Helmsey......Todd

We stayed at Casey Jones last year and it is a short drive to the fort from there. The only thing I didn't like was the grassy area for the overnighters, there were a LOT of ant hills there and if it had been raining it could have made things interesting when leaving in the morning. This was our site last year:

I wonder if they will use the recently found\discovered mine cars for a "copper mine" theme?

Thanks for the info, I might have to give 1200 a harder look this trip.

I ask cause the girls sleep in the bunks in the back, which would be closest to the road. We have one that can be a light sleeper so extra noise could be a problem. Of course, she seems to sleep right through the fireworks but wakes up when I drop a red solo cup on the carpet....go figure.

Is the road noise bad in that part of the 1200 loop? We were in 1300 last year and noticed some of the sites in 1200 looked really nice, but wasn't sure if it would be loud being backed up to the road.

Plus with the annual pass you will get free parking, that will be nice while staying offsite

Ours did the same thing from upgrading in Oct of 2015.

Thanks for taking the pics and sharing with us. Looking forward to bonus material!

We experienced it for the first time last year (just to check it off our list) and had a good time. But, with a now 4 year old and 5 year old that have a hard time staying up that late and being decent little people the following day there is no way will we do it for a while. Add the prices on top of that and any inclination I had of doing it again now is gone. Don't get me wrong, we had a good time last year and both girls had a blast. But, last trip we only had to pay for 1 kiddo so the price was a little easier to swallow considering we left after the Boo To You parade.

This could be fun, I'm in!

Holy cow! The return of TCD AND DIT... It's good to be a fiend. TCD - glad to hear all is well with you and your fam. Also glad to see your content on here again.

Whoa, I got a little confused on this thread. I started at the top and saw the first reply was from Stef....had me WAY confused. Then i looked at the dates Great looking site, and also pretty cool to revive your old thread with new pictures.

Sorry if this has been posted somewhere else, I didn't see it and wanted to share: https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/special-offers/vacation-room/

I would double check to make sure that EGR stuff isnt covered under some sort of emissions warranty....just to be sure. In the long run I plan on "deleting" my emissions stuff on the exhaust as well, but never seem to have the spare $$$ to do that :)

I wonder if Disney will increase the amount of tickets they sell and allow more people in? Maybe keep adding bodies until people start to complain and then they will know about how many tickets to sell.

Awesome, thanks for the info, Carol! Not sure if we can make it that far on the first day of driving, but we are gonna try. Hope you have a good trip over in SC.

We are thinking about using this as an overnight on our way home from the Fort in October. Did you see any issues with larger rv's there?

I think we have enough bed area for 10 or 11 bodies, but no way in hades would I attempt that. The most we have had is 4 "adults" and 3 kids and that was PLENTY cramped for us.

I need to double check my records but I had mine changed and don't think it was anywhere near that expensive. It's also a fairly easy job to do yourself since this cooler is MUCH easier to get to.

I have 2 that stick out and both were given to me during our trip in 2014. 1. I was lucky enough to get spiked by a bus driver and that was pretty cool. 2. The other is a ring one of the boat captains gave my oldest daughter. It was on the first day and the first boat ride during our fist family visit to Disney and the boat captain called my daughter up. He gave a story that Cinderella saw her get on the boat and asked him to give her this ring. She still talks about that ring the Cinderella gave her and happy she is when she wears it.

In the 1800 loop you can see a bright orange thing behind and camper, that is our easy-up behind the camper from our 2014 trip.

are there no fire escapes in your bunk house? We have once in the bunk house that is on the lowest bunk so the fall would not be that bad....that's assuming you need to get out that window. Our slide has one in the same spot yours is in but it is the entire window, I feel a little better with a larger opening trying to swing myself out if needed. The one I don't want to do is the one from the front bedroom as it is higher than I'd like to tumble, but in emergency you do what you have to do. Thanks for posting these, it's a good reminder to folks that this is something that needs to be pra

I feel the same way about it. We happened to catch it during a Halloween Party last year with a "short" line so we rode it. It isn't something we would use FP on for sure.

EasyWDW has done a little bit of the breakdown of time and price on this. I can't do the fancy quote like Mo, but here is a link: Clicky