Ok I guess I should add a final thoughts post. I’m sorry that I haven’t done this sooner, but I was so happy to be done with this TR so that I could get back to finish all of the TR’s that I had booked marked for over 6 mo’s. I definitely enjoy reading all of your TR’s vs writing mine. Though I will admit I enjoyed rereading my last TR before we took this trip. It also reminded me of several tips I had forgotten since writing it.
Things I loved
AK
All of Pandora and of course FOP, Pandora is just breathtaking after dark.
ROL but would arrive earlier for better seating even though we had FP’s.
Nomads Lounge, can’t wait to get back and eat the Octopus Appy in Tiffins wish they served it at Nomads.
Epcot
As always, LA Cava for Jalepeno Margarita, a tequila flight & chips w/ queso, just the best way to start out World Showcase.
Germany’s Altenmuster Oktoberfest and Warsteiner Dunkel Bier.
New Years Buckwheat Soba noodles at Japans Hokkaido Holiday Kitchen.
Daisy M&G, Pluto and Daisey in Character spot were hilarious.
Chefs De France.
I think Epcot had the best PP photographers.
DHS
Snow on Hollywood Boulevard and the overall Christmas Decorations, IMO best Christmas decorated Disney park.
TOT Love it when the seat belts work.
Star Tours even though I’m not a SW fan.
JBJB fireworks.
In the past we did not enjoy DHS but we do now. Looking forward to checking out Toystory land on our next visit.
MK
The first view of the castle is loved by most all of us here on the Dis and the feeling of Main street.
Pixie Dust from MS barber shop-though I’m sure GF housekeeping wasn’t happy with it all over.
Visiting with the CM’s.
Columbia Harbor House Mac & Cheese w/ shrimp.
Parades
Fireworks
Space Mountain
Musing about our resorts
POFQ I really like this resort even if our location wasn’t conducive to peace and quiet, but we did have easy access to the food court and the pool had we used it. Beignets were good. I would stay here again, and it is in the running for our next trip. We love the boats to DS.
GF is a gorgeous resort even if it is very busy and loud. I feel that we over paid for the quality of room that we got. But we did get a lot of use out of the balcony. I would do CL again as we did take advantage of the offerings. Just loved staying on the monorail, it was so convenient. I also enjoyed watching HEA from the resort. I’m glad that I can mark this off my bucket list but, at this point I prefer AKL to GF.
The time share resort we stayed at was close and it was easy to drive to the parks but, there’s just something about staying on Disney Property
Miscellaneous musings
No one favorite park we enjoy all of them and were surprised that we want to return to AK & DHS again.
Alarm clocks……..argh aren’t in most resorts, will have to borrow a travel alarm clock for next WDW stay.
We enjoyed DS and still didn’t see half of it.
We would be more than happy to take the friendship boats from DHS to Epcot anytime a good 25 mins relaxing break.
Foods/Cocktails & restaurants we loved
Nomads Lounge
Peking Duck at Morimoto’s
Buckwheat Soba Noodles Japan Kitchen Epcot
Jalepeno Margaritas a LA Cava Epcot
Chefs De France
Beaches and Cream
Trader Sams Grog Grotto and the Shrunken Zombie Head & Krakatoa Punch
Pulled Pork Nacho’s at Tambu Lounge
Filet Mignon Sliders at Boathouse
Mark and I decided that we want to come back to celebrate MK’s 50’th in 2021 and we are looking forward to it. It will be nice to attempt a more relaxed laid back visit where we aren’t racing around everywhere. We discovered on this trip that we can do that and we aren’t really missing anything.
Since that discussion I discovered The Epic Girls only Dis Meet thread and got excited. By the time I finished reading the first 6 pages or so I was hooked. I started pricing flights and rooms. On a whim I booked a refundable room off site for those dates. I figured I could afford 3 nt’s by splitting a room w/ someone and not buying park tickets. I planted the seed with Mark when I told him about the girls trip and how exciting it looked. He sarcastically said well you better book it and I responded with I’m considering it. So I wait a few more days until we’re relaxing on the boat having a few beers and I bring it back up to him and that I crunched the numbers and it’s doable. To my surprise he says that’s fine but I’m going to. After talking a bit he sets a few goals of how many boats he needs to sell ( he got a new job selling boats in February) and how many houses I have to sell. I agreed with him. But here’s the kicker I could do this trip solo for fewer days w/o park tix and flying down than with him coming and paying full price for the room, plus 2 extra nights of hotel lodging for the drive down and back, and the extra cost of park tix he’s wanting. Also He wants to add days to the Disney stay, 3 nt’s weren’t enough. So needless to say if we don’t make our goals I’m still going as I can afford a solo trip.
I’m really excited to have another Disney trip in the works and can’t wait to meet all of these great Dissers on here.
Maybe just maybe I might get another Dismeet before this. One of our favorite Canadian Dissers
@pkondz may be passing through Indy this fall and if so we’re planning on meeting up. YAY.