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Magic Mirror's Disneymoon Pre-Trip Report!

We are only a few days away from being able to make Fast Pass selections....so I imagine I will have some tweaking to the pre-trip report..but it's time to get this party started! mickey **FAST PASSES ADDED**

We are booked at POR French Quarters from Jan. 23rd until Jan. 30th and have a 6 day Park Pass. At this time I'm still debating on adding the Hopper option as I'm not sure we will get enough use out of it for the cost. We tend to stay in the park we are at for the entire day and park hours are shorter during this time period anyway....so I'm still contemplating. This is the first time we are staying on a hotel only discount so all food is out of pocket (vs. previous "free" dining).

This will be our 3rd trip to WDW as a couple and our 2nd time at PORFQ muchlove

Friday, Jan. 23rd- Fly from South Bend, Indiana to Orlando/Sanford Airport. Roughly a 2.5 hr flight. Arrive at 1202pm. Get picked up by one of my BFF's who will drive us to PORFQ to see if we can check in. BFF may or may not be able to spend the afternoon with us, depending on her work commitments at that time. After dropping off our luggage, we will hop the boat to Downtown Disney! A QS dinner will be at Wolfgang Puck as requested by my bride. I hope to make a Mr. Potato Head at the toy store. If we have the energy, I'm anticipating a much raved about on here, Chocolate Martini at Scat Cat's Club.

Saturday, Jan. 24th- Off to AK who is open till 7pm this night. We love AK and can easily stay there the entire day. A Dole Whip with Rum from Tamu Tamu is on my list of must try's. Hoping to see DeVine as I keep missing her. After closing we are off to The Poly. We will check out the new design of the Poly, grab another must try, Lapu Lapu & some appetizers and head to the water to see the Electrical Parade at 9pm (which we have also never seen). If for some reason the beach is closed-its probably going to be a ferry boat ride to Wilderness Lodge to watch it from there. Alternate Plan here is booking the Pirates & Pals Fireworks Voyage.

Expedition Everest 10:55a-11:55a*Kilimanjaro Safaris 12:45p-1:45p*Festival Lion King 2:30p-2:50p

Sunday, Jan. 25th- HS is open till 10pm this night (and thus, not recommended by Touring Plans) but I'm feeling optimistic that with the recent closings & rumored construction-it isn't going to be very crowded. Here I must ride that dreaded Tower of Terror that DW loves. This is currently our only reservation for table service @ Sci Fi Drive In (another request of DW) at 12:45p.

Tower of Terror 10:05a-11:05a*Toy Story 2:05p-3:05p*Frozen Sing Along 3:25p-3:40p

Monday, Jan. 26th- MK Day! Open until 8pm this is also not recommended by Touring Plans-because I guess, Mondays are typically busier for guests just coming to WDW, but again, we throw caution to the wind and are going anyway! We start out early for the Marceline to Magic Kingdom Tour at 8am with MrHub, Scrappy, KenJ and JanJ clapping then we hope to grab some delicious snacks (Nutella Waffle? Gaston's Cinnamon Roll? ALL OF IT?).

7 Dwarfs Mine 3:40p-4:40p*Peter Pan 4:55p-5:55p*Meet Anna & Elsa 6:00p-7:00p

Tuesday, Jan. 27th- AK for round 2 (this is subject to change) it depends if we do the Wild Africa Trek, another DW request as she loved it so much last time. If we can leave before 4p we will be heading to AKL for the free 4pm Culinary Tour of Boma & Jiko. Depending on how we like the food choices, dinner may be in Jiko's Cape Town Lounge & Wine Bar.

Kilimanjaro Safari 9:50a-10:50a*Expedition Everest 1:00p-2:00p*Nemo Musical 2:30p-2:50p

Wednesday, Jan. 28th- Hoping to make it to Wilderness Lodge before 9am for the free Art & Architecture Tour. DW really loves Wilderness Lodge so if I am to convince her of DVD resale options some day, this might be the perfect place to spend extra time in! Then off to MK. We might break for a late lunch back to Wilderness lodge and an hour bicycle rental thru the grounds. Then back to MK as they close at 8pm.

