Disney World Advice! - Page 11

figment1986 · 10-16-2007, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Rule #2! Enjoy yourself!

And I recommend BTMRR or Splash as your first ride. And if the MK is open till 2am any day for extra evening hours - do it! Because you can! There's something very satisfying about being inside the MK at 2am.

Isn't Big Thunder closed for all of October for upgrades? If not, try riding B.T.M. at 11:59.. real fun riding it into a new day. otherwise try it on another attraction, anything but small world.

Bornieo: Fully Loaded · 10-16-2007, 10:38 PM

YEah, I Cant ride BTMRR until my last day there because of the rehab - otherwise - YES!

#1 Have Fun!
#2 Enjoy Myself!
#3 Repeat (Or until Kevy makes some comment about #2)

Thanks everyone again! 24hours until I take off to Orlando.

wendybeth · 10-16-2007, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Bornieo: Fully Loaded

YEah, I Cant ride BTMRR until my last day there because of the rehab - otherwise - YES!

#1 Have Fun!
#2 Enjoy Myself!
#3 Repeat (Or until Kevy makes some comment about #2)

Thanks everyone again! 24hours until I take off to Orlando.

Have a great time, Bornieo!

katiesue · 10-17-2007, 09:05 AM

Have fun Borneio!!

Snowflake · 10-17-2007, 09:11 AM

Have a great trip Borneo!

Waves hello to Flippyshark while I'm at it!

cirquelover · 10-17-2007, 03:43 PM

Have a great time at WDW! I can't wait to hear your comparisons between the two!

innerSpaceman · 10-17-2007, 04:06 PM

OMB, Borneio, have a blast!

Gemini Cricket · 10-17-2007, 04:08 PM

How exciting!
Bon voyage, Bornieo!

swanie · 10-17-2007, 04:30 PM

OK - I'll repeat my advice from the Alice in Wonderland line

1. Buy the meal plan. With all of your reservations, you'll come out money ahead. Just remember, you will get an appetizer, dinner, dessert, and drink with each sit down dinning location. Use your snack for breakfast and you'll be fine with a counter service meal as your other meal (meal, drink, and dessert).

2. Buy the refillable cup and smuggle it in to as many places as you can. That $12 will be the best $12 spent your whole trip. If you do that, you can get bottled water with your counter service meal. It'll save you a ton on drinks the whole trip. We quickly noticed that the cup was a generic 2007 cup that everyone else had. We used it at every resort we visited. Coffee, soda, tea, hot chocolate, etc.

3. Do not miss Boma! It is the best buffet there hands down. Mr. Swanie really enjoyed the African wine tasting. For something like $12 he got three different glasses of wine to taste...and to our surprise they were full glasses. He did the red wine selection, but you could also do a white wine sampling.

4. A warning if you have reservations and are relying on the buses... We didn't have any trouble getting from a theme park to another resort since that was direct, but it sucked having to make transfers after dinner with 3 small kids. If you decide not to rent a car, budget for a taxi because you're looking at a 45 minute minimum ride back to your resort (and that's if you have no wait for either bus. If you have to wait, you could be looking at 1:20, and that's with the buses running on their normal 20 min. schedule. With that all said, if you're planning on going back to a theme park to hang out, it isn't such an issue.

5. Give yourself at least 2 days at Epcot. I know you plan on doing the Food and Wine Festival, and that alone will take a whole day. I LOVED Epcot. I think we ended up there for parts of 4 days on our trip.

6. To our surprise, the normal snacks and desserts ran much cheaper than those at the DLR. I think the Mickey ice creams were only $2.25. If you do the dinning plan you can use your credits for pretty much anything under $4. We initially waited to use ours because we were trying to get the most bang for our buck, but we realized that there wasn't much that was that expensive. As a result, we came back with a full bag of snacks (13 to be exact) from the Markeplace at AKL. Cotton candy, huge boxes of cookies, bags of trail mix, etc. We even used our last counter service meals on sandwiches for the plane ride back. Oooohhh, one of the better "snacks" was a huge brownie sundae from the Mrs. Pott's at the Magic Kingdom.

