“Let the Good Times Roll”-The Farley’s Vero/Boardwalk Trip - UPDATED 5/30 About This Page:

[angiek1024]

“Let the Good Times Roll”-The Farley’s Vero/Boardwalk Trip

Where: June 1-6 Disney’s Vero Beach Resort
June 6-10 Disney’s Boardwalk Villas

Who: Me, myself and I: Angela (or Angie to my family and friends), 39
My hubby: Scott, 43
My boy: Logan, 13 to be turning 14 on the trip
My mom: Sandy, 59

Our Whole Traveling Party a few trips back:

Scott, Chef Logan, My Mom and Me






Hi! It’s me again…but you probably don’t remember me much since I have been a total slacker and not written a trip report in at least a couple of years. For years, I documented our every Disney trip here on the Passporter boards. Then my son started growing up on me and my life has been filled with work, school and sports. I am basically my son’s personal assistant…helping him with all that it takes to be him and getting him to where he needs to go all the time. So I gave up and just stopped trying to do a report. It makes me sad sometimes to read everyone else’s reports because I miss documenting our memories like I used to.

SO….here I go again and this trip will be documented because it is an important one. My baby Logan who took his first Disney trip when he was a month shy of being three years old will be turning 14 on this trip! Yes, my heart is breaking but I am so proud of the young man he is becoming and it is exciting to see him grow and mature. This is will be his…WAIT FOR IT……..25th Disney Trip!!! Yes, this boy is Disney spoiled beyond belief (thank you DVC).


Here he is now:





Anyway, enough about the golden child and on with the details. I was trying to come up with a clever trip title and I was thinking about summer, school and sports being over for a while and “Good times” popped into my head…thus that old song title “Let the Good Times Roll” came about. I am so ready to get out of town and chill out for a bit!

We are DVC members so we decided to do something new and try out Disney’s Vero Beach resort. Logan has been to the beach overnight once and a few times on cruises but he has never taken a real beach trip so he is excited to spend some days sleeping in and lounging by the pool. My husband and I just want to relax and de-stress. My mom is also tagging along because we always try to take her with us on at least one trip during the summer. After five nights at Vero, we will head up to Disneyworld and check into the Boardwalk Villas. We let Logan choose the resort since his birthday will be on Friday while we are there. We will spend four nights at the Boardwalk. He really chose our dining plans and resort since the trip is all about him. He also wants to catch Star Wars weekend before we leave since we missed it last year by being in Arizona on vacation.

I’ll admit that I am a little nervous about the Vero portion of the trip. I hear that it is nice but being a creature of habit it worries me a little not to have plans. I have a few suggestions of places to eat in the area but otherwise I don’t feel like I have a clue about the area. Since I will be trying not to obsess and relax, I will just go with the flow when we get there. (Secretly I will be taking notes so that next time I can have things planned more)

UP NEXT: Making plans

[Colexis Mom]

So glad you're doing another report Angie! I've missed them! Sounds like great plans so far!

[mojjo]

So glad you are writing again. So far so good.

[buzzspal2]

Great start Angie.

[chezp]

Great to see you writing again Angie!

[bsblady01]

great start

[MayraLR]

Great start! 25 trips !

[taylan1]

Great Start!

[angiek1024]

Making Plans Updated 5/11/2012


I will have to say that after so many Disney trips, making plans for our trips seems to get harder and harder. Disney is a big place and there are still many things we need to see and do that we haven’t before but we have our favorite things and we seem to get stuck in a rut of doing the same things and dining at the same places. Honestly, it will probably be more of the same this trip because we will only have 4 nights there.

When we started talking about a summer trip and which resort to choose, Vero Beach kept coming to mind. I was really yearning for a beach trip. Growing up, my family trip every summer was going to Daytona Beach. I loved summer because I knew once school was out we would be going to the beach. As I said before, Logan has been to the beach several times but only for the day. I really wanted to him to experience a family beach trip like I used to do. We talked about it on and off and let our seven- month window pass us by. For those who may not be DVC members, that is when you can book a non-home resort. Our home resort is Animal Kingdom so we needed to try to book Vero at seven months. That didn’t happen.

After more discussion, we decided to try for Vero anyway. I think we booked at 5 months out. Of course, availability was very limited but they did have an Inn Room for the nights we wanted. Unfortunately, it isn’t ocean view but we were lucky to get anything after our procrastination. The Inn Room has two double beds so I think we will be fine with that. Our plans are mostly sleeping, hanging at the pool and beach and eating so we don’t need anymore than that really. I haven’t found a ton of information about Vero so it will be a very new experience for us. I think we will play it by ear as we go for dinner and probably hit the grocery store for breakfast and lunch goodies. I found a dip recipe on Pinterest that I am dying to try so that will be on my list when we get down there. (It is called Skinny Pool Dip and it looks so yummy) We will hit Publix to shop when we arrive to stock up since we are driving down and have a car. I want to hit at least of couple of seafood places for dinner. We heard some good reviews about a place called Squid Lips so if anyone has been there please let me know if it is any good.

