Unca’ Donald
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Nov 15, 2018
Hey howdy hey! Welcome to my Walt Disney World trip report for the dates of 10/26/19- 11/2/19. I can't believe that my girlfriend (Michelle) and I (Jonathan) returned from our trip 2 weeks ago tonight, and that this month is already halfway over! This was our 3rd Disney World trip of 2019, and our 4th within the last 12 months. You can read about the first of these trips here:
November 24, 2018- December 1, 2018 Trip Report
The 2nd trip was the week of my birthday in early May. I actually started a trip report for that one a couple of weeks before we went back to Disney World in June when Michelle was sent to a credit union conference at the Dolphin. I had intended to finish my May trip report, and do one for June after we returned home, but I never got around to it. I'd still like to go back and complete those trip reports, but I decided I really wanted to get to this one first.
To give you a visual of who we are, here's a picture of us from Disney Presents The Lion King, which was taken at Citizens bank Opera House in Boston, MA a week before our trip. We saw the same show there in September 2014 and we loved it. This time we took my parents with us and they really enjoyed it too.
Saturday, October 26, 2019 Part 1 - Travel Day
We had gone to bed around 11:00 pm the previous night, and planned to be up at 4:00 am to get ready. I actually fell asleep right away, which usually does not happen the night before we leave for Disney World. Unfortunately I woke up only 2 hours later and could not fall back to sleep, so I decided to just get up. I pretty much just played Disney Magic Kingdoms and Disney Emoji Blitz on my phone, and browsed the internet until I went to Dunkin' around 5:00 am to get something to eat. I returned home with the Maple Sugar Bacon Breakfast Sandwich and a small cold brew. After I ate breakfast I finished getting ready, and my dad showed up shortly after 6:00.
Our method of getting to Disney World is pretty much the same every time. The only direct flight to Orlando out of Portland, ME is Frontier Airlines. Michelle refuses to fly Frontier, despite never actually going on one of their planes, so we always end up having to take the bus to Boston, and then fly to Orlando on JetBlue. My parents live like 12 minutes from us, so my dad picks us up and drops us off at the bus station. I am not a big fan of our travel plans. If we took the direct flight from Portland we could leave like 2 hours later and arrive in Orlando at least an hour sooner. We would also save money. Sadly this is a battle I don't believe I will ever win.
There isn't much to say about the bus ride or flight as they were pretty uneventful, and everything was pretty much on time. We left our place just after 6:30 and arrived at the bus station around 6:50. The bus left Portland for Boston at about 7:30. It's roughly a 2 hour ride, and then we had about a 2 hour wait until our flight once we arrived at Boston Logan International Airport. The only thing I recall about our wait at the airport was getting a bacon, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich on a bagel from Dunkin'
We were on flight 451 which was scheduled to leave at 11:42 am. It took off right around that time, and we landed in Orlando shortly before 3:00 pm. After getting our luggage we had a difficult time finding the Disney Magical Express. This happens every time we go. We finally found our way there, and when we arrived there were quite a few people in line checking in. This had me a little nervous about how crowded Disney World might be that week.
We got on the bus for POFQ, which was also dropping off at POR, OKW, and SSR. The vast majority of the people getting on our bus were going to POR. At 4:29 pm were were on Disney property.
I'll be back tomorrow with a much bigger post, and plenty of photos of our first night. See ya real soon!
November 24, 2018- December 1, 2018 Trip Report
The 2nd trip was the week of my birthday in early May. I actually started a trip report for that one a couple of weeks before we went back to Disney World in June when Michelle was sent to a credit union conference at the Dolphin. I had intended to finish my May trip report, and do one for June after we returned home, but I never got around to it. I'd still like to go back and complete those trip reports, but I decided I really wanted to get to this one first.
To give you a visual of who we are, here's a picture of us from Disney Presents The Lion King, which was taken at Citizens bank Opera House in Boston, MA a week before our trip. We saw the same show there in September 2014 and we loved it. This time we took my parents with us and they really enjoyed it too.
Saturday, October 26, 2019 Part 1 - Travel Day
We had gone to bed around 11:00 pm the previous night, and planned to be up at 4:00 am to get ready. I actually fell asleep right away, which usually does not happen the night before we leave for Disney World. Unfortunately I woke up only 2 hours later and could not fall back to sleep, so I decided to just get up. I pretty much just played Disney Magic Kingdoms and Disney Emoji Blitz on my phone, and browsed the internet until I went to Dunkin' around 5:00 am to get something to eat. I returned home with the Maple Sugar Bacon Breakfast Sandwich and a small cold brew. After I ate breakfast I finished getting ready, and my dad showed up shortly after 6:00.
Our method of getting to Disney World is pretty much the same every time. The only direct flight to Orlando out of Portland, ME is Frontier Airlines. Michelle refuses to fly Frontier, despite never actually going on one of their planes, so we always end up having to take the bus to Boston, and then fly to Orlando on JetBlue. My parents live like 12 minutes from us, so my dad picks us up and drops us off at the bus station. I am not a big fan of our travel plans. If we took the direct flight from Portland we could leave like 2 hours later and arrive in Orlando at least an hour sooner. We would also save money. Sadly this is a battle I don't believe I will ever win.
There isn't much to say about the bus ride or flight as they were pretty uneventful, and everything was pretty much on time. We left our place just after 6:30 and arrived at the bus station around 6:50. The bus left Portland for Boston at about 7:30. It's roughly a 2 hour ride, and then we had about a 2 hour wait until our flight once we arrived at Boston Logan International Airport. The only thing I recall about our wait at the airport was getting a bacon, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich on a bagel from Dunkin'
We were on flight 451 which was scheduled to leave at 11:42 am. It took off right around that time, and we landed in Orlando shortly before 3:00 pm. After getting our luggage we had a difficult time finding the Disney Magical Express. This happens every time we go. We finally found our way there, and when we arrived there were quite a few people in line checking in. This had me a little nervous about how crowded Disney World might be that week.
We got on the bus for POFQ, which was also dropping off at POR, OKW, and SSR. The vast majority of the people getting on our bus were going to POR. At 4:29 pm were were on Disney property.
I'll be back tomorrow with a much bigger post, and plenty of photos of our first night. See ya real soon!
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