Hello, this is my first Disney World trip report on wdwmagic. I re-found these boards a few months back and have been reading trip reports and other information while looking forward to my October vacation. I learn a lot of great things and useful tips from everyone here. I am excited to relive my adventures with all of you! I am a little behind in posting this, but im hoping to have the whole report up soon as we are going back to Disney in about a month
I guess this is the part where I tell you a little bit about myself. I am 25 and have been going to Disney parks since before I was born (literally…lol). All of the trips I can actually remember though have been to Disney World. As a family we always try to figure out how many times we have been, but we lost track a while ago after hit 20. Given that, this trip was full of firsts for us. This marked the first time that we have gone to Disney in the Fall, that we have gone to the Food and Wine Festive as well as the first time that we have attended any of the special parties at Magic Kingdom (MNSSHP). This is also the first time that I am spending more than a day in Disney as a vegan; I know, I know what was I thinking booking my vacation during the food and wine festival. Well, at least I still got to drink the wine .
Traveling with me this time is my mother, my aunt and my sister (21). My sister is the only one willing to step in front of the camera however…lol.
This trip really started the day before we left. After a long day at work I was going directly from work to stay at my parent’s house for the night as we would be leaving early and they live closer to the train station. We spend the evening mostly double checking that we had packed everything that we would need and trying to get to sleep early…
So i just realized that the last part of this trip report never posted...sorry about that.
Once we were through with lunch we made our way out of the park. We took the monorail to the TTS and transferred to the Epcot line.
We wanted to go to Epcot to pick up any last minute souvenirs and walk around the countries one more time. I don’t really remember anyone getting anything from the festival booths this time. One thing we did notice was the crowd difference compared with the weekend. There was hardly anyone there so it was a nice chance to relax and walk around.
My aunt wanted to try and get another bracelet in Germany, but the woman who makes them was not there that day so she will just have to wait for her next trip. I made a stop in China to buy a bracelet that I had see earlier in the trip.
While we were walking around we used my sister’s fabulous Disney App that we had been using the whole time to see when the show times were for Beauty and the Beast at DHS. This is also a must do for me as it is my favorite live show in the parks. Beauty and the Beast has always been my favorite Disney movie. The show was going to be at 5:15 so we decided to use the back entrance to walk over. There was of course a quick stop at the Bakery to use some of the remaining snacks we had. Nothing on offer at the bakery is vegan so I walked down to the sweets shop to see thinking that they would have Toffuti or Rice Dreams ice cream that I could have. Wrong again, I was disappointed to learn that they don’t have any dairy free ice creams available like most of the other ice cream places on property. The girl behind the counter was completely baffled by the idea that you could even have dairy free ice cream…
Once they finished their snack we continue our journey. It started to rain a bit when we were only half way there so we started getting a little worried. It was too far to go back and get the boat but the Studios were still a ways away. It stopped fairly quickly and luckily it didn’t rain for the rest of the night.
Once we got there most of the rides had really long lines so we shopped in the store for a bit and got something to eat before the show. We ate at Fairfax fair across from the theater. My mother, sister and aunt got combinations of chicken and ribs. I was able to get a veggie burger on the GF roll and fries, but just like at Pecos Bills it was a process. It did take less time overall here though. I was really excited to learn that they have divvies cookies here too and a lot of the counter service places don’t have them and usually I just have to get grapes. This place just jumped the list of places to eat at DHS. If only now they could put it inside and air-conditioned for the summer. ..
Once we were done it was time to go in and get seats for the show. The show was good, but not great. Belle was really good and had a great voice; however, it must have been training time because Gaston didn’t know his lines. It was actually really funny as someone who had seen it before, but I feel bad for the ppl who were seeing it for the first time. He kept saying his lines out of order so they didn’t make any sense with what was going on in the scene and would just throw out the “cue” lines at random when we realized he missed them. It was interesting to say the least.
My mom and aunt were done by this time and decided to go back and start packing. My sister and I wanted to stay and see the 7:30 Fantasmic. This was another show that I hadn’t seen in a few years. In the summer you have to go find a seat so early that we don’t want to wait that long. The show was great. They were having some lighting issue on a few of the barges but it didn’t really take away from the experience.
Once the show was over we stopped in the villains store to use the last of our snack credit and made our way back to the resort. There were only the two of us and one other family with two girls on the bus. They were so cute and spend the whole time telling us about all the things that they had done and seem so far on their trip. It is nice to see some of the Disney magic through the eyes of a child every once and a while.
Once we were back at the resort we packed as much as we could that night and went to bed.
We were up early the next morning as we had to be out the door by 5:30. We finished packing and said our good- bye for nows. We quietly made our way out of Disney World and back to reality.
