10/31 Weekend Disney Thread

[ssmjlm]

I figure we can just do one for the weekend.

What dining plan are yall doing?  I wish there was something between the dining plan and deluxe.  It's a big jump to me to go from one to the other.  I can't imagine needing 3 meals and 2 snacks a day?  Maybe?

Also I got our DVC rental reservation linked into my disney account and picked out everyone's FP colors. E and I are sharing pink.  I wish there was purple.

My sister is now a maybe/no on the trip.  I'm like "do you not realize I am making dining reservations this week?  I have a spreadsheet!" (jokingly)  She's finishing up her CNA training and isn't sure it's wise to take off a week or if she'll have enough vacation.  My mom is going to look into her coming for part of week.

[Brie]

We are doing the regular dining plan because we are going during the free dining promo. I figure one QS plus one TS is a good balance for us. My mom is all, "I don't go to Disney to waste time doing leisurely dinners!" but we have a toddler and I'm pregnant so I think the downtime will be good. But I think she'd be really antsy at two TS meals a day.

11 days! I can't wait, although I am a bit nervous about "keeping up" with the group while pregnant.

[dcrunnergirl52]

We did regular dining plan, and even that was a ton of food. Particularly b/c the meals are big and come with desserts and you get snacks. At any given time, we had 3-4 extra snacks/desserts sitting in our hotel's fridge b/c we couldn't eat it all.

[kittycatlove]

We did the regular dining, we had the free dining promo. It was plenty of food for us. We used a lot of our snacks for breakfast (banana's, bagels, milk) for DS and still had some for ourselves.

I totally had a spreadsheet to keep track of all our reservations and FP selections, but I'm an accounting nerd so...

[ssmjlm]

I'm glad the reg dining plan should be good. I told my mom the meals are big and we're planning for 3 breakfast buffets which will keep us full awhile.

[water*drop]

I paid our trip balance last night! 46 days!!

We're doing regular dining since we're there over free dining. We've got a couple of extra table service meals booked, though I'll probably end up canceling a couple. Most of our table service meals are breakfasts since that's when DD is most predictable, but I wanted to get a couple of dinner reservations on the books since they were available when I was looking.

[redheadk]

We are doing regular dining. I can't imagine doing the deluxe. I do wish there was an in between with 2 QS and 1 TS (I can take or leave the snack). Some of our TS meals are lunches or dinners but DD really needs a decent breakfast because she doesn't really eat dinner, so we're having food delivered from Garden Grocer.

[redheadk]

One week until we leave for Disney!

And, not exactly Disney related, but YAY that my friend is able to dog/house sit for us so we don't have to board the dogs. She is fabulous and my dogs love her.

[kittycatlove]

Oct 31, 2014 9:15:50 GMT -5 chilerellanos said:

We are doing regular dining plan.

We didn't have the dining plan last time because we were offsite, but that's generally how we ate. One QS meal and one TS meal a day, with some snacking thrown in.

One of my friends just got back from her trip, and she was dreading it. She only went for the kids. She said it was magical, and wasn't even being ironic. They're now planning their return trip. lol

There really is something magical in that pixie dust!

[ilikedonuts]

I have more pictures from our trip to post!

Our trip overall was awesome. I just started planning next year's trip. We can book it (DVC members) in early January for December 2015.

[hermione]

We did the regular dining plan for a week and had leftover snack credits at the end.

[Brie]

Oct 31, 2014 9:19:18 GMT -5 chilerellanos said:

And disneystore.com is having 40% off of tons of stuff right now!

hermione weren't you looking for some Doc McStuffins stuff?  They have a bunch.

[mslhb]

We did the regular dining once and won't do again unless free. We definitely like doing a sit down meal a day and with some of the 2 credit places we ended up running of out TS credits and having QS credits leftover. We also don't tend to do soda or deserts and DD and I sometimes share meals. So for us I didn't feel like we really saved money. Now if we could swap a snack credit for an alcoholic drink then they may be on to something for us!

[mainelyfoolish]

I just about had a nervous breakdown over planning our trip a couple of days ago. I figured out that we were going to "not recommended" parks on three days and my perfectionism and fear of not maximizing our vacation fun caused me to rearrange three days of FP+ and dining plans. Sadly, this means that I'll lose out on my BoG lunch, but I suppose I didn't really need to spend $60 to eat ham and cheese sandwiches and cupcakes. The only reserved meals we are doing are lunches at Crystal Palace and Hollywood & Vine. We get free breakfast at our hotel (off site) and we'll do a combination of eating off site, quick service at the parks, and bringing our own food for the rest of our meals.

I'm still looking for a Memory Maker share (I have not purchased yet). Our trip is 11/10 - 11/15. Anyone? Bueller? I'm open to a three-way (photo share) if anyone wants to bring their cost down even more.

[countthestars]

We leave Tuesday!! I need to start packing!

[ilikedonuts]

The 1-3 age range really is such an awesome time to take kids!

[ilikedonuts]

Few more!

