michelb

They are pretty flexible on "Florida residency proof". Having the bill in your name will work but IMO the easiest thing is to open a bank account using a Florida address. https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/en_CA/faq/tickets/proof-florida-address/

I didn't see this posted anywhere so figured I'd add it here. Mousesavers.com recently posted the 2019 prices for Disney Resorts (including Fort Wilderness). The full link is available here but I'll try to post the data (not sure how the formatting will come out). Date Range Season Tent or Pop-Up Campsite Full Hook-Up Campsite Preferred Campsite Premium Campsite Jan 1 New Years $150 $177 $190 $197 Jan 2-J

Other than Dec27 and Dec28 (and even then, shower forecasts in Florida are often wishful thinking), that's actually pretty ideal Disney weather.

I have to agree with you that there does seem to be a lot of empty sites when the campground is "full" so there seems to be room for improvement there. Having said that, I would strongly encourage anyone that tries to book something and can't to send DisneyWorld a message suggesting they expand Fort Wilderness and mention that you were trying to reserve and weren't able to (I've done it on a few occasions). There's tons of space if they wanted to and it just depends how much they want to grow. In my opinion, to really do it right, they should look at expanding to the West of the c

Honestly, I've experienced the same thing several times !!! It never even occurred to me that we could use them with an RV. I don't really care about the sewer since when we go to Fort Wilderness, it's often just for 2 or 3 days and I often don't even bother connecting the sewer for short stays like that. Our moho is relatively large (40') so I'd probably want to drive around the loop to make sure we can fit before booking but it's something I'll keep in mind for future trips (especially if it's just 1 night to complete the trip (e.g. we want 4 nights but can only get 3 nights in a regula

We have a Splendide 2000 combo as well in our moho. It was in there when we bought our moho used and I thought it was a silly thing to have but we love it and think it's awesome (We're 2 adults and 2 kids). It is tiny (not much bigger than a microwave) so you can't make very big loads and it probably doesn't wash as well as our home machines but we use it pretty much every night when we are camping with hookups and I actually love that it's a combo unit since you can put the clothes in to wash before going to bed or going out for a while and it's dry when you wake up or come back. There

I've always thought it was just tents and popups but Disney reservations website says : While Full Hook-up sites say the same except adds " Sewage hook-up " So it would certainly permit ClassBs and I guess, to them, they don't really make a huge distinction and probably allow anyone in that doesn't mind not having the sewer hook-up.

On a related note, how long to most campers leave their XMas Decorations out at FW? We're only arriving on the Jan 7th but love to walk around and checkout the decorations. I'm worried we'll be too late this year.

Thanks for the info. That's great to know. I know that we hadn't used all three at the first park so that would have been the issue.

We've never stored our mh near Disney but have been storing in Florida over the winter for about 8 years (first near Orlando Intl Airport, then near Sanford Airport and now near Tampa Airport) and we've never had a hard time finding a place. We've paid $35-$65 / month. For us, proximity to the airport was more important than proximity to the destination. We drive the RV down to Florida in the Fall and spend a few weeks before flying back home, then fly back and use for a few weeks at XMas time and finally come back to get it around Spring Break or Easter and drive it back North.

I'm not sure if this has changed or the park member we asked did not know how to do it but we asked to do this last spring (used a couple of FP+ in the morning at MK and then, in evening, went to Hollywood Studios or Epcot (can't remember)) and we were told that you can only use Fastpass+ at one park per day and if you park-hop, you lose the ability to book any at the new park that day.

FYI, we just arrived at FW and found out that the Meadow pool is closed until Dec 20th Guests do get to use the pool at Wilderness Lodge.

Ha ha ! We'll probably be at the Meadow pool until we leave at around lunch time; maybe we'll run into each other there Mike and Sue from Ontario, Canada

Thanks for the info on the thread - I hadn't even see it. I've replied to it now but we'll be leaving before most are arriving

Not quite sure yet. We hadn't expected to be able to get a res over XMas so had planned on being there from around Dec16-Dec20 but to get the res, he made it longer and it's extending over XMas so now we might rethink our stay and spend XMas there. Also depends what / when we can get elsewhere (we're planning on spending a week in the Fort Myers area as well)

Jason was able to get us a res last night and there appear to be more sites available (not sure if there was mass cancellations or if Disney just released a bunch of sites). Good luck.

