Travel: USA - Florida/Orlando
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Hi, I was looking at the vacation packages at WDW. Understand that if you buy a 4-day ticket plus the water park fun & other option, you get 4 visits to the water parks/disney quest/etc. If say, we plan 1 day each for the 4 theme parks, after that 1 day at Blizzard Beach and 1 day at Disney Quest (i.e. over 6-day period), can we still buy the 4-day ticket plus the option? Or must we buy the 6-day ticket as the visits are over 6 different days? :scratchhead: Am I making sense?
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Miracle Child:
Great! We'll be there the same period! If we are not 5 with waist pouch, we'll be 4 with waist pouch and DH with a camera backpack. He now thinks he may want to bring more camera accessories! :yikes:Hi, we will be there from 28 Nov to 12 Dec...not enough leave to go too many days...plus my boss's frown when he learnt that I will be away from work for 3 weeks
Will keep a lookout for family of 5 with pouches :rotflmao: Actually, I will also explore the idea...in the past, I am always the one carrying the stuff and end up shoulder ache and feeling very tired :slapshead:
Still exploring the WDW website on the various options...so many things to look at
Is it worth to sign up for the dining plans?
There are 3 dining plans at Disney. Deluxe, regular and quick service. Disney is giving free quick service plan with every night of value resort booking, or regular dining plan for moderate or deluxe hotel booking.
1. Quick service dining plan comes with 2 fast food meal, one snack and 1 refillable resort drink mug per person per night of stay.
2. Disney dining plan comes with 1 sit down restaurant meal, one fast food meal, one snack and one mug per person per night of stay.
3. deluxe dining plan comes with 3 meals (your choice of sit down restaurant or fast food) 1 snack (or is it 2, I'm not so sure) and one mug per person per night.
While the allocations of the meals are per day, you can use any combination on any day. Ie one day you can have as many sit down meal or as many fast food meal or none at all.
We did the regular previously, and will do it again now. We have booked several character dining including Ohana (LILO and stitch, mickey etc), 1900 park fare (cinderella, prince charming and step sisters), Cinderella Royal Table (at the castle), Tusker house (donald, daisy etc), Be our guest, the new restaunt at beast castle and many more. We are also using the dining plan to book the Fantasmic dining package which gives us a dinner at Mama Melrose plus tickets to reserved seating for the Fantasmic show at DHS.
I like the dining plan cause I don't have to worry about meal cost and the kids (and me :rotflmao: ) do enjoy the character interaction. This way, we don't have to queue at the park to take pictures with characters and at the same time, it is nice to sit down for a meal once a day. This year, the regular plan comes free with our Polynesian resort booking. The cost of the meal plan for 5 of us for 11 nights wold have been USD2400! That's a huge savings!
The only problem with the restaurant meal is that reservation start 180 days ahead. Now that you are near your actual travel date, a lot of restaurants may already be fully booked, or you may have to settle for late breakfast, early dinner, late lunch :(. Before you decide on which plan you prefer, you can always check the Disney online reservation to see if our choice restaurant is available. You can also use a general search so they tell you which restaurant on your preferred date and time. Some people will also start canceling nearer the travel dates and hopefully slots will become available.
Even if free dining is quick service or regular, you can always top up to regular or deluxe. I personally think deluxe is too much food! The servings are huge! If you decide to do the regular or deluxe plan, do note that some signature restaurants require 2 credits per meal.
The best deal for free dining is moderate resort since it gives the regular plan, yet rooms are much cheaper than deluxe hotel. You are 3 so moderate hotel room should still be ok. We are 5 so moderate room will be too cramp for us
Miracle Child:
Yes you can get the 4 day MYW with water park and more. The Magic your way base ticket is valid for 14 days from first usage. Ie you can use your 4 days main park entry on any 4 days within 14 days of first usage of your ticket. During these 14 days, you can visit any of the minor attractions 4 times. If at the end of 4 days and before your 14 days are up, you think you would like another one or 2 days at the major parks, you can upgrade your tickets and pay the difference. This will add the same number of visits to the minor attractions too. :imcool:Hi, I was looking at the vacation packages at WDW. Understand that if you buy a 4-day ticket plus the water park fun & other option, you get 4 visits to the water parks/disney quest/etc. If say, we plan 1 day each for the 4 theme parks, after that 1 day at Blizzard Beach and 1 day at Disney Quest (i.e. over 6-day period), can we still buy the 4-day ticket plus the option? Or must we buy the 6-day ticket as the visits are over 6 different days? Am I making sense?
Am I making sense?? :scratchhead: -
Miracle Child, I just did a quick check for you. Assume you check in on 28 Nov and stay 6 nights and get a 4 day MYW plus water park (park tic cost USD922 for 2 adults and 1 child) :
Moderate resort :
Caribbean Beach pirate theme room water view : about USD2500 with free Disney Dining Plan. exc park tic = USD1600
Value resort :
All star muSic Preferred room : abt USD1700 with quick service dining plan. Exc park pic = USD800 for room and food.
As you are only booking now, considered late cos Americans very KS and all book early, cheapest room with promo no longer available. But if you DS like pirates, Caribbean will be fun. ASM preferred means neared to resort bus stop or food court. The price diff of the 2 also reflect the meal difference. Restaurant meals very ex in Disney. To compare apple for apple! If you upgrade the quick plan to regular at ASM, you pay USD200 plus more.
