I CANNOT WAIT to show my son the brownie sundae! Toothsome is on my list for October!
The end, oh no ....
Delays are always frustration but it's better to get home safe. The total per day is pretty good, I daren't do mine!
Thanks for a wonderful trip report x
Back from vacation just in time to catch the end!
It was a wonderful ride along as always, looking forward to upcoming reports. Thanks so much for sharing.
Congratulations on the new position; that came up very quickly! I agree with the others, third time's the charm...
Such awful language!!!
That is really a good price considering everything you did and your nice lodging.
Gina, are you both going to get your nexus cards now? With driving home and flying you should, if you haven't already started the process
I thank my nexus card every time I get to use the airport fastpass line
Nexus is definitely on our radar......we are just in the process of renewing our passports, so once that's done, Nexus is among the next projects to be tackled.
I'm intrigued, though: Nexus allows you to use the TSA pre-check line at the airport? I had no idea! Sure makes those cards even more appealing . I think maybe that task just got bumped up the to-do list!
Welcome home! I hope you had some spectacular (and rain-free) weather for your vacation. Where were you camping this time?
I can hardly believe that we're rolling around to another trip so quickly.....I am now getting regular "it's time to start planning your stay" emails from SVR. October will be here before I'm ready .
Nexus gives you the faster border crossing, TSA precheck and global entry. It's the best deal between it, global entry and tsa precheck. But it does take a bit longer because you're vetted by both countries. Make sure to take your birth certificates with you when you get the interview. I didn't because it doesn't say but that way it stays active when you renew your passport later. Mine had to be renewed this year so I had to make a separate trip to have them add it. Now I need to make a trip to have them add my passport, it's just that the office with the hours that work for me is up near the border instead of close by in Seattle.
Great trip report, as always!!
That is not a bad trip total at all!
I always put mine into a spread sheet when I get home too, to track expenses. Considering this time we added Annual Passes to Disney and stayed on property for 8 days total and spending extra at Target to get DD set up in her apartment and we did some indulgent dining (Rose&Crown, Tiffins) I think we did pretty well. ($190 PP/day all in, but I did have almost $500 in "free" reward money that I did not take off the total). Figuring out budget for next trips and it will be far lower now that park tickets are taken care of, plus we are using our TS in November.
It's fun to have another trip planned isn't it? My MiL just sent me a check for all our airfares (NOT expecting that) and for the resort! So I am definitely splurging on a MNSSHP ticket for all of us! Just haven't nailed down to go Oct 9th or 10th.
Yay to new job going well!!
Thanks Gina. very informative and Well done as usual. You have provided some valuable info for our Christmas trip
Charleston Lake PP; our go to for most of our longer camping vacations. Weather was hot, wet, cool, dry, sunny, and warm. Well, we were gone for 2 weeks after all! As seasoned campers we like it all, except for the mosquitoes this year - it has been a wet summer in Eastern Ontario, so they were very thick until our last couple of days when nighttime temps finally dropped enough to start knocking them down.
Our next big outing is not until March, but it's back to Vistana too (only 6.5 months, or 200ish more sleeps). Not worried about being ready, I'm ready to go NOW! We'll probably do a weekend getaway in November as well to Vermont or nearby; that's becoming a tradition but I haven't started looking for a location yet.
I'm really slow to find this, but I enjoyed reading so much! Thanks, Gina -- I love voyeuring along on your amazing trips!
Maria
Well, you have certainly convinced me. As soon as we receive our renewed passports (we just submitted our renewal applications today), we will apply for Nexus . It was always a bit of a pain when we were living in Ontario (and at least an hour and a half from the closest border crossing), but now.....we have no excuses!!
I think I've decided that when I finally get around to going to the border office to update my passport I'll pop across the border for lunch. There's a Boston Pizza not too far from the border and it seems silly to be so close to the border and not go across. And any excuse I can get to go to BP and probably Timmy's
I ordered stuff of etsy yesterday for the party- a haunted mansion (wallpaper) skirt, haunted mansion ears, and haunted mansion decals for MAgic bands. Im more doing a theme vs costume but I'm pretty excited about it!
Thanks so much for the report, Gina! As always I learned a lot about off-Disney choices. And I appreciate the budget info, too. It helps when we are planning.
Not to hijack Gina's trip report, but I finally have a countdown clock of my own again - and a pre-trip report link is up!!! Come on over. It'll give us something to do until Gina gets back from her October trip!
https://www.disboards.com/threads/what-are-we-celebrating-everything-again.3631903/