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Starting to do my homework before our August trip. Last night I watched the second Star Wars film (in order of release date). Until recently I had never watched ANY of them! I enjoyed it. References to the characters are everywhere and it's all starting to make sense now. Should get through them...

Catching up. Happy belated anniversary! Love your Epcot photos at night! Spice Road looks great.

Sounds like it will be a great trip and not long to go now! It's a difficult call whether to make a dinner reservation at EPCOT but I'd probably pick a few options from World Showcase, chat about them beforehand then make a reservation. Leaving your options open could give you more...

WHICH PARKS & WHERE TO GO – DECISIONS, DECISIONS There are so many options for how to spend time in Florida other than the obvious choices of Disney and Universal. On our first Orlando trip, we drove out to the Kennedy Space Centre for a day which was fun and a nice change of pace. We also...

PRE-TRIP PIXIE DUST Tidying up my emails and gathering everything holiday-related into one folder, I found an email from BA from a few week ago that I obviously didn’t read carefully at the time. BA changed our flights! When I originally read it, I spotted a minor change to the timing of one of...

Life’s Little Essentials (A.K.A. Glow-in-the-Dark Cocktails!) For our 2013 Orlando trip, my inventive sister brought with her all the ingredients needed for a cocktail party by the pool at our villa (mostly non-alcoholic). We had flavours, colours, umbrellas, fruit, weird-shaped ice-cubes….. It...

Really enjoyed reading your trip report.

Thanks Fractal! Afternoon breaks definitely seem like the way to go.... The food does get great reviews at Sanaa. I think it will be a great place to eat on our first night at AKL. You're right, short of actually going on safari, where else could we do this. No point staying at AKL if we don't...

Sounds like fun! We love Boma too.

Following along! We stayed off-site on our last trip at the Terra Verde resort and we'll spend most of our next trip in August offsite too (Veranda Palms). There are pros and cons. Next time we're doing an on/offsite split so we get some of the benefit of both. Particularly if the trip is for...

Enjoying following along!

Welcome to the forum! I'm sure you'll find lots of knowledgeable folk here to help. It really will depend on your priorities. The Royal Table and BoG are hard to get dining reservations so, if you can score one, you may not get your first choice of date/time. Since the dining reservations open...

Glad it worked out for you! I have found the MDE software to be very temperamental. Often the app has been more reliable than the main web site. Some of the issues i’ve had I narrowed down to my default browser. Changing to Chrome worked better. Didn’t solve everything though....

It’s on my bucket list too. I made a reservation for our August trip via open table. Looks like fun.

FOOD, DRINK & ADVANCE DINING RESERVATIONS (‘ADR’s) We’ve always enjoyed eating out on our trips to Orlando. Everyone in the family enjoys good food and everyone in the family cooks, including the kids. All the kids tended to graduate to eating from the adult menus from about aged 6. Since...

Sounds like we'll be in good company! (If you hear singing along to the tunes on the rides that will probably be my nieces.) Looking at your countdown, you'll be at AKL pretty soon...

THE REVEAL We booked the flights and accommodation back in October last year. The boys and their girlfriends needed to know because they all have commitments/exams etc that needed to be factored in. My sister knew (since I had to ask if she’d lend me her daughters again). In fact most of the...

UNEXPECTED BONUS OF WRITING A PRE-TRIP REPORT It didn’t occur to me until after I began posting this that, there’s an unexpected bonus to writing about our plans online, particularly when planning for a larger party who all live in different places and different time zones. I emailed the thread...

WHERE TO STAY Our first night is at the Comfort Inn, Maingate. Given that we’ll arrive late we don’t need more than a place to sleep. We have two rooms booked – a regular double and a family room for 6. (It has one double bed and two sets of bunk-beds in an alcove off the main room which will...

WHEN ARE WE GOING? We fly to Tampa from Manchester (UK) on Sat 18th August, returning Sat 1st September. We’ve never been during the height of the summer before and I am apprehensive about the heat and the humidity. (Even before the accent, one can usually identify the Scots folk abroad by the...