We also decided that since we have AP’s burning a hole in our pockets that we had to include a few days at Disney also on this trip. We were again past our seven -month mark for that one too but we told Logan to decided in order his preferences for a resort and we would see what we could get. Again, we really lucked out!! His first choice was Boardwalk Villas and yes it was available!! We got a preferred view one bedroom for our four nights. Maybe it was because we are celebrating Logan’s birthday but things just don’t normally fall together that easy for us when we don’t book when we need to. The trip was all booked now and we were excited! (embarrassingly Scott and I were high fiving but we get all silly about Disney) I am sure Logan was somewhere in the background rolling his eyes.

I wasn’t sure what to do about dining once we got to Disneyworld. We asked Logan to choose some places he wanted to eat and where he wanted to eat his birthday meal. He immediately chose Nine Dragons for his birthday dinner. That was a little interesting. I love the food there but for a birthday, I thought he would choose one of his favorites like Tutto Italia or Le Cellier. No, it was Nine Dragons or nothing for him!

Here he is at Nine Dragons a few years ago....he looks real happy!



He also wanted to go to Mama Melrose in Hollywood Studios. It has been a while since we have been there so I was fine with that. We let Scott have a choice and he wanted Rose and Crown for dinner on our arrival night. The final choice was also left to the birthday boy and he wanted Le Cellier. Again, we were making reservations past the 180 days when we could begin booking but I wasn’t very worried about our choices other than Le Cellier. I went about the online booking process and started with Le Cellier. You guessed it…available!!! Lunch reservation was secure. Of course, the others were available too so we were set! Don’t you just love it when the Disney stars align!!

Here is our official dining plans:

Wednesday 6/6/2012: Rose and Crown 6:00 pm dinner
Thursday 6/7/2012: Mama Melrose 6:00 pm dinner
Friday 6/8/2012: Nine Dragons 6:15 dinner
Saturday 6/9/2012: Le Cellier 12:05 lunch


We decided to just add the dining plan since we were doing a table service meal each day. It would make life easier to have it paid for upfront and we wouldn’t have to worry about it. I am also excited that we get a refillable mug included in the dining plan this year. We always buy a mug anyway so that is a nice addition!

I forgot to say that in between making the resort reservations and making the dining reservations, I called and asked my mom if she would like to join us. Of course, she didn’t hesitate to say yes. We have made her into a Disney lover as well. It is nice to have four people to split up with on rides and I enjoy having another girl with me to chat with!

Our actual arrival at Vero will be on June 1st but we will leave town on May 31st. We always drive since it is just about 9 hours from our house to Disneyworld. It is pretty much tradition for us to spend the night in Valdosta, GA on the way down and since Vero is a couple of hours from Disney it will do us good to be able to stop and spend the night. No one will work that day but me (as usual). Logan will be done with school so I will probably work until 1:00 or 2:00 and then we will head out. Scott will take care of loading the car and doing last minute errands before we leave so it works out well. Now, we need time to fly by so we can hit the road!

UP NEXT: The waiting and will school ever end???

[Colexis Mom]

Great plans Angie!

[Shelley the Pooh]

Hi Angie. I love your title. I have the Cars (the band, not the movie ) version of it stuck in my head now!

Great plans so far. Summers meant beach here too and I loved looking forward to those. Sounds like Vero Beach should be nice and relaxing!

Y'all's dining choices for WDW sound yummy!

[chezp]

Nice plans. I so hear you about having the old favourites you want to go back and do time and time again and how it gets harder to plan for each trip.

[angiek1024]

Originally Posted by Shelley the Pooh

Hi Angie. I love your title. I have the Cars (the band, not the movie ) version of it stuck in my head now!

Great plans so far. Summers meant beach here too and I loved looking forward to those. Sounds like Vero Beach should be nice and relaxing!

Y'all's dining choices for WDW sound yummy!

That's the version that I was thinking of too. Every time I look at my trip report, the song keeps replaying in my head all day!

[lazanya]

Great plans!

[Cam22]

Glad you are writing again, Angie! Plans look terrific, too. We're eating with Allen and Ann at Mama Melrose's on the same day but 2 1/2 hours earlier than you all. But if you see us at DHS, please say !