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Not sure if anyone remembers my face, but my mom and I had been planning a vacation for this past November. We unfortunately backed out of that trip, but I still had some Disney money credited on my account, so they just switched my reservations for me and now I'm going to Disney with my cousin Ashley in December 2015-January 2016. It seems so far away, but I'm so excited regardless. It'll be my first trip there! Anyway I figured I'd say hey and reintroduce myself. I'm Amanda, I'm now 25, and I'm from Long Island, NY. I hope everyone is doing well!

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yeah yeah hello Amanda! yeah yeah

So glad to see you are still with us!

And wonderful news that you have a Disney vacation to plan for!

Do you have any preliminary plans/thoughts on where you will be staying?

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I remember you, Amanda! Welcome back mickey

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Magic Mirror wrote:
yeah yeah hello Amanda! yeah yeah

So glad to see you are still with us!

And wonderful news that you have a Disney vacation to plan for!

Do you have any preliminary plans/thoughts on where you will be staying?

We're not about that expensive hotel life, just because we're young and literally can sleep anywhere (floors included), so we went for a moderate that way we can save most of our money for other things. We'll be at the FQ though, which I'm excited about anyway because I love the idea of a New Orleans theme!! As far as preliminary plans go, we sent out a Facebook invite to family members, so we're hoping to make this a sort of family reunion of sorts - nobody has made reservations aside from us though. A lot are interested though, so we're hyping it up! If we can get a whole bunch of us to go, that'd be fantastic. I know Ashley doesn't really want to do Animal Kingdom, but I do, so I'll probably drag her there for at least half a day, but we have park hoppers anyway so. Aside from that, no idea!! Any suggestions?

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alicemouse wrote:
I remember you, Amanda! Welcome back mickey

Aw thanks! I remember you too laugh I'm glad to be back!

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We love the FQs! I will be staying there next month...

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Magic Mirror wrote:
We love the FQs! I will be staying there next month...

I'm excited about it! Ashley wanted to go really cheap and stay at a value (I saw her point), but I told her, "I'm tall - I need room to breathe." Haha. I hear FQ rooms are slightly bigger than a value resort, but again we're not too picky about the resort anyway because we don't plan to spend much time there. That's just an added bonus, if it has cool things there! She'll be 19 by then, so it's going to be a nice time for both of us - after a much stressful 2014, we have something nice to look forward to in 2015 and 2016.

I think I might have more fun with Ashley than I would have with my mom anyway (no offense to mom of course), mainly because Ashley's all about rides too (just like me), so we'll be going all over for those. I know we're going when it's a peak time to visit, but crowds don't really bother me, especially since we'll get extra time for staying at a WDW resort anyway. All in all, I'm pumped.

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Sounds like youve got a fab trip planned! Just be prepared to get to the parks early on the really busy days.

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Welcome back

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Hi and welcome back! And yes, I remember you! How many days are you going to be there for? We're going Dec 5th - Dec 11th but it looks like we're going to miss you by a couple of weeks.

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Allie wrote:
Hi and welcome back! And yes, I remember you! How many days are you going to be there for? We're going Dec 5th - Dec 11th but it looks like we're going to miss you by a couple of weeks.

We're going to be there from December 27th-January 2nd. Everyone's like, "You're so crazy for going during a peak time," but I'm like psssssh. Crowds? I thrive off of crowds laugh I'm not too worried. I'll def report back though, if it was a nightmare decision. Haha.

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Hi Amanda welcome back! French Quarter is lovely, you're going to really enjoy your stay there. Do you have any dining plans yet?

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Kristen K. wrote:
Hi Amanda welcome back! French Quarter is lovely, you're going to really enjoy your stay there. Do you have any dining plans yet?

I really want to go to Be Our Guest, but I don't know if we'll have any luck booking it. Last time (when I was going to go this past November) I had no luck booking it for the entire week we had planned, but hopefully luck will be on my side this time because Beauty and the Beast is my favorite Disney movie to ever exist. I think it's my age, since it came out when I was a toddler, and now I nanny and watch it with the toddlers I take care of! Haha.

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BOG is a tough one to get, you'll have to jump on the reservation the moment ADRs open up 180 days out.

I missed our window for my next trip and now I have my fingers crossed for a FastPass reservation. Trying not to get my hopes too high.

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Kristen K. wrote:
BOG is a tough one to get, you'll have to jump on the reservation the moment ADRs open up 180 days out.

I missed our window for my next trip and now I have my fingers crossed for a FastPass reservation. Trying not to get my hopes too high.

I will have my fingers and toes crossed for the both of us! laugh awesome

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You will have a BLAST!

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I remember you! I would love to go when you are going but for such a long trip from the UK I don't think we could so will have to live vicariously!

beauty and the beast is one of my fav films also (think we might be around the same age) so I would highly recommend trying to get in to BOG it is simply stunning!!!

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Hello and welcome back Amanda. Sorry you had to cancel that last trip, but at least you were able to rebook.