To help with your budgeting...Part II

For all of you who will be doing the payments via the disney website etc...they will start taking reservations and payments starting August 2011...This is thru the Disney Vacations. Get Away Today books out almost a year also. GAT also can book for conceirge suites and regular suites at the Disney Hotels (GC, PP, and DH)

THE DATES....

Here are the dates that we are going...again you don't have to go the whole time etc...
November 25 thru November 30th

Upcoming Family Trip

For our upcoming family trip, here is the tentative itinerary:

Sunday: Drive or fly over to California, rest and relax, hang out in the Garden Walk or Down Town Disney. Dinner at Bubba Gumps.

Monday: DL Park
Breakfast: Minnie and Friends Character Breakfast
Toon Town
Adventure Land (Tarzan, Jungle Cruise, Indy)
New Orleans Square (Pirates Haunted)
Lunch: Hungry Bear
Critter Country (Splash Mountain, Winnie the Pooh)
Nap
Pixie Hollow
Dinner: Rancho Del Zocalo
Parades (3:30 pm and 6:30 pm)

Tuesday: DL and DCA "The Girl's Day"
Breakfast: Hotel
Early Entry into Fantasy Land
Tomorrow Land (Nemo, Space, Buzz Lightyear)
Bibbidi Bobbiti Boutique for the girls
Head over to DCA
Lunch: Ariel's Grotto
The Little Mermaid Ride, Bug's Life, Bug's Land
Nap
Back to DCA
Tower of Terror, Monster's Inc, Soarin', Cars Land, Mission Tortilla Factory, CA Screamin' , Grizzly River Run, Toy Story Mania
Dinner: Adult Night, eat in Down Town Disney (probably Naples); Kids, Wetzel's Pretzel's

Wednesday: DL "The Boy's Day"
Breakfast: Hotel
Tomorrowland to finish any rides we missed
Jedi Training (plan to see this show twice, all of the boys will want to be picked)
Lunch: Celebration Roundup BBQ Lunch (Character Lunch with Woody, Buzz, Jessie)
Thunder Ranch, Thunder Mountain, Disneyland Rail Road
Nap
Family Time
Dinner: Carnation Cafe
Hit any rides that we can
Stay up super late for Fireworks

Thursday: DL and DCA
Breakfast: Hotel
Early Entry to Fantasyland/ finish Tomorrowland
Finish Adventureland, New Orleans Square, Critter Country
Lunch: Cafe Orleans
Gibson Girl Ice Cream Parlor
Nap
Finish DCA
Dinner: Pacific Warf Cafe
World of Color

Friday:
Pack up and go home :(

As we all discussed before, we don't have to do everything together! If all of us go, that will be a total of 34 people! This is what the majority of the family wants to do, so we aren't offended if you have other ideas!

If you want to take a look at the menus of the restaurants to see if you want to eat there/ how much you will spend if you eat there, go to www.allears.net/dlr/din/menu/menus.htm#dl
and you can budget your meals. There are also meal plans you can take advantage of if you book directly from Disney Travel. We've found that these save you money, because they generally cover the tax and gratuity.

Another thing that has come up (which I think is a GREAT idea) is booking our dining reservations separately. We will probably end up eating with just our own families, but it will save us so much time. Once the trip gets closer, we should all call (714)781-DINE and make reservations around the same time.

Any questions? Give Heather or me a call! I hope this helps in your planning!