Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I guess you're thinking whaaaa? I mean, we all know how awesome my hubby is anyway (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 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 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
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 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!!
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