mouseketab.....Carol

Nope, not allowed. The official rules state one trailer/MH unit and tents

On 1/23/2020 at 12:38 PM, Robin said:

We are campers have tented it and for the past few years have a pop up. We really want a travel trailer.

Any companies better or worse than the others?

I'm partial, but nuCamp is one of the best in the small camper market (T@B 320, T@B 400, T@G, Cirrus Truck Camper). They have recently come out with a larger travel trailer called the Avia that is fabulous, but very pricey. All cabinetry built onsite by hand, and fabulous fit and finish. Amish run company.

The current Little Guy brand is crap and has had some bad business practices.

The show has changed a lot over the years, but we took our 10 and 11 yo boys to the Luau in 1997, and they loved it! Granted, they were and still are adventurous, bottomless pit eaters, but enjoyed the show also. Back then, it was more of a traditional luau, now it has a bit of a story to it, with "Hawaiian girl goes to the mainland and has to be reminded of her "Ohana" heritage.

Hubby and myself have been back a couple of times. Food was decent, but it isn't really repeatable for us.

Also, while you are in the park waiting for park opening, try and find one of the blue "guest services" umbrellas/tents and park yourself near it. If for some reason the system doesn't see that your entire party is in the park, they will have to add you to the boarding group on their system. Being close to them will speed up that process.

You can get through security early, and get in the gates BUT you can't hit the button for a boarding group until official park opening, so depending on what time the park opens is how much time you will need to spend in HS.

I know you can go to guest services before scanning your Magic Band and ask them to prioritize the tickets you want to use in your account. I have a very old one-day ticket in my account, and purchased a 10-day. Before going to the parks last October, I told them to prioritize the 10-day. The one day ticket was not touched.

Since the price bridge only works if you have used the ticket to enter a park before upgrading, I'm almost positive you will get actual dollar value of what you paid towards any ticket you upgrade to.

Can't upgrade except in person. However, there "might" be an upgrade button on the My Disney Experience app. I've seen that but have never used it.

I think it's the instant internet and everyone with a phone is an Instagram reporter. You can't do anything or go anywhere without it being posted on the web.

We were at Lowe's today for air filters, and wandered through the Christmas department. They are at 50% and still had some of the Disney stuff left. We scored a set of the Mouse Ear string lights for 50% off. They still had some of the lawn stakes too, but even at 50% were more than I wanted to pay.

But what amazed me the most is how little was left in general on Christmas decorations. Back in my early adult years, we bought live trees between the 15th and 20th of December and didn't decorate until then. And I know in some German cultures, you don't actually put up the tree until Christmas Eve. I guess nowadays, if you haven't gotten your decorations early, you lose.

On 12/16/2019 at 9:26 AM, Travisma said:

A couple months after the protests started getting intense, there was an article about the drop in overall tourism to that area.  They had a lot of pictures of Disney with very little visitors and no lines.

I'm sure it hasn't gotten any better.

I believe it. We briefly thought about spending a part of our Tokyo trip hopping over to Hong Kong for a day or two, but with the protests (and the subsequent government travel advisory, that bans clearance personnel from traveling there), killed us from going.

When I was work traveling to Orlando extensively, I learned quickly that my work was all the way over by UCF, and any company I would want to work for was over there by UCF. When traveling for work, that was a lot of miles and tolls across 417 to get to Disney.

We seriously considered relocating to the I-4 corridor about 3 years ago. Did some house hunting, and tiny lots (meaning a two story house to get any SF), with high prices, and high HOA fees, high property taxes, (plus too much stucco and no brick), really turned us off. Plus the salary being offered were less than here in N. Alabama with larger lots, lower home prices, low property taxes, etc. Yes, we have a state tax, but everything else offsets that.

We decided to stay put.

I'm sure folks will set something up. We won't be able to make it as we are going to Tokyo in September next year

Just saw this on FB

I got some of those for Rick when he was at the rehab center cause the beds there were terrible, and he said they helped. Anything's got to be better than the bunk in the camper we had.

I would Mini Van or Uber to the Contemporary, then walk

Looks pretty cool

https://www.motor1.com/news/385308/rv-toll-pass-nationwide-coverage/?fbclid=IwAR1UNPIlp_13jnFxad2jW5sFJWZmccpQtLJfE3cJN9VK1HPURRjCxcJdCkE

We've only stopped there for some yummy drinks, but the place looks good!

Why do they have editorialize the item descriptions, it's the past, Disney wasn't PC in the past, so what?

Looks like a great time!! I see you have your visor set up to attach to the lower keder rail. Most folks have more success just staking it out to the ground. That's what I do. (I don't have a lower keder rail, so no choice)

We arrived 10/18 and had faxed in 5-6 days ahead of time. We got our first choice of site.

We gave them about 10-12 choices

That's how I found it tooo. Very boring, and about 20 minutes too long for my butt.

7 hours ago, Emily T said:

Hi All! I am planning a trip to Fort Wilderness with my son, who is 2 years old. I went there when I was a kid and have really fond memories.

I made the reservations last minute because I will be in the area for work. We took our first trip to WDW last week and I am so excited we get to go back! 

I was able to reserve February 12 and February 13, but would love to add the weekend. Of course, with a two year old, it's a lot of work to go camping just for two nights! Because of our time limitations, I am not planning to visit any of the theme parks, just enjoy Ft. Wilderness.

Right now, online shows no availability of any type for the weekend. I will keep trying, but thought I would ask this forum if anyone has reservations they aren't using? We will be happy to pay! 

Thanks!

Welcome!!! Transferring reservations is almost impossible. The better solution is to have a travel agent continuously look for you. [email protected] is excellent at dogging the reservation system and finding what you need 🙂

I saw this in time while I was at the Fort, but slept through it.

On 11/6/2019 at 6:14 AM, twiceblessed....nacole said:

Pretty sure as we've been charged when going through tolls without the camper.

 

I imagine so... but the transponder is on the front windshield, so I figured that's where it grabbed it from.  I keep telling Tom to cover up the RV tag when we get close to the turnpike, either that or write a big note that says:  PEACH PASS 

I don't know how the Georgia website works, but on the FL Sunpass website, I can add the trailer tag.

We also had an issue at the ADA station, but it wasn't due to the system itself. We were departing Studios to just ride. There was a transfer wheelchair at the station at Studios. Our party had two ECVs. They can only load one ECV per car. So we had the brilliant idea of using the transfer chair for our friend and leaving the ECVs at the studios so we could all ride together.

One problem, there are NOT transfer chairs at the CBR stop or at ANY of the resorts. We also could not just have our friend stay on the skyliner and go back. You HAVE to exit between unload and load, even in the disabled area. Sooooo while they were figuring out a way to get our friend out of the gondola, the Studios to Carribean line was stopped. They finally brought an office chair out there, and they waited at the station while I rode the Gondola back and retrieved one of the ECVs. Then we continued on our tour. So if you need a wheelchair for the gondolas, bring your own!!!

When we were there, even at the return guest gate, there were so many problems at the reader, they had someone at that gate scanning MBs manually and opening the gate. So with those issues at the back gate, it was really a problem for the buses.