Today I'm going to be staying at Coronado Springs, king bed room, for 6 nights. 6 day park ticket, base ticket no hopper. Regular dining plan. I planned it for September so Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party is a must, probably on the first night. Right now it's 3,000 dollars and only in my dreams.
Posted Jan 28, 2015, 10:32 PM UTC
Add the park hopper. Also, enter sweepstake with Disney trip prizes. Disney is giving away one trip per day in the month of January in their "Flip Side" sweepstakes.
I plan Disney so often that I feel I should be a Disney vacation planner.
I wonder when they're going to start announcing those winners because I didn't receive my call yet.
Yeah, usually it's two weeks to a month after the entire contest closes. Then they make you book at least two months later than notifications. I'll meet you there in April after I win, too.
Oh seriously? I was joking around.....I thought they announce the winners throughout the month of January. I could have sworn I read that in the rules and conditions.
Drawings are "on or about (3) business days" after each contest closes. Winners are notified "on or about (1) business day" after each drawing via email or phone, as appropriate.
You are right! I just read it and it looks like there is no waiting period to book the trip, either! Unfortunately, it also look like all the previous entries roll over into the next day's pool of entries, which means our chances of winning get diluted every day.
Administrator will conduct a random Daily Drawing on or about three (3) business days after the applicable Day in order to select the potential Winner of each Daily Sweepstakes. On or about one (1) business day after each Daily Drawing, each potential Winner will be notified via email or phone,
So 4 days.
I price every now and again. I recently became a single mom to my two littles, I'm living back at home with my parents and going back to school. I have nothing I can put towards a vacation of any sort, but it's my way of keeping me focused on my really off days so I can one day surprise my girls with a Disney Trip. It'll be bare minimum of a value resort, probably over a long weekend, with base tickets, but I hope it can make up for the really crappy time we're having with me working/going to school/their father leaving.
If I had the money I'd make it happen for you and your girls; hang in there. You sound like a great mom.
Aw! Thank you kind stranger! We're hangin' tight. We're really fortunate to have my parents close to us and that they have a big enough house to room me and my girls. It's not ideal, but it's not horrible either, over all I'm really blessed and I know it won't always be like this. I've got four more semesters left and hopefully things will really start looking up once I'm done with nursing school.
Love your outlook; best of luck to you!
This is what I do when I'm stressed out. It levels me out and I feel better afterwards!
Omg I do this far too often...
I do this! Also, I'm a guy. And my girlfriend doesn't know. It's my dirty little secret.
A WORD OF ADVICE: It is a well-known practice employed by travel sites such as Priceline, Expedia, Hotels.com, etc., that they will check your cache for frequent queries over the course of days and the cost and availability of your results may vary - and NOT in your favor! I've never heard of Disney doing this, but to be on the safe side, when you are planning your REAL trip, clear your cache FIRST!
Or just use incognito mode.
airlines do this too!
I do this all the time... no shame :)
I keep pricing our pretend Disney honeymoon in my head. My only week off work is in June or December so those are the only times we can go. Pop Century Resort, cheapest available room, 6 day ticket no hopper, 6 nights, 2372.
Do it. My wife and I got married in Disney world. It's 100% worth it and highly recommended. You can book the weddings 8-months in advance, which was enough time for us to nearly pay all of it by time we got on the plane. You'll never forget it; nor regret it. Do this. Just book it. December is 10 months away. That's $230/month. Less than an average car payment. Book it. Pay for it between now and then. I know you can do this because we did it. It's possible.
TL;DR -- Don't call it a pretend Disney honeymoon. Call it your Disney honeymoon.
You've convinced me, for sure! Well, I was already jonesing to go. I won't get off work till well into December, like the week before Christmas. Is December that much better of a month to go than June then? I'd heard it was just as crowded. (Also I was calling it pretend honeymoon because we've been married a year but haven't been able to get enough time off for our honeymoon, heh)
Checkthe crowd calendar over at easy WDW and choose which week looks better. If they're the same, my vote would be for December. The Christmas party, candlelight processional, and the Osborne Lights look incredible.
Our anniversary is December so that'd be kinda amazing. But I don't know if families would get upset that we didn't spend Christmas with them. :D
A buddy I work with goes like twice a year. Disney is going to be crowded. Period. We went in June because some of our family is in school/college and it wouldn't interrupt anyone's schedule. My guess is that the holidays are just as bad as the summer. But. You'll have to let me know.
