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Winter 2001 WDW Trip Reports
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- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: n/a (locals living in the area)
- Accommodations: n/a
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Teen
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
- Comments: Ben spent his birthday at WDW.
This is a brief report of a one-day visit in March. It's
a play-by-play report that is very short, so if you don't have
a lot of time, this might be the one to read to day.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: ASMuR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
- Comments: Amy participated in a friend's wedding
in Florida back in March, and tacked this WDW side-trip on to
the visit. Amy and her husband Jason enjoyed a great three
day visit to the parks. One of the goals that Amy had
was to "eat around World Showcase." You can
read the report to see how Amy did on that one.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations: Villa Vacation Home
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult, Senior
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran,
Infrequent, Rookie
- Comments: This is a great report written
by a veteran trip report author! In addition to a great
summary style report, Kim provides, throughout the narrative,
notes about things that she's learned to highlight them for
the rest of us.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: BWR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent
- Comments: Lisa and Andy spent a week
over Valentine's Day at WDW. This is a very detailed play-by-play
report describing the visit. Besides enjoying the Undiscovered
Future World tour, the Cubbons thoroughly enjoyed the parks
in detail!
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: OKWR
- Accommodations: 1 Bedroom Vacation Home
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran,
DVC Member
- Comments: Gaylene took a mini tape recorder
along to take copious notes during the trip. It worked.
This is one of her most detailed ever. The trip covers
a ten day visit from late February into early March. The
report covers the trip in detail, but also the pre-trip planning
that lead up to departure.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: CSR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran,
DVC Member
- Comments: Donna and a whole bunch of friends
met up at WDW for a four day visit. They really enjoyed
the time together in the parks and covered the entire resort
thoroughly. One thing about this report is that several of the
folks are Disney CMs, and they spent some time just looking
around at the cast member only stores on property.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: CBR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Teen,
Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Infrequent,
Rookie
- Comments: This is a nice, long play-by-play
report of a trip that included flying down from Alaska (and
you think YOU had a long flight, huh?) and a visit to Islands
of Adventure as well as to the Disney parks.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: ASMuR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Infant, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent,
Infrequent, Rookie
- Comments: Karen and Alane met up at WDW (along
with Alane's 4 month old daughter) for a little sister time
(and Aunt/Niece time) in early February. Besides providing
a fun report, Karen has a great list of final thoughts that
can help you plan your own trip.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: ASMuR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Toddler, Teen, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran,
Rookie
- Comments: Amanda's report is a short,
summary style one that is filled with valuable information for
trip planners. She took her 2-year-old son and her 13-year
old babysitter (some fun comments on this in the report, too).
Amanda tells it like it is, so get ready for some very valuable
opinions!
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: ASMuR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent
- Comments: This is the story of a romantic
five day trip that Kathy and Tim took with "just the two
of us." Besides enjoying WDW, the twosome visited
Cocoa Beach long enough to see a shuttle lift off from the Cape.
They also enjoyed the "Keys to the Kingdom" tour and
visited a bunch of the other resorts on property just for fun.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Coach (Bus)
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Teen, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran,
Frequent, Infrequent, Rookie, DVC Member
- Comments: Craig visited WDW as part of
a school band trip. The highlight of this report just
has to be the visit Craig had with veteran Disney animator Andreas
Deja. You'll have to read up on that yourself.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: ASMoR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Infrequent
- Comments: Helga and her daughter visited
for a nice ten day stay in February. The report is in
play-by-play style, and has a great list of final thoughts that
are fun to read, too.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: VDI
- Accommodations: Bungalow
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent
- Comments: Suzanne visited WDW for three
weeks in January and February! She covered WDW well and
also visited several other area attractions. This report
includes pictures, something I've rarely accepted for reader-submitted
reports, but hey... server space is free for me now. ;)
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: Offsite, OKWR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Teen, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran,
DVC Member
- Comments: Sue and her son Chris, and
their friends visited WDW for a mid-Winter break. In addition
to enjoying the resort (as always), Sue attended the last performance
that she would be able to enjoy some of the Comedy Warehouse
performers that she has enjoyed so much over the years.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: ASMoR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent
- Comments: This is a great trip report
of the trip that almost didn't happen over and over again...
But fortunately for Kevin (and us) he did get to go, and this
fabulous report is the result. Besides a great play-by-play,
Kevin provides a great list of highlights and lowlights at the
end of the commentary.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: PR, YBCR
- Accommodations: Concierge Room, Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Infrequent
- Comments: This is a very fun to read
report, more in a summary style than a play-by-play. Audrey
includes several lists of "magical moments" and hints
and tips and such. Also, there's a very complete meal
report at the end, with prices!
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Personal Car / Plane
- Resort: ASSR
- Accommodations: Standard Rooms
- Ages Represented in Group: Pre-School, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran,
Infrequent, Rookie
- Comments: This trip was planned after
a spectacular ($49 / night) deal at the All Stars was made available
to Florida residents. Jen, though, really wanted to spend
time with her 4-year-old niece, Danielle, and this was the perfect
opportunity. Disney magic and pixie dust is scattered
throughout this report, so enjoy!
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: WL
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Infrequent
- Comments: Lisa, Jim, and Cayline stayed
at Wilderness Lodge on their mid-Winter visit to WDW.
The report is written in a play-by-play style, but is not overly
detailed for those of you that get bored with that type of information.
Lisa also provides both a "plan" and the "actual"
for each day.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: BVIR
- Accommodations: 2 Bedroom Vacation Home
- Ages Represented in Group: Infant, Teen, Adult,
Senior
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran,
DVC Member
- Comments: Twelve people all going on
a combined family reunion trip makes for an interesting, and
lengthy, narrative. Steve provides a great pre-trip planning
and a very detailed play-by-play of the report.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Not Reported
- Resort: Not Reported
- Accommodations: Not Reported
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
- Comments: This is a continuation of the Zall
family's on-going quest to find The Best Burger in the "World."
This report is very short, it only covers one meal, but it's
a fun one to read...especially for burger lovers.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: ASMoR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Infrequent
- Comments: In addition to a nice play-by-play,
Renee provides a great "final thoughts" section toward
the end of the report. She covers crowd levels, weather,
the All Star Movies Resort, and limo service (Florida Towncar,
in Renee's case). This is an excellent report to read
for folks that are planning a Winter get-away.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: CBR
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
- Comments: The main purpose for this trip
is that Ken entered the WDW marathon! His telling of the
tale is very interesting, you really get to understand how it
feels to run 26 miles...through the parks and backstage areas
of WDW.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations: 1 Bedroom Vacation Home
- Ages Represented in Group: Teen, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran,
Frequent, Infrequent, Rookie, DVC Member
- Comments: This is a very entertaining
report. Kevin and Mary kept the trip a secret from their
daughter, Katie. The story of finally telling her (the
day the were going to the airport to leave for Florida) is classic.
You'll also enjoy being introduced to Mr. Sneer, The Pouter
and The Arby's Ditz....oh, and a can of black beans. Just
read it, you'll see what I mean.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations: Suite
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Adult
- WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent
- Comments: Wendy and her family visited
for a week in early January. This is another great trip
report, with an excellent list of final thoughts (with "lessons
learned" and suggestions). This is the first real
2001 trip report, so enjoy!
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