saintstickets
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- Aug 30, 2009
Welcome saxman! Glad you're along for the ride. You should sub in to the Mississippi Meet Up thread and join us for next Disney meet!Another Mississippian checking in and looking forward to your TR.
Welcome saxman! Glad you're along for the ride. You should sub in to the Mississippi Meet Up thread and join us for next Disney meet!Another Mississippian checking in and looking forward to your TR.
It's about time, isn't it?you started!
If the first night had been 25 points or less, we probably would have stayed onsite but not this time of the year and not a 2 bedroom. I just cannot justify that usage of points.I don't blame you one bit for staying off site for one night at that rate for an additional night at DVC and not going to a park (I rent points so I know what the cost is and I wouldn't pay for a night either if we weren't getting there to go to a park or at least have several hours to hang at the resort, swim, etc.).
If we only had a 10 hour drive, I'd do it in a heartbeat. But ours is more like 19 hours WITHOUT stopping for breaks, sleeping and eating.
We've stayed at Fairfields before...nice hotels.
If you're that popular you don't have to take reservations I guess. We will not NEVER go there again but this experience definitely didn't help them in our book.Sorry to hear Cheesecake didn't live up to expectations this time. We almost went this past Saturday but I hate that you can't make a reservation and ours are both in malls so they are always crazy busy.
You gotta watch me...there's no telling what I will do!You little sneak!!! I comment on your first post and then you go and throw in a couple of more.
I don't know any statistics but I would venture to guess that blogs like this have lost viewers to the more instantaneous sites like Facebook, Twitter & Instagram.I remember reading about your DD's pink eye on FB. Good for her knowing what it was and getting to a clinic and getting meds right away.
After each trip we usually get an email from Disney to ask about our trip or the resort accommodations or something else we did and I make sure I tell them about NEVER receiving a text message. So far it apparently has not done much good.Sorry your room wasn't ready. That is scary comment about them putting in the wrong area code and you hoping crisis averted. I've had too many instances to count where I never got a text message.
That REALLY would have had to cut down on the number of pics I take without my camera or at the very least, run my phone battery down using it for pics!I'm glad you were able to retrieve your camera.
Thx and except for Cliff from Cheers, I had no idea who they were!Nice photos of the parade. I'm glad you pointed out who some of the "players" were because I would have had a clue.
Uh oh....busted! If you're reading a previous TR, my reputation precedes me!Yay you've started! I have been reading one of your past TR's and have been loving it! Looking forward to this trip! Boo to DD getting pick eye! I hope she's able to keep it at bay!
Maybe it's my luck but you'd think by now we would have had a room ready when we arrived. Oh well...at least we weren't stuck sitting in the lobby for hours like we were at VWL 2years ago! The sad part is that each time, I think the room was actually ready but they never sent us a text message!I'm glad everything worked out for DD and it wasn't anything more serious than pink eye. Although that can be quite irritating and painful too. I think its really weird that this is the third time in a row your room wasn't ready after doing online check in. We always do online check in since 2010 and have never not had a room ready for us when we get there which is usually around 10:30am-11:00am.
I am a Star Wars fan...not get dressed up or attend the midnight premiere type fan...but I like the series. The parade just didn't seem very well choreographed. Too many gaps between people/aliens walking by. Some characters going directly up to the stage instead of walking the entire parade route. There was just something about it that made me feel I was at a Six Flags park instead of a Disney park.That's too bad about the parade not being that exciting. Are you big Star Wars fans?
I'm just glad that's all it was and not something worse. It didn't slow her down at all. We've had other vacations that we missed days due to a more serious malady.Even though pink eye is not the "end of the world" it is never fun to have to deal with a walk in medical clinic while on vacation.
WOW...that's confusing! We've done one split stay and it wasn't that much of a problem. We lost about a half day in the move but we were moving from AKL to BWV.I am with you on saving those first night points I wish I had thought about his a long time ago though. We have a 2 bedroom booked in the fall but we arrive late and not everyone in our party gets there for that first night. If I had been smarter I would have booked 1 somewhere else - ANYWHERE else. then 4 nights in the 2 bedroom and then 3 in the 1 bedroom. However now I can't get the 2 bedroom for our 5th night (what would make it the 4th in a 2 bedroom) Can't get the one bedroom for that night either.... so we have a 4/1/3 split with the single night being in two studios. I think it would have been easier to just start off with a single night elsewhere.
For me, it was like various events at Disney...something you need to do at least once, but not every year. Some people will do a specific event every time they go and we have some of those that we like such as Candlelight Processional. I don't think I will ever tire of CP! There are other events that due to cost or personal tastes that you should do once and then you're over it or you wait several years before you do it again. SWW will be like the this for us due to our personal tastes. I'm glad we did it and there were certain aspects we did not get to try that I wish we would have done. As Disney develops the new Star Wars movies and gets more involved in the Lucasfilm acquisition, I'm sure there will be new events that we will want to try.The parade is interesting. I have never been to WDW during SWW. Maybe someday.