We had free C/S dining on our last booking and paid to upgrade to T/S. I kept all the receipts and crunched the numbers when we got back and it worked out easily good money wise for just the two of us .
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MouseDreaming
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For what it's worth, I have heard not good things about that Orlando Giordanos. Of course, I have never eaten at that one.
MouseDreaming
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I have been questioning that myself. Why indeed? Pick me up on the way to liberate @figmentfan423 , please.If I can slide through the downhill ice that is the only out of the immediate ice hill here I'm in. If I miss, well I'm in the river. Lord help us. Why do we all live here? There are palms.
<Jealous>Thanks for all your responses about my choice of park for the disney after dark event! I really appreciate the input. We chose the MK, and I just bought the tickets! Woo hoo!
Goofyernmost
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My lease ends this coming September. Last June I got a call from the dealership wondering if I were interested in turning it in now. At the time I was in the hospital battling the kidney stone/sepsus/staph infection. They called me a few weeks later to ask again. I reminded them that my lease wasn't due until Sept. 2019, the response was... Really? Looked it up and said with some surprise that I was right. Thanks, I was pretty sure anyway, so I guess that is a face saving way of not having to say that they made a mistake. Anyway, I'm not going to go over my mileage unless I decide to take a trip to Vermont this winter (I can assure you I am not going to do that). If I take a short trip to Florida I still might be well within the mileage requirement. I am wondering if they will call me again about it.
The question about insurance, from what I understand about it. Like has already been sent, if you have some major body repair needed your regular insurance will take care of it. I purchased, at the time, an very inexpensive policy that is supposed to cover and dings or scrapes or oddities that may still exist at the time I turn it in. I don't have many, just a few parking lot door spots and low parking curbs damage that I am confident that will cover. The last thing I wanted to do was have to run around getting those small things done at the time of turn in. They did tell me last June, while trying to get me in to upgrade to new, that they weren't interested in the mileage or any of that other stuff as long as it wasn't major.
Goofyernmost
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We are in the 60's right now. Golfing weather! The ground is wet but I won't melt in water. It has rained a lot here lately. Mostly at night though. After all those years of living in Vermont... 60 in January was a very, very rare occurrence.It only got up to 45 here yesterday.
High of 39 with rain most of today. Currently 37.
Even with the rain, still TSSFFBR weather...!!!!!
Tony the Tigger
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My dealer's finance guy actually talked me out of that! I kept waiting for the hard-sell, then it seemed like we were almost done. I asked about it, and he showed me a page on the computer of all the recently returned leased vehicles. Most had no extra charges. A few had $100-$400 charges. He said the insurance was something like $755 so don't bother, they want you to be happy and lease again.
OK!
Also I was surprised how much the payments varied at different dealerships. I drove myself nuts for about a week researching cars, prices, etc., going back and forth from buying to leasing. If buying, I was looking at a recent used "certified" Honda CR-V, expected to be very reliable, and had a nice ride for that category. As I went more toward leasing, I ended up with the Toyota RAV4 XLE.
One Toyota dealer was offering $1000 down and $336/month. I almost went for it, but thought it wasn't much of a discount for the "big 2018 leftover sale." Another Toyota dealer called me the next morning, was surprisingly forthcoming with details and pricig over the phone, and offered "sign and drive" (really $500 down to cover first month's payment, title transfer, tags, etc.) and $282/month. (That's a $54/month difference plus $500.) They also offered a little more for my garbage trade, which brought it down a smidge more. So I decided to throw down another $1,000 and ended up with $242/mo. including tax.
What happens at the end I guess depends on how much I like the car, what the offer for me to buy it is, etc.
But it's nice to drive something with modern features for a change!
93boomer
Premium Member
Well I’m jealous of the cruise.
There are still cabins available ...Well I’m jealous of the cruise.
93boomer
Premium Member
Ohhh don’t tempt me!!
Rista1313
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Feel free to call them too! You don't have to wait for them to call...
In my last lease I was hit in a parking lot, and my insurance paid to get it fix, minus deductible, just as if it were my own (michigan is a no fault state)
Figgy1
Premium Member
I take it he eats meat
Figgy1
Premium Member
I think we're going to need a party bus
Making stops along route 80 into the NYC metro area south to 78 @SteveBrickNJ hope that's not too far out of the way to 81 sorry @MySmallWorldof4 and @StarWarsGirl you'll have to travel just a bit to meet up with us along 81 down into NC before getting to FLORIDA! Does that route work for everybody?
Figgy1
Premium Member
I'll just stow away in your cabin. I don't take up much room
Rista1313
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I dozed off just long enough to be able to function today
Lucky!
MouseDreaming
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Ouch. Do you even need to be told to go to your cage, at this point?
ajrwdwgirl
Premium Member
I think we're going to need a party bus
Nope you have to swing over to Wisconsin too. It's only a tad bit out of your way....
