The Hitchhiking Ghost
12-12-2014, 04:49 PM
The DW has been, for lack of a better word, hounding me for months to get us back down to Disney. We had started out 2014 thinking that in Nov/Dec we'd try get back down, hopefully on free dining or some other such package. Unfortunately all the package discounts that were offered didn't cover our desired time frame, nor did they include POR (family of 5), so we had all but abandoned going for a while.
About a month ago CBR started popping up for us on the Stay-Play-Dine (which was new) but no POR. CBR was enough to pique my interest, but not quite enough to get me there. I like the resort ok, but have never felt the desire to stay there a 2nd time. So after 3-4 weeks of monitoring Disney's website, out of no where POR shows up as part of SPD package. Ok, not as good as free dining, but it was still by my calculations a 22% savings (around $1200) and it was my favorite mod. And, airline prices came down just a tad. So now we are booked and at least for awhile, I can do no wrong.
This will be the first time in probably 5 or 6 visits that we haven't done post Thanksgiving. Not sure how I'm going to react walking thru the train station onto Mainstreet and not seeing the decorations. I'm sure a part of me is going to have a negative reaction.
Upside hopefully is that the park attraction lines should be a lot shorter 3rd week of January.
YeeHaw Bob, here we come :beer:
Kids won't find out until Christmas day, hopefully magic bands will arrive by then.
About a month ago CBR started popping up for us on the Stay-Play-Dine (which was new) but no POR. CBR was enough to pique my interest, but not quite enough to get me there. I like the resort ok, but have never felt the desire to stay there a 2nd time. So after 3-4 weeks of monitoring Disney's website, out of no where POR shows up as part of SPD package. Ok, not as good as free dining, but it was still by my calculations a 22% savings (around $1200) and it was my favorite mod. And, airline prices came down just a tad. So now we are booked and at least for awhile, I can do no wrong.
This will be the first time in probably 5 or 6 visits that we haven't done post Thanksgiving. Not sure how I'm going to react walking thru the train station onto Mainstreet and not seeing the decorations. I'm sure a part of me is going to have a negative reaction.
Upside hopefully is that the park attraction lines should be a lot shorter 3rd week of January.
YeeHaw Bob, here we come :beer:
Kids won't find out until Christmas day, hopefully magic bands will arrive by then.