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Our Last "Trip" to WDW.
Ok maybe that is a little misleading but for the foreseeable future, this is the last time we'll have to trek to WDW to enjoy it. A lifetime of joking, and 16 months of serious consideration and planning and this is our house hunt to move to Orlando Trip!!!!
When: Feb 22 - 26, 2016
Where: WDW
Staying: POFQ, Garden View Corner Room.
Who: Father/Daughter Trip.
Traveling: Amtrak from NYC (cashing in our rewards points).
Reason: Apartment Hunt, enjoy a week off work, and couple week early bday trip for my daughter. (and me, our bdays are 6 days apart).
Pre-Trip Plan:
No ADRs.
Fastpasses: (for the hard to get rides)
Monday night: MK
Tuesday night: EPCOT
Wednesday afternoon: HS
Thursday afternoon: AK
Friday afternoon: MK
The point of the trip is apartment hunting and fitting in some fun later at night if possible. Since we were going to be out and about around the Orlando area, we didn't want to take ADR slots from others so we decided we would wing it.
Since I wanted to move about easter week, combing this with our actual birthdays in march was just cutting it too close for both work and packing up home if it worked out. Using easywdw and some personal guesses on crowds with things happening, feb 22 looked like the first and possibly only low crowd week without an outside influence like weather or disaster.
We went with monday - friday to be around when it's a little easier to close an apartment deal and not overdo the spending prior to calling this home. The discounts available also fell in nice. We used a 20% Passholder Discount originally for a more expensive room and lucked out when we noticed the lower cost garden rooms open up as it got closer. A larger discount did come out but POFQ was excluded from that and we were happy with 1 more week here.
travel days....
I love taking the train to a vacation if it's within 24 hours. This trip is 23 hours. I decided to do the train because i"m not sure we'll be taking it much anymore when we're living down here and we had enough points for 2 people and a sleeper car in our accounts. Free train ride! the main reason I love it is beause I'm always exhausted when it's time to go on vacation and that's a horrible way to start a WDW trip. 23 hours with a sleep car means 23 hours to just wind down and sleep as much as you want. It works great for me and I spent most of the trip asleep so I didn't notice how long it took. The 24 hour trip back is going to SUCK!!!! this is when we would normally fly but we'll have a little more in the room fund by taking the extra day.
Since Im starting this midweek while we're here, I can say so far we've been able to find at least 1 park every day with no crowd. It's not everywhere low crowd but some smart go where the day takes you and it's low crowd. More details coming in future posts about each day..
Day 1 and some pictures coming soon!
Ok maybe that is a little misleading but for the foreseeable future, this is the last time we'll have to trek to WDW to enjoy it. A lifetime of joking, and 16 months of serious consideration and planning and this is our house hunt to move to Orlando Trip!!!!
When: Feb 22 - 26, 2016
Where: WDW
Staying: POFQ, Garden View Corner Room.
Who: Father/Daughter Trip.
Traveling: Amtrak from NYC (cashing in our rewards points).
Reason: Apartment Hunt, enjoy a week off work, and couple week early bday trip for my daughter. (and me, our bdays are 6 days apart).
Pre-Trip Plan:
No ADRs.
Fastpasses: (for the hard to get rides)
Monday night: MK
Tuesday night: EPCOT
Wednesday afternoon: HS
Thursday afternoon: AK
Friday afternoon: MK
The point of the trip is apartment hunting and fitting in some fun later at night if possible. Since we were going to be out and about around the Orlando area, we didn't want to take ADR slots from others so we decided we would wing it.
Since I wanted to move about easter week, combing this with our actual birthdays in march was just cutting it too close for both work and packing up home if it worked out. Using easywdw and some personal guesses on crowds with things happening, feb 22 looked like the first and possibly only low crowd week without an outside influence like weather or disaster.
We went with monday - friday to be around when it's a little easier to close an apartment deal and not overdo the spending prior to calling this home. The discounts available also fell in nice. We used a 20% Passholder Discount originally for a more expensive room and lucked out when we noticed the lower cost garden rooms open up as it got closer. A larger discount did come out but POFQ was excluded from that and we were happy with 1 more week here.
travel days....
I love taking the train to a vacation if it's within 24 hours. This trip is 23 hours. I decided to do the train because i"m not sure we'll be taking it much anymore when we're living down here and we had enough points for 2 people and a sleeper car in our accounts. Free train ride! the main reason I love it is beause I'm always exhausted when it's time to go on vacation and that's a horrible way to start a WDW trip. 23 hours with a sleep car means 23 hours to just wind down and sleep as much as you want. It works great for me and I spent most of the trip asleep so I didn't notice how long it took. The 24 hour trip back is going to SUCK!!!! this is when we would normally fly but we'll have a little more in the room fund by taking the extra day.
Since Im starting this midweek while we're here, I can say so far we've been able to find at least 1 park every day with no crowd. It's not everywhere low crowd but some smart go where the day takes you and it's low crowd. More details coming in future posts about each day..
Day 1 and some pictures coming soon!
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