Reserve your dinners as soon as possible though. They start taking them like 6 months out. We weren't able to get a reservation for Be Our Guest at dinner, but stood in line for 45-minutes for lunch. Totally worth it.
I thought it was 60 days that they take reservations in advance for meals? Or is that just the FastPass+?
I'm actually going to Disney for my honeymoon in May-June. Super excited.
The week we wanted to go is the last week of June to the first week of July (26th June till the 5th of July). Beginning to get scared by how many people telling us it will be crazy crowded though...
It's crowded during vacation time. It's still extremely fun. I have our dinners reserved already because I planned this last summer and was able to get reservations in December.
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Since we are only dreaming here, what would your dream disney vacation be? I do this too haha.
It's the only way I cope
Seven nights. Port Orleans French Quarter, preferred room, king bed. Dining Plan, since I have never tried it. I think I'd like to try going in October, since the crowd levels should be ok and the weather would be on the warmer/dryer side than any other season. The halloween party sounds good if I could catch it on a slow night.
I love the French Quarter. I have this package for 8 days, meal plan and Park hopper water park passes sitting in my cart for September. It might turn into a real trip though depending on how tax season goes for us. Also, I booked POFQ King bed for a night on our honeymoon and they could not accomodate us and we ended up being in Riverside. Riverside was cute and all don't get me wrong but after having a Tangled themed wedding the weekend before with dark purple and gold theming staying at FQ would have been the cherry on the sundae. Because it's a smaller resort the number of king bed rooms is very limited. And even though my reservation said FQ the WHOLE TIME when we got there to check in they didn't have us in the system because we were actually at Riverside and they have their own lobby. Just fair warning because we go at the end of September into the first week of October.
Awesome choice ! I'm staying at the POFQ for a week, starting January 31st! ( I will be posting pictures) It'll be my first time staying there and I've heard great things and Princess and the Frog is my favorite Disney movie. Any reasons you chose POFQ? I've always wanted to try Riverside too!
It is a relatively small resort, the theming is fun for me. (I am from New England and things like the Yacht and Beach Club look like home and thus are boring!) You can go for a nice walk along the canal- you can even walk to Port Orleans Riverside and check out their food court and buildings. We most recently stayed at Riverside in the Alligator Bayou which was totally cute with the furniture all made of rough saplings! You used to be able to take a boat to Downtown Disney Marketplace, but I'm not sure if service has been suspended while they do all the renovations to makeover the Marketplace. Also, know that if you get stuck at another resort after hours (Like if you eat dinner on the Boardwalk after Epcot closes) and want to commute back to Port Orleans, you can take a bus to Downtown Disney and transfer to another bus at Downtown Disney to get to your home resort. Happy travels!
I loved French Quarters! I stayed here during the Disney Marathon, it was nice and close to Epcot.
Cinderella castle suite.
The fact that I will never get to stay there makes me sadder than it should.
A Transatlantic cruise in the Royal Suite. That or a stay in the castle like u/zackogenic said. Or to live in Celebration.
Ooooh, dream vacation? I would LOVE to stay in the contemporary resort, just because of its history and you can see magic kingdom. I'd go all out too. I'd buy one of those welcome packages so there's balloons and confetti and gift boxes for my girls to walk into when we first arrive. We'd do whatever park they'd want to do and eat wherever they'd want to eat. You want ice cream for dinner? Great! Let's do it. Water parks? You got it. We'd go for a week so we're not having to be rushed. Bippity Boppity Boutique, the whole deal there, dress, crown, shoes, makeup. And they'd have to get Mickey Ears and a mickey balloon.
I know this sounds like I'd absolutely spoil them, but I would. If money weren't an option, I'd do an all out Disney Vacation for them. Maybe I need to play the lottery. haha!
Haha nice to know there are other people who do this. I plan out whole trips, but I do it when I'm depressed. A few of those theoretical trips have become real ones. My latest one is for Port Orleans Riverside in November. Also, I typically do both a reasonably-priced pretend trip and a dream trip. The dream trip is a week at Wilderness Lodge. Love that place.
