OMG yes, no hurling, no hurling!!!Looking forward to your final thoughts and more importantly for this years thanksgiving trip to be all whirl and no hurl!
Thank you, me too! I hope nobody who has followed either of my TR's or who is currently following my PTR gets the stomach bug on any future trips! For those not following - eh Just kidding, of course!I really hope you have dealt with the Disney bug all that you need to in this lifetime!
We originally had planned to try Captains Grill on this trip but never made it; I had considered switching our last morning breakfast over to there but since I wouldn't have eaten much I'm glad I didn't. Looking forward to trying Captains this year, though!I've heard much better things about Captains Grill, which I think you are trying on your next trip.
Thank you so much for following along! I'm glad you've enjoyed itThis has been such a great trip report...minus the . Looking forward to hearing your final thoughts on it.
You do have quite a full (and YUMMY) schedule for your upcoming trip! Maybe you need to start your PTR for your next trip so you can begin keeping track of what you want to do/where you want to eat on that one?? It's less than a year away!!!!!Those waffles DO sound really good! You actually just inspired me to considering adding in a breakfast here to my plans. Sadly, there's just no where for me to fit it into my schedule. Oh well, maybe next year!
And yet even once I admitted defeat on squeezing in another breakfast, yesterday I added two more dinners... Paradiso 37 and Trattoria al Forno. Since I'm doing Deluxe Dining now, it's go big or go home!You do have quite a full (and YUMMY) schedule for your upcoming trip!
Guuuurl, don't think I haven't thought about it! I've decide to hold off on starting the February 2017 PTR until the rooms are booked, so probably next month!Maybe you need to start your PTR for your next trip so you can begin keeping track of what you want to do/where you want to eat on that one?? It's less than a year away!!!!!
Hello and thank you! Congrats on being published on the Dis, too by the way, that's awesomeI am finally finding time to reply! I am so sorry you felt so crummy. I love your photos in Epcot of the Storytellers!!
Oh no, crowds at Thanksgiving are NOTHING like those between Christmas and NY's. Nothing near what I'd call horrific. Steve doesn't like crowds and we were a bit nervous it would be too crowded for us since we're used to lower-crowded times, but we were pleasantly surprised, which is why we're returning the same week this year. I did find that 1. Like many other times, RD is pretty necessary if you want to ride the headliners more than once and avoid lines in general over 40 mins. 2. Try not to eat QS meals during peak meal times. Those lines can get 3x as long as ride lines! 3. Other than possibly MK there will not be good 4th, 5th, etc. FP availability. No idea if the recent changes to the way you can get those additional ones will improve this or not, but my $ is on......no What are your actual dates this Nov?
It could have been worse, which is what I've told myself over and over! I will say not feeling good made it a little easier to be going home - that, and knowing Steve and I would be coming back in less than 60 days without the boysI'm so sorry you were sick. That is no way to spend your last days at Disney. The last day blues are the worst. It's so hard to say goodbye.
You are most welcome! I hope I made you feel a little less nervous lol.Thanks so much for all of that great info
Well then you have a job: MAKE them into huge Disney fans!We will be checking in on the 22nd, leaving the 27th. What about you guys?? My brother and his GF aren't huge Disney fans, so we are taking a shorter trip to get them acclimated again
I don't think I answered this over in my PTR, but yes they'll do some extending of hours although probably not at Epcot other than pm EMH. Last year they did move Illuminations to 9:30 on Black Fri. but otherwise it was a 9pm close every night. I don't know why that's the only park they don't extend night hours in? Well and AK except that will change this year. HS was open anywhere from 8 until 10 last year in addition to whenever they had their pm EMH, and actually either on Thanksgiving or the night before I believe they were open until 11. However, I don't know if that was due to it being the last year of Osborne Lights or if it'll be the same this year.....either way they should most definitely extend some if not all nights past 7. SO annoying that they don't just post the final hours now, isn't itThey don't seem to have extended park hours, is that something they will change the closer it gets? 9pm for Epcot...7pm for DHS...yea thats not helpful at all!
Hi there and thanks for reading You're heading down at a good time, crowds tend to thin out by the Sunday after Thanksgiving. In 2012 we arrived late at night on Thanksgiving and stayed for 10 days, and by the Sunday after it was absolutely wonderful! But yes, Black Friday last year was very doable even though it was far from empty. Are you planning on a park that day?Just finished your trip report! I was excited to see a Thanksgiving report as we'll be heading down on Black Friday this year and I wanted to get an idea of what you experienced with crowds right after Thanksgiving. It seems like you were still able to have a great time.
Ugh, that must have been so frustrating with it being DD's first trip The worst part for me was feeling like I was letting the boys down by not doing anything fun with them, just lying around in bed - as you said, with the parks right there. I actually felt guilty. That mom guilt never quits lol! I'd say I'm crossing my fingers for no sickness on our trip this Nov. but I'm not even THINKING about it enough to hope for no sickness!I know how horrible it is to be sick in Disney. When we took our daughter for her first trip, I came down with some 24 hour bug and was completely out of commission for a day, worst feeling ever to know how close you are to the parks and not able to get out of bed to go!
I just remember being at MK until almost 2am on NYE...it was such a long day for us all and we are adults! So it's not like I'm wanting to relive those long days, but I would like to be able to spend ample amount of time in the parks, especially since we are leaving each day for dinner outside the parks. It's really hard to plan things if they don't have the correct hours posted, don't they know how crazy we all are??!!I don't think I answered this over in my PTR, but yes they'll do some extending of hours although probably not at Epcot other than pm EMH. Last year they did move Illuminations to 9:30 on Black Fri. but otherwise it was a 9pm close every night. I don't know why that's the only park they don't extend night hours in? Well and AK except that will change this year. HS was open anywhere from 8 until 10 last year in addition to whenever they had their pm EMH, and actually either on Thanksgiving or the night before I believe they were open until 11. However, I don't know if that was due to it being the last year of Osborne Lights or if it'll be the same this year.....either way they should most definitely extend some if not all nights past 7. SO annoying that they don't just post the final hours now, isn't it
I completely get where you're coming from. And I wouldn't "let it go" either. Hmph!I know it's silly to let the attitudes and shortcomings of the resort/resorts CM's to affect my whole trip, and honestly while there I didn't. And it wasn't about the room/sewage issue: that can happen anywhere at anytime and as long as they were willing to move us, in my eyes that was enough. It was the stuff afterwards that got under my skin and I guess-no, I know-I'm not that good at "letting it go" Plus pretty much as soon as those issues started getting out of my head the sickness kicked in so it was one blow after the other!
Will do! We usually have lunch around 11 and dinner around 5. Does that sound like a good plan for when we have to eat QS meals?Craziness is attempting to eat QS during peak mealtimes this week Such a simple thing.....I'd heard folks suggest not doing this before but never paid much attention to it. If you ever go this week, PAY ATTENTION TO IT!!!!
Oh, I'm in! Gonna go read it now...I've started a PTR for this years' Nov. trip; if you're interested, take a look, the link is in my signature