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- Mar 25, 2010
Welcome to my pretrip report for December 2017
Hi I'm Glenda and when hubster and I visited Disney in 2010 and stayed at the Animal Kingdom Lodge we got to fulfill many long time Disney Dreams.
Our usual afternoon visitors at AKL.
Who would have know that would only breed more Disney Dreams.
After that trip we started dreaming about visiting Disney at Christmas time and staying at the Grand Floridian. After several years of spending on the Chase Disney Visa card we finally have the points to afford this dream.
So I was super stoked last week when I finally got to make those long desired reservations. Unfortunately we can't afford 6 nt's at the GF, but hey that allows us to try other resorts. So another split stay it will be. We have stayed at AKL twice and POR, so what other resort should we try? I really wanted to stay at the Beach Club with it's close proximity to Epcot but this was also a little too pricey for 3 nt's. So hubster asks what other resort I wanted to try....well there are several but since this was a Christmas visit the only other resort that I could think of that would be extra Christmasy (I know not a word) was The Wilderness Lodge. So with that decided it was time to cash in some of those points for a rewards card to use for the deposit from my Disney Chase Visa. If you don't have a Disney Chase Visa I highly recommend it. We couldn't afford these resorts w/o it.
So our reservations will be arrival at WL On Sat Dec 2'nd 2017 for 3 nt's and then on to the GF for 3 more nt's. I am so excited to be staying close to the theme parks and especially at Christmas time our favorite time of year.
So until I get back here to add more to this thread tell me about your experiences tips and hints for these 2 resorts.
Scroll down to post #6 to find out who we are.
Hi I'm Glenda and when hubster and I visited Disney in 2010 and stayed at the Animal Kingdom Lodge we got to fulfill many long time Disney Dreams.
Our usual afternoon visitors at AKL.
Who would have know that would only breed more Disney Dreams.
After that trip we started dreaming about visiting Disney at Christmas time and staying at the Grand Floridian. After several years of spending on the Chase Disney Visa card we finally have the points to afford this dream.
So I was super stoked last week when I finally got to make those long desired reservations. Unfortunately we can't afford 6 nt's at the GF, but hey that allows us to try other resorts. So another split stay it will be. We have stayed at AKL twice and POR, so what other resort should we try? I really wanted to stay at the Beach Club with it's close proximity to Epcot but this was also a little too pricey for 3 nt's. So hubster asks what other resort I wanted to try....well there are several but since this was a Christmas visit the only other resort that I could think of that would be extra Christmasy (I know not a word) was The Wilderness Lodge. So with that decided it was time to cash in some of those points for a rewards card to use for the deposit from my Disney Chase Visa. If you don't have a Disney Chase Visa I highly recommend it. We couldn't afford these resorts w/o it.
So our reservations will be arrival at WL On Sat Dec 2'nd 2017 for 3 nt's and then on to the GF for 3 more nt's. I am so excited to be staying close to the theme parks and especially at Christmas time our favorite time of year.
So until I get back here to add more to this thread tell me about your experiences tips and hints for these 2 resorts.
Scroll down to post #6 to find out who we are.
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