Trip Report From Snowy Skies to a Big Suprise – 8 Days, 6 Parks, 3 Hotels and 1 Empty Wallet (COMPLETED)

Introduction – This will be a summary trip report, hitting the highlights of our combination Universal-Disney trip spanning April 28 – May 6, 2018 (the latter half of which the kids didn’t know about ahead of time!).

Pretrip Report here: https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads...-surprise-an-april-may-pretrip-report.939963/.

If you want to skip over Universal and go straight to the Disney World leg, scroll down to Day 4.

And now, without further ado... (Here's the last page of our countdown clipboard from the kitchen, so it must be time to go!)


[Every day beginning a month before we left, we took a number off of the countdown clipboard, counting down from 30 to 0, and read a slip of paper from the Mason Jar, which had photos and descriptions of various Universal attractions and restaurants, along with details about our hotel. We thought it would be a good way to educate the kids about Universal ahead of time.]
 
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Gurt

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Thanks! Well, you "can't win 'em all," even at Disney. I really think our 'Ohana experience was more of an anomaly and it wouldn't keep us from going back. California Grill will probably be on my grudge list forever, though! [silently shaking my fist in the air] ;) At least we had really terrific experiences with Yak & Yeti and Via Napoli to balance it all out!

Yak & Yeti was one of my fav's meals of our last trip.
 

mmelka

Active Member
Awesome trip report! I really want to up my trip report game after reading yours. You also make me really wish I lived closer to WDW and could splurge on a DVC membership.
 

Weather_Lady

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Original Poster
I LOVE your son's Stitch hat! Did he get it while you were there?

Thanks! Funny you should ask. No, we didn't get it at WDW (nor do I think they sell it). My son bought it with birthday money he'd saved at a "Box Lunch" store in our local mall, months ago -- and then LOST it during our Disney trip (left it on a monorail)! We put in a claim to WDW lost and found, to no avail. Box Lunch doesn't carry it anymore, but I found it online at Spencer's and bought a new one to replace the one he lost, here --

https://www.spencersonline.com/prod...MI7sSLpoGf2wIViAOGCh3UIwdcEAQYAyABEgJD1PD_BwE
 

simbastitch

Member
Thanks! Funny you should ask. No, we didn't get it at WDW (nor do I think they sell it). My son bought it with birthday money he'd saved at a "Box Lunch" store in our local mall, months ago -- and then LOST it during our Disney trip (left it on a monorail)! We put in a claim to WDW lost and found, to no avail. Box Lunch doesn't carry it anymore, but I found it online at Spencer's and bought a new one to replace the one he lost, here --

https://www.spencersonline.com/prod...MI7sSLpoGf2wIViAOGCh3UIwdcEAQYAyABEgJD1PD_BwE

Thank you! they have so much cool Stitch stuff! Doesn't look like they ship to the UK though :( Maybe I'll get it shipped to my family in the US :)
 

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