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  1. Mikester71

    Some good tips for saving money?

    We have a "Disney Vacation Account" that money goes into each pay. Other than that, we usually use our income tax return to pay off most of our trip, or my wife's vacation pay when she would get it. We usually book our trips early (room only reservation until package deal comes out later in...
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    2015 room only

    We've always booked our trips a year or so out so that we could make payments on it. When they release the package prices for the following year, we would go in and have our CAA agent cancel our room-only reservation and rebook it as a package deal and pay it off right then and there. Then we...
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    Waves of Disney Obsessiveness

    It definitely comes in spurts. After our last trip in 2011, I honestly didn't know when we would be able to make it back down to the "World" and for some reason, I stopped coming on here. Before that, this was the site I was on the most on any given day. I was a night owl and would spend an hour...
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    If you didn't go to Disney

    :D Couldn't agree more! It's definitely nicer, or should I say easier, to book that next WDW trip when BOTH of you want to be there just as much as the other. :D
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    Crowds this week

    Canadian March/Spring Break is just ending this weekend, so that can probably account for the big crowds this past week. I know all four of our trips were during this time and the parks were CRAZY packed the whole week we were there with most of the parks doubling up some of their shows...
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    If you didn't go to Disney

    The funniest thing in my case is that I was the one who thought I had the "problem" of only wanting to vacation down in WDW after our first vacation back in 2005. The family has been 3 more times since and my wife and I are planning on heading back down in April 2015, just the two of us this...
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    booking two rooms

    Actually, we found out the hard way what @daisyduckie is talking about. After arriving at Pop on our first WDW trip, we checked in and started to walk to our rooms when it dawned on us that the room numbers seemed way different from each other. After arriving at the rooms, we saw that we had...
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    If you didn't go to Disney

    Definitely would put that money into renovating our house. And our house needs A LOT of renovating, let me tell you! My wife and I decided to wait until the kids move out (they are 18 and 22) before chipping away at it though. We wanted to do the family WDW trips and all that while the kids were...
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    It's Way Too COLD!!!!

    It was near 50 degrees on Wednesday and sunny out, a snow blizzard with half a foot or more of snow on Thursday, and back to 50 degrees and sunny on Friday up here. Talk about a strange few days of weather!! SO sick of this winter! It has more than overstayed its welcome this year! Went out to...
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    Trip Report Live Trip Report: The Disney Month

    LOVED your trip report and all the pictures! It got me excited for our trip next April, even though it is a little over 400 days away still. It's going to be our first trip, sans kids! Yep...just me and the Mrs., and I can't wait! Thanks for sharing your wonderful trip report with all of us! :)
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    Disney all booked up.

    My wife likes to pick up everything from blankets and quilts to watches to bags to hoodies and so on. Myself, I tend to always lean towards clothing for some reason. My favourite is usually a t-shirt with "Spring Break" followed by whatever year it is, since we always go on our March/Spring...
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    2014 Planning DVD has arrived...

    Received mine last week, but haven't had a chance to pop it in and watch it yet! :)
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    booking two rooms

    We were given an extra room card (with no charging privileges) on a couple of occasions during previous trips to Pop Century to accommodate the situation of having adults and children spread between 2 adjoining rooms. The CM's at the front desk always did their best to make sure we had cards for...
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    Riding with a Heart Condition

    Glad to hear that you are doing better. I can only imagine how shocked you were to have to go through all of that at a relatively young age. You see, I am 43 and suffered a minor heart attack last February myself. Luckily for me, there was no blockage or damage detected when they sent me for the...
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    How many of you are dreading your WDW trip?

    I "liked" your comment for the first part of it, @Big Phil. As someone who is FINALLY just climbing out of a financial situation themselves after 2 long years, all I can say is stay strong, good luck, and always remember...there is always an end in sight and bluer skies ahead!
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    2015 Dates

    We are going at the end of April next year and will probably go into our local CAA office and book the room part of the trip when my wife gets her income tax return some time this month. We've always booked our trips a good year or more out, mainly because my brother and mother-in-law used to...
  17. Mikester71

    April 27-May 3?

    Loving the feedback you are getting in this thread, LSUxStitch! We have only gone on our Spring Break (middle of March up here) and are planning our first trip, sans kids, next year around the end of April. After looking at when Easter falls and factoring in the Spring Break crowds and the...
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    Best bags for Disney

    I've used everything from the dreaded pack (okay, so it was my first trip and I was rookie traveler who didn't know any better :facepalm:) to a camera bag with a shoulder strap to a cross body backpack to finally a drawstring backpack on our last trip and I have to say that I prefer a nice...
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    Arriving March 23rd and nervous

    Canadian March Break is March 8-16th this year for most of us up here. I know our previous four trips were all during our March/Spring Break and it was CRAZY packed down there!
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