Thunder Railroad 11:20a-12:20p*Haunted Mansion 2:20p-3:20p*7 Dwarfs Mine 5:15p-6:15p

Thursday, Jan. 29th- If we can make the Boardwalk by 9am I would like to take the free Ballyhoo Guided Tour. Then its off to Epcot for the day. DW seems to get a bit bored in Epcot (where I can gaze at the countries detailing for hours) so i hope to mix it up with the Behind the Seeds Tour. School Bread is on my must do list here. Perhaps Mickey's Kitchen Sink back over at Beaches & Cream? And now that we are Visa Card Holders we must hit the free photo meet-n-greet session at Innoventions West between 1-7pm. Epcot closes at 9pm.

No Fast Passes Schedule at this time

Friday, Jan. 30th- is going to hurt in two ways. First, we fly home and leave WDW sad Two, we have to leave PORFQ at 3:30am to get to the airport as our plane leaves at 6:20am. While my BFF offered to pick us back up and take us, I couldn't ask her to get us at that crazy time, so we will have to rent transportation. While on the phone with Disney, they said they do organize transportation with Mears but I haven't looked into it to price it or see what any benefits might be.

So there we have it, the first step, now to see how many of the Fast Passes I can get to line up with it!

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sounds like an awesome trip you have planned.

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Thank you Mrferret! A full one, that is for sure! DW likes more "breaks" from the Parks..but if we are only going to have 6 park days, I feel the need to fill them up a bit... I'm hoping that not being tied down to dinner reservations will allow a slower, easy going flow in the park itself... and give the appearance of a slower pace cool

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We have just booked the MTM tour for our May trip so look forward to hearing how amazing it was wink

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awesome Absolutely ! A full trip report upon our arrival home ~ but with the HM in it, it HAS to be Great!

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Magic Mirror wrote:
awesome Absolutely ! A full trip report upon our arrival home ~ but with the HM in it, it HAS to be Great!

We did the keys to the kingdom in years past and got to see backstage at the mansion ... very interesting ...

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Sounds like a great trip! We'll be there in January too but sadly we leave before you get there sad Maybe I could "forget" to get on my flight? laugh
I can't wait to read all about it. Have fun booking FP mickey

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Your Disneymoon sounds wonderful!

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Love hearing your plans!

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Sounds like an awesome plan! With the exception of that early morning departure yuck The only way I'll get up that early for a flight is on the way DOWN to Disney! laugh

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Yay - the start of a Disneymoon TR! Ken and are are very excited to meet you guys for the tour. Have fun picking your FP's - we get to do ours soon too. clapping

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Sounds awesome! Hope you get the FPs you want!!!!

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Sounds like a great trip. Have a Lapu Lapu for me to celebrate my birthday. mickey

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Ah your plans sound awesome, you are going to LOVE marceline!

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You have a great sounding trip planned, I wouldn't worry about Touring Plans not recommending a couple of places, they tend to say steer clear if it is EMH just because it's EMH. We loved MTM great tour and we also love POFQ it is romantic and quiet. Good luck getting your FP hope they come out as you want.

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Sounds great MM! Can't wait to meet up with you two and Ken & Jan again.

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What a great way to start 2015... awesome

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You are going to love going in January!! We did it a couple of years ago and absolutely loved it!! Good luck on the FP!!

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I'm sooooo excited for your trip! Can't wait to hear all about it (and the wedding of course!!)

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Fast pass picks tomorrow! yay

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yay yay yay

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What are your "must does" for FP+

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When the clock hit midnight, I was on those Fast Passes like bees on honey wink

Everything went smooth except...................................................

For some reason I forgot about the fact Amy has a 5 day park pass and I have a 6 day park pass.
Originally in my mind I was thinking not a big deal, when we get to the parks we will just add a day
onto hers. I didn't think about the fact her fast passes would STOP after day 5 letting me pick one
more day of FP but not letting me add her to them. sad

Also - to me it seems like it should be a simple key stroke to add one day on a ticket..
but after reading about how hard it was for other members to change up to an annual pass...
I'm thinking this might be a bigger problem. I certainly don't want to add a day only to loose
all the scheduled FP's.

