Hi again everyone…did you miss me? LOL. Unfortunately, despite @Tuvalu ’s promised/promotion of a non-existent November trip report that I was supposed to write, I just got way too busy. I kind of dropped off the WDWMagic radar for a while, but now I’m slowly coming back…which is great because it’s just in time for…
Our annual August pre-trip report.
Here’s the details
Who
Tammy and I
Our recent high school graduate Steph (I have no idea where the years went)
And our “just finished his first year of high school" son Liam.
Dates: August 11th to the 21st
If you’ve read any of my previous trip reports, you may realize that this is a bit earlier than our usual trips. There is a method to my madness however. We have annual passes that expire on the 20th of August (we got them on our last August trip since we were going to be there in November (2018) for the World Karate Championships). We decided to move our trip up about two weeks so as to take advantage of not having to buy park tickets.
Where: Somewhere we haven’t stayed before...Old Key West. We booked a 1 bedroom. We’re looking forward to staying here to check this one off the list. After this stay only the GF will be left on the list of DVC resorts we haven’t stayed at (until the Riviera resort opens)
Anything new this trip: Yup, a few things
1) We’re renting a car – when we were down in November we rented a car and really loved the freedom and flexibility it gave us. It also really allowed us to see what life outside of the parks was like, and we kind of liked it. This fact, coupled with the sticker shock we had at some of the on-site restaurants we ate at when we were there last August (I e.g. almost $300 for ‘Ohana once tip and exchange (to CDN) are factored in), and we realized we would actually end up quite a bit ahead even with the cost of the rental car, if we ate off property more (and there were a lot of restaurants we liked offsite)
2) Since we’ll have a car and, as mentioned earlier, we don’t need to buy Disney park tickets…We’re going to Universal. They have a ticket deal for Canadians right now (5 day – 2 parks/day for $240). The kids have always wanted to go, and this seems like the best year to do it.
3) I picked up a GoPro, so I may try to get some interesting footage while we’re there
Anything else
Kind of…this may be our last trip for a while. We decided we’d probably take a year off after this one and then go back in 2020 when Galaxy’s Edge has opened and, hopefully, some of the madness will have died down. We’ll see how things work out, but that’s the plan for now.
Thanks for following along…
Our annual August pre-trip report.
Here’s the details
Who
Tammy and I
Our recent high school graduate Steph (I have no idea where the years went)
And our “just finished his first year of high school" son Liam.
Dates: August 11th to the 21st
If you’ve read any of my previous trip reports, you may realize that this is a bit earlier than our usual trips. There is a method to my madness however. We have annual passes that expire on the 20th of August (we got them on our last August trip since we were going to be there in November (2018) for the World Karate Championships). We decided to move our trip up about two weeks so as to take advantage of not having to buy park tickets.
Where: Somewhere we haven’t stayed before...Old Key West. We booked a 1 bedroom. We’re looking forward to staying here to check this one off the list. After this stay only the GF will be left on the list of DVC resorts we haven’t stayed at (until the Riviera resort opens)
Anything new this trip: Yup, a few things
1) We’re renting a car – when we were down in November we rented a car and really loved the freedom and flexibility it gave us. It also really allowed us to see what life outside of the parks was like, and we kind of liked it. This fact, coupled with the sticker shock we had at some of the on-site restaurants we ate at when we were there last August (I e.g. almost $300 for ‘Ohana once tip and exchange (to CDN) are factored in), and we realized we would actually end up quite a bit ahead even with the cost of the rental car, if we ate off property more (and there were a lot of restaurants we liked offsite)
2) Since we’ll have a car and, as mentioned earlier, we don’t need to buy Disney park tickets…We’re going to Universal. They have a ticket deal for Canadians right now (5 day – 2 parks/day for $240). The kids have always wanted to go, and this seems like the best year to do it.
3) I picked up a GoPro, so I may try to get some interesting footage while we’re there
Anything else
Kind of…this may be our last trip for a while. We decided we’d probably take a year off after this one and then go back in 2020 when Galaxy’s Edge has opened and, hopefully, some of the madness will have died down. We’ll see how things work out, but that’s the plan for now.
Thanks for following along…
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