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Old 12 May 16, 09:09 PM  
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'Doing It Properly' - June 2016 Pre Trip & Travel Day!

Travel Day
Day 1 Engaged at Magic Kingdom
Day 2 Cracker Barrel, Typhoon Lagoon & Hooters
Day 3 Epcot, Boardwalk & Frozen Ever After
Day 4 Hard Rock Hotel, Universal & Bubba Gumps


Hiya everyone

One thing I love reading on The Dibb is everyone's trip reports, so I thought it was about time I bit the bullet and did one of my own! Hopefully I do everything right & don't send too many of you to sleep.

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Me AKA Sarah. 22 year old northerner at heart living in Cambridgeshire. Bridal Makeup Artist & part time personal shopper. Beauty & Disney Blogger. Planner of absolutely everything, if it wasn't down to me we would never go anywhere or do anything! A bit of a ride wimp Lover of Florida, Makeup, Dogs & anything expensive Manchester City supporter.




The Boyfriend AKA Scott. 23 year old southerner at heart living in Cambridgeshire Prison Officer. Football (Portsmouth) Fanatic & Gym freak planning on undoing all his hard work on holiday The driver & navigator, he says his job on holiday is simply to get us to places & enjoy it while I do all the planning before hand . His favourite Disney film is Peter Pan.










How It Came About

This will be our 4th trip of a lifetime but our 2nd together. We went last year in 2015 and both fell back in love with the place after not visiting for quite a few years, It made us realise that all inclusive beach holidays were no longer for us! We are at the stage in life where we should be saving for a mortgage and planning engagements/weddings but after a serious case of the Disney Blues after last years trip, we decided that we would have one last trip in 2016 before having a couple of years off while we sort our lives out (although I'm not promising anything haha). We also felt that we didn't make the most of our time last year so have decided we are going to really 'do it properly' this time...& that is where this reports title has come from.

What We Have Booked

We are staying offsite at the Rosen inn Pointe Orlando, where we stayed last year. We like the freedom of being offsite & prefer the restaurants (Longhorns in particular!) so it makes sense for us. We really liked the location of this hotel last time, it is far from luxury but is clean, comfortable and convenient which is just what we need. We are staying for 17 nights with one night at the Hard Rock Hotel at Universal, I'm super excited for this as the hotel looks amazing and I am looking forward to using the FOLPs that you get included. We are flying direct from gatwick with virgin on the 19th June until the 6th July, we booked these flights as a package with our hotel (Rosen inn) from Kenwood Travel, I've heard good feedback about them & they were far cheaper than anywhere else. We have also booked a hire car from Sixt as I couldn't imagine being without one!


Tickets

We bought our park tickets from Orlando Attraction Tickets after hearing very good feedback. We bought the 'Orlando Passport' which is 14 day ultimate Disney, 14 day universal/IOA, seaworld, aquatica & Busch gardens. I've never been to BG so I'm hoping I will be able to brave the rides We paid £531pp for these tickets and used a discount code for an extra £5pp off. (MSE5)


Other stuff!

As well as the parks we plan on doing loads of shopping, loads of eating & visiting a few beaches, my favourite being Clearwater. We also have tickets to an Orlando City soccer game.


Everything is more or less sorted now, just need to change our currency, doesn't look like I'll be getting much over 1.4 at this rate apart from that it is just a waiting game.. 5 weeks to go!

Thanks for reading!

More Trip planning on my blog - lolabellebeauty.co.uk


Edit- Forgot to say we have prebooked seats in the Bubble for the first time ever, hope it lives up to my expectations!


**Continued updates below...


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Old 14 May 16, 08:40 AM  
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Look forward to reading more. We are staying at the same hotel for part of our trip too so it's great to hear you are return visitors!
Loving the lavender balayage...
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Old 14 May 16, 09:14 AM  
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Great pre-trippy. Have a great time, looking forward to reading all about it
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Originally Posted by thebig40 View Post
Look forward to reading more. We are staying at the same hotel for part of our trip too so it's great to hear you are return visitors!
Loving the lavender balayage...
Thank you thinking of having it put back in again for holiday. Yeah we were very impressed with the Rosen so hopefully we are again this time! Thanks for your comment!
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Great pre-trippy. Have a great time, looking forward to reading all about it
Thank you!
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Another rosen inn fan ,it does the job .can't wait to read your report ,keep us updated !
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Originally Posted by Jesslydevie1 View Post
Another rosen inn fan ,it does the job .can't wait to read your report ,keep us updated !
Thank you, will do!
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Great start. Hope you enjoy Orlando City. Bought my DH a ticket for when we are there in October. I can't go with him as got 2 DD's who are not interested! Boo!
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Great start. Hope you enjoy Orlando City. Bought my DH a ticket for when we are there in October. I can't go with him as got 2 DD's who are not interested! Boo!
Aw that's a shame! We went to one last year & really enjoyed it, thought the atmosphere was great. Thanks for reading
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