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I love these but like a few have already said they seem to be overpriced. I will add them to my "If I win the lotto" list though! lol

I love that place. I keep telling hubs when I win powerball that is where I am going. Lol

Sorry for the delay, it has been a crazy couple of days. A very good friend of mine just lost her daughter. Young, early 30s as a matter of fact. Her 14 year old son found her. She left behind him and her 9 year old daughter. As of this moment, nobody knows what happened. I have been hugging my son extra tight at night thats for sure.

On the note of the price compared to apts. I checked with the hubs. Either he mis-spoke or I misunderstood. OR as is usual in this house, both of those things happened! The price of the campground per month comes out less then our CURRENT mortgage plus, internet, tv, water, electric per month. His point was we could pay less then we are now and be staying on property where the munchkin and I have easy access to all this Dis. Yeah..our mortgage is completely ridiculous for the size house we live in. 

We talked about things a bit more and we are making a change in our original plan. We have friends that camp often and they found some great rates at a couple places close by. Our current plan is to still get the camper and head down but maybe put in some time off site for a bit, save even more dough and then go spend a couple months on property just for giggles. 

awesome advice! I have some thoughts..but I am exhausted. our Disney infinity set came today and we have been playing for 8 hours. We put the kiddo to bed and started right away. we need to crash before he gets up in a few hours. LOL 

Sounds like Good Sam will be at least one we will get. I just looked at the rates and OMG are they cheap.

THanks! IF we were to get one it would definitely be because we planned on travelling to different places. We want to show our kiddo as much as we can as he is growing up and I would rather stay in "our" place if we could. 

i was wondering if any of you have them and what you do or do not like about them?

we went looking at TTs today. We LOVE the Jayco Bunkhouse. Being able to have the separate room for the Monkey and his toys will be awesome since we will be on top of each other for several months. DH said since we need to look at a truck anyway that we could look at 5th wheels as well. We will go to a few places tomorrow to poke around at those. We have time...since we still need to get the house sold but we want to have an idea of what we will be spending at least.

My feelings are hurt, no, not the degenerate remark, I don't prowl, I stalk.

My feelings are hurt, no, not the degenerate remark, I don't prowl, I stalk.

I've always wanted a stalker! A rather polite, not gonna kill ya kinda stalker though.  I will send you an application for the job.

You guys are fantastic thanks for all the info!

Kungaloosh : 1/4 cup orange juice

1/4 cup Captain Morgans spiced rum

1/4 cup raspberry brandy

1/4 cup strawberry daiquiri mix

Mix together in blender with enough ice to make slushy.

Holy Christmas this sounds AWESOME! Me thinks we could be drinking buddies....LOL

WELCOME!!!!

 

That plan sounds so fun!

 

I suggest looking at slightly used TT and 5ers. That way you don't take a big hit on the value. I think I'd buy a used cart from Matt and Rich. If you don't need it or want it when you find your house, you can sell it.

Great idea on the used cart! We aren't sure we will keep the RV/trailer after but we want to make sure we get a decent one for our future family. We plan to adopt again...at least one more time so we want space for 4 just in case.

One thing we are noticing is that what we like, especially for a medium to long term use at least one go round is NOT something my 2011 Honda Pilot can pull. I have read that some people rent trailers and have it delivered right to the site. Could we buy local and have the same done? are there places we could rent a vehicle to pull it out of there if we had to leave? My father in law could easily set us up and take us out. The only time we would need to move really is if we had to evacuate ( and it doesn't sound like that happens often), if for whatever reason we couldn't get a reservation OR we were moving into our new home. Hubby thinks we could trade my truck in but I REALLY do not want to do that. It was a mothers day gift from him and I am really attached to her.

I am pretty excited! We obviously have a lot to do before we can make it happen but I am thrilled none the less. I would love to make it before the Holidays. Spending Christmas down there would be fun I think.

Yeah. I know we need to time it so we don't run into 2 months of blackout days. I know there are still some in the winter but not 2 months straight!

Also awesome to hear. Hubs would be working as much as he can there during the day so he needs power and internet. We of course would be taking one for the team and spending the day outside, at the pools, Disney, Sea World in good weather. Such a shame I know.....lol

I looked at a toy hauler and thought it would be a great idea since he wants to bring his ginormous grill!

Our main concern is going to be power. How often do the sites lose power? Can you have generators of any kind in the Fort?

Awesome I will look into those! This is just the type of info we are looking for. Thanks!

Currently our fav is this one: 

Thank you! We are pretty excited and hope that this is something we can give a try. 

I think I should have posted this here since I have so many questions! Sorry!!! can I delete my intro or should I leave it?

Repost:

I just stumbled across your board last night (well early this morning during an insomnia bout buuuuuuut anywho...) when I googled what happens at the Fort during a Hurricane. First I have to say this board is AWESOME!  :)

So about me/us: We are a mid to late 30s (UGH) couple with a 3 year old CRAZY toddler boy. We currently live in Maryland but are in the process of scaling the house down to only the necessities so we can move to Florida on a more perm basis. My hubs works from home, so we can pretty much go where we want and since we are Disney fanatics we of course want to move near the park.  :)

Our original plan has us selling the house up here and then staying in a apartment while we stuffed money away and took some time to find the house we REALLY wanted to spend the next 15 to 20 (or more) years in.  We were trying to make sure the apartments were close to Disney, had a pool, playground, activities, stuff within walking distance and were in a good neighborhood. all of this made the apartments not cheap but worth it to us. BUT then I found out that the Forts monthly cost plus the cost of a "cheap" RV came out to the same or less then some apartments we were looking at. And at the end instead of having paid a bunch of money to an apartment building and having nothing to show for it...we have an RV that is ours! 

We do have pets. We have a foster dog we are desperately trying to find a home for and my dad will probably keep our dog until we settle (more motivation to get a place quick!) but I think we may have to bring the cats. So any hints on pets at the site would be great. The cats HATE the outdoors and will not go near an open door so they definitely are not the type to get out.

Our plan is to get all the information, good bad and ugly about staying on property for 3 to 6 months at the MOST (I cannot be in something that small forever!!!) I have read that we need to make several reservations with a 30 day max each to do this and that if we ask for the same size pad we may not have to move which would be awesome if we could make that happen. We do NOT have a trailer/RV yet so some advice on that would be good as well. We are currently looking at a fifth wheel...It has a room for us and a bunk room that can be my sons so at least we have separate spaces.

*Edit* - Golf Carts! must have??? Buy used or rent if we are staying for a bit??

Ok I think my wall of text is big enough...LOL Nice to "meet" you guys!!!