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Spring 2001 WDW Trip Reports |
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Personal car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations: Suite
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Teen, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Rookie, Infrequent
- Comments: Though Jason may be our youngest trip report writer yet (13 at the time of the trip), he does just fine. This is another large group going to Disney World as the extended family turns out to watch his brother play in a soccer tournament.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Autotrain, Rental Car
- Resort: ASMoR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent
- Comments: Michael tells the story of
a five day trip to WDW in mid-May. The supporting cast
is a lengthy list, as Michael and his sister Kim met up with
some friends as well as their parents during the trip.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: CBR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
- Comments: This report documents Kevin's
8th trip to WDW (all of them since 1995). Kevin provides
a great play-by-play along with a fun-to-read trip summary at
the end of the report.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: BWR
- Accommodations: Standard Room, 1 Bedroom Vacation
Home
- Ages Represented in Group: Pre-School, Elementary,
Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent,
DVC Member
- Comments: This family is making a habit of
going to WDW now. They've visited each of the last three
years, and with a DVC membership, they're likely to keep that
ball rolling for a long time to come. This is Mom's third
trip report on MousePlanet, and it's as fun to read as they
come. Enjoy!
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: PR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Pre-School, Elementary,
Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Infrequent,
Rookie
- Comments: Chris and his family visited WDW
for five days in early May. They celebrated 5-year-old
Anna's birthday during the vacation. The Browns thoroughly
enjoyed concierge service at the Polynesian and had a great,
relaxing visit.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: ASMoR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Rookie
- Comments: Darsi's report provides a great
amount of detail on the pre-trip planning, but just as much
detail on the execution of the trip. If you like long, detailed
play-by-play reports, you'll enjoy this one thoroughly.
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: Offsite, Swan, POR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
- Comments: Another blockbuster trip report
by Sheri. This is a HUGE report that covers Sheri's move
to Atlanta (from Nebraska) and the two and a half week WDW trip
that the Niklewskis tacked-on to the whole thing! As usual,
Sheri has provided a great report, filled with details, and
laced with opinions on everything they experienced.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: CBR, OKWR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent,
DVC Member
- Comments: This is an interestingly-formatted
report. Andrew is the master of summary-style reports,
but he waxed a bit more eloquent this time around, producing
a report that is still organized as a summary-style report but
with a lot more explanation about the various decisions that
were made during the planning and execution of the trip.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations: Villa Vacation Home
- Ages Represented in Group: Pre-School, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Infrequent,
Rookie
- Comments: Jeff's own comments on strategy states,
"Maximize fun by avoiding parks on early entry days. Save
money by using the nicely equipped kitchen at the condo. Dodge
the off-site tourist traps altogether. Don't be anal retentive
and take notes or bring a computer...our trip report would be
based on collaborative recollection." Well, here's
the Lawson family's collaborative recollection. Enjoy!
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: AKL
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
- Comments: Bill and his wife, both Premium
Annual Pass holders, visited WDW for a week and stayed at the
Brand-new Animal Kingdom Lodge. Trip highlights include
the Keys to The Kingdom Tour, seeing Spectromagic again,
and just enjoying the resort at a reasonable pace.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: CBR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Pre-School, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent
- Comments: Colleen, her mom, and Brandon
her four-year-old son will be visiting WDW in May. She's
promised to write a report after the trip, in the meantime,
read this pre-trip report and let Colleen know if you have any
additional comments for her! I know she'd appreciate it.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: OKWR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran,
DVC Member
- Comments: Sue took her second trip of
the year in late May. Sue spent some time, as usual, at
the Comedy Warehouse, enjoyed some lazy time by the pool, visited
DisneyQuest, and otherwise enjoyed her visit. There are
some very interesting information about accessibility in this
report, too, if you need to consider that when planning your
trip.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Travel Method:
- Resort: AKL, POR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Infrequent
- Comments: Robin and her sister spent
some time at both Animal Kingdom Lodge and Port Orleans Resort
Riverside during their six day visit to WDW in early May.
