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Yup, things happen.  We are always interested in this trip but never know what weekend will work for us.  Sorry it looks like it won't happen but times have changed.

We will be there! 

We are always interested.  If a weekend is picked we will try to make it work.

We enjoyed seeing our Fiend Friends again.  It was finally nice to meet Chris and CJ.  Hope we can all do it again next year without concern for Rona showing up.

Carol and Rick do camping right for sure!  Thanks to Yvonne for keeping this weekend going.  

5 more hours until I head out.  Weather looks to be good this weekend.

Those cancelling let me know when you do.  I have a non sewer site and would love to move to sewer.

On 9/6/2020 at 12:49 PM, Mrs.TN22 said:

We won't be making the trip this time.  My son is graduation college - he was supposed to Graduate March, but the ceremony was postponed due to Covid - so it will be happening now in, September.  Sorry to miss it... hopefully next year.  

Enjoy that graduation!  I will miss you guys.

On 9/2/2020 at 8:26 PM, ImDownWithDisney said:

Unfortunately,  we had to cancel. My wife is in nursing school now and has clinicals. 

Sorry you guys won’t make it this year.  I hope clinicals go well!

Thanks for the report.  I wondered how Earl of Sandwich would handle things.  It is one of my fave places for lunch.

i wonder how World of Disney will operate when it opens.  
 

So, how many do we think lined up for opening day?

So was under or over 100 lined up to get in a winner?  Looks like less to me.  

I am surprised it is that many shops.  My guess may be low.  I hope to find some video coverage of DS online tomorrow.

I will say less than 100.  Not enough places opening to cause a rush.  I can’t wait to see the report regardless.

Yep it is a bummer.  I hope it is different for you.  I would have stayed in the campground but not ventured to the parks.  That would have been enough for me.  Hoping my fall reservations will be viable:

4 hours ago, Katman1356...Jason said:

Seeing reports of cancellations for the first week of June now. Nothing official to travel agents that I have seen yet. But several other agents are seeing emails that clients have forwarded to them. 

I had June 1 reservations that I never intended to use once this CV thing broke out.  I just got confirm of my cancellation.

8 hours ago, Katman1356...Jason said:

If things are open we have a reservation to check into the Fort July 14. I have every intention of doing so. If all we do is the campground that's fine. I am hoping to do parks just because my brain mentally needs to change gears with how this year has gone for us. 

6 hours ago, ImDownWithDisney said:

We have fort reservations for June 19th. I'm going even if the parks are not open

I would go and just hang out at The Fort for sure if I were you.

I put it on the calendar.

I messed around and got a site too late in order to get sewer, but we are booked in 73 at the end of the point.  We have stayed there several times in a pop up and loved it.

Thanks to Jason!  I enjoyed the video conference last night.  I am up for next week if you guys are.  Here are a few ideas we might want to discuss...

1.  When was your first trip to Disney World?

2.  When is your next trip, hopefully, to The Fort?

3. What is your favorite memory of The Fort or Disney World?

What are some of your ideas to discuss?

On 6/20/2019 at 9:51 AM, DaveInTN said:

I was curious about something regarding these AP prices, so I dug back into the DIT Vaults to see how much AP prices have increased during the last Decade of a Million Schemes.  

The last time I purchased AP's was in 2009, exactly 10 years ago.  I paid $469 per AP that year.  Taking that $469 and running it through the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Inflation Calculator, results in an Inflation-Adjusted price of $557.  

The equivalent non-FL Resident AP today, the Platinum Pass, is $1,119.  

So, even accounting for inflation, the price of a WDW Annual Pass has more than doubled in the last 10 years.  

When I planned my family's last trip to the Fort late last year, I began really thinking about the ever increasing prices.  I thought about it when I priced out 1 day MK tickets that cost more than an entire season pass at other theme parks.  I certainly thought about it when I booked the Hoop De Doo and paid more on one meal than some families spend on a month of groceries.  Don't misread me...I'm not an anti-capitalist.  Disney is free to charge what the market will bear, and I support that.  But I have stopped viewing the world through Mickey shaped glasses.  For me, I'm out.  Even the thought of booking a Disney vacation right now makes me a bit queasy, like I'm willingly letting someone take advantage of me.

I guess our last trip to the Fort, was our last trip to the Fort.      

Well, I think DIT meant it.  Word is he sold his camper too.  I wonder if Disney will reduce pricing now that not many can afford these prices and many will be too afraid to go into a crowded park?

Unless my wife has other ideas I can do it.

I have been looking at December 26-Jan 3 for a year and a half.  I reached out to Jason for last Christmas and will do so again tonight for this year.

I'd try to join.

Crazy to see that area so empty.  Our last trip there is wasn't like Disney World but it was bustling.

Surreal and sad really.  Maybe a good backdrop for the Kingdom Keepers series?

On 4/3/2020 at 8:07 AM, ThemeParkCommando said:

I am holding onto my hope for my December vacation.  I'm betting the parks will be open again, the question is will my Disney fund remain intact through all this. 

 

I think a lot of people are holding onto hopes for December.  I have been checking for a campsite from the 26th to the 3rd almost daily for a year now and it is booked up still.  I really hope no one has to drop a site over this pandemic.  I do hope Disney just hasn’t released all the sites for those dates yet.  Like most people,  I also hope I will be financially able to do it if they do have sites.