7. Don't miss Expedition Everest. And try to sit in the very last row

Have an awesome time!

swanie

Prudence · 10-17-2007, 04:33 PM

I expect a detailed report, particular on the food.

And have a birch beer for me!

10-16-2007, 10:38 PM	#102
Bornieo: Fully Loaded Lego Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Disneyland, USA Posts: 3,704	YEah, I Cant ride BTMRR until my last day there because of the rehab - otherwise - YES! #1 Have Fun! #2 Enjoy Myself! #3 Repeat (Or until Kevy makes some comment about #2) Thanks everyone again! 24hours until I take off to Orlando.
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katiesue Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: San Diego Posts: 4,678	Have fun Borneio!! __________________ My life is so exciting I can hardly stand it.
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Snowflake lost in the fog Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: San Francisco Posts: 7,831	Have a great trip Borneo! Waves hello to Flippyshark while I'm at it! __________________ Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde
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cirquelover Cruising around in my automobile... Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Oregon Posts: 2,617	Have a great time at WDW! I can't wait to hear your comparisons between the two!
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10-17-2007, 04:06 PM	#107
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	OMB, Borneio, have a blast!
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Gemini Cricket ... Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 13,244	How exciting! Bon voyage, Bornieo!
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10-17-2007, 04:30 PM	#109
swanie Wiiiiiiiiiiiiid Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 321	OK - I'll repeat my advice from the Alice in Wonderland line 1. Buy the meal plan. With all of your reservations, you'll come out money ahead. Just remember, you will get an appetizer, dinner, dessert, and drink with each sit down dinning location. Use your snack for breakfast and you'll be fine with a counter service meal as your other meal (meal, drink, and dessert). 2. Buy the refillable cup and smuggle it in to as many places as you can. That $12 will be the best $12 spent your whole trip. If you do that, you can get bottled water with your counter service meal. It'll save you a ton on drinks the whole trip. We quickly noticed that the cup was a generic 2007 cup that everyone else had. We used it at every resort we visited. Coffee, soda, tea, hot chocolate, etc. 3. Do not miss Boma! It is the best buffet there hands down. Mr. Swanie really enjoyed the African wine tasting. For something like $12 he got three different glasses of wine to taste...and to our surprise they were full glasses. He did the red wine selection, but you could also do a white wine sampling. 4. A warning if you have reservations and are relying on the buses... We didn't have any trouble getting from a theme park to another resort since that was direct, but it sucked having to make transfers after dinner with 3 small kids. If you decide not to rent a car, budget for a taxi because you're looking at a 45 minute minimum ride back to your resort (and that's if you have no wait for either bus. If you have to wait, you could be looking at 1:20, and that's with the buses running on their normal 20 min. schedule. With that all said, if you're planning on going back to a theme park to hang out, it isn't such an issue. 5. Give yourself at least 2 days at Epcot. I know you plan on doing the Food and Wine Festival, and that alone will take a whole day. I LOVED Epcot. I think we ended up there for parts of 4 days on our trip. 6. To our surprise, the normal snacks and desserts ran much cheaper than those at the DLR. I think the Mickey ice creams were only $2.25. If you do the dinning plan you can use your credits for pretty much anything under $4. We initially waited to use ours because we were trying to get the most bang for our buck, but we realized that there wasn't much that was that expensive. As a result, we came back with a full bag of snacks (13 to be exact) from the Markeplace at AKL. Cotton candy, huge boxes of cookies, bags of trail mix, etc. We even used our last counter service meals on sandwiches for the plane ride back. Oooohhh, one of the better "snacks" was a huge brownie sundae from the Mrs. Pott's at the Magic Kingdom. 7. Don't miss Expedition Everest. And try to sit in the very last row Have an awesome time! swanie
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