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10 Jun 18, 05:35 AM |
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June/July 2018 -SSR & DDP trip report - what next?
Pre Trip report
The cast me - the not 40 year old yet! My DH and our 11 year old son The plan was to mark my 40th birthday with a trip to WDW. Birthday in September, trip in October. I looked into secondary schools for our son and I found out that most schools start their enrollment process in the middle of summer and October is busy. I moved the trip, booked flights for June July and few days later I got a letter in the post with early offer for our top choice school! I was little annoyed that I rushed to change plans, but I am over it It's the middle of the year, the days are long, there are no closed headliners, no schools to worry about after we return - I am willing to call it I am 40 few months earlier for WDW! Booked and paid for Flying direct Dublin MCO with Aer Lingus ESTA Travel insurance sorted 16 days SSR with DDP Disney After Dark Alamo car rental (I will do online check in tonight) I love planning and rushing around the parks but my family would rather more chilled out holiday. I had to seriously cut down on plans and will hit the parks few days on my own to allow them more chilled out days. Lets see how this works? Not so sure I have it in me I also try to eat healthy, which sometimes feels like a loosing battle but have good track record at WDW and will try to remain sensible again this trip I don't do daily reports, I find it easier to locate my reports if they are one discussion and will try to update some notes while at Disney - so it it could be messy. I plan to use it as dinning, trip, shopping report I will post few more updates on plans before we go, and this will turn to something like live report on 21st of June! Edited at 05:30 AM. Reason: M |
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13 Jun 18, 05:37 PM |
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Plans for the first 10 days
we are very light on ADRs considering we have DDP but honestly I don't fancy running around for meals. We will take our chances!
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Aliens to Florida our trip report - August 2013 LA & Vegas February 2013 Portaventura, Barcelona Cambrils October 2015 Trip Report October 2014 SSR & HRH trip October 2016 pre trip report West Cast San Diego LA Disneyland Edited at 06:49 PM. |
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13 Jun 18, 08:35 PM |
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Look forward to following along
Joan
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13 Jun 18, 11:21 PM |
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Exciting! Can’t wait to hear about your disney after hours experience as we are booked the week after.
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22 Jun 18, 07:19 AM |
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Travel day
I hit the gym in the morning and kept moving and until boarding at 3pm I packed up 23000 steps! Glass of prosecco after US clearance...or was it 2? Bose noise cancelling headphones are amazing. I cant recall ever sleeping on plane before. Managed good few naps yesterday. It was LONG day. Clearing emigration was easier then ever. The emigration officer was making jokes with our son. We were at the airport 3.5h early. Decided to have lunch at the airport. Bag drop took 10 minutes, 1st security 10, 2nd security and emigration another 10. We had lunch before US clearance For first time they didn't ask do you have food with you or did you pack your bag. They were so uncharacteristically chilled out and friendly. 1 hour wait to collect the bag at MCO was annoying when we were so tired. Alamo had some issues with our straight to garage form but managed to sort it out. They did asked for the original booking printout. I would like to tell you that I know what car we got. More details on car later. We had standard SUV booked and there were many to choose from. I think we end up getting dodge... Drive to SSR took less than 30 min. We used room request with touring plans and we got room at grandstand as we requested. Very near the bus stop. Looking forward walking around in few hours - we didn't explore at all. Lunch at Dublin airport. It was fine Flight food Aer Lingus Not very good to be honest They also had ice cream and pretzels. All alcohol including wine was extra Before arrival They were very stingy with the water. We had a lot of bottles from dublin airport - the leave 1 euro, take a bottle stands are everywhere. Even when they offer a glass they would pour it half way only. I was happy we didn't rely on their water SSR room. Check in was very quick and cm so friendly. All saying welcome home and super chatty
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Aliens to Florida our trip report - August 2013 LA & Vegas February 2013 Portaventura, Barcelona Cambrils October 2015 Trip Report October 2014 SSR & HRH trip October 2016 pre trip report West Cast San Diego LA Disneyland Edited at 08:11 AM. |
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22 Jun 18, 10:51 AM |
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Glad the travel went ok Alien!
I found the same with Aer Lingus the last time- when I flew to SF with them- it was as if the water was coming out of their own pocket, very stingy with it. I get really dehydrated esp when flying so it was ultra annoying and v off putting. Stark contrast to BA where they were practically throwing drinks/snacks at you. An ineffective and silly cost cutting measure if that is the reasoning behind it. So welcome to Florida; wish I was there, and looking forward to hearing all about the trip (esp the weather ) P.S are you awake yet?!?!
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22 Jun 18, 11:11 AM |
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Sipping my coffe enjoying the morning. Its just perfect. The birds are singing so peaceful
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22 Jun 18, 11:18 AM |
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22 Jun 18, 06:15 PM |
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22 Jun 18, 06:30 PM |
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Looks amazing what a chilled start to your day
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