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Old 27 Feb 17, 09:36 PM  
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Your plans sound great - you are there at the same time as us

Jealous of your RPR Club Level booking. I was desperate to stay there but my god, it's so expensive this year!

Looking forward to hearing what you think of OKW - eying this up for our return trip in 2019.
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Originally Posted by tracey1302 View Post
Your plans sound great - you are there at the same time as us

Jealous of your RPR Club Level booking. I was desperate to stay there but my god, it's so expensive this year!

Looking forward to hearing what you think of OKW - eying this up for our return trip in 2019.
Thanks for reading I'm getting more and more excited every day.

RPR is really expensive, I feel a bit ill how much it's costing to be honest! I think if we were just having a regular holiday there's no way we'd be staying there but this holiday is one big extravagance and certainly not something we could do regularly. It's going to be great
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Previous Update - Daily Plans

Aaaahhhhh, 37 days to go

I can't believe how fast this holiday is coming round now. I have to say I'm getting some butterflies in my stomach when I think about it.

SO whats happened in the planning stages?

Well 60 days arrived and FP+ day happened. It was actually quite straight forward and while I was a bit nervous it all worked out ok. I do have a couple of things I'd like to slightly tweak but I'll just keep checking back and see if I can make the changes. I find the MDE app really easy to use and am hoping to make use of it 'on the go' in the parks too.

Pandora was announced as opening during our stay and then a few days after my 60 days the FP opened. It appears that I got the benefit of some sort of glitch which has allowed me to book both Pandora rides as FP's on the same day, I think this was open for an hour or 2 before Disney realised, I'm not complaining hahaha! I'm not really sure if my 2 children will ride the banshee ride though and will wait to hear about the ride as people get the chance to try it and report back.

Money has exchanged hands - I paid the Disney balance and the Orlando Attractions balance, shortly after our Universal tickets arrived and have been safely stashed away.

Holiday shopping has also been happening the past few weeks;

Suitcase - Picked up a nice new and easily identifiable Tripp case in the Debenhams Blue Cross sale. We are planning on taking 2 large cases with us, I don't think we'll take masses of clothing because a) I hate buying tons of holiday clothes that will hardly get worn afterwards and be grown out of by next year and b) we have access to our own washer/drier.


Tablet - Well if you have been reading about the TC planes nonsense you'll know about the streaming with no charging point flight that I am on for the return flight. As we have 3 tablets I've been on the look out for 1 cheap tablet and picked up an Amazon Fire 7" for £35 this week so I'm happy with that. I will also be buying a portable charger thingy, we have one large heavy one so I might get a couple of smaller ones that I can use in the parks easily too.

Holiday clothes - We went through our holiday clothes and as usual the kids needed a lot of stuff, particularly DD, they just grow out of everything so quickly as their ages. H&M and the Gap outlet that is nearby have been visited and lots or really nice clothes bought so they are nearly done now. DH and I need a few bits and I will be paying my own visit to GAP to pick up some items after getting an extra 20% off email the other day.

Footwear - I've been worrying a bit about this to be honest. We've decided to get a pair of sandals and a pair of trainers each so have been on the look out so we can get they worn in a bit before we go. Looking at all the lovely light weigh trainers about at the moment which will also dry super quick if they get a soaking in a rain shower while out and about. I've ordered these after seeing them on Hot Deals yesterday and we are off to a Nike outlet this weekend for a nosy too.


Disney stuff - I've ordered DD and I some ears from ROBBERIFIC (ImagineEarsUK) and can't wait to get them. Also ordered personalised autograph books for both the kids from an Etsy site, not sure if DS will want to do this as he pulls his face when I mention it but I'd rather have a nice one for him, I reckon he'll want to do it once we get into the Disney bubble and I plan to put pictures in it afterwards to make more or a memory book

After some help from Dibbers I decided not to place a Garden Grocer order. I'm going to pick up some wine/fizz in duty free which had not crossed my mind before and I'll just take some cereals with is as they seemed very expensive so that's one less thing I've had to do.

In other news everyone except me has a birthday before we go and so lots of things to sort out in that respect, making my head spin a bit and I'm so glad that I've got a lot of planning done for this holidays already. I'm starting to print off different bits of documentation now and pop them in my folder. We are away in our caravan tonight for the BH weekend and can't wait to be relaxing with a glass of wine tonight in our second home. We are taking a couple of films away with us and might get chance to re watch a Harry Potter or 2 in the evenings.

Thanks for reading - final stages now so I'll try and do some small updates as we approach departure date

TO DO LIST
DONE - Book Car Hire
DONE - Book Anna Maria Island Accomodation
DONE - Book Universal Hotel
DONE - Book Universal Tickets
DONE - Renew DHs passport
DONE - Apply for all our ESTA's
DONE - Travel Insurance
NOT DOING - Car Parking at Manchester Airport
NOT DOING - Possibly Lounge Access at Manchester Airport
DONE - Kennedy Space Centre Booking
DONE - Air Boat Booking
DONE - Plan ADR's
DONE - Book ADR's
DONE - In Progress - Plan FP+
DONE - Book FP+
DONE - Headphones for Plane - Just need mine.
NOT DOING - Wishes Cruise?
DONE - Book cattery for Lulu
DONE - Book Magical Express
DONE - Customise Magic Bands
Sort out gadgets with 'Just in Case' entertainment
DONE - New Suitcases
DONE - Pay Disney Balance
Pay AMI Balance
DONE - Pay Orlando Attractions Balance
DONE - Spending Money Method?
Sort out Camera and memory card options
DONE - Holiday Clothes Requirements
NOT DOING - Garden Grocery order
DONE - Letter to inform school as kids are missing 5 days
NEW - Footwear purchases to be made and 'worn in'
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Next Update : 18 days to go - ears, autograph books and update!
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Sounds like a fab trip! 😊
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Hi Jules

Another May dibber here I can't believe we are nearly there! Seems like an eternity when you book it.

Your plans sound amazing. Looking at your daily plans we are in the same parks on 3 separate days and we are also having lunch at the Sci Fi diner on the 23rd, small world! What time is your reservation, I will keep an eye out for you

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Originally Posted by mouselover22 View Post
Hi Jules

Another May dibber here I can't believe we are nearly there! Seems like an eternity when you book it.

Your plans sound amazing. Looking at your daily plans we are in the same parks on 3 separate days and we are also having lunch at the Sci Fi diner on the 23rd, small world! What time is your reservation, I will keep an eye out for you

Hi Mouselover 🤗🤗🤗

It's a small world I really can't believe it's so close now, I'm full of nervous excitement and am writing a lot of lists 🙈🙈🙈

We are at Sci Fi dine in at 11.30, what about you? Hope your final days pass quickly. 🖒🖒🖒
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Originally Posted by Beccleberry View Post
Sounds like a fab trip! 😊
Thanks, so exciting and crazy to think all these months of planning are almost real now
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Sounds great, looking forward to hearing all about it!
Thanks. I really can't wait
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I thought about Garden Grocer as we won't have a car for the first few days and decided as we'd need a slab of water bottles (don't get me started on water prices in the park) the options were Uber to Crossroads to get it or get it delivered and add some bits to the order. I know I'd hate myself if snack credits were spent on water 🙂
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