We have final dates and I've put in for time off. We are going a few days later than planned so that threw off my planning a bit. BUT -- drumroll -- that delay has morphed into more days! 12 days! Luckily we have a request still open for DVC point rental so I was able to move that to the days we need. We'll now start off with US/IOA and stay at a hotel there. We were going to move to the Hilton (free with points) for 3 days and then hoping to move to the Poly (we'll see at the 7 month mark) but just learned the Hilton lost its early entrance privileges and DH is pushing to get more points for the 3 nights (should be able to). When I asked him if he wanted to save those Hilton points to use again for another stay like we did for a week in Hawaii (we have enough saved for the extra hotel nights now) and just stay the whole time at the Poly, he got a little gleam and, long story short, AKV has come back into play. He has a soft spot in his heart for the idea of AKV since he went on safari with his family in Africa years ago. Right now, I'm just glad we have firm dates! Three hotels does seem a bit much but I'll just be overly optimistic and go with it if that is what we end up doing.
I personally would come home Sunday. I know it's always so tempting to have "one more night," but I personally like to have at least one recovery/laundry day when I get home before jumping back into the busy weekly routine.So I'm at sort of a dilemma about my October trip. I know I want to leave Oct 1st but I can't decide if I should book a return flight for Oct 9th (Sunday) or Oct 10th (Monday). There's no school that Monday so we could always get home later on Sunday night and just sleep in the next day. Or we could just leave midday on Monday and swim and stuff in the morning. I know most of the parks will be pretty busy that weekend anyway so maybe we'd only go to get in some fast passes or things we missed. I feel like having that Sunday to sort of "clean up" the extras would make the rest of the week a lot more flexible. But, who can say no to basically saving the cost one night's room? What would you do? TIA for your help.
I personally would come home Sunday. I know it's always so tempting to have "one more night," but I personally like to have at least one recovery/laundry day when I get home before jumping back into the busy weekly routine.
I just booked with Dreams 10/30-11/7, Pop pool preferred. Squeeeel We are gonna try to do the Halloween and Christmas parties. I hope it works out. It will be me and my 12 yr old daughter. She has no idea.Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
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sigh. Yeah, far away. Doesn't stop me from planning though! DH swears next time he won't let me know when we are going until exactly 1 year and 1 month before.
OH! I forgot the most important part of the planning -- why I'm out and about on the resort board. Figuring out where to stay! I think we will start off our vacation at the place which shall not be named for a day or so and then move to WDW. Thinking a split stay but I think for 7-8 nights I only want to do 2 resorts. And right now I'm considering WL (and VWL either through Disney or renting points), BC (and BCV), AKL (and AKV -- I see you are sensing a pattern, padewan) and POR or CBR if the budget won't hold us with the others. Truth be told, I'd cut out AKL right here and now -- it's great but it's far, far away -- and just stick with WL and BC if I can swing it but DH, who has been to Africa, has a bug u-uh, somewhere -- about going to this place. I figure some slow education might help get him over that. If not, well, there are worse crosses to bear!
UPDATE: well, that didn't take long. Good news: DH has realized how far out it is for AKL. Bad news: he is also realizing how expensive it will be. So he is pushing for a split stay with Hilton LBV and then a Disney resort. He racks up Hilton points so we would likely get 2-3 days for free, which would carry us through Columbus Day weekend. And it is hard to turn down free. But then, in further crushing my dreams, he now doesn't want to stay where you have to catch a bus. Honestly. I already told him that there is NO WHERE you would not have to catch a bus unless he rented a car. And he wants to stay now at a monorail resort which I'm not really looking for. I am eying BC or WL for the theming and fun for the kids. No firm decisions as of yet, which is good. And he's going to reach out to a friend of his who is married to a Disney middle management gal, who helped us with our DLR vacation. So that might bear fruit especially in terms of advice as to accommodations.
We Just booked these exact dates and I'm so excited! We originally planned the first of November but we just took a tour of our kid's school we are praying they get into and the first words out of their mouth was "we strongly discouraged taking your children out of school for vacation which is why we've built in extra breaks" so.... Oct. 1st it is. We also were kind of wanting to come home on Monday and give them one more day idk.So I'm at sort of a dilemma about my October trip. I know I want to leave Oct 1st but I can't decide if I should book a return flight for Oct 9th (Sunday) or Oct 10th (Monday). There's no school that Monday so we could always get home later on Sunday night and just sleep in the next day. Or we could just leave midday on Monday and swim and stuff in the morning. I know most of the parks will be pretty busy that weekend anyway so maybe we'd only go to get in some fast passes or things we missed. I feel like having that Sunday to sort of "clean up" the extras would make the rest of the week a lot more flexible. But, who can say no to basically saving the cost one night's room? What would you do? TIA for your help.
We Just booked these exact dates and I'm so excited! We originally planned the first of November but we just took a tour of our kid's school we are praying they get into and the first words out of their mouth was "we strongly discouraged taking your children out of school for vacation which is why we've built in extra breaks" so.... Oct. 1st it is. We also were kind of wanting to come home on Monday and give them one more day idk.
That's probably what we will end up doing also if the tickets are that much more. Last time we ended up just staying the last night at a way cheaper hotel by the airport and that seemed to work out well. I guess I'll just keep looking into all the options.Southwest sorta made the choice for me, so Monday it is (for now). The flights I wanted were just too expensive on Sunday so I decided to go with Monday 1pm. That should give us plenty of time to get ready in the morning. But I'd really love to save that night's hotel rate by leaving Sunday evening. I guess it's a wait and see situation now.