- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, rental car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Infrequent
- Comments: Three years in the composition, this epic trip report covers all the high points of a two week trip to Disney World. Theme parks, hotels, NASA, near constitutional crises . . .
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: CSR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
- Comments: Sherry and Mindy, her college student
daughter, enjoyed a three-night stay at WDW. As an AP
holder, Sherry visited the Mouse at a fast and furious pace
over the last year. This report is interesting because
it shows the slower pace of a typical AP holder and frequent
visitor. It also explores the idea of the magic wearing
off just because of having so many visits. You'll have
to read to find out how that turns out!
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: CSR, ASMuR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent,
Infrequent
- Comments: This is a very detailed trip
report covering Jackie and Rick's nine day stay at WDW in early
November. In addition to a great play-by-play, Jackie
provides a nice list of final thoughts that can help any trip
planner.
Lisa
Willis - November 2000
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Rental Car (Van)
- Resort: ASSR (plus a room on the drive down
to WDW0
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent
- Comments: This is a great play-by-play
report of a nine-night long trip to WDW. In addition to
sharing all about the activities of the trip, Lisa provides
a great list of trip expenses that can be a great reference.
This is the third trip report that Lisa has provided to the
site. I hope there's many more!
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: ASMoR, Offsite
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Adult,
Senior
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Infrequent
- Comments: Robin provides a great play-by-play
report of a trip with her nephew and mom. This is a fun
report to read, and it includes a great list of lessons-learned
at the end.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: ASSR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Infant, Elementary,
Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent,
Infrequent, Rookie
- Comments: The McQuaid clan drove down to WDW
from South Carolina in the Fall of 2000 (during the Millennium
Celebration). This is a fun play-by-play report with quite a
bit to be gained for someone that is planning to visit with
an infant.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Offsite, GFRS
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Teen,
Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent,
Infrequent, Rookie
- Comments: This is a blockbuster report
with tons of details. Besides telling us all about the
family's stay at the Grand Floridian, the report covers a fantastic
meal at the chef's table at Victoria & Albert's restaurant.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car, shuttle Service
- Resort: ASMuR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Infrequent,
Rookie
- Comments: This report covers a trip with
a cast of thousands from back in the Fall of 2000. Ok,
so it wasn't really thousands, but Patty's extended family (seven
people in all) used five rooms at the All Star Music Resort.
It's probably the only time in the resort's history that the
cheerleaders were outnumbered.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: OKWR
- Accommodations: Standard Room / 2 Bedroom Vacation
Home
- Ages Represented in Group: Pre-School, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran,
Infrequent
- Comments: This is the first time I've ever
provided daily updates during my trip. Better yet, it's
the first time I've ever included pictures with any of my reports!
On this trip, we brought Barb's parents along for the ride.
The pre-trip report is a long one, then it's a daily play-by-play
from there.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: Offsite (Orange Lake Resort)
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Accommodations: 2 Bedroom Vacation Home
- Ages Represented in Group: Toddler, Elementary,
Teen, Adult, Senior
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent,
Infrequent, Rookie
- Comments: Besides providing a fun report
on this trip, John includes his family's reviews of resorts
and attractions from the past three trips they've made.
Also included is Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios
besides the four Disney parks.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Personal Car, Plane, Rental
Car
- Resort: BVR, CSR
- Accommodations: Standard Room, Suite
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran,
Rookie
- Comments: This was the second trip in
just about a month for Sheri. This report covers the family
affair that the Niklewskis enjoyed in late October. If
you want to know more about making trip arrangements, Sheri
is the guru, read this report!
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: WL, CR
- Accommodations: Junior Suite, Tower Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Infrequent,
Rookie
- Comments: This is a short report with
just the highlights. If you'd like to get a little flavor
of a trip to WDW, but don't have time to read a novel, this
would be a fun report to read.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: BVIR, VBR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent
- Comments: Kevin now has several trip
reports in the archive. This one covers the family's blockbuster
trip to WDW with a mid-course side-trip to Vero Beach.
Kevin has a very personal style that I'm sure you'll enjoy...and
in between laughs, you'll learn a ton about WDW as you read,
too.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations: Villa Vacation Home
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Adult,
Senior
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent,
Rookie
- Comments: Ian lives in Paris, so this
report covers WDW with a twist -- viewing the Florida parks
from the viewpoint of a European, and one that is very familiar
with Disneyland Paris, at that. The trip includes a family
reunion, so a lot of folks were involved.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: OKWR
- Accommodations: Standard Room / Studio
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Infrequent
- Comments: Pat and his sister Lori enjoyed
nine days at OKWR. They enjoyed Mickey's Not-So-Scary
Halloween party, the Main Street Electrical Parade, and the
rest of the WDW parks and attractions. It was a pleasure,
too, for my family to finally meet up with Pat and Lori, after
over a year of on-line conversations. By the way, if you're
looking for a family lawyer to handle trusts, wills, and so
on...Pat is great (he's my own family lawyer, as a matter of
fact).
