I'm SOOO excited to officially announce that after 4 long years I will be returning back to Disney! I had known the possibility for a few months now, but I was afraid to put it out into the universe until we actually booked. Long story short, but there have been several trips that I got all excited about that never actually turned into fruition.
Let me introduce myself. My name is Melissa or Mel for short. I won't disclose my age, but lets just say I'm older than I look lol. I wrote my first trip report for my last trip (Aug 2016) and you can find it here if you like. For the First Time in Forever!- August 2016 Trip Report
On my last trip it was me, my brother Matt, my Mom and Dad, and my sister Steph and now BIL Steve. Spoiler alert for my last trip report, Steph and Steve got engaged on our last visit. (If you want to read all about it, check out the trip report- Haha Shameless plug!) This time around it's going to be just me, my parents, and Matt. We just booked earlier this afternoon so here is what we have so far.
Aug 18-19th- Room only reservation at Pop Century. We are planning on flying in mid afternoon/ early evening (still waiting for flights to be released). We aren't renting a car this time (more on that another time) so we are using Magical Express. We figure we can arrive, settle in to our rooms, maybe grab a swim, a bite to eat, and possibly a trip to Disney Springs or another resort. We can hit the ground running the next morning. Oh yea... We are all cramming in one room the first night. My Dad has been told he must bring his sleep apnea mask so he doesn't keep us all awake that night like the last trip.
Aug 19th-26th- Splitting into two rooms at Pop for the rest of our stay. We have 7 day Park Hopper Plus tickets and we are doing the standard dining plan w/ Memory Maker.
That's all we have so far! We always stay at a Value and our last trip was All Star Movies. We stayed at Pop in 2008 and loved it, so after doing the math we feel like the addition of the Skyliner makes the difference in price worth it to us.
Next step is analyzing the crowd calendars to start to determine a loose idea of which park we plan to spending the most in on which days. From there I can start figuring out our dining options. (I'm in charge of trip planning if you couldn't already tell). We have a few past favorites that have already been requested (BOG, O'Hana breakfast, Chef Mickey's) and we know that we definitely want to give Teppan Edo a try, I'll have to look at dining menus and see what has changed and what has things that everyone will eat. I can't believe I only have a little more than a month until I have to make ADRs!
I'll post more updates over the next few days (mainly updating how things have changed in our family from 2016 to now) but I just couldn't wait to officially announce that I"M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!!!!
Let me introduce myself. My name is Melissa or Mel for short. I won't disclose my age, but lets just say I'm older than I look lol. I wrote my first trip report for my last trip (Aug 2016) and you can find it here if you like. For the First Time in Forever!- August 2016 Trip Report
On my last trip it was me, my brother Matt, my Mom and Dad, and my sister Steph and now BIL Steve. Spoiler alert for my last trip report, Steph and Steve got engaged on our last visit. (If you want to read all about it, check out the trip report- Haha Shameless plug!) This time around it's going to be just me, my parents, and Matt. We just booked earlier this afternoon so here is what we have so far.
Aug 18-19th- Room only reservation at Pop Century. We are planning on flying in mid afternoon/ early evening (still waiting for flights to be released). We aren't renting a car this time (more on that another time) so we are using Magical Express. We figure we can arrive, settle in to our rooms, maybe grab a swim, a bite to eat, and possibly a trip to Disney Springs or another resort. We can hit the ground running the next morning. Oh yea... We are all cramming in one room the first night. My Dad has been told he must bring his sleep apnea mask so he doesn't keep us all awake that night like the last trip.
Aug 19th-26th- Splitting into two rooms at Pop for the rest of our stay. We have 7 day Park Hopper Plus tickets and we are doing the standard dining plan w/ Memory Maker.
That's all we have so far! We always stay at a Value and our last trip was All Star Movies. We stayed at Pop in 2008 and loved it, so after doing the math we feel like the addition of the Skyliner makes the difference in price worth it to us.
Next step is analyzing the crowd calendars to start to determine a loose idea of which park we plan to spending the most in on which days. From there I can start figuring out our dining options. (I'm in charge of trip planning if you couldn't already tell). We have a few past favorites that have already been requested (BOG, O'Hana breakfast, Chef Mickey's) and we know that we definitely want to give Teppan Edo a try, I'll have to look at dining menus and see what has changed and what has things that everyone will eat. I can't believe I only have a little more than a month until I have to make ADRs!
I'll post more updates over the next few days (mainly updating how things have changed in our family from 2016 to now) but I just couldn't wait to officially announce that I"M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!!!!
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Try to get refurb rooms at Pop they are super nice.
