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Old 18 Aug 19, 10:06 PM  
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So we hit the "magical" 180 day mark tomorrow. It doesn't mean much as we're on the QSDP so no reservations to make, but I'm thinking of booking one or two TS meals so will have a think about them overnight - am thinking that DD would love a character meal...

Now we've got less than 6 months to go, it's feeling a bit more real now too. It's still a secret from DS, so that's fantastic and I've now "confessed all" to my parents which feels like a weight off my shoulders - ridiculous as it is.

We saw a friend who lives around an hour north of Orlando a couple of weeks ago when he was in the UK, so have tentatively arranged to meet up with him and his family on Presidents' Day, so that takes care of plans on what's likely to be the busiest day in the parks and it will be great to see them all.
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It all started to feel real a couple of days ago when VH emailed me to remind me that I need to pay my balance in 4 weeks!

We've started planning our reveal for the kids. Well, a 2 year old won't really get it, so it's for DS. We're making him a personalised calendar with photos of him and his sister and all 4 of us and putting all of his important dates in for 2020 (holidays, school residential etc). I think the main photo for February will probably be a picture of "The Falcon" Virgin plane, but I might dig out one of him dressed up as a Star Wars character - can't quite decide.

He'll be so gutted to get a calendar as his main present, it's going to be hilarious. I hope!

I found out today that you can pre-book slots to make the light sabers in Galaxy's Edge, so I need to work out what time would be best to do that in the morning so that we can still hopefully get on the 2 rides there quite early with hopefully minimal queuing involved.
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An old school friend of mine has just booked this same trip for himself and his son (I think he is about 13) who are both avid Star Wars fans but never been to Orlando. He was looking for some help with planning as they've never been.

I will be avidly following your thread to glean any of your tips as we never stay onsite and know nothing about the QSDP!

So far all I've told him to do is download MDE and get everything registered on there. Were you able to link your virgin booking ok to MDE?

I know he will also be interested in the light saber making. Which day is presidents day? so many questions!

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Originally Posted by scottishnellie View Post
An old school friend of mine has just booked this same trip for himself and his son (I think he is about 13) who are both avid Star Wars fans but never been to Orlando. He was looking for some help with planning as they've never been.

I will be avidly following your thread to glean any of your tips as we never stay onsite and know nothing about the QSDP!

So far all I've told him to do is download MDE and get everything registered on there. Were you able to link your virgin booking ok to MDE?

I know he will also be interested in the light saber making. Which day is presidents day? so many questions!

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Oh wow, how exciting for them!

I can’t remember about linking my reservation to MDE, but it’s there, so it can’t have been difficult!

Presidents Day is the Monday and that’s the only day I’m expecting it to really be busy, but the last time I went in Feb half term was 5 years ago.

I need to start researching good places to eat on the QSDP as we usually stay off site too. It looks like the variety of eateries is pretty good though. Which hotel are they staying at?
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This trip sounds amazing. Will be following along jealously. Partner and I are huge Star Wars fans
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Oh wow, how exciting for them!

I can’t remember about linking my reservation to MDE, but it’s there, so it can’t have been difficult!

Presidents Day is the Monday and that’s the only day I’m expecting it to really be busy, but the last time I went in Feb half term was 5 years ago.

I need to start researching good places to eat on the QSDP as we usually stay off site too. It looks like the variety of eateries is pretty good though. Which hotel are they staying at?
He’s staying at all star movies so also has QSDP. X

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My OH booked this this trip for us too as a birthday present for me. Excited and shocked dont do justice to how I felt after the reveal especialy as she kept it secret for nearly 5 months. We've only got back from 3 weeks in Orlando earlier this month so we're excited to get back again.

Unfortunately, we're slightly concerned at the fact that VH have apparently no clue about any of the details yet. Some staff we've tried to talk to didn't even know of the package's existence! No-one either in store or on the phone/email can give us a confirmation of the locations, dates and times of the 'exclusive' experiences. The dessert party is supposedly at Epcot but there's nothing Star Wars at Epcot so that seems strange - why not HS?. They won't/can't tell us what restaurant or what time the Star Wars themed dining experience is, and the sales blurb says we get an exclusive design magicband but they cant tell us if that is in addition to the one we can pre-select through MDE or not. We don't wanna pick a band on the app only to either not get it, or not be allowed the VH exclusive one because we chose differently.

Full payment is due in just under 4 weeks and all we want to do is plan our trip given that it's only 7 nights and planning is critical in getting the most out of a WDW holiday. We cant do that though without knowing where and when we have prior commitments. Has anyone else had any luck getting details out of VH about this package?

We've had lots of issues with VH in the past few years, with things not being booked or as described when booking in store so their lack of knowledge is deeply concerning.
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What an amazing trip! I'm so excited to see all the star wars stuff at Galaxies Edge, my DH is a massive fan and I know he's going to melt when he sees the Falcon.

I love it when people do reveals for their kids I hope you haven't had any more near slip ups and I hope you all have a brilliant time.
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My OH booked this this trip for us too as a birthday present for me. Excited and shocked dont do justice to how I felt after the reveal especialy as she kept it secret for nearly 5 months. We've only got back from 3 weeks in Orlando earlier this month so we're excited to get back again.

Unfortunately, we're slightly concerned at the fact that VH have apparently no clue about any of the details yet. Some staff we've tried to talk to didn't even know of the package's existence! No-one either in store or on the phone/email can give us a confirmation of the locations, dates and times of the 'exclusive' experiences. The dessert party is supposedly at Epcot but there's nothing Star Wars at Epcot so that seems strange - why not HS?. They won't/can't tell us what restaurant or what time the Star Wars themed dining experience is, and the sales blurb says we get an exclusive design magicband but they cant tell us if that is in addition to the one we can pre-select through MDE or not. We don't wanna pick a band on the app only to either not get it, or not be allowed the VH exclusive one because we chose differently.

Full payment is due in just under 4 weeks and all we want to do is plan our trip given that it's only 7 nights and planning is critical in getting the most out of a WDW holiday. We cant do that though without knowing where and when we have prior commitments. Has anyone else had any luck getting details out of VH about this package?

We've had lots of issues with VH in the past few years, with things not being booked or as described when booking in store so their lack of knowledge is deeply concerning.
Did you have someone contact you the other day about dietary requirements for the meal? I asked them about the magic bands and they said that we get the exclusive ones, so we don't need to organise anything on MDE.

I didn't ask where the meal was or what time, but with 455 in attendance I would think it's likely to be in some kind of conference facility rather than a restaurant.

Did you find out any more?
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What an amazing trip! I'm so excited to see all the star wars stuff at Galaxies Edge, my DH is a massive fan and I know he's going to melt when he sees the Falcon.

I love it when people do reveals for their kids I hope you haven't had any more near slip ups and I hope you all have a brilliant time.
Thank you! No more slip ups - I'm now a pro at hiding it (I should probably be less complacent - there's still about 7 weeks until Christmas!).

It helps that he knows we're going in August, so I can talk freely about "when we're in Florida" and get his input into things without mentioning any time scales.
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