was happy. We were planning to do eat out of pocket and do no dining plan. Then free dining came out. My agent tried everything to get me a reservation for this to no avail. I was ok with that! A week later she texted me at 10:30 pm on a Saturday saying that if I could move to Caribbean Beach in a Pirate room we could get the free dining. Plus we would have to move our flight one day earlier. I weighed the options by figuring how much we would spend out of pocket to eat would be more than upgrading to a pirate room and getting the free dining, we would be saving money, so why not. I hear the horror stories about how far the pirate rooms are from the food court, but in all honesty, we’ll live! We’d never stayed at this resort before and my daughter loved the looks of the pools so it was a done deal. Thankfully Southwest had a flight the night before at 5pm so we easily switched to that one. Who doesn’t like getting to the DME 12 hours earlier than originally planned?
The details:
Who:
Myself (43)
DH aka Grumpy (44)
DD – Lizzy
Additional Folks:
Grammy (age-she’d kill me if I told)
Dre (my sister)
Max (BIL)
Aidan (nephew)
will be joining us from 10/2-10/5
Where: Caribbean Beach – Pirate Room – 10/2-10/10
Why: Because I'm a nut and Disney is great! Plus, fall break for the kiddo from school so it's either find child care for a week, take a week off work and stay home or go to Disney. No brainer
I would love to have your comments on our plans, will you join me?
Up Next - Dining Reservations
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