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07-17-2006, 04:35 PM
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| Destiny Found ... in 2010  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Mississippi
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| Re: The Grand Fiesta 10th Anniversary Trip - Pre-trip Update 7/9 Sounds great! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img]        |
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07-17-2006, 11:54 PM
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| Community Rank: Explorer   Join Date: May 2003 Location: Phoenix, AZ
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| Re: The Grand Fiesta 10th Anniversary Trip - Pre-trip Update 7/9 Hi Marnie! It sounds like you guys are going to be dining at some yummy yummy restaurants! ([img]/ubb/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] sorry, I just read Melissa's update about their lunch at 50's Prime Time [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]) [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/facelick.gif[/img]. I know what you mean about the Southwest airfares... I have been watching them out of Phoenix, and they are so high right now! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zwavin.gif[/img] Amy |
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07-18-2006, 01:12 PM
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| Community Rank: Adventurer   Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Odenton, MD
Posts: 674
| Re: The Grand Fiesta 10th Anniversary Trip - Pre-trip Update 7/9 Hi Marnie! It sounds like you have an awesome trip planned - I would expect nothing less. I'd prefer a 30" rolling bag, but in a pinch, I can squeeze into a 26" bag with minor leg cramping. Remember to label the bag "Fragile" and "Requires Adult Beverage." That ought to do it! Regarding the airfare, I assume you saw the SWA fare sale going on right now. I think it was $59 each way out of Hartford or Providence to Orlando. Also, if you have to spend a few extra days at BC instead of AKL, I guess you can be forgiven for Free Dining's sake. Just don't make a habit of this! Oh the humanity! Good luck on snagging the Illuminations Cruise. Btw, if you ordered this heat and humidity just to get used to Florida in August, I believe it's high time you send it back. Enough already. We’re not all so lucky as to need the acclimation to a new climate for vacation. jk. Bon Voyage! Have a Great time! |
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07-21-2006, 12:56 PM
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| RED SOX NATION!!  Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Connecticut
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| Re: The Grand Fiesta 10th Anniversary Trip - Pre-trip Update 7/9 <font color="blue"> I was supposed to call when??? Of course, my first day came for trying for an IllumiNations cruise and I completely forgot [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/foreheadslap.gif[/img] It was a Saturday and I wasn’t thinking (obviously [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img] ). And I was even up at 6 that morning! Oh well, there were still plenty more opportunities! Sunday came and went, and guess what? I forgot again [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/foreheadslap.gif[/img] I think my brain just shuts down on the weekend. Does anyone else have that problem [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] If I’m not looking into my Outlook calendar at work, I’m lost! Monday rolls around, and I finally remembered (because I was looking at my Outlook calendar). I called at bout 6:50 just to hear the closed office message (because remember the open and closed messages have different tones) and then started dialing about 6:58. But since I had forgot to call the days before, I forgot what prompts were going to be asked so I had to sit thru all of them. Geez!! I amazingly got a live person right away, and I was in like Flynn! Score that one! Of course, I wasn’t prepared for the $250 price tag. I guess I had remembered that the price had increased, but OUCH! At least you get food now! I went back to look at our park/plan schedule, and while we could work in a cruise this day, it wasn’t as convenient. It was also EMH night at MK, which I had planned on going to. I wasn’t going to look a gift horse in the mouth, so I just kept it! Since I now had a little more confidence (and knew the correct numbers to push to get to a live person) I decided to give it a go again two days later. This night would coincide with a planned Epcot night. We’d be staying at the BC as well so it would be more convenient to walk over to the marina. This time I was going to try for the Breathless, as at least according to Deb’s site it was supposed to be cheaper (more on that later)! Well, 6:58 AM came around again, and I was fiercely pushing numbers into the phone and hitting redial. I got the open message, began hitting the requested numbers just as the prompts started, and voilà, a live person. I asked for an Epcot specialty cruise first, but then asked if the Breathless was available. It was!!! SCORE AGAIN [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/woot.gif[/img] Of course, my happiness turned sour when he said it too was $250. I need to send a note to Deb because her prices are not up to date [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502no_prv.gif[/img] No matter. Now I need to figure out which one I’m going to cancel. Of course, I haven’t told Matt or the kids about it, as I was hoping to use it as a surprise! We’ll see if I can hold out! I gave up trying for the cruises after that. It would only complicate things more if I ended up getting another day, so why make things more difficult? Now I still had to wait three weeks for the next milestone……….75 days from the cruise so I could make our reservations online. What am I going to do for another 3 weeks? Ugh. In the midst of the IllumiNations cruise mayhem, Southwest offered Orlando as it’s destination of the week! Our fare went down from $132 each way to $104 each way. So rack up at $224 savings for me! That will work nicely for the family wedding we have to go to in California at the end of October! Ok, now I’m still bored. And there’s two weeks to go before I can do anything. I started perusing the DIS boards again. My work had blocked the site a year ago and I had never checked back to see if the settings changed, and guess what? It worked again. I spent a lot of time in the cruise forum, reading posts and downloading Navigators so I could figure out which excursions to take, what the skinny on Palo was, and what the schedule would be like on the ship! I also read the Passporter Cruise Guide for a better description of the excursions. And then I gave it to Matt to read (the excursions anyway) because I thought it would be nice if I gave him some input to this vacation. Arent’ I such the doting wife [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] I let him pick the excursions he wanted. He decided on the Discover Atlantis excursion in Nassau. I had wanted to do the Stingray Adventure on Blackbeard Cay, but I gave in. He also suggested the Stingray Adventure on Castaway Cay, as there wasn’t anything else we could really do there with the kids (this will come back at me…..stay tuned). Coming up Next………….Would 6/6/06 curse me or be kind???</font>     |
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07-21-2006, 01:01 PM
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| Eileeeeeeen!™  Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Philadelphia, PA
Posts: 19,187
| Re: The Grand Fiesta 10th Anniversary Trip - Pre-trip Update 7/9 Congrats on finally snagging not one, but TWO cruises!! I hope it becomes easy to decide between them... You're planning had been so terrific. I'm excited to see what you get up to next. Eileen    |
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07-21-2006, 02:32 PM
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| Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire   Join Date: May 2004 Location: Ohio Football Hall Of Fame
Posts: 42,354
| Re: The Grand Fiesta 10th Anniversary Trip - Pre-trip Update 7/9 Congrats on your cruise and getting a better deal on your airfare!!! This trip will be here before you know it!!! |
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07-21-2006, 07:14 PM
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| Community Rank: Explorer Join Date: May 2003 Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 7,688
| Re: The Grand Fiesta 10th Anniversary Trip - Pre-trip Update 7/9 Sounds like things are going your way! Congrats on the airfare savings! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/waytogo.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zwavin.gif[/img] Amy |
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07-21-2006, 08:44 PM
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| Community Rank: Jetsetter   Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: New Jersey
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| Re: The Grand Fiesta 10th Anniversary Trip - Pre-trip Update 7/9 Congrats on getting the cruise booked Marnie! I can't wait to hear what you plan next [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] |
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