The OMG-my-husband-is-so-frickin-awesome Pre-Trip Report

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The OMG-my-husband-is-so-frickin-awesome Pre-Trip Report

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I guess you're thinking whaaaa? I mean, we all know how awesome my hubby is anyway Wink (I know, pass the sick bucket) but he has kinda outdone himself today...

If you have read my PTR for our October trip 'The One With All The Birthdays' you will know that this year I turn 30, on July 2nd in fact. Now I've never had any desire to visit Orlando over my birthday (4th July craziness) so we arranged a bit trip with my parents and in laws who almost all turn 60 this year too. For my actual birthday we are heading to London for afternoon tea at The Ritz *swoon* and I'm having a small gathering at the weekend following. I knew Sy wanted to take me on a mini break for my birthday, somewhere with a hotel that's a bit special for a few nights somewhere in Europe. I know this because he told me - you see I'm not a fan of surprises, its probably cause I'm too much of a control freak Wink I love that he came up with the idea himself but then got my input a bit on where I would like to go etc. So off he trots looking at places online. He was looking at 3 nights somewhere at about PS200 per night plus travel costs and spending money. Well then I start to search online, just to get ideas you understand Wink and of course I just had to check Orlando prices, would be rude not to... Well would you know we could go to Orlando for a week for the price of 3 nights in Europe?! But that was before my birthday and not after - which was fine by me (even better if you ask me as the schools here in the UK don't break up till mid to late July so Europe gets busy after my birthday). Before you know it he was the online holiday booking form at work checking he still had enough time for a week off considering the amount of time off he would be taking in October. He DID have enough time off! Woohoo! So then out came the creditcard and a trip to Orlando was booked Laughing out loud

So I'm going to Orlando erm, NEXT WEEK! For the grand total of PS710 for 2 flights, and hotel. Sadly there wasn't enough availability in any DVC resort, we could have halved it and spend some time onsite and some off but there were only 4 nights in the middle available at SSR and so we decided that rather than move hotels 3 times we would just get a mid-range offsite hotel that was on offer on the flight's own website Smile So we are staying a week half way up International Drive at the Avanti Resort, it gets good reviews online and it was such a bargain price so it can't be too bad.

I'm slightly nervous by how busy and hot its gonna be, I can sense we will be having a lot of down time in the afternoons. I had a look at the crowd calendar and its at 9/10 one of the day - YIKES!

The holiday was booked literally a matter of hours ago so I'm gonna now busy myself with ADR's and fastpass+ (as we have AP) so watch this space for more details. I just couldn't hold back from sharing with my best Disney friends!!

Laughing out loud

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Our Very Merry 24 nighter Nov/Dec 15
Watson's go West May 15
The one with all the birthdays Oct 14 4 Big Birthdays and a Vow Renewal thrown in
The OMG trip June 14 30th Birthday present from the hubs
Girly trip March 14 A last min cheapy week
September 13 our first all DVC stay
TR May 2013 the last min bargain trip offsite
Oct 2012 TR with a cruise!big family trip featuring the beach club, AKL, the dream and a villa offsite
TR on a budget May - June 2011offsite condo
TR Sept - Oct 2010 big family trip in an offsite villa

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Eeeek!!!! Robyn that is so exciting! stars yeah

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Oh that is truly awesome! Another Robyn trip report to look forward to!

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Yes another awesome trip report !! yay clapping

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Oh my god! That's *SO* awesome - way to go Sy!!

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Next week!!?? AHHHH that's so exciting!!! yay yay

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Wow! That is truly amazing. Ken and I would love to do that someday. I know you guys will have a great time and we all can't wait to hear/read more about it.

yay clapping yay clapping

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That's great Robyn! We did a last minute trip to the World a couple of years ago. So last minute that there was no time for luggage tags and all that. It was an amazing feeling booking the trip and then saying "this time next week, we'll be there!".

Have an awesome time!! awesome mickey

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yay yay
What a great almost surprise. Someday I would love to do a last minute trip. Cant wait to read all about yours.

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Spontaneous trips are the best! That sounds like a super price - I don't think we could do it for that from Ontario, never mind crossing an ocean. Sy's a keeper - but you already knew that. awesome

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Wow Robyn that is so great and I am sooooooooooo jealous. Gotta find me a man like that.

