Hi Caroline! I'm Alison! I've seen you on a lot of my friend's TRs, and since a lot of my friends stopped writing TRs over the pandemic, I've been looking for new folks, and since you've just started this TR, I thought I would hop on over and join in the fun!
Hi Allison
Yes I am one of the Epic trip ladies. I have seen you on many reports and making many Dis meets! I miss all the other ladies doing TRs! Thanks so much for joining in!
I have to admit that i haven’t been to a carnival or fair in more than 20 years, so I'm not sure that I’ll even understand some of the references!
Haha
no worries, I haven’t either. The stack the Genie mantra for some reason reminded me of a carnival
It is! We either get going that early or drive about 3 hours down to Minneapolis for a direct flight. I prefer starting at our little airport!
But if my plane left at 5:40AM, we would need to be AT the airport at 3:30AM. That is if we flew out of LAX. On our last trip we tried our local airport, and the jury is still out as to whether we liked it better or not.
I’m sure! The benefit of our small airport is not having to get there to early.
Yikes! That's really cold!
Yes! Mother Nature forgot it was spring at my house
That's good. At least you weren't rushing.
No need to rush at our airport, lol
You folks with the short plane flights are lucky. It kills an entire day for me just to get there, and basically the same for the ride home.
I love arriving as early as possible to start my vacation
Sweet! You're there before noon with the whole day ahead of you!
It really was and the weather was amazing! It is always nice to have a smooth travel day.
I guess someone has to stay in those rooms over the restaurant, but I'm glad you got that straightened out, and ended up with a nice quiet room. Especially if you paying for a specific view.
It really is noisy and the older I get the harder it is to relax with noise all around. I was very happy with our room and very glad I spoke with the CM
It's nice when you're not running all around and can just chill and enjoy everything.
Yes, chillin with warm weather, couldn’t ask for more!
We never get much of a choice so I don't bother to request views. We always stay in DVC rooms and usually request an accessible room, so there isn't much choice after that.
I thought my system of using TP request form worked well but I guess it depends on the CM and the resort
I did the same from my balcony at BLT as well, so cool!
What a treat, no crowds to fight I loved it!
I remember realizing that the last time we stayed there. I still like the vibe and the lobby. You just need to take that into account when you're traveling to other parks.
Yes, we loved the atmosphere, lobby, and grounds at WL! We usually stay at CSR Tower or POFQ and both have shorter bus rides to all the parks. It wasn’t bad just a little longer on the bus.
Yes! I remember liking that one a lot too!
We loved the orange slushy
I bet! You got in a few rides before this one as well!
I should know better and just have a resort day on travel day but I like to fit in as much as possible. Epcot was really nice for a first park, not real crowded.
have yet to try Genie since we use the
DAS pass, but the logic of these prices sometimes escapes me.
Genie+ is not something I like at all, yuck
The pricing is also very strange and I feel for families with 4-6 in their party, that costs a lot!
You had to take two flights to get to Orlando? You poor thing. I can totally empathize being from a small place. We are going to drive next time partially because it takes us a day and a half to get to Florida anyway.
We would much rather start at our small airport than drive down to Minneapolis. The flight is literally 30 minutes
but worth it for us. We would have to drive about 3 hours to have the direct flight.