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: OKWR
- Accommodations: Standard Room / Studio
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran,
DVC Member
- Comments: Sue spent a long time at WDW
this trip, two whole weeks, and used the time primarily to meet
up with other folks she'd met over the years on AOL and through
the newsgroups. This, as usual, is a killer play-by-play
report with a fun summary section to boot.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Offsite, ASMuR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent,
Rookie
- Comments: Suzie and Debbie went to Orlando
on a business trip, but extended it to enjoy WDW. This
is a fun trip report, written in part with "rookie"
excitement (as Debbie had never been to WDW).
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: BVIR
- Accommodations: 1 Bedroom Vacation Home
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran,
Frequent
- Comments: This report covers Rodney and
Melissa's fifth trip to WDW together. Rodney is a former
cast member from the late '70s and his love for WDW still shows.
This is a fun report to read, since there are many comparisons
to "the old days."
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: DL
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Rookie
(but with experience at Disneyland)
- Comments: Jennifer's report covers her
family's trip. They spent eleven days at WDW (by people
that know Disneyland, but that have never been to the Florida
parks). They also had a pretty bad DVC sales experience,
if you're curious about that.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: YCR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent
- Comments: Lori's report covers a solo
in the early part of September. She wrote a great pre-trip
report, then followed it up with a daily summary style report
on the actual trip.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: CSR, ASSR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent
- Comments: This is a summary style report,
listing a bunch of good things, a few bad, and a handful of
miscellaneous thoughts. It won't take long for you to
read this one, but it will be time well spent!
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: PR
- Accommodations: Standard Room (Garden Concierge)
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent
- Comments: This is a very special report
because it details the wedding for Roseanne's daughter's upcoming
wedding! That makes it a very special, interesting, and
unique report.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: PO
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
- Comments: Jacquie's report is a summary
style one, with a bunch of "highs" and "lows"
listed with her reasons why she feels that way. If you're
planning an upcoming trip, read this report...you'll learn several
things that you'll want to apply to your own plans.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: CSR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran,
Infrequent
- Comments: Jennifer has several other
reports on the site. This one is a shorter summary-style
one, with a fun-to-read list of tidbits from the trip.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane
- Resort: CBR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran,
DVC Member
- Comments: Dan's report is a short, summary
style one. It's fun, though, just to read his opinions
on some of the attractions. Obviously, here is a Disney
fan that loves going to see the Mouse.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: FWC, Offsite
- Accommodations: Fort Wilderness Home, Standard
Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent
- Comments: This is a great report about
a great trip! Besides having a ton of trip planning and
execution information, there is some interesting information
about how to enjoy WDW when disabled as Wendy's Aunt came along
on this trip with her guide dog Gwen.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: PR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Teen, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Infrequent,
Rookie
- Comments: Bill and his family won the
"Disney Magic Sweepstakes" and guess what? They
went to Walt Disney World. Bill describes all of the trip
planning as well as the entire trip in a play-by-play style.
Beware, though, if you're like me you'll be jealous from reading
about a free trip to WDW!
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: OKWR, BVR, ASMuR
- Accommodations: Standard Room / Studio, 2 Bedroom
Vacation Home
- Ages Represented in Group: Pre-School, Elementary,
Adult, Senior
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent,
Infrequent, DVC Member
- Comments: This is a fantastic, detailed,
blockbuster trip report! If you like reports that show
detailed planning and execution, this is one for you to study.
It covers many issues including the fact that Mom's extended
family were involved with the trip. Another great feature
is a fantastic summary, for those of you that prefer that kind
of report...you'll find that here too!
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: PO
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Toddler, Elementary,
Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran,
but not recently
- Comments: John sent me this report covering
his family's trip in September. This is another of several
"rookie report writers" reports that I've put up over
the last week or two, which I think is just great! John
wraps up the report with a great summary of lessons-learned,
so check it out!
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: DL, WL
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
- Comments: Donna provided this report
of a great nine-day family vacation in mid-September.
This one is full of detail, includes a lot of trip planning
information, and covers the time during the trip well, too.
I just hope Donna will write up some reports of all of her future
trips, too!
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: Walt Disney World Swan
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent
- Comments: Here's Joanne's own intro to
this report, "Hi Brian, I have been reading the trip reports
at your site for the last 10 months and have decided to try
my hand at it for the first time. My DH and I took a quick trip
in late September to meet Jennifer Watson and Dave Marx, since
we both moderate for them on their PassPorter site. This is
a play-by-play report and very detailed. I hope you like it
and decide to put it on your site." One rare thing
about this report is that Joanne stayed at the Swan.
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: CR, PO
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Pre-School, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Infrequent
- Comments: This is a fun to read report
with plenty of trip planning (and WDW atmosphere) details.
If you want to read up on dealing with a single 4-year-old on
a trip to WDW, here's a good start (and I'll be reading this
one, since that pretty much describes my own upcoming trip,
too).
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
- Comments: Another classic report by a
veteran writer! I love Sheri's reports, she fills them
with detail and provides all kinds of helpful trip planning
tips. Sheri subtitled this one, "How the Certifiable
Disney Nut Managed a Third Trip in One Year" or "How
to Take a Solo Trip to Disney World on a Budget."
It just makes me jealous.
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