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that's awesome!!

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Ahhhh thanks so much everyone! I've spent the evening making ADR's (not too many) and fastpass+ (I got Anna & Elsa!!). If anyone has any tips to keep me sane as far as the crowds go I'd be pleased for you to share them with me Laughing out loud :D We are planning on hitting the parks early and then leaving to go back and chill out at the hotel in the afternoon for a bit and head back again in the evenings.

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Our Very Merry 24 nighter Nov/Dec 15
Watson's go West May 15
The one with all the birthdays Oct 14 4 Big Birthdays and a Vow Renewal thrown in
The OMG trip June 14 30th Birthday present from the hubs
Girly trip March 14 A last min cheapy week
September 13 our first all DVC stay
TR May 2013 the last min bargain trip offsite
Oct 2012 TR with a cruise!big family trip featuring the beach club, AKL, the dream and a villa offsite
TR on a budget May - June 2011offsite condo
TR Sept - Oct 2010 big family trip in an offsite villa

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How awesome! What a sweetie pie you have! stars

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Wow! I envy you! You visit WDW more than me and I'm only 8 hours away!

You will have so much fun!

Why can't we ever find cheap travel deals like that to Europe!?

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How awesome! And this time you get to take Simon along on your spur-of-the-moment trip. Have a great time. And let's hear the details about the ADRs and FP+.

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WOW!! And here I am dithering over whether or not to pop down for 3 days more than 2 months from now! And we only live a 2 hr. flight away!! LOL!!

Have an amazing trip, Robyn! mickey

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Nice Robyn!

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Yippeeee! I never care about crowds or heat....it's Disney! Whatever! cool

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date way to go! Top birthday planner husband! Sounds to me like an awesome birthday
and excellent rate! You had better get to packing!

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Lucky you Birthday mate! July 2nd birthdays all the way!!! Party Have tons of fun!!

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Sooooooooo since somebody asked (and lets face it I was pretty much itching to tell you anyway and didn't need any encouragement)... Wanna know some of the plans? In most cases I've tried to plan the fastpasses close together so if we are feeling too hot or its too busy, we can pop back to the hotel without having to miss some of our passes.

Thursday 12th
We are flying with Monarch to Sanford, bit nervous as they aren't the best but hey, as long as they get us there safely its not the end of the world. We leave London at 10am local time and we arrive at 2:50pm. Still working on the car hire but will be picking that up once we land and then hopefully arrive at our hotel by 5pm, earlier if we can but I'm fully aware of the immigration queue and how bad it can get (though its not as bad at Sanford as MCO). The plan will be get showered and unpack and then go find some food, and stop off at Walmart to grab some drinks. Depending on how tired we are I have made some fastpass reservations at MK but if we are too tired we just wont use them. Jungle cruise, Big thunder mountain and Splash mountain.

Friday 13th (eek!)
AK gets the lowest crowd predictions so that's where we are heading. We will no doubt be up early unless we managed to stay awake the night before so have made fastpass+ for FOTLK at 11:30am followed by Dinosaur at 12:30pm and then Kali at 1:30pm. If we are flagging we will head back to the hotel for a nap. AK is open till 9pm so we could go back later on

Saturday 14th
MK
Fastpass+ for Pirates at 10:45am, Haunted Mansion at 12:15pm and Splash at 7:50pm. I have also made an ADR for the Garden View Tea Room at 4:55pm for some yummy afternoon tea Laughing out loud

Sunday 15th
Epcot
Fastpass+ for Spaceship Earth at 9:35am, Figment at 10:55am and Soarin' at 12:05pm. Also have a lunchtime ADR at Chef de France at 1:50pm Smile Depending on how hot and bothered we are we may head back to the hotel to chill out for a bit in the afternoon and head back to Epcot for the evening, will see how we feel.

Monday 16th
HS
Fastpass+ for Great Movie Ride at 12:35pm, TSM at 1:50pm and ToT at 3:35pm. I'm also hoping to try drawing a character in the Animation Academy and catch a show of Beauty and the Beast. Not 100% sure about Fantasmic, I couldn't make a reservation for it and I don't fancy queuing up for an hour beforehand so we might just have to wait till October.

