dolbyman
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Would you guys please stop filling up our preferred spots ?
Although I really liked the trip in springtime (March), Blizzard Beach was soo nice and empty... ok it was only 16C (61F) but no lineups
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Although I really liked the trip in springtime (March), Blizzard Beach was soo nice and empty... ok it was only 16C (61F) but no lineups
Piebald
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Where? I see a food bank giving out food every Friday (admittedly early since I drive by around 1130am) and it has a lot of people...but not 4.5hrs worth of people
Miss Bella
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Next August out of Copenhagen for us. I'm hoping for a three or four-day cruise before then. I'm going to make a contingency plan for a land trip through Europe if it falls through, but the thought of traveling by train isn't that appealing.
If anything this year has taught us is have a back up plan. We’ve lost a cruise, Orlando, a very kind comp stay at AKL, a London trip, a Six Flags style trip and we’re desperately hoping our 3rd attempt at a DLP trip will pan out. But as I’ve said before we have our health and our jobs.
I would say European train travel could be a pleasant surprise depending on the route.
Miss Bella
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I can't imagine it was very easy living on Disney wages before the pandemic. When a states largest employer pays not much more than minimum wage in most states it's going to be a problem.
Miss Bella
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I wouldn't complain, but It would definitely be an adventure. I'm not the most skilled at navigating public transportation.
If you’ve a phone that’ll have offline translating that would be a bonus. But to be honest from my limited travelling stations tend to have English and some English speaking staff. Certainly ticket machines are multi lingual. Better than Japan!
DCLcruiser
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European train system is pretty good and you can easily get Business or First Class at prices that seem cheap.
For example, we've done: Fly to Vienna, spend some time, then day trip to Bratislava by boat, day trip to Budapest by tour guide van, then train ride to Salzburg, then train ride to Munich, day trip to Neuschwanstein Castle, fly home from Munich.
Or for Italy: fly to Rome, spend a few days, then take a train to Florence, followed by a local to Pisa and then back to Rome, (7am-11pm).
Heppenheimer
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Luckily, most of the transportation infrastructure in Europe is fairly language-neutral, or at least uses English as a back-up language.
Buying tickets from the Deutsche Bahn automatic kiosks, for example, is about a difficult as withdrawing money from an ATM.
Heppenheimer
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And if flying home from Munich, spend the night before your flight here, which is about a 10 minute cab ride away from the airport:
Home
THERME ERDING near Munich is the largest thermal spa in the world. Enjoy our 27 slides, wave pool, exotic spa, VitalityOasis and Spa Area & Saunas.
www.therme-erding.de
Other than the mixed-gender nudity in the spa area, the themeing is so well done, you'd think you were at a Disney resort.
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"At 4 a.m., the first furloughed workers arrive to stake out their spots for free groceries. They wait for 4 1/2 hours in their cars, their masked faces lit up by their cell phones in the darkness.
If they show up late, the food — frozen chicken, fresh tomatoes and gallons of milk — might run out.
By the 9 a.m., the nearly bumper-to-bumper row of cars stretches 2 miles, clogging up one lane of Orange Blossom Trail and heading down Landstreet Road."
A food bank gives groceries to furloughed Disney workers. The car line stretches for 2 miles
At 4 a.m., the first furloughed workers arrive to stake out their spots for free groceries. They wait for 4 1/2 hours in their cars, their masked faces lit up by their cell phones in the darkness. …
www.orlandosentinel.com
OBT/Landstreet Rd until supplies run out.
crispy
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How many total employees is that? My search showed 223,000 total employees in 2019, but I am not sure how accurate that is for 2020.
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Miss Bella
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All great suggestions. I've done four European cruises and we never do ship excursions. I know it's all doable. My kids will be 17 and 18. It's much easier to travel now. I always tell people with young children to cruise. It's just so much easier in my opinion.
People seem to living their own reality in this pandemic. To each his own.
DCLcruiser
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I like cruises because we don't have to pick one destination. Your "hotel" floats to a new city/island each day, or so.
That being said, Europe has so much history and beauty that you need to get off the boat. I always look in wonder at Europe and think to myself..."things must have been so bad for my ancestors to actually leave this place."
I'll say two things:
1) Having something to look forward to (a trip?) is healthy.
2) The companies and their employees will appreciate your business. This is not the time to hoard your money, if you have the means to spend.
Going on a cruise or being able to go on a cruise will directly help people that are furloughed. It will bring jobs back.
Heppenheimer
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I've seen plenty of old photographs of the region where I lived in Germany, from the 19th century to the present. What really struck me was how worn-out and cruddy much of it looked until relatively recently. They really put the money from the post-war boom to good use cleaning up all the old buildings that could be salvaged.