We Be Pirates
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Anyone have any ideas or experience on the best way to do "the last day"? Do you leave early and get going or take late flights to make the most of it? SUGGESTIONS PLEASE!! We are returning in 285 days...!!:xmas:
We drive and it is about an 18 hour trip. We are frequent visitors, at least once a year, so the departure isn't as tramatic as it is for some. After coffee and some pastries at our villa we'll try to get on the road by 5 or 6am. The drive down and/or back are part of vacation and we enjoy them. Lots of CD's in the player as we begin planning the next trip. We'll talk about what our favorite part of this trip was and what we need to be sure to do next time. After a couple of hours on the road it is time for Cracker Barrel and a pit stop.
We drive down from Canada and it is usually a 20+ hour car ride home (crazy as it sounds, we usually drive straight through on the way home :hammer, so we usually sleep in a little on that last day, wake up and eat, pack the van and check-out of the Pop, and drive over to Blizzard Beach or Typhoon Lagoon and relax and swim for a few hours before hitting the road for the LONG drive home.
We did this the first trip due to Typhoon Lagoon not being opened until that last day of our vacation due to its winter rehab. It happened another time also. Now last year's trip, I believe we just hit the road at 9am so that we could try to make it home at a decent time.
I recommend Prozac and plenty of Kleenex.
Oh my dear you are sooo right...we left in 2010 with no return plans and were all basket cases...booked before we left two weeks ago this time!! After reading all the ideas we are going with the latest flight idea....extra MK time (Yay pirates)....aaaaaand added on an extra day. :sohappy: Looking forward to Royal Rooms at Christmas! Still debating DVC...but thats another thread altogether.
You do a few hours in the water park and then a 20 hour drive straight through?
Bless your heart.
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