trying 5 new things DISNEY VERSION

I've used both Garden Grocer and a French Press Before and I was very satisfied with them both!
That water delivery from GG is huge to my family. We go through Dasani like crazy and hate paying the Disney price for it!

1. Staying on site
2. Ordering groceries
3. Dole whip
4. drinking around the world
5. Introducing myself as a real life canadian and try to convince someone we live in igloos at Canada Pavillion.

I did a lot of what I heard on here on my last trip..but for my next trip...

1. Stay at Port Orleans Riverside or Polynesian.
2. Desserts: Cupcakes and carrot cake cookie
3. Le Cellier
4. More resort-hopping! We did hardly any this last time!
5. Rose & Crown and other good places to sit for IllumiNation. Never can find a great spot.

there's so much more that I either can't come up with off the top of my head or already used!

Ok Cupcake crawl????? Sounds like something I could get on board with.

The monorail crawl is a drinking thing right? I have seen it here but have never seen the definition of it.

I have always wanted to try Bistro de Paris but it wasn't on the Dining plan in the past. This year it is on the plan but they have closed it for remodeling. I read they are changing it from the stuffy tuxedo dining staff to a slightly more causal dining. It will be a signature dining but not as stuffy. I wanted to try it but oh well.

The last person that I heard of staying there was Suri Cruise. Not to say that no one else has stayed there since, but it was all over the news a couple of weeks ago. So there you go that the type of money you need

Angel that pool is the strictest for checking ID's and the only one you are not allowed to pool hop to period. Some of the others may be changing policy and getting alot stricter too in the future, the Polynesian being one of them. There are rumors of all the pools getting fenced in, so that would make them easier to secure for guests of that resort only.

Here's the link to the 2012 cupcake crawl from the Disney Food Blog.

http://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2012/05/28/food-challenge-the-disney-food-blog-2012-cupcake-crawl/

It also includes a link to the 2011 version.

I just made ressies for Bistro, it opens while we are there. I am excited now.

My 5 new things to try:
1. Staying at AoA -Little Mermaid section
2. Cruising on the Fantasy cruise ship
3. Eating at the CA Grill
4. Going to MVMCP
5. Eating at Ohana

Thank you I add the cupcake crawl to my plan. I get to try the chocolate peppermint, but I will miss out on the bunny cupcake and the star wars one but you can't have it all. I'm surprised babycakes didn't make the list.

Here's ours for our anniversary trip in October:

1) Epcot food and wine festival
2) Staying onsite (Caribbean!)
3) Planning our own trip (usually planned by parents or whoever else we're going with)
4) ADR's (never made any before!)
5) WWoHP (not Disney but I'm still really looking forward to it!)

First week of November:

1. Top of the World Lounge
2. Jiko Wine Tasting
3. Paradiso 37 - lunch
4. F&W culinary demo - Cake Boss
5. Kimonos - dinner

November trip

1 MVMCP
2 Candlelight Processional
3 Osborne Family Lights
4 Be our Guest for dinner
5 Stay at the Contemporary (just one night)

That was my list from November 2011. Here's a tentative list for our upcoming October 2012 trip:

1. Stay at a Disney resort (Old Key West on a timeshare exchange). Aside from one night at the Swan, this will be our first time staying onsite.
2. Use Disney transportation exclusively - no personal or rental car. I'll let you know how it goes.
3. Go to a character meal (lunch at Tusker House).
4. Go to Typhoon Lagoon (weather permitting).
5. Eat at Earl of Sandwich (if it fits into our schedule and hubby is agreeable).

We'll also try three new-to-us table-service restaurants (50s Prime Time Cafe, Liberty Tree Tavern, and Teppan Edo), so if numbers 4 and 5 don't work out, I have other new things I can use to replace them.

Lets see I have done a lot on the previous lists or I want to do some of them. I guess you are looking for the 5 things I will do this trip not 5 things I want to do.

1. MVMCP
2. Be Our Guest
3. Cupcake crawl - which I didnt know I was doing this until yesterday lol
4. Bistro de Paris
5. Yuletide Fantasy

Other then that, it is been there done that or really don't care if I do that. I'm sure some of the pass members and dvc people understand that. You have been there so often you have done what you really wanted to do now it is just enjoying the things you like to do.
Only other things on my wish list are stay at the GF and have Dinner at Victoria and Alberts.

The new things that we will be doing at our November trip this year

1. Eating at Turf Club
2. Hopefully getting a reservation for Be Our Guest
3. Planning on trying out some counter service places we haven't ate at yet
4. The new fantasyland
5. Splash Mountain and maybe Expedition Everest will be first time rides for me

For our next trip coming up, here are our 5 new things!

1. New resort(. AKL and POP in the same trip
2. New time of the year; we usually go in May and this trip is October for our anniversary!
3. New restuarants, 'Ohana, Libery Tree Tavern, and Boma
4. Attending MNSSHP
5. Hoping for either an in-room celebration or Spa treatment!!

There's so much of Disney you haven't done yet! I think being fully emerged in the Disney atmosphere (buses, resort, character meals) is going to give you a much better experience.

There are a surprising number of you who have never stayed on-site!

You know, I didn't even realize they weren't on the list! Maybe because it has multiple shops and these are meant to be cupcakes that you can only get at Disney? I don't know, that's all I got.

Great Idea- Thanks for posting this thread! I did a ton of firsts on my trip this July and got so excited about them! (DTD and parks alone for the first time, first dole whip, first pin trades, first starring rolls dessert, first stay at the dolphin, first time walking home from the parks...It was great! I think there were more but I am blanking. I would still love to....

1. Go to F&W Festival
2. MNSSHP
3.Mickey's Very Merry Christmas
4. Flower & Garden
5. Meet the 7 dwarves and the COUNTRY BEARS* The bears are a must.

....I'm a teacher so I miss a lot of fun stuff having to go in the summer. But one day I will get there!

I'm not sure either. Babycakes is inside Pollo Campero at Downtown Disney. One location multiple cupcakes to choose from really surprised it did not make it in there. I will add them to my crawl. I have always been a rebel.

How did you manage to meet the Dwarves and Bears?
I forgot to add Starring Rolls to my list. If I chose my vacation I would go during the F&WF, but that's not on my list only because we vacation in the summer.

5 New Things for my October Trip

1. Staying at a Value Resort (AOA)
2. Akershus Royal Banquet Hall for Breakfast
3. Tutto Italia for dinner
4. Liberty Tree Tavern for dinner (not really new, but it's been a good 25 years, maybe 30)
5. See Cinderella's Wishing Well

Nice lists everyone. Friends and I are adding the cupcake crawl woohoo

WOW - lots of great ideas from everyone!
My list would include:

1. Stay at Wilderness Lodge
2. Actually make it to rope drop at MK
3. Keys to the Kingdom tour
4. Having my first ever dole whip
5. The cupcake crawl sounds fantastic

This list could go on and on and on!

This is a fun one!

1- NOT park hopping
2- Dinner at Be Our Guest
3- Going in January (usually go in August or September)
4- Skipping Animal Kingdom altogether
5- Watching MK fireworks from beach at Polynesian

huh? What is this?!

Love this idea. Especially if you're not park hopping. It's a no-branier for me. I don't want to spend a whole day there.