Lesley Wake
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 16, 2017
Hello! And welcome to my trip report! This was a trip of firsts for both me and my sister! My first time at WDW and my sister's first hurricane! You can also read my PTR here (though many of those plans were changed due to the hurricane).
Trip Details:
Where: Port Orleans French Quarter (with AP Discount of 25%)
When: Sept 9-18, 2017
Tickets: Annual Pass (me), 7-day park hoppers (sister), plus MNSSHP tickets; also one day at Universal with 2-park park-to-park tickets
Transportation: flying (me-Virgin America/Delta, sister-Southwest)
Dining plan: Nope, we considered it, but crunched the numbers and decided it wouldn't be worth it since I could get the AP discounts. But that didn't stop us in our dining decisions!
Memory Maker: Yes, it came with my AP and was the best thing ever!
When: Sept 9-18, 2017
Tickets: Annual Pass (me), 7-day park hoppers (sister), plus MNSSHP tickets; also one day at Universal with 2-park park-to-park tickets
Transportation: flying (me-Virgin America/Delta, sister-Southwest)
Dining plan: Nope, we considered it, but crunched the numbers and decided it wouldn't be worth it since I could get the AP discounts. But that didn't stop us in our dining decisions!
Memory Maker: Yes, it came with my AP and was the best thing ever!
My name is Lesley and I'm a 32 yr old engineer, living in Los Angeles. I've been a huge Disney fan all my life and have been a Disneyland AP for the past three years (with a few month break; I also upgraded that AP to a Premier AP for the WDW benefits this past spring). Thanks to that AP and my close proximity to DLR I get to go all of the time. So, I may have a lot of comparisons between WDW and DLR, but I will try to keep that not too annoying! I may also intersperse this TR with a couple Disneyland mini-reports (specifically Haul-o-ween)!
Despite my Disney obsession, before this trip I had never been to WDW! So this trip was a long time coming!
This is Lauren and she is a 28 yr old client services representative for a tech company that works with fundraising for higher education. She shares my Disney love, and was a DLR AP from Oct 2014-2016 and plans to get a new one soon (which she has been saying for a couple months now...). She is also in the process of applying for law school.
Read along to get the answers to find out the following:
- What were our favorite parks and rides?
- What was our favorite meal?
- What ride do we both vow to never ride again?
- What was my most frustrating experience?
- How many times would we get to experience rope drop?
- What internet writer (non-Disney) would we meet?
- What would we give to absolute strangers?
- How would September rain/lightning storms affect our plans?
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