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I know people say staying offsite is cheaper but for us the small savings just doesn't beat the convenience of staying onsite, especially at the fort. For families where everyone will be together every moment of their time at the parks then I can see how staying offsite would work but for our family it would be a pain in the neck. Some nights my husband and I want to go off on our own without our teens, sometimes our teens don't want to get up for rope drop or want to hang out and swim. All these things are possible because we are onsite. Plus we spend most of our park time at MK or Epcot when we are at the Fort and both of those are pretty simple for even the most dippy teenager to figure out. 

We've vacationed lots of places and Disney is still a really good deal. 

We saw her by the flag pole in January, my daughter was quite happy, so we waited and got a photo with her. 

Was looking at this earlier, he definitely has some vision. I've seen a lot of bus conversions, this one was well done. I especially like that he has done with the windows, the diffused light is wonderful. 

A lot of higher end resorts have these types of restrictions. We have a 5 year old hybrid and have seen where hybrids are not allowed. Also there are places that only allow rigs of certain ages. I have no problem with these restrictions as long as they are upfront about it, I personally have no desire to go where I am not wanted. Personally though I wouldn't want to stay at a place that was so fussy because I imagine they are uptight about everything and that's not what I want when I am vacationing. 

Now if they had a full time Star Wars character meal... then we'd be changing plans. I think they're really missing the boat on that. It would be super popular with boys and lots of men. 

I am a total sci-fi geek, I would totally go for this, heck my boys would want to go multiple times. 

I really look forward to when I have less kids at home so we can do visit some of the awesome resort at WDW. Honestly we rarely do more than one sit down meal, it's just not in the budget when you are feeding 7 people. Anyhow I love reading all about the different restaurants and some day I look forward to eating at some of them. 

Do I really have to tell you people how to make Frankensoap again?

Ummmm…I don't even know what this is and I don't think I want to. 

If you have an ULTA near you they sell the H2O products for a very good price. No Mickey's on them but Sil loved some of the stuff on the cruise. 

Oh, I didn't know that, I have an ULTA about 5 minutes from my house. Yay!

You can also hop to some of the other resorts, use Disney transportation, ride the monorail around. Take a bus down to Downtown Disney. There is so much to do without heading into the parks. 

Wow! How violating, thieves suck. But seriously I wouldn't even think of something like that happening. My neighborhood has an issue with copper theft but I never even though of the power cord, as there are very few campers here. I think I will go unplug my trailer. Sorry this happened to you. 

Ugh! I just don't get how this happens, sheer incompetence. 

It is apparently called a Rapido Folding Caravan. My brain is too fried today to do too much research but alas at least you have a name. 

We've been to the Grand Canyon several times, heck we even camped there for our honeymoon. We took the kids on a camping trip about 6 years ago when we still lived out west. We have not made it to Yellowstone yet, funny thing though is that our oldest son moved out west for school in the fall and went his second weekend there. We are hoping to make the drive out in a few years. I absolutely love going out west. Last summer we drove from Ohio to Washington then onto Oregon, then down to Idaho and Utah and then home. It was a trip of a lifetime. We had planned on doing Yellowstone on that trip but even with two weeks we just didn't have enough time.  

AYE!! The more the merrier, I am sure your hubby would totally understand and support you going. 

The thing is so many of these flavored things just don't contain anything real, that goes for so many different flavors and that's why so many things taste like chemicals or candles or feet. 

All I know is that we "gas buddied" the prices before leaving the property last trip out and the near by stations on the app listed $3.98 and about....we paid $3.70 at Hess. The truck is diesel...don't know if that makes a difference....

It does seem to make a huge difference. We have a diesel and diesel prices vary far more that unleaded prices. 

I like pumpkin pie, when I make it. I make pumpkin rolls and they are good, but once again I prefer when I make them. 

The idea of pumpkin flavored beverages makes me kind of ill. 

Ummm…fyi my name is Danielle, just thought since we will all meet you should have a real name for me. :)

The more I'm playing with MDE, the more I'm liking it. We spend short amounts of time in the parks, usually pretty late in the day, and only rode maybe one or two attractions, and usually missed a few things cause we've done so much over the years we don't wait in lines.

 

Now with MDE, we can still spend a short amount of time in the parks, can ride the headliners we've reserved in advance.

 

I was just telling Rick, we might have to go to MK at Rope Drop one morning, so we can ride Seven Dwarfs, but just now, was able to get an afternoon slot for Seven Dwarfs one of our days. We also almost never ride Peter Pan due to the line, and now we can ride it.

 

If we can just get the Magic Bands to work on the comfort stations, I'll be a happy lady!!!

When we went in January the quirks were still being worked out but for the most part I was impressed. We did a couple rope drops but had FP+ for later in the afternoon. There are rides we like to ride multiple times but it was never feasible, it was a blast riding multiple times. I really do like the new system and I don't even mind the wristbands. And I did screen shots of our times just in case and to remind myself, it was quite helpful. 

Entered and like the others I would totally use this for WWW 2015

Thank yall so much. This will be our first trip to Disneyworld. And I prefer to cook my own food for religious reason and because Im allergic to alot of food so is my daughters.

Welcome! 

We have never stayed in the cabins at Disney but we've stayed in other cabins and we've always brought a crockpot, they are awesome to cook in. Enjoy your first trip, I am sure you and your daughters will have a lovely time. 

We've never done Mickey's Backyard BBQ, I'm wondering if older kids would enjoy it? On our last trip we did no character meals, the kids just weren't into it, they preferred eating sushi in Epcot. But I love character meals and if you all think the kids would enjoy it, I'd drag them all over there. Plus we all love a decent bbq. 

That is a lot of work for a glorified tent that probably doesn't protect from the elements very well, plus there is no room to store the necessities for camping. Although it is kind of cool. 

I love the look of retro shirts but yeah they are super thin and only last for a few washings before they look awful. 

Wow!!!! That is so awesome.