Just like I checked for XMas, I decided to check during that weekend and similar to XMas week, the only resorts that are unavailable at that time are Grand Floridian Villas, Wilderness Lodge Villas, AK Villas and of course FW. Basically, unless you specifically want a villa, every resort at DW is available except for FW. IMO, this is yet another indication that there is enough support for a FW expansion ... (or that guests are possibly booking phantom reservations at FW to get onsite perks). -- update -- Oops - put December instead of January in my search. For that January weekend, the

Not sure if it happens or not but it is interesting that if I search for the period of time that we are looking at (Dec 15-Dec 18 (midweek) - only because that's the only one I think I might be able to get around XMas at this time of year), the only resorts at Disney that do not have any availability are Villas at Grand Floridian (which I suspect probably have limited number and there is availability at Grand Floridian Resort and Spa) and Fort Wilderness. All other 25 resorts have availability. Also puts in perspective the argument that it's not worth expanding Fort Wilderness because of v

I just read something that I thought might help explain why it can be so hard to get reservations on FW. I think most of us have experienced the trouble of getting a reservation only to arrive at FW and notice there are tons of empty sites! I was browsing another forum and noticed this advice to DW guests staying OFFSITE (paraphrasing) I can see how this would be attractive to someone staying offsite. For a group of 4+ staying offsite, spending an extra $75 / day probably isn't that big of a deal (especially since you'll get free parking for a couple of cars out of it). Sucks for

We've gone to Lake Magic, Tropical Palms and Outdoor Resorts in the area. My favority is Outdoor Resorts but as far as kid friendly (or at least, likelyhood of there being other kids there). My choice would be Lake Magic (actually we'll probably be there with our kids around the dates you said unless we can find a spot at FW). Tropical Palms is kid friendly as well but we prefer Lake Magic (not sure why actually so maybe Tropical Palms is okay!)

In case it's not clear from the other responses, I do not believe FW have an policy against leaving a trailer at your site (some campsites do). As long as it fits on the site, I believe you are fine. We tow a dolly and sometimes leave it on the site (especially if the overflow is full) and we've never been asked to move it to overflow.

Disney could easily expand FW and add a loop or two (or five). It's not as if it's only at XMas or around Spring Break or summer that sites are hard to get; it's year round. I really have no idea how much it would cost them to add another loop but I'm sure they have the space and even if this new loop is only at 50% capacity for the year, I'm sure they would pay for it very quickly (50% capacity of an avg $90 / night is still $16k / year, spread that over 5-10 years and it's not hard for it to be profitable). They could even easily add a new "Extra Large site loop (maybe with pull-throughs)

I checked and he's full up for the winter season. FWIW, all I did was searched Craigslist for posts offering "parking" or "storage" in the area I wanted to be in and then emailed them. Oops, sorry, I'm in ticket booking mode these days so I just think airport codes! DaveInTN is correct and it's for Orlando Intl (MCO), Sanford-Orlando (SFB) and St-Pete (PIE) (We also sometimes fly to / from Tampa Intl (TPA) but since we usually fly to St-Pete, we look for storage closer to that one (although they're not very far from each other).

I'll ask him if he still has space - how big of a vehicle are you looking at storing?

We've been storing our motorhome in Florida during the winter for several years. Rather than store it onsite or near a destination, we store it near the airport and when we fly in, we go to the motorhome and can head wherever we want to go. The first few years we stored it near MCO, then we stored it near SFB but now we are storing it near PIE. The first few years, I stored it at campgrounds but now we just store it at regular storage places that I found through Craigslist. FWIW, I'm storing it in the large lot of a small garage (he stores about 1/2 dozen rvs, trailers and boats). It's l