kittylady1972
Disneyholic
- Joined
- Oct 20, 2003
All I can say today is that it is a good thing I am OCD when it comes to checking trip changes. This morning I was looking into flights because I thought it would be nice to arrive earlier on Friday. I happened to book 5 of us with one reservation and the 6th one (my son) on another...only because he didn't have any credit I was applying to his trip. As you may recall I changed our original flight a little while back to fly out of a closer airport and arrive a little earlier. I did this over the span of several hours one day, as I was able to change his but not the rest of us for some reason. I had to change the other flights later.
As I looked at possibly changing again today...I realized that I had my 19yo son on TOTALLY DIFFERENT FLIGHTS! It wasn't a huge difference...but he would have flown out about an hour after us and arrived about an hour later with a connection. YIKES!
Thankfully I was able to change his with minimal cost but I didn't change anything else. I can't believe I did that!
In other exciting news, I decided to go ahead and buy our MNSSHP tickets for the trip. Since this is our only planned park visit, and we can enter as early as 2pm that day, I also booked FPs for all of us. I couldn't get some of the big rides, but I did book SpaceMt, Jungle Cruise and PoC. I'm really looking forward to seeing the changes for SpaceMt and PoC for the party, so it will be cool to do this early and then later.
I also moved around dining a bit from what is below. Monday we now have dinner at WCC as we most likely won't keep the Saturday dinner unless my cousin and family want to join us. I may try to book Toledo for Saturday instead, but for right now that got moved to Sunday. And Flying Fish has moved to Wednesday. There is also a Tony's reservation during the MNSSHP but I don't know if I'll keep that. I'd prefer to do a big meal before we enter the park and just snack while there to maximize our park/ride time, but even though I have Chef Mickey booked for Tuesday at 1pm I probably won't keep it. Yes I know there is not a lot of love for this place (CM) but it has been a tradition for us since forever and honestly I find brunch/lunch is actually not too bad. Still...it may also get the cut.
FRIDAY: Fly out on a 2pm flight with connection, arrival at MCO around 8pm. Hoping to grab our rental and head directly to Shades of Green and with any luck we can maybe head over to Bay Lake Tower to the TOTW Lounge and catch the late night Halloween fireworks from there (I think they are at 9:30pm and 11:30pm or something like that). I may see if my cousin (who is from Tampa but will be at Disney with his wife and 3 small kids for the weekend) can join us there.
SATURDAY: Get up, have breakfast at Kona Cafe, drive to Saratoga Springs Resort. Maybe rent some of the watercraft vehicles for a little while after breakfast and then head over to SSR. If room is ready, check in there but if not just hang out in the area. Nothing else planned for the day, dinner at WHISPERING CANYON. (And if we didn't get a chance to meet up with my cousin and family Friday night, then this is another night for that...and I even added a few people to our WC reservation just in case)
SUNDAY: Volunteering in the morning at GKTW. This is a possible day to do Discovery Cove or Universal Studios.Dinner at Flying Fish. Dinner at Toledo.
MONDAY: Volunteering in the morning at GKTW. Adults doing the 1pm Speak Easy Craft Cocktails event at Wilderness Lodge. Dinner atToledo at CSR. Whispering Canyon Cafe.
TUESDAY: Volunteering at GKTW in the morning. Lunch at Chef Mickey's or early dinner at Tony's. Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party at night, entering the party at 2pm thanks to our DVC membership.
WEDNESDAY: Spend the day at Universal Studios. Dinner at Flying Fish. Maybe Blue Man Group that night?
THURSDAY: Another day at Universal Studios and then leave around 5pm to 7:30pm flight back home...another connection....putting us in just after midnight.
As I looked at possibly changing again today...I realized that I had my 19yo son on TOTALLY DIFFERENT FLIGHTS! It wasn't a huge difference...but he would have flown out about an hour after us and arrived about an hour later with a connection. YIKES!
Thankfully I was able to change his with minimal cost but I didn't change anything else. I can't believe I did that!
In other exciting news, I decided to go ahead and buy our MNSSHP tickets for the trip. Since this is our only planned park visit, and we can enter as early as 2pm that day, I also booked FPs for all of us. I couldn't get some of the big rides, but I did book SpaceMt, Jungle Cruise and PoC. I'm really looking forward to seeing the changes for SpaceMt and PoC for the party, so it will be cool to do this early and then later.
I also moved around dining a bit from what is below. Monday we now have dinner at WCC as we most likely won't keep the Saturday dinner unless my cousin and family want to join us. I may try to book Toledo for Saturday instead, but for right now that got moved to Sunday. And Flying Fish has moved to Wednesday. There is also a Tony's reservation during the MNSSHP but I don't know if I'll keep that. I'd prefer to do a big meal before we enter the park and just snack while there to maximize our park/ride time, but even though I have Chef Mickey booked for Tuesday at 1pm I probably won't keep it. Yes I know there is not a lot of love for this place (CM) but it has been a tradition for us since forever and honestly I find brunch/lunch is actually not too bad. Still...it may also get the cut.
FRIDAY: Fly out on a 2pm flight with connection, arrival at MCO around 8pm. Hoping to grab our rental and head directly to Shades of Green and with any luck we can maybe head over to Bay Lake Tower to the TOTW Lounge and catch the late night Halloween fireworks from there (I think they are at 9:30pm and 11:30pm or something like that). I may see if my cousin (who is from Tampa but will be at Disney with his wife and 3 small kids for the weekend) can join us there.
SATURDAY: Get up, have breakfast at Kona Cafe, drive to Saratoga Springs Resort. Maybe rent some of the watercraft vehicles for a little while after breakfast and then head over to SSR. If room is ready, check in there but if not just hang out in the area. Nothing else planned for the day, dinner at WHISPERING CANYON. (And if we didn't get a chance to meet up with my cousin and family Friday night, then this is another night for that...and I even added a few people to our WC reservation just in case)
SUNDAY: Volunteering in the morning at GKTW. This is a possible day to do Discovery Cove or Universal Studios.
MONDAY: Volunteering in the morning at GKTW. Adults doing the 1pm Speak Easy Craft Cocktails event at Wilderness Lodge. Dinner at
TUESDAY: Volunteering at GKTW in the morning. Lunch at Chef Mickey's or early dinner at Tony's. Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party at night, entering the party at 2pm thanks to our DVC membership.
WEDNESDAY: Spend the day at Universal Studios. Dinner at Flying Fish. Maybe Blue Man Group that night?
THURSDAY: Another day at Universal Studios and then leave around 5pm to 7:30pm flight back home...another connection....putting us in just after midnight.