Tuesday 17th
TL
I'm thinking we will head to TL early, maybe do a ride or 2 but probably just hang out in the lazy river and the wave pool. If we get there for park opening we will probably have had enough by about 2pm and head out again, back to the hotel to change and make our way to AK. Fastpass+ for Dinosaur at 4:50pm, Kilimanjaro Safari at 5:50pm and Kali at 7pm. We also have an ADR for Yak and Yeti at 6:15pm (Kali runs from 7 till 8 so should be plenty of time).

Wednesday 18th
Our last full day
Start the day over in Epcot. No fastpasses there though as in the afternoon we will head over to MK.
Fastpass+ for Festival of Fantasy Parade (don't want a repeat of March!), Jungle Cruise 8:20pm and - get this - 11:20pm meet and greet with Anna and Elsa!! Don't ask me how I managed to snag that one, but I did! I'm very excited Smile We also have an ADR at the Plaza at 5:20pm.

Thursday 19th
I haven't made any fastpasses for this day, going to play it by ear over the week and see where we want to return to for a few hours. Our flight leaves at 4:50pm, we will need to be at the airport by 2:30pm so we will need to leave Disney by 1:30pm just to be on the safe side. We may decide to skip visiting a park at all and just spend the day by the pool in our resort, who knows.

Friday 20th
Arrive home at 6:50am

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Our Very Merry 24 nighter Nov/Dec 15
Watson's go West May 15
The one with all the birthdays Oct 14 4 Big Birthdays and a Vow Renewal thrown in
The OMG trip June 14 30th Birthday present from the hubs
Girly trip March 14 A last min cheapy week
September 13 our first all DVC stay
TR May 2013 the last min bargain trip offsite
Oct 2012 TR with a cruise!big family trip featuring the beach club, AKL, the dream and a villa offsite
TR on a budget May - June 2011offsite condo
TR Sept - Oct 2010 big family trip in an offsite villa

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I should also mention I spent this evening packing hehehe so its all done now Laughing out loud

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Our Very Merry 24 nighter Nov/Dec 15
Watson's go West May 15
The one with all the birthdays Oct 14 4 Big Birthdays and a Vow Renewal thrown in
The OMG trip June 14 30th Birthday present from the hubs
Girly trip March 14 A last min cheapy week
September 13 our first all DVC stay
TR May 2013 the last min bargain trip offsite
Oct 2012 TR with a cruise!big family trip featuring the beach club, AKL, the dream and a villa offsite
TR on a budget May - June 2011offsite condo
TR Sept - Oct 2010 big family trip in an offsite villa

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It all sounds wonderful Robyn!

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Let the good times roll! awesome

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Wow this is fantastic!!!!! I'm so jealous of you!!! Can't wait to hear all about it!!!

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Sounds like a great trip.

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RobynPrincess wrote:
I should also mention I spent this evening packing hehehe so its all done now Laughing out loud

Will you be wearing a special outfit for your birthday?
You always sew the best designs!

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Magic Mirror wrote:
RobynPrincess wrote:
I should also mention I spent this evening packing hehehe so its all done now Laughing out loud

Will you be wearing a special outfit for your birthday?
You always sew the best designs!

Actually I had my mum over today and we were sewing! Sadly not making any new things but altering things I've bought or made before. One of my dresses had a hole in and another needed some elastic adding and a few other bits Smile I do have some fabric waiting for me to make a new maxi skirt for October but not enough time to make it before Thursday sadly Sad but thank you for liking my sewing Laughing out loud

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Our Very Merry 24 nighter Nov/Dec 15
Watson's go West May 15
The one with all the birthdays Oct 14 4 Big Birthdays and a Vow Renewal thrown in
The OMG trip June 14 30th Birthday present from the hubs
Girly trip March 14 A last min cheapy week
September 13 our first all DVC stay
TR May 2013 the last min bargain trip offsite
Oct 2012 TR with a cruise!big family trip featuring the beach club, AKL, the dream and a villa offsite
TR on a budget May - June 2011offsite condo
TR Sept - Oct 2010 big family trip in an offsite villa

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awesome

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yay yay yay yay yay

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