[redheadk]

Oct 31, 2014 11:50:44 GMT -5 mainelyfoolish said:

I just about had a nervous breakdown over planning our trip a couple of days ago. I figured out that we were going to "not recommended" parks on three days and my perfectionism and fear of not maximizing our vacation fun caused me to rearrange three days of FP+ and dining plans. Sadly, this means that I'll lose out on my BoG lunch, but I suppose I didn't really need to spend $60 to eat ham and cheese sandwiches and cupcakes. The only reserved meals we are doing are lunches at Crystal Palace and Hollywood & Vine. We get free breakfast at our hotel (off site) and we'll do a combination of eating off site, quick service at the parks, and bringing our own food for the rest of our meals.

I'm still looking for a Memory Maker share (I have not purchased yet). Our trip is 11/10 - 11/15. Anyone? Bueller? I'm open to a three-way (photo share) if anyone wants to bring their cost down even more.

How does a share work? We are 11/7-11/11.

[Brie]

Oct 31, 2014 14:59:20 GMT -5 redheadk said:

Oct 31, 2014 11:50:44 GMT -5 mainelyfoolish said:

I just about had a nervous breakdown over planning our trip a couple of days ago. I figured out that we were going to "not recommended" parks on three days and my perfectionism and fear of not maximizing our vacation fun caused me to rearrange three days of FP+ and dining plans. Sadly, this means that I'll lose out on my BoG lunch, but I suppose I didn't really need to spend $60 to eat ham and cheese sandwiches and cupcakes. The only reserved meals we are doing are lunches at Crystal Palace and Hollywood & Vine. We get free breakfast at our hotel (off site) and we'll do a combination of eating off site, quick service at the parks, and bringing our own food for the rest of our meals.

I'm still looking for a Memory Maker share (I have not purchased yet). Our trip is 11/10 - 11/15. Anyone? Bueller? I'm open to a three-way (photo share) if anyone wants to bring their cost down even more.

How does a share work? We are 11/7-11/11.

I followed this guide for ours: dopeyrunr.blogspot.com/2014/06/memory-maker-share-guide-for.html

[ilikedonuts]

Oct 31, 2014 14:51:17 GMT -5 ribollita said:

What age is good for autograph books and/or pin trading?

My 3yo loves pressed pennies so we will be doing those.

My 3 year old loves looking at all her autographs. Pin trading would have been hard Bc I know she would be sad later about trading certain pins so we skipped it.

And yes the pressed pennies were a huge hit here!

[water*drop]

Did you guys see that Seven Dwarfs Mine Train is on fire? One of the people with a video of it on IG says that the structure is starting to collapse.

[ilikedonuts]

Nov 1, 2014 21:53:13 GMT -5 water*drop said:

Did you guys see that Seven Dwarfs Mine Train is on fire? One of the people with a video of it on IG says that the structure is starting to collapse.

The pictures are scary!

Its such a fun ride! And brand new! How horrible that this happened!

[Brie]

Damn, looks like it's pretty big.

Is it bad that my first thought was that I'm glad it's not one of our FPs?

[ilikedonuts]

Nov 1, 2014 22:09:21 GMT -5 Brie said:

Damn, looks like it's pretty big.

Is it bad that my first thought was that I'm glad it's not one of our FPs?

You probably would have gotten a free use for whatever ride FP though!

Peter Pan broke and they gave us one good for like 10 different rides for the rest of the day. They sent us an email and updated it in MDE.

[redheadk]

Wow, that sucks. That's one of our fast passes for 11/10. I wonder if I should try to get something else now.

[water*drop]

Nov 1, 2014 22:41:02 GMT -5 redheadk said:

Wow, that sucks. That's one of our fast passes for 11/10. I wonder if I should try to get something else now.

People on disboards are saying that it reopened last night. They're saying that it mostly melted the facade on the top but didn't do any damage to the ride itself.

[redheadk]

Nov 2, 2014 8:37:37 GMT -5 water*drop said:

Nov 1, 2014 22:41:02 GMT -5 redheadk said:

Wow, that sucks. That's one of our fast passes for 11/10. I wonder if I should try to get something else now.

People on disboards are saying that it reopened last night. They're saying that it mostly melted the facade on the top but didn't do any damage to the ride itself.

Perfect! I held off bc I was hoping Disney would be, well, Disney, and have it up and running again quickly.

[Brie]

9 days!

[krystee]

30 days for me! We are just doing one overnight and two parks, but that is enough for me. I realized I have no warm-weather maternity clothes and we'll be in Florida for eight days, so this should be interesting.

[ilikedonuts]

Nov 2, 2014 9:53:40 GMT -5 krystee said:

30 days for me! We are just doing one overnight and two parks, but that is enough for me. I realized I have no warm-weather maternity clothes and we'll be in Florida for eight days, so this should be interesting.

We went the first week of December one year. It was 17 degrees one morning. And one evening it was 21 degrees while we were waiting for the parade. It never got above 50 that trip (and was mainly in the high 30s/low 40s).