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I understand the OCD'ness :) It's nice to be able to control what you can control to eliminate as many unknowns as you can. I get that. We ended up going down to the hotel pool and taking towels from there over to the water park with us. I was worried that there wouldn't be towels...

I tried it for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Not for me. I don't mind fried food occasionally, and I do like cheese - but the texture of this was just not to my liking. We asked for it without the powdered sugar (the idea of sweet with cheese turned my stomach) and had the berries on...

Hello all, We're back! Three weeks in California and British Columbia. An awesome trip, just so much fun. We got home a day and a half ago. 19 hour time zone change but amazingly we are all doing ok. The temperature change however is much harder to cope with! Brrrr, someone take me back...

We're just back from a two night stay. The kids LOVED it. The hotel is better than the theme park in our opinion. But it is ridiculously expensive and, for us, a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I wouldn't be able to justify the expense again. Bricks, the buffet restaurant, is great for...

I'd heard good things so we went three weeks ago when we were in the parks (we had an ADR for 5.30pm). It was decidedly average in our opinion and not up to the rave reviews. We split a Monte Cristo between two adults and ordered a green salad. It was plenty. Quantity was good but the...

Two more sleeps till I am on that plane. Two more sleeps! :scared1: I have soooo much to do. Perhaps I'd be better to stay up all night and get stuff done - then it's only one sleep to go :rotfl2: I'm on the Board at my kids' school and there are all sorts of things happening that I need...

Less than a week to go :hyper: Disappointing isn't it though that World of Color only seems to be one show a night now - and RSR has reconnected its FastPass. Means I need to rethink plans. Well, the vague semblance of plans that I did have. Thanks for the heads up on that "Lots to Do in...

Ah, thanks for the coffee tips, guys :) Much appreciated. Forewarned is forearmed :coffee: I'll try to lower my husband's expectations and maybe he will be pleasantly surprised. Or maybe he will just have to make do with Starbucks until we get to the Canadian leg of our travels :) Having...

:rotfl: Crystal1313, I suspect that somewhere between your overpacking and my underpacking, there is a happy middle ground of perfect packing :scratchin I guess there is also the big difference between driving vs flying. I'm not planning on taking heavy things like a hairdryer and am just...

:rotfl: Two days ago, I made my family's lists. I put 5 tshirts, 2 shorts, 1 jeans, 5 socks, and 5 underwear - and we're going for three weeks. :rolleyes1 Maybe I'd better re-evaluate...

:scared1: That terrifies me. We're well-known in Wellington (New Zealand) for being total coffee snobs and "we" sneer at Starbucks as being bad quality coffee. My husband is going to go into serious caffeine withdrawals if Starbucks is the best he's going to be able to get :rotfl:

This made me giggle: http://www.buzzfeed.com/leonoraepstein/disneyland-as-a-kid-vs-disneyland-as-an-adult

Wow, it's all getting so close now when I see you guys celebrating that it's 4 days or a week to go. I honestly thought the time would drag because it seemed so far off when we all first started chatting on this thread. But it's come round quickly! Eight days till we take off for LA...

No!!!!! :faint: Totally psyched :hyper: but not at all ready. Ten days to go!! Really must start packing!! :crazy2:

We've got a family trip coming up very soon and I did lots of hotel research a few months ago and ended up deciding on the Marriott in the Gaslamp Quarter. https://www.marriott.com/hotels/hotel-information/travel/sangl-san-diego-marriott-gaslamp-quarter/ I know that's not as helpful as...

It's funny reading the tips about socks and hot feet - because it's coooooold in my part of the world. And it's very very hard to try and get y head around being warm. Feels like summer was such a long time ago and I've forgotten what it feels like. I am sure that as a result I will totally...

That's fantastic, thanks so much for your review. I've been hoping someone would have visited the new water park and reported back. (Thought the Dis Unplugged podcast team would have done it by now in all honesty... :confused3) A very helpful review, thanks for taking the time to type all...

Is anyone else starting to feel Disney-stress and anxiety? :confused3 I'm having minor panics about when to do World of Colour, Fantasmic!, fireworks, the different shows and parades, which rides to do in which order, when to grab FastPasses for what, when to go to which counter service...

That's all really helpful for me too, thanks! I too was wondering how they monitor the communal Lego to make sure people aren't walking off with pocketsful. Not that I was planning on doing that, I should add!

I like all the tips. Very handy. Mine are not particularly original. Get there early. Take an early afternoon break to avoid the heat and the crowds and to give everyone some rest. Try to make your kids understand that they won't be able to do EVERY ride so we need to pick our...