Actually the price of the ASM Is similar to non Disney hotel and come with free meal some more. :rahrah: only prob is the first week of Dec is pop Warner week in Disney and the cheerleaders tend to stay at the value resorts and these teenagers could be potentially noisy or rowdy :siam:
If you want to have an idea what type of food they serve at the various restaurants and fast food / food court, check out the menus at
http://allears.net/menu/menus.htm -
Dnls_mum:
Miracle Child, I just did a quick check for you. Assume you check in on 28 Nov and stay 6 nights and get a 4 day MYW plus water park (park tic cost USD922 for 2 adults and 1 child) :
Moderate resort :
Caribbean Beach pirate theme room water view : about USD2500 with free Disney Dining Plan. exc park tic = USD1600
Value resort :
All star muSic Preferred room : abt USD1700 with quick service dining plan. Exc park pic = USD800 for room and food.
As you are only booking now, considered late cos Americans very KS and all book early, cheapest room with promo no longer available. But if you DS like pirates, Caribbean will be fun. ASM preferred means neared to resort
bus stop or food court. The price diff of the 2 also reflect the meal
difference. Restaurant meals very ex in Disney. To compare apple for
apple! If you upgrade the quick plan to regular at ASM, you pay USD200
plus more.
When I went to Orlando two years ago, we did not get the dining plans. Some of the nights we dine at downtown Disney. There are quite a few nice dining there. So we did not want to restrict ourselves to dining at the WDW...
Actually the price of the ASM Is similar to non Disney hotel and come with free meal some more. :rahrah: only prob is the first week of Dec is pop Warner week in Disney and the cheerleaders tend to stay at the value resorts and these teenagers could be potentially noisy or rowdy :siam:
If you want to have an idea what type of food they serve at the various restaurants and fast food / food court, check out the menus at
http://allears.net/menu/menus.htm -
G Tan:
When I went to Orlando two years ago, we did not get the dining plans. Some of the nights we dine at downtown Disney. There are quite a few nice dining there. So we did not want to restrict ourselves to dining at the WDW...
Downtown Disney is also part of WDW. The restaurants at Downtown Disney are also on the dining plan. I have made reservation to eat at TRex at Downtown Disney under dining plan. There is the rainforest cafe, Wolfgang puck cafe, raglan rd restaurant etc etc.
The dining plan can be used throughout WDW ie, inc resorts, water parks, disney quest, theme parks and Downtown Disney. Only some restaurants do not participate in the plan, and these are far and few between.
This is the link to the details of the plans and the participating restaurants and counter service.
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/planning-guides/in-depth-advice/disney-dining-plan/ -
Hi all,
Just to check how do you all get your kids to adjust to the diff time zone. my 2yr old dd is a very routine kid. other than the flight time, the next biggest worry for me is the time zone diff. I wonder how long will it take for one person to get over the jet lag. i myself had nv travel out of asia so nv experience jet lag. -
mummychua:
My DD has not been to US but went to Europe when she was 3.5 and to NZ when she was 5.5. She has no problem with both trips because she slept on the plane.Hi all,
Just to check how do you all get your kids to adjust to the diff time zone. my 2yr old dd is a very routine kid. other than the flight time, the next biggest worry for me is the time zone diff. I wonder how long will it take for one person to get over the jet lag. i myself had nv travel out of asia so nv experience jet lag.
My DS2 went Orlando when he was 8. He played on the inflight entertainment system and had little sleep. He had some problem like falling asleep at dinner time. When we went Euope and NZ, I forced him to sleep and he was ok.
So I think sleep and rest on the plane is the most important to counter jetlag.
But u sure u want to bring a 2yo to Orlando? -
actually its not Orlando, but California. DH going for a biz trip and wanted us to travel with him. Iām not that keen to bring a 2 yr old for such a long flight. Anyway trying to gather more information before making a decision.
DD is quite a calm mild tempered gal, so im not so worry abt entertaining her during flight. we took her for a couple of trips before and she behaves well during flight.
now thinking about jet lag, which could be a killer coz she dont sleep well. I might have problem getting her to sleep on plane. i suppose it will be a up hill task trying to get a 2 yr old to sleep on command. -
Dnls_mum:
Thank you so much for the details and for taking the time and effort to help me check, Dnls_mum. :thankyou: You are really expert at this :udawoman:Miracle Child, I just did a quick check for you. Assume you check in on 28 Nov and stay 6 nights and get a 4 day MYW plus water park (park tic cost USD922 for 2 adults and 1 child) :
Moderate resort :
Caribbean Beach pirate theme room water view : about USD2500 with free Disney Dining Plan. exc park tic = USD1600
Value resort :
All star muSic Preferred room : abt USD1700 with quick service dining plan. Exc park pic = USD800 for room and food.
As you are only booking now, considered late cos Americans very KS and all book early, cheapest room with promo no longer available. But if you DS like pirates, Caribbean will be fun. ASM preferred means neared to resort bus stop or food court. The price diff of the 2 also reflect the meal difference. Restaurant meals very ex in Disney. To compare apple for apple! If you upgrade the quick plan to regular at ASM, you pay USD200 plus more.
Actually the price of the ASM Is similar to non Disney hotel and come with free meal some more. :rahrah: only prob is the first week of Dec is pop Warner week in Disney and the cheerleaders tend to stay at the value resorts and these teenagers could be potentially noisy or rowdy :siam:
If you want to have an idea what type of food they serve at the various restaurants and fast food / food court, check out the menus at
http://allears.net/menu/menus.htm
Really tied up with work recently...so much so that didn't have time to really plan and check the details.
Looking forward to the break. -
Miracle Child:
No lah, not expert, more like a Disney diehard and fanatic! :rotflmao:
Thank you so much for the details and for taking the time and effort to help me check, Dnls_mum. :thankyou: You are really expert at this :udawoman:
Really tied up with work recently...so much so that didn't have time to really plan and check the details.
Looking forward to the break.
Glad to be of some help. Happy to share whatever I know. Don't take too long to decide what to book cos the Disney hotels and promo go fast. Hope you have a great vacation.
I am truely waiting impatiently for mine
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