PassedTheEndorMoon
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Oct 9, 2018
Greetings internet strangers and fellow Disney fans! We have recently returned from our second WDW trip, and had so much fun sharing our first trip report with you (which you can read all about here!) that we are back to tell you more stories about drinking on Disney property, eating off of trash cans, and surviving the Florida weather. As a refresher for those of you coming back from our first report and as an introduction for any new internet friends, here are some introductions:
Who: Nick (me, a chemist) and Tory (my wife and a microbiologist)
What: A 6 night “Honeymoon 2.0” WDW trip!
When: September 20 – 26, 2019
Where: One night at B Resort and five nights at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort
Why: Because our Premier Passes were still valid, flights were free with credit card points, EPCOT Food and Wine Festival, and just because a Disney vacation is always warranted!
Favorites (from this trip):
Nick:
Ride: Flight of Passage
Park: Animal Kingdom
Snack: The African Spiced Beef Tenderloin from Food and Wine
Drink: Guinness at Raglan Road
Restaurant: Flying Fish
Lounge: Nomad Lounge
Resort: The Poly
Tory:
Ride: Flight of Passage
Park: Animal Kingdom
Snack: Roule Lard and Fromage from Les Halles and Donut Holes from Typhoon Lagoon
Drink: G&T from Barcelona Lounge
Restaurant: Flying Fish
Lounge: Nomad Lounge
Resort: Animal Kingdom Lodge
Tory and I live in California and have been going to Disneyland all of our lives. We, fairly obviously, chose to honeymoon at Walt Disney World! This was our first ever trip to Florida and WDW. For that trip, it made economical sense for us to upgrade our Disneyland passes to Disney Premier Passes which allowed us to be “bi-coastal” for a year. When we upgraded, we told ourselves that we would try and squeeze in a second WDW trip before they expire. Well, after having the vacation of a lifetime on our honeymoon, we booked our return trip in early March just before the 180 day mark. Tory dubbed it our Honeymoon 2.0! We originally had opted for a five night trip, planning on taking a red-eye from LA and landing in Orlando early on the morning of the 21st. We later, thankfully, decided against that, and opted to extend the trip by one more night and take a flight that would allow us to sleep in a real bed and not a cramped economy seat.
Joining us for half of this trip was our dear friends John and Josh. (John made a brief appearance in our previous trip report where he joined us in our quest to Drink Around the World!) John and Josh live in Manhattan and we hadn’t seen John since our previous trip. We met Josh for the first time, and as we learned, Josh grew up in Florida before moving to North Carolina and eventually NYC. He hadn’t been to WDW since he was a child in the 90s. He was excited to go back and do Disney as an adult (He came with the right people to introduce him to that!) John, other than his one day visit to EPCOT, had never been to WDW and so he was in for a lot of firsts! They purchased three day (non hopper) tickets. So as to maximize the value of them, we skewed a little more towards a park warrior mentality on the first half of the trip than Tory and I would normally do (but still left plenty of time for lounges and cocktails!). The second half of our trip was at a much slower more relaxed pace.
We tried new restaurants including Flying Fish and Toledo, made it to 3 nighttime spectaculars (which is 2 more than we saw on our honeymoon, ate our way around Food and Wine festival, showed up to EPCOT for a surprise Blue October concert, and even went to a waterpark! We can’t wait to share it with you!
Who: Nick (me, a chemist) and Tory (my wife and a microbiologist)
What: A 6 night “Honeymoon 2.0” WDW trip!
When: September 20 – 26, 2019
Where: One night at B Resort and five nights at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort
Why: Because our Premier Passes were still valid, flights were free with credit card points, EPCOT Food and Wine Festival, and just because a Disney vacation is always warranted!
Favorites (from this trip):
Nick:
Ride: Flight of Passage
Park: Animal Kingdom
Snack: The African Spiced Beef Tenderloin from Food and Wine
Drink: Guinness at Raglan Road
Restaurant: Flying Fish
Lounge: Nomad Lounge
Resort: The Poly
Tory:
Ride: Flight of Passage
Park: Animal Kingdom
Snack: Roule Lard and Fromage from Les Halles and Donut Holes from Typhoon Lagoon
Drink: G&T from Barcelona Lounge
Restaurant: Flying Fish
Lounge: Nomad Lounge
Resort: Animal Kingdom Lodge
Tory and I live in California and have been going to Disneyland all of our lives. We, fairly obviously, chose to honeymoon at Walt Disney World! This was our first ever trip to Florida and WDW. For that trip, it made economical sense for us to upgrade our Disneyland passes to Disney Premier Passes which allowed us to be “bi-coastal” for a year. When we upgraded, we told ourselves that we would try and squeeze in a second WDW trip before they expire. Well, after having the vacation of a lifetime on our honeymoon, we booked our return trip in early March just before the 180 day mark. Tory dubbed it our Honeymoon 2.0! We originally had opted for a five night trip, planning on taking a red-eye from LA and landing in Orlando early on the morning of the 21st. We later, thankfully, decided against that, and opted to extend the trip by one more night and take a flight that would allow us to sleep in a real bed and not a cramped economy seat.
Joining us for half of this trip was our dear friends John and Josh. (John made a brief appearance in our previous trip report where he joined us in our quest to Drink Around the World!) John and Josh live in Manhattan and we hadn’t seen John since our previous trip. We met Josh for the first time, and as we learned, Josh grew up in Florida before moving to North Carolina and eventually NYC. He hadn’t been to WDW since he was a child in the 90s. He was excited to go back and do Disney as an adult (He came with the right people to introduce him to that!) John, other than his one day visit to EPCOT, had never been to WDW and so he was in for a lot of firsts! They purchased three day (non hopper) tickets. So as to maximize the value of them, we skewed a little more towards a park warrior mentality on the first half of the trip than Tory and I would normally do (but still left plenty of time for lounges and cocktails!). The second half of our trip was at a much slower more relaxed pace.
We tried new restaurants including Flying Fish and Toledo, made it to 3 nighttime spectaculars (which is 2 more than we saw on our honeymoon, ate our way around Food and Wine festival, showed up to EPCOT for a surprise Blue October concert, and even went to a waterpark! We can’t wait to share it with you!