Recent content by J Hedge

Before the visit we just returned from I would have agreed with the OP completely. We visited in February and again in August, & the cast members were lackluster at best and rude at worst. But we just returned from a week & most of the cast members were fine - some even fantastic. None of the...

I have no desire to walk around a dismal dystopian settlement on some imaginary alien planet, & I consider myself to be a Star Wars fan (at least of the originals.) In years past, we've skipped Hollywood Studios many times on short trips due to lack of attractions that appeal to us. Toy Story...

Good point about the Mom's panel - I often wonder about their accuracy or the accuracy of any cast member, for that matter. Very often feels like a right hand not knowing what the left hand's doing scenario... I agree that she'll be able to use the fingerprint scanner herself, but last time the...

Thanks Queen! I found this question Poised to the Mom's panel on Disney's website. They said all we'll have to do is tell the cast member at the turnstile and they'll enroll Grandma's fingerprint for us.

I think I know the answer, but would like some confirmation. We took our 4 and 9 year old granddaughters to DW this past Feb. & bought them annual passes. I seem to recall that when we went through the turnstiles at the parks the girl's mom had to scan her fingerprint for the 4 y.o. We're going...

We bought annual passes last November planning to do what the OP suggests, since we can usually get cheap airfare out of KC and I can get decent offsite hotel deals through work. The "problem" we've had with that plan is that so far every "cheap" long weekend trip we've planned has turned into...

We went last November & stayed off site for a week. Ended up spending about 3K including the MVMCP tickets and the price of our annual passes to Disney and US. Went back for two weeks in February with 2 of the kids & 2 grand kids - split between Disney & US - & spent over 10K. Going again for a...

Disney does theming exceptionally well, as does Universal. We don't ride too many attractions (my wife has some health issues that prevent fast/aggressive movement) so much of our enjoyment of the parks comes from appreciation of the theming and atmosphere. That's part of the problem with GE -...

Yeah, this is what concerns me. We did our first MVMCP last year & it wasn't too bad, but it was still more crowded than I'd expected. I think they'd capped tickets for the Christmas party at 20,000, & with the Halloween party at 30,000 I'm just not sure it'd be worth it. But it's a moot point...

I know in the past the first MNSSHP of the season has been really crowded, but what are the chances the second party will be crazy? I've read where the last few years the parties were selling out at 30,000 people & I'm not sure it would be worth it. We're thinking about going on the 20th.

Love Spring Hill Suites/Town Place Suites at Flamingo Crossing, but their shuttles aren't free and stop running to the parks at around noon (not sure about returning to the hotel - never actually used the shuttles.) Don't know about shuttles to Universal. The only non Disney hotels that I'm...

Currently booked Sept. 16 -20, but thinking about cancelling and going for Nov. 21 - 25 instead. Hoping the initial rush will have died down a bit (at least in all the parks except HS.) No illusions about riding anything at GE.

1390 miles - too far to drive in one day, but we do it anyway...

Not seeing it on Google maps or Bing, but I remember reading something about a solar farm shaped like Mickey somewhere in that area. Could that be it?