I will call Disney when I get up and see what they have to say about it. For now..the FP's for
day 6 are not made. If it had to happen that is the best place for it too as day 6 is Epcot.
The only FP I'd even worry about is Soarin. I'd rather loose that than the Mine Ride! eek

60 days to go!
yay yay yay yay yay yay yay

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Fast Passes added in bold to original entry above awesome

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The Disney selected FP's all worked out in good positions for me- with the exception of the original Toy Story choice..they had it right during our lunch at Sci Fi Drive In...so I did go back in and push that one ahead an hour to give us plenty of time to eat.

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Spook wrote:
Sounds like a great trip! We'll be there in January too but sadly we leave before you get there sad Maybe I could "forget" to get on my flight? laugh
I can't wait to read all about it. Have fun booking FP mickey

Spook! You absolutely should forget your flight!!!!!!

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Your Disneymoon sounds wonderful!

Thank you~ I can't wait!

Belinda wrote:
Love hearing your plans!

Thanks Belinda~Part of the fun of planning is sharing with you guys!

Allie wrote:
Sounds like an awesome plan! With the exception of that early morning departure yuck The only way I'll get up that early for a flight is on the way DOWN to Disney! laugh

I agree! except I'll add that I will only get up to go down to Disney OR save $$ to put towards the next trip!

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Yay - the start of a Disneymoon TR! Ken and are are very excited to meet you guys for the tour. Have fun picking your FP's - we get to do ours soon too. clapping

And we are excited to meet you both! We locked on to our FP-hope you get all the ones you want too!

JMed wrote:
Sounds awesome! Hope you get the FPs you want!!!!

We did! clapping We did! clapping biggrin

JoAnn C wrote:
Sounds like a great trip. Have a Lapu Lapu for me to celebrate my birthday. mickey

We will toast your special day birthday with the Lapu!

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Ah your plans sound awesome, you are going to LOVE marceline!

I think it sounds amazing Robyn! The right amount of information vs. time taken by the tour -
and of course, anything with the HM in it- has to be awesome!

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Sally-Ann wrote:
You have a great sounding trip planned, I wouldn't worry about Touring Plans not recommending a couple of places, they tend to say steer clear if it is EMH just because it's EMH. We loved MTM great tour and we also love POFQ it is romantic and quiet. Good luck getting your FP hope they come out as you want.

Thanks Sally Ann! We are going to just go with the flow and not worry about any of it ...and POFQ.... muchlove Love that place!

MrHub wrote:
Sounds great MM! Can't wait to meet up with you two and Ken & Jan again.

Mrhub and Scrappy~ it's going to be a party!!! banana banana banana

The Watchmaker wrote:
What a great way to start 2015... awesome

you know, I hadn't thought of it that way- but I sure do like it! Last year started off all wrong-so this HAS to start it all off all right ! mickey

93boomer wrote:
You are going to love going in January!! We did it a couple of years ago and absolutely loved it!! Good luck on the FP!!

We are counting on the less crowded park predictions...I'm hoping to do some repeat riding on the favorites!

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I'm sooooo excited for your trip! Can't wait to hear all about it (and the wedding of course!!)

Thanks Robyn - You know a detailed TR will follow! pillowfight

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Miss Mikki wrote:
What are your "must does" for FP+

I'm happy to say we have all the ones we wanted!
But it HAD to include: Haunted Mansion, Tower of I hate that stupid, stomach falling ride Terror, Kilimanjaro Safari, Expedition Everest, Toy Story .. I missed one of those, I'd be really sorry!

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Your plan looks great! I completely missed that tour at WL...now we have to go back...darn wink

Can you not get Magical Express early enough to get back to the airport?

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Well, dang, you head for home early morning Friday the 30th and we arrive late that afternoon. Maybe you could miss YOUR flight?

Sounds like an amazing trip, though. Wonderful honeymoon!

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alicemouse wrote:
Your plan looks great! I completely missed that tour at WL...now we have to go back...darn wink

Can you not get Magical Express early enough to get back to the airport?

We are flying into Sanford/Orlando -- so no Magical Express sad

crazycatperson wrote:
Well, dang, you head for home early morning Friday the 30th and we arrive late that afternoon. Maybe you could miss YOUR flight?

Sounds like an amazing trip, though. Wonderful honeymoon!

crazycatperson wrote:
Well, dang, you head for home early morning Friday the 30th and we arrive late that afternoon. Maybe you could miss YOUR flight?

Sounds like an amazing trip, though. Wonderful honeymoon!

I"m always up for missing flights!!! LOL