The Hunt For Baymax October 2018

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Welcome to my first trip report:

Introduction
Travel Day
Day 1 - Animal Kingdom
Day 2 - Royal Pacific/Universal/Hard Rock
Day 3 - Islands Of Adventure/ Boardwalk/ Illuminations
Day 4 - Magic Kingdom/Torrential Rain
Day 5 - Premium Outlets and Ohana
Day 6 - Hollywood Studios/Homecoming/Disney Springs
Day 7 - Epcot/ Food and Wine/ Magic Kingdom/ Happily Ever After
Day 8 - Animal Kingdom/Flight of Passage/ Yak and Yeti/ MNSSHP
Day 9 - Vineland Outlets/ Yachtsman
Day 10 - Univeral/IOA/Volcano Bay
Day 11 - The Edison/ Hollywood Studios/ Star Wars Fireworks
Day 12 - Epcot/Teppan Edo/Blaze Pizza
Day 13- Crystal Palace/Ohana
Day 14 - Check Out/Animal Kingdom/Flame Tree BBQ/Magic Express/ Flight Home

High and Low Points
Restaurant Rankings



Introduction

Well after reading a LOT of trip reports over the last two years, I am going to give it a go myself.

So first introductions:

Me - Rob – 29 year old Yorkshireman who has betrayed his roots and now lives across the Pennines in Manchester! Work in Marketing and in my free time watch a lot of movies and football. I have been a Disney fan since I was young, growing up watching the likes of Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Mulan and my favourite Disney film Aladdin.

Girlfriend- Ellen – 27 year old fashion designer from Chesterfield, was also brought up watching the classic 90s Disney films (with her dad who often wins Disney trivial pursuit).
Trip Background:
After going on a ‘once in a lifetime’ trip in September 2016, we arrived home with a serious case of Disney blues and started to talk about the possibility of another trip (we both knew it was going to happen). After staying off site in 2016 on international drive, we decided that we wanted to try onsite to reduce the amount of time spent traveling in the car and to get the Disney dinning plan.
Once the 2018 dinning plan offer became available we booked 2 weeks at Disney’s All Star Music Resort and upgraded to the Disney Dining Plan. We then tried to put the trip to the back of our minds since it was so long away.
In January 2018 we finally booked our flights through Disney, opting to do this so we could just pay a deposit rather than the full whack as we were still saving at this point. This decision worked out really well for us as a week after taking our flight deposit, due to an error Disney took the payment again from my account. They refunded the money within a few days and to say sorry gave us a $200 gift card (RESULT!).
ADR Booking
Since we had the DDP this trip it required a bit of additional planning, which may or may not have involved a colour coded spreadsheet. Once our 6 month window opened we booked the following ADR’s:
• California Grill
• Ohana
• Tepan Edo
• Tusker House Breakfast
• Crystal Palace Breakfast
• Yak & Yeti
• The Edison
• Chef Art Smiths Homecoming
• The Yachtsman
• Be Our Guest Dinner
We left ourselves with 2 table service credits to make a last minute booking on one of our free evenings.
There will be a review of each of the meals as part of this trip report (Any guesses on our favourite and worst?)
Fastpasses:
I won’t go through our fastpass bookings (I am sure you’re thinking this pre trip is going on a bit now) but we did get 2x Flight of Passage, Frozen, Slinky Dog Dash and Navi River Journey.

Well hopefully that has got you hooked and you are looking forward to the next two weeks of our trip, I am aiming to get up two to three days each week depending on my availability. Looking forward to my first trip report. Rob

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I'm looking forwards to reading more

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Travel Day is up here:


thedibb.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1105082

I cannot link it to the Index page at the moment as apparently as a new member to the Dibb cannot link to web pages in my posts until I have posted a certain number of things. I will therefore put the links to each day in the comments until it allows me to link in the Index.

Rob

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Hi Everyone,

Thanks for reading! Day one is now up and I have sorted out the hyperlinks in this Index.