May Trip 2010

May 2010.

All Star Movies.

Dining plan.

Park hopper.

Unlimited possibilities.

I think that this trip was one of the best I have ever been on. Mom and I went for a week and it was great. We took a six am flight to Orlando from Toronto. We didn't get a rental car because we were only staying at Disney so we took the Magical Express. It was a great feature by Disney and allows families to save a bit of money that way. It was the first time I have stayed in a Disney resort and I loved it. I had looked at other resorts on the property but because of our budget we stayed in All-Star Movies. I liked movies better than the other All-Star hotels because it actually incorporated Disney theming. Music, Sports, and Pop Century don't really give off a feeling of Disney for me. While seeing characters and scenes from Disney movies like Fantasia makes me feel like I am at Disney.

All Star Movies is a great hotel. It is the last hotel on the All-Star bus, but still not bad. We stayed in the Love Bug section of the hotel. The Fantasia pool was great. The quick service cafe was okay. I felt like with the dining plan that they never really told you what counted as a meal, dessert, drink or snack. Especially the snack. It had to be under four dollars, but it wasn't everything under four dollars. It got confusing sometimes. But overall, I loved being on the dining plan. It is worth the money and even better when you get it for free. One night we went to Wolfgang Puck in downtown Disney and with the two of us, we spent over 100 dollars on dinner, but it was covered under the dining plan. I also used my snack in Magic Kingdom for some fudge and it was amazing. The celebration fudge is highly recomended. When getting the Disney dining plan you have to choose between quick service dining plan, regular dining plan, platinum, premium, and deluxe. Each differs between the type of dining service, the number of meals and snacks. We got the regular dining plan which included one quick or counter service meal, one table service, and one snack. At every meal, you get a meal and dessert. By the end of the trip, I felt like I had put on weight from all the food I had been eating.

Anyways, again probably the best trip ever. The buses to and from the parks to the resort was fine. They played music and during the day, they weren't too packed. If I had to give advice about one thing at Disney, it would be about the buses. Every night my mom and I would go through the shops on the way out of Magic Kingdom, Epcot, or Hollywood Studios. After fireworks or Fantasmic! everyone races to catch a bus. Instead of running for the bus, walk the streets for a bit. Buses run for three horus after the park closing, so you can take your time. I understand this might be hard for families with young children, but its better than standing in a line, getting fustrated with all the other fustrated people around you, and waiting for half an hour for a bus.

This time when we were at Disney, we planned before to have some nice pictures taken by the nice Photo Pass photographers. I think it's really cool that they can place tinker bell in the picture, but I think they need to come up with more creative poses.

Animal Kingdom

France at Epcot

Tinkerbell at Magic Kingdom

We got park hoppers because we knew that after spending one full day at each park it would be good to bounce around from park to park. We could go to Epcot in the morning, back to the hotel for a swim, then to Magic Kingdom for the fireworks. If your going for more than five days, its worth it, but not if you get the water park option. Water parks could take up a full day as well. We didn't get the water park option because I just wanted to go to the parks. A water park day is good for some time off.

We didn't really get to take advantage of the extra magic hours, but I felt like we had to plan days around it then we couldn't plan our dinners.

I made our days pretty packed so we didn't have much down time.

Now I should go do homework. Next update: the rest of my trip and not small details!

Natalie!

End with a great picture!