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  1. cstorm65

    Escape to Our Home Away from Home After Three Years - A July 2021 Trip Report (**Updated 6/26**)

    Day 12 Part 2 - That is a Big Hot Dog We had a nice relaxing morning, a great breakfast, and some pool time and by about 3:00 we wanted to let Brooks get just a little rest so we could go to Magic Kingdom for a little bit that evening. So, Braxton and I went to our normal spot in the...
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    Escape to Our Home Away from Home After Three Years - A July 2021 Trip Report (**Updated 6/26**)

    Well, I guess it wasn't just me. I'm with you. It was good, just not all that! We like having those slower days at the end of the trip. It's one of the benefits of having longer trips for sure!
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    We Are Heading West…For the First Time! A July/August 2023 PTR (**Updated 6/25/23**)

    Summer Trip - Day 6 & 7 Plans I rearranged our park days just a bit. We had a late night the first followed by a really early morning, so I shifted that and so now our late night will be Day 5 and we will sleep in the morning of Day 6 and just probably spend some time at the hotel pool. We do...
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    Escape to Our Home Away from Home After Three Years - A July 2021 Trip Report (**Updated 6/26**)

    Day 12 Part 1 - Dad, Can We Eat Here Again? We had such a nice and relaxing day yesterday we thought we would try that again this morning! So, it was about 8:30 before any of us saw the light of day. We did tear ourselves out of bed because we had made a breakfast reservation for this morning...
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    Escape to Our Home Away from Home After Three Years - A July 2021 Trip Report (**Updated 6/26**)

    The boat is so disappointing. Being able to take that boat from Wilderness Lodge to Contemporary and jump on the monorail to go to Poly or Grand Floridian is also so much easier than having to go to Magic Kingdom and go through security to get to the monorail.
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    Nifty Fifty: The Great return of the Sauciers! - April 2022 TR

    Great updates. Great morning at Hollywood Studios! Love to read about the experience at Space 220. We didn't get to do this last summer just because we had heard some of the things you brought up about the service and the pre-fixe price. Maybe they will fix some of that in the future.
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    Escape to Our Home Away from Home After Three Years - A July 2021 Trip Report (**Updated 6/26**)

    Day 11 Part 3 - We Finally Try the Bison Burger We grabbed a bus to Wilderness Lodge, which took about a 20 minute wait, because we wanted to get our first taste of the Bison Burger at Geyser Point that everyone had been talking about. We made it to Geyser Point by 11:50 and were able to get...
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    Escape to Our Home Away from Home After Three Years - A July 2021 Trip Report (**Updated 6/26**)

    Glad you are enjoying! Thanks for reading along!!
  9. cstorm65

    "Guess who`s back"...3 Return for 3 Weeks @ RPR. Parks, KSC with lots of good food and fun...A May 2023 TR

    Great update and morning at IOA! I agree with you on the Gringott's lockers...those are awful! Most other ones are ok to deal with, but I will say what they did at Velocicoaster is hopefully what they will do from here on out. There is a learning curve to that system, but it worked so well when...
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    The Trip With An Abundance of Steven, A WDW Jan '23 TR ***Completed 8/8***

    Glad you are back. Can't wait to read more about your trip!
  11. cstorm65

    Escape to Our Home Away from Home After Three Years - A July 2021 Trip Report (**Updated 6/26**)

    Day 11 Part 2 - We Almost Got Our Own Vehicle We headed off on the walkway from Asia to Africa and arrived at Kilimanjaro Safari at 8:40 AM and we were on a ride vehicle in under 10 minutes! I just tried to enjoy the safari and didn't take a ton of pictures, but I did get one of the...
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    Escape to Our Home Away from Home After Three Years - A July 2021 Trip Report (**Updated 6/26**)

    Day 11 Part 1 - Our Bus Arrived Too Early We had a great night of sleep and were up and ready to go by 6:15. It was Animal Kingdom rope drop day. I think in today’s time I would just buy a Lightning Lane for FoP, but in 2021 there were no Lightning Lanes, so we had to get up. We were at the...
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    Escape to Our Home Away from Home After Three Years - A July 2021 Trip Report (**Updated 6/26**)

    The pool at Disney hold great power over the kids! haha...so many times our say in the parks, "Can we just go back and swim!"
  14. cstorm65

    We Are Heading West…For the First Time! A July/August 2023 PTR (**Updated 6/25/23**)

    Summer Trip - Day 5 Plans Next day to plan is Day 5 of our trip and this morning we are planning on getting up and getting to early entry at California Adventure. I think our plan for this day will be to ride Radiator Springs Racers for the first time, but I am thinking we will pay for a...
  15. cstorm65

    Escape to Our Home Away from Home After Three Years - A July 2021 Trip Report (**Updated 6/26**)

    I feel like on this trip we only did rope drop here because it was convenient since we were at Bay Lake. I'll tell you on our trip this past summer (2022) we didn't do as many MK rope drops for this very reason. You can get so much done with Genie+ and by stacking them later in the day that you...
  16. cstorm65

    Escape to Our Home Away from Home After Three Years - A July 2021 Trip Report (**Updated 6/26**)

    Day 10 Part 2 - That Tastes Unbelievable After a nice relaxing afternoon at the pool we headed back up to get ready for our dinner reservation. We had a 5:10 reservation at a place we had never been to before (and would never go to again because it was getting changed), The Wave. We headed...
  17. cstorm65

    We Are Heading West…For the First Time! A July/August 2023 PTR (**Updated 6/25/23**)

    Summer Trip - Day 4 Plans This day will be our first day in the parks at Disneyland. I think our plan is to get up and take an Uber/Lyft over to the Disneyland Hotel and drop our bags with bell services before heading over to the parks. The first thing for us to do this morning is to head into...
  18. cstorm65

    Escape to Our Home Away from Home After Three Years - A July 2021 Trip Report (**Updated 6/26**)

    Day 10 Part 1 - The Morning Planned by Kids We woke up the next morning and got ready for a rope drop at the Magic Kingdom. Our plan was to do Seven Dwarfs at rope drop and then today was the day we had told the boys we would let them decide what we would do along the way, so we will see how...
  19. cstorm65

    Escape to Our Home Away from Home After Three Years - A July 2021 Trip Report (**Updated 6/26**)

    It was a great night! The location of the Contemporary and Bay Lake is certainly the selling point. I do agree about the theme of the hotel and Bay Lake probably needs a minor refurb in the rooms here pretty quickly. It will be interesting if they go with the Incredibles stuff like they did in...
  20. cstorm65

    Escape to Our Home Away from Home After Three Years - A July 2021 Trip Report (**Updated 6/26**)

    Day 9 Part 4 - The Hurricane Kept Them Away We finished our great dinner at Skipper Canteen and it was time to head out into the park and see if the hurricane had kept some of the crowds away from the Magic Kingdom like they had Hollywood Studios that morning. The only negative was there was...
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