5,4,3,2,1… Orlando Here We Come - May 2022

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5,4,3,2,1… Orlando Here We Come - May 2022

5 years since our last visit
4 first trip as a family of four
3 weeks and 3 lots of accommodation
2 number of new people being introduced to the magic
1 chance to make memories <3

So, like most Dibbers we’ve had a fair few changes from our original plans and this trip is 20 months later than intended!

As a very brief history October 2020 was a trip to celebrate my husbands big 4-0, which then quickly turned into a rescheduled 2021 trip, followed by another reschedule into later in 2021 before finally pushing it to May 2022.

And here we are… 74 days to go… and it seems to be happening. EEK.

Introductions

Us at Christmas ‘21:

Michelle - turning 35 on this trip, holiday obsessed Dibber, mummy to C&P and solicitor (to pay for the holidays).

Very clearly on a non mummy/daddy day!

Richard - 41, sports fan, daddy, solicitor (to pay for everything else )

Charlie - 4, our energetic (!), funny, TALL paw patrol lover.

Penelope (Penny) - turning 3 on this trip, another active member of the crew, our determined and cuddley little one and peppa pig fan.

The Plan

16 May - 6 June 2022

Flights
Flights, as usual, with VA from Manchester. Given we save miles like an obsession - credit card, Tesco club card points, miles away etc etc.

Very lucky to be flying Upper Class thanks to points and Companion Rewards. Little nervous how the kids will be, but they have flown before and had no big issues, albeit this is a lot longer than the 4 hours they’ve done before!

Can’t wait to use the lounge before the trip and let go of all that check-in anxiety (anyone else unable to relax until check-in and security are done?).

Not at all excited for the fact the flights seem to be taking longer given the change of aircraft (& think we are on our third aircraft change so far).

We’ll gloss over the many hours on hold to VA over the past 2 years to move, change flights etc - it was a bit ridiculous to be honest how many simple mistakes were made with our booking but #covid and swiftly moving on…

Tickets
We had originally bought Disney and Seaworld (3 park) 14 day tickets with Klook in 2020. They refunded the Disney tickets and we rebooked with Attraction Tickets who have been great.

Currently don’t have the add on Genie+ and really undecided what to do with 2 little ones who reallllly don’t like queuing.

They wouldn’t refund the Seaworld tickets so we have an extension on those, I also emailed Seaworld themselves to have it in writing and they responded promptly confirming all ok up to the end of 2022. Just to solve any gate issues we may have! We’ll visit all three of those parks - Seaworld, Aquatica and Busch Gardens. Parking is also included which is quite nice.

Then, finally, we are also considering Peppa Pig land for our final day. We don’t *need* it with so many other things to do but our daughter loves it and it’s her third birthday so think we may give it a go. I think it might be too old for them if we don’t do it this trip.

More to come…