I like to price throughout the year. I save all of my results so that I can compare later. It helps me to determine if I am getting a deal or not. I have found that Disney pretty much knows what the value is regardless of time of year. The free meal plan is not really free as the rooms are not discounted. It saves money, but not free.
I do this too and I haven't even been to Disney World! There is evidence that just planning/anticipating a vacation can be beneficial for happiness and stress relief, so at least we've all got that going for us. :)
I'll be staying in late September/early October at Animal Kingdom Lodge, Savanna View room with a King bed, staying 10 nights, park tickets for 9 days. I've got almost half of the meals planned, but still working on finalizing them.
Doesn't everybody plan/price their next Disney vacation? It makes me happy.
One day, Polynesian Resort, one day...
A few years ago they used to have 40% off the Poly all the time. Not these days.
I do this too I DO THIS TOO I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE OMG!!!!
One of Us. One of Us.
I planned it for fun, so now we are going in 2016. It is priced pretty high, (over 3 grand...ooops) but we are doing it. I will be putting away $400 every month for minimum 12 months. We will stay at Pop Century. The restaurants we will eat at hopefully are BOG lunch and dinner, Crystal Palace, Akershus, Tusker House, The Liberty Tree Tavern. We will go to Mickey's Not-so-scary-Halloween Party. We will go to Universal for the day. We will hit up a waterpark. I am thinking 4 days to do the parks, 1 day for Universal, 1 day for the waterpark, 1 day to do Downtown Disney and go back and do whatever rides we didn't do/do character meets.
If you do studios, you'll be fine with one day. I'd you do island... You'll need more than one day at Universal to see it all.
I did it in the summer right after Diagon Alley opened and it hit max capacity and still saw everything in both parks. I think I'll be fine, thanks for the tip though :)
Your feet are the real MVP!
They are built to last haha ;D
So i'm not the only one! good to know!
I once just decided to plan the most expensive Disney Vacation once. I was staying at The Contemporary resort at the Atrium Club Level, with an 8 day ticket with Park Hopper and Water park ticket, with the Platinum Dining plan, and of course memory Maker. It came out to a little over $8,000. so basically $1,000 a day.
Good thing my vacation is coming up soon.
I do this with my DVC points. I'll pick a random weekend and see what's available, and if it's something cool far too often I actually reserve it.
Dream big, and work hard. It will come!
Doing it right now.
It's worse for me.
I have planned my Disney World wedding... twice.
Location: Disney World
Collection: Wishes
Number of guests: 100
Month: September
Day of the week: Sunday
Reception time: Dinner
Budget: $65,000
Wedding Venue: Disney's Wedding Pavilion @ Grand Floridian
Reception Venue: Epcot - American Adventure Rotunda
Enhancements
If that is not sad enough, I am male and single.
...hello there. ;)
When the time comes, you will be ready!
We did a wedding at the Pavilion, for 60 guests, in 2005. Out budget was $20K, and we came in at $18K. Reception was at the Living Seas Lounge.
Great memories.
You're not alone, brother.
I feel you bro. I think about that shit too.
Wanna get married?
You can rent the Rotunda for a reception?
Yes.
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wow! what an awesome location.
Is all that really 65K? Not nearly as bad as I would have expected. If my girlfriend has her way I'll find out in a few years for myself.
For the Wishes collection and my selections, if you start removing enhancements you can get it down to as low as 29K, so there is a lot of leeway.
You can try a mock plan here: https://www.disneyweddings.com/
That's the most expensive one. If you candle 20 people (wedding party included) you can do it for as low as $5K. Honestly, having a wedding there would be no worse than doing any other destination wedding, from a financial standpoint... Or even a regular wedding if you live locally.
65K wins my vote for your upcoming battle of the wallet vs. girlfriend.
We did this in 2013. Reception was at the GF convention center though.
Don't forget Cinderella's Carriage and the Tulle canopy! You also need a budget for flowers too.
Well there goes an hour of my time.
65k? Holy shit I'm gonna "voluntarily" stay single.
Marry me?
I'd totally come to your wedding if you need a seat filler.
If you dont want to do a huge wedding, you can get married on a Disney cruise ship for less than 6k (3k + whatever the cruise price is. Ours was about 6k total, but it was 7 nights)
We did this last may and loved it.