Eeyore1954
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- Apr 5, 2002
My DW & I spent May 14 - 21 at VWL celebrating our 25th anniversary. We decided (for the first time) to do a package and splurged on Disney's Grand Plan. Our observations:
Pros: The itinerary planning was great for us; we are big-time planners. We told the WL concierge what we wanted to do and said arrange it. We did some tweaking, of course, but it was nice to have things arranged ahead of time.
We ate at a lot of places we had not been to before; we did a lot of activities we had not done (Illuminiations Cruise for one).
There was a LOT of magic on our trip with the WL concierge staff (especially Randall) creating a lot of it for us.
We didn't have to worry about how much meals, cruise, activities cost.
Cons: TOO MUCH FOOD! We heard it before we left, but we thought we could handle it. No way! We barely made the 3 meals each day -- the snacks would have "killed" us.
Would we do it again? Maybe on our 50th anniversary (if we are alive!) Seriously, we probably won't do Deluxe or Grand again, simply because you pay for all the meals/snacks, but there's no way any human could eat that much. We MIGHT consider Discovery Magic -- that looks more manageable.
If you have any questions about the GP, I'll be happy to try to answer them. We had a very magical vacation and I would not trade the experience for anything! If I could do it over again, I'd do the exact same thing. For us, it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Pros: The itinerary planning was great for us; we are big-time planners. We told the WL concierge what we wanted to do and said arrange it. We did some tweaking, of course, but it was nice to have things arranged ahead of time.
We ate at a lot of places we had not been to before; we did a lot of activities we had not done (Illuminiations Cruise for one).
There was a LOT of magic on our trip with the WL concierge staff (especially Randall) creating a lot of it for us.
We didn't have to worry about how much meals, cruise, activities cost.
Cons: TOO MUCH FOOD! We heard it before we left, but we thought we could handle it. No way! We barely made the 3 meals each day -- the snacks would have "killed" us.
Would we do it again? Maybe on our 50th anniversary (if we are alive!) Seriously, we probably won't do Deluxe or Grand again, simply because you pay for all the meals/snacks, but there's no way any human could eat that much. We MIGHT consider Discovery Magic -- that looks more manageable.
If you have any questions about the GP, I'll be happy to try to answer them. We had a very magical vacation and I would not trade the experience for anything! If I could do it over again, I'd do the exact same thing. For us, it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.