Finally getting around to catching up here. Thoroughly enjoyed our Labor Day trip, despite Dorian looming. We arrived Wednesday Aug 28th around 9 am. Took ME over to Movies, then headed straight to HS. Spent most of the day there, then decided to head back to resort for a rest around 4. We must have been more tired than we realized because we napped until 8:30pm. Decided to grab dinner at the food court and hit the bed for the night since we had our VIP tour the next morning.
The next morning we met our VIP tour group in the Contemporary lobby at 7:45am, with a tour scheduled for 8am. Unfortunately there was some miscommunication and the tour wasn't going to start until 10am. So we took the monorail to MK and hit 7DMT with a 20 min wait, then walked on Space Mtn, Buzz. Finally started the tour at 10 and began with SWGE!! Both the tour and the land were as awesome as I expected! Only downside was we had to have our guide cancel our Oga's ADR since it was scheduled with our original tour times in mind. No way was I using up tour time for that. We got a ton done, then headed back to the resort in early evening to get to bed.
Friday was our MK day and
MNSSHP. We had a blast at MK with some pretty low wait times for rides. Then we hopped to AK for a while. Headed back to resort in the afternoon to relax for a bit and change for the party. We had been watching the storm every day and DH was really getting worried. He insisted we needed to change our flight from Monday to Sunday. I would have prefered to extend our trip, but he wasn't having it. This was right around the time we saw posts about MCO closing on Monday, so I reluctantly called SW to make the change. At least we got to head out to the party afterwards, so I was in a much better mood. We were a bit lazy with our "costumes" this year since we didnt have DS with us. DH was a red card and I was a paper FP. Had tons of fun at the party! I was happy I decided to book the fireworks party afterall. The plaza garden view was perfect! While waiting for the show, I jumped on
MDE to see if I could salvage our Frozen dessert party scheduled for Sunday night. Luckily I was able to snag one for Saturday night, which someone just have cancelled because I had looked for that day originally.
Saturday we took lyft over to the Swan where we were supposed to be staying for 2 nights. Checked in and they told us we were upgraded to a king room with balcony. Of course this would happen when we could only be there 1 night. Front desk said we should see the points back in DHs account within a few hours. Spent the day at Epcot and really loved the dessert party. It was great to watch Illuminations with such a good view for the last time! Was still sad walking back to the room to pack though, since we'd be flying out midday Sunday instead of enjoying AK.
All in all, it was a fun trip packed with tons of extras. Not sure I'd try to do all that stuff over again on one trip, but it worked out ok since it was just me and DH. He could tell I was sad about cutting a day from our trip, so he agreed to do a quick Thanksgiving week trip. So now we are doing DL Nov 20 - 24, then doing WDW Nov 28 - Dec 1!! I know its will likely be exhausting, but I am so excited!! Thanks so much for posting here about the SW rebooking. I was able to score our flights back on Dec 1st for 5600 RR pp instead of 23000 RR pp!
Side note, we were able to get both the Simba magnet at AK and Minnie magnet in Epcot. We weren't able to get one with DSs card though. CM said he had to be there in person, which wasn't the case in the past.