ependydad...Doug

I don't know where anything is, but we stayed at I-75 RV Park in Tifton, GA. It is a tiny little no frills park that is literally right off of the highway (like I could have throw rocks to the exit ramp). But the staff member I dealt with was super friendly and the price was right.

I'm glad for the DVC party. Our APs expired. We've moved down the road and are in Alabama these days. But we were able to line up a doctor appointment for my wife for today here in Orlando and are surprising the kids with the DVC party.

I'm mostly excited for the rare character meet and greets.

Is anyone else going?

I wouldnt be opposed to a variable charge on size and/or weight but what do you set it to? Is every package going to hav eto be weighed or measured? Some people are shipping blenders, their luggage, boxes of food and supplies. Where do you draw the lines on that stuff?

That's a good point- people do really ship things differently to the Fort versus a lot of other places. Though, a lot of snowbird parks in Florida get a constant onslaught of deliveries daily (think 20-50 packages a day at 2 different parks I was at this winter).

I don't know where to draw the line. It's a tough one for sure. I absolutely understand the man hours and labor associated with a mailroom.

Considering the number and size of the packages being shipped to them that need to be sorted, stored, and retrieved a small fee to cover the work being done doesnt really seem unreasonable to me. 

A charge is reasonable, but I think $5 is excessive for small packages. $2 seems much more realistic and in-line with what I've seen at other RV resorts.

If I was staying less than a week and got a cart, it would be a Disney cart. No hassle of pickup. And, if there's an issue - it's a lot easier to just swap one out.

I agree with TCD and Carol- I didn't mean it as a bashing, just a statement.

That said, if you're lucky enough for a long stay (our last was 2+ weeks), the cost savings is overwhelming. I posted to FB- I think a 4-person Disney cart was something like $1,100. The 6-person cart from Kenny for the same time person was $500 or so.

Let's also talk about Kenny's carts. The 6-person carts (3 of them now) but each one has had some kind of quirk- either electrical issues or molasses slow.

We rented a 4-person cart once. It had a pretty annoying quirk that the lights would go out the faster you went. They tried to help but it never got resolved.

Drat, Meaher State Park isn't included.

6 hours ago, twiceblessed....nacole said:

Hmmm... that's interesting.  

So, if this is the case... then I'm not understanding the cargo capacity on this one rig.  The axles are rates at 5200# each.  The GVWR on the unit is listed at 9995#.  Dry weight on the sticker was 9039#  and a cargo capacity on the little yellow sticker of 956#.  Dry weight plus cargo equals 9995#... which is under the 10,400# that the axles can carry and the hitch weight was listed (it was something like 1600#).   So, I don't get it.  Now... again, GD said they were going to bump up the GVWR to 10,995# without any modifications to the rig.

Definitely smells like a mistaken sticker. I believe many of these stickers are generated by someone hand-typing values into a spreadsheet (and had that confirmed with the Sabre plant). My guess is they mis-typed it as 4,200 lb. axles to get the sticker to come out somewhat like what you see.

1 hour ago, keith_h said:

Sounds like what they call chili in the Cincinnati and Louisville areas. It is a pasta dish as opposed to a stew. Was very surprised the first time I ordered it. Fortunately the restaurant understood and refunded my money. When we finally got to the folks house they said, "We should have warned you".

True. I tried the chili pasta when I was in Cincinnati at the airport. Would have been OK but the noodles were wet and that made it terrible.

8 minutes ago, Travisma said:

That's called chicken stew.... No where in my book would that be called a pot pie!

Coming from central Pennsylvania, what everyone else calls Chicken Pot Pie isn't what we call Chicken Pot Pie. Thick homemade noodles, chicken, goodness. Not a pie, but for some reason it uses that name.

I've gotten the Chicken Pot Pie a few times. It's always been a puff pastry but never mickey head shaped. Here's from last week:

They're still around. I don't recall exactly where we were in DS (I'm lost most of the time), but I know we saw a cat the other night.

We're hoping to make the Feb 24th one. We'll see how it works out. We're in AL at that point, but need to come back in for a doctor appointment for my wife. Planning on making a weekend out of it.