They enjoyed an IllumiNations cruise at Epcot during the trip,
too, but there's quite a story about it that you'll want to
check out!
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: CSR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent
- Comments: Grace, Steve, and son Vincent visited
WDW for a week in early May. This is a fun-to-read play-by-play
style report with tons of money-saving ideas. Sounds like
Grace fell in love with Coronado Springs Resort, too.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Many
- Resort: Various, the wedding was at the Polynesian
Resort
- Accommodations: Various
- Ages Represented in Group: Toddler, Elementary,
Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veterans,
Infrequent, Rookie
- Comments: Says Roseanne, "This is not
a traditional WDW trip report. There isn't a lot of emphasis
on rides, and we didn't spend too much time in the parks. We
did spend a lot of time with family and friends, and of course
the emphasis of the report is my daughter and son-in-law's Fairy
Tale Wedding last Saturday, May 5."
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: Dolphin
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
- Comments: In Ruth's words, "We went
down in a rush specifically to see Lausanne Live, a High School
Band and Chorus from Memphis perform and compete in Disney's
Magical Music Days... We did four parks in two days and managed
to see the performances. Here is a recap of the best and worst
of our trip. Kids went down on a bus. Me and my 10 year old
drove down by ourselves."
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: PORR, Offsite
- Accommodations: Standard Room, 2 Bedroom Vacation
Home
- Ages Represented in Group: Pre-School, Elementary,
Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Rookie
- Comments: Julia provides a great commentary
on the planning of the trip (flying all the way from California
with school-aged kids requires some thought, after all).
The remainder of the report gives a Disneyland vets (but WDW
rookie) perspective on WDW. There are tons of final comments
(lessons-learned) that would be valuable to anyone planning
a trip.
- Time of Year: Summer
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: OKWR, ASMuR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Teen,
Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
- Comments: In this report, Dennis provides
a "Reader's Digest" version of the trip. It's
a compact description, given day by day, and laced with lots
of ideas and opinions on the park attractions and restaurants.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: BCR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Pre-School, Elementary,
Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent,
Rookie
- Comments: This is a great summary-style
report. Sue has another trip report here on MousePlanet
(there's a link to her earlier one in the beginning of this
report). If you want to know what to plan on if you're
taking a couple of younger kids to WDW, this report covers it.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: ASMoR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Rookie
- Comments: Kevin and his family spent
a sold couple of weeks at WDW, and visited just about every
other central Florida attraction while they were on our side
of the pond. This is a great report to catch initial impressions
of what there is to see and do in the area.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Personal Vehicle
- Resort: FWC
- Accommodations: Campsite
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Infrequent,
Rookie
- Comments: Dawn, Mike, and daughter Sara stayed
at Fort Wilderness Campground for their April/May visit.
The Hickman clan covered WDW well in the days they were on site.
It's always interesting to read an FWC report, because they're
fairly rare on MousePlanet.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: VWL
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Infant, Pre-School,
Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran,
Rookie
- Comments: Well, the annual pass bug bit
us, and we decided to return to WDW for awhile in the Spring.
We planned our timing around the Flower & Garden festival
at Epcot, as we usually do for our Spring trips. This
was our first stay at the new Villas at Wilderness Lodge and
our first visit with Michael, the newest addition to our family.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: PORR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Teen,
Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
- Comments: Jim has provided several trip
reports to MousePlanet over the years. This one is another
blockbuster, written in a very detailed, play-by-play fashion.
The report includes lots of pre-trip planning details, too.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Personal Car, Plane
- Resort: CSR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran,
Cast Member
- Comments: Mark and Sandy drove down to see
Iris, their daughter, who works at WDW. The trip was a
week long. For the most part, the Fendricks just enjoyed
the parks and spent time with Iris. Mark's reports are
always fun to read.
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