It's really ridiculous that they spent the money on these things.  The Fort existed for 40+ years without bear-proof cans, and I still doubt that a bear ever rummaged through one of the old cans.

TCD

I wonder which came first- these bear cans or the alligator attack?

Disney got lambasted because they didn't do enough to prevent the alligator attack; could this be a result of that? There are bears in Central Florida, this Disney has to do everything possible to prevent a possible attack. (Of course, it's a moot point when people pile up garbage outside because it doesn't fit inside.)

For Premium sites, we've been in 600, 800, and 1300 in our 42' fifth wheel with deep 3' slides on both sides. We have friends who like 400.

In 600, we backed up to the creek/canal/water.

Personally, I've come to really like 800.

Driving through, I feel 700 is cozy.

I can dig up some pictures of our sites if that would help.

In Moab, we stayed at Archview campground. Our site was very nice and had a view of Arches NP.

http://nowornever.learntorv.com/2016/01/moab-ut-cant-wait-to-go-back.html

In Colorado Springs, we stayed at the same place that Rennie suggested - Mountaindale. However, we have had a bunch of friends stay at Garden of the Gods campground and were very happy with it.

http://nowornever.learntorv.com/2015/12/colorado-springs-part-1-of-3.html

We have seen the color changes, but we haven't had any cast members say "welcome home". It does make some kind of noise, but we haven't been able to really isolate the noise to know what it is yet.

On 1/5/2017 at 8:01 PM, BradyBzLyn...Mo said:

LOL!

Yep, I know whereof I speak.  Neither of us slept before DH got his.  When we drive down to FL and stop to sleep we don't have power, so he kindly sleeps on the couch.  :)

Why not use an inverter? I can't sleep if I don't have my CPAP- I get heartburn and a brutal headache. We occasionally Wallydock and stay places without power.

We visited Key West many years ago on a cruise. I remember very little of it- other than we did a trolley tour.

In 2014, we went for Christmas. We RV'd at Bluewater Key which is at mile marker 15. We loved it, but were overly disappointed in food. Some of the staples weren't great- B.O. Fish Shack and some others just didn't wow us. I did a trip report on that visit: 

In 2016, we went for Thanksgiving (not intentionally, availability happened). We again RV'd at Bluewater Key and loved it. Food this time was overall better- the little food trailer outside of the aquarium claims it has the best Conch Fritters and it really does. We ate there a couple of times. We also had dinner at Two Patios Friends Bar or something and that was good. The opposite- Stoned Crab was HORRID; 8 of us, 8 meals- all awful. We enjoyed the Butterfly House; the Conch Train Tour; the Shipwreck Museum; the aquarium; and walking around. We went over to the Eco Center and enjoyed out visit- very nicely done. We meandered up and down Duval St a few times- it's pretty "normal" during the day but gets a little nutty at night. No trip report, but here is a Flickr album of our stay:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dougsetzer/albums/72157676660967705

I'm possibly going up to Mobile in February to visit with a cousin. I was looking online at Meaher State Park. Has anyone stayed there? Thoughts on it?

And, if we go- suggestions for things to do/see in the area? Free/cheap are preferred. We have museum/science center memberships that have reciprocity agreements with other places.

Thanks in advance.

www.rvlock.com has some good deals Friday morning!

Can you imagine trying to convince an exhausted and extremely cranky toddler to go to sleep with the Magic Kingdom just on the other side of a tent wall?  I'm not saying some folks won't try, but I think they are going to be extremely disappointed with the results.  Especially when they fuinally manage to rock Junior to sleep, only to have the Incredibles Dance Party start up.

We've put my kids to sleep all over Disney World parks.

My dually is my daily driver- I can tell you length and height are 100x more an issue than the width. This is coming from someone who has been in all sort of small towns.

That said, for a 13,000 lbs. fifth wheel- it likely doesn't need a dually. But, I personally wouldn't pull it with a 250 as you'll be over one or more ratings.

You can't do either of the tunnels near Baltimore, MD.

http://learntorv.com/road-tunnel-restrictions-near-maryland/