Spring (April - May) 2004 WDW Trip Reports

Noreen Chin - May 2004

• Time of Year: Spring
• Travel Method: Personal car
• Resort: Offsite
• Accommodations: Standard room
• Ages Represented in Group: Adult
• WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
• Comments: Noreen is generally a big planner for her trips to Disney, but this trip came up on very short notice so she and her husband had to fly by the seat of their pants, or drive, since to save money on last minute airfare they decided to drive from New York.

Kim Howe - March/April 2004

• Time of Year: Spring
• Travel Method: Plane, Rental car
• Resort: Offsite
• Accommodations: Standard room
• Ages Represented in Group: Adult
• WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
• Comments: If you want to combine a Walt Disney World vacation with some turkey hunting, this just may be the trip report for you. As always, a lot of detail from Kim for this two-week spring vacation timed to allow some hunting in central Florida.

Krista Fulkerson - May 2004

• Time of Year: Spring
• Travel Method: Plane, Rental car
• Resort: Offsite, VWL, PR
• Accommodations: Standard room, Studio
• Ages Represented in Group: Adult
• WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
• Comments: Another wonderful Walt Disney World trip for Krista and Stephen. She points out that of 15 vacation days in 2003, 14 were spent at Walt Disney World. I think she can do better if she really works at it.

Bill Nuzzo - May 2004

• Time of Year: Spring
• Travel Method: Personal car
• Resort: POFQ, BCR
• Accommodations: Standard rooms
• Ages Represented in Group: Adult
• WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent, Veteran
• Comments: Major Woody returns with another trip report. This trip is two weeks long and just jammed with activity. Making her fifth trip, Jeanne is quickly becoming a WDW veteran.

Stacey Zitto - May 2004

• Time of Year: Spring
• Travel Method: Plane, rental car
• Resort: Offsite
• Accommodations: Standard studios
• Ages Represented in Group: Infant, Adult
• WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
• Comments: For this trip, Stacey and her 16-month-old daughter are on their own. Being alone with such a young child forces a lot of flexibility on a trip.

Suzanne Payne - March 2004

• Time of Year: Spring
• Travel Method: Plane, rental car
• Resort: BWV, BCV
• Accommodations: Standard studios
• Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Adult
• WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
• Comments: Suzanne and family and are a two-year plan for Disney World, they go every other year around spring break. Disappointingly Suzanne had a work conference at the same time for this trip, but they still had a great trip.

Sheri Niklewski - May 2004

• Time of Year: Spring
• Travel Method: Personal car
• Resort: Offsite, ASMuR
• Accommodations: Standard
• Ages Represented in Group: Adult
• WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
• Comments: Sheri's report is a bit unusual in that it covers two weekend trips she made in May; but if she hadn't she wouldn't have made the length of report we at MousePlanet have come to expect. Both trips were good, even with their weird (to me) tradition of going to Disney World over Memorial Day weekend.

Heidi Commerford - March 2004

• Time of Year: Spring
• Travel Method: Personal car
• Resort: FWC, CSR, BWR
• Accommodations: Standard
• Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Adult
• WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
• Comments: Despite some lowlights this long trip for Heidi and her family was a good one, and it afforded a chance to experience several of the resorts.

Janice O'Hanley - March 2004

• Time of Year: Spring
• Travel Method: Plane, rental car
• Resort: Swan, BWR
• Accommodations: Standard, Concierge
• Ages Represented in Group: Adult
• WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
• Comments: Janice and her friends from the Disney Store put together their own "Magical Gathering" for this long weekend at Walt Disney World.

Sheri Niklewski - April 2004

• Time of Year: Spring
• Travel Method: Personal car
• Resort: Offsite
• Accommodations: Standard
• Ages Represented in Group: Adult
• WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
• Comments: What does getting a new job mean for Sheri and her husband? A chance (and an excuse) to use the first holiday for a three-day trip to Disney World.

Amy Crocker - April 2004

• Time of Year: Spring
• Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Car
• Resort: AKL
• Accommodations: Standard
• Ages Represented in Group: Adult
• WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
• Comments: On this trip, Amy is part of an unusually large group. The reason for this is that several members of her group work for a radio station getting to check out the new (at that time) "Magical Gatherings" program you've probably seen commercials for. Plenty of details here if you're interested.

Robin Goble - May 2004

• Time of Year: Spring
• Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
• Resort: BW, PR
• Accommodations: Standard
• Ages Represented in Group: Adult
• WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
• Comments: Robin Goble you just made it through another terrible tax season, what are you going to do now? That's right, Robin, a CPA, rewarded herself with a trip to Disney World. And compared to last minute extensions, how could Grad Night crowds seem like a problem?

Lance Caros - April 2004

• Time of Year: Spring
• Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
• Resort: Offsite
• Accommodations: 3 BR Condo
• Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Adult
• WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
• Comments: On this trip Lance and his family spend two weeks at Disney World; even after all their trips, Lance still finds it difficult to sleep the night before. Bryce, their son, also gets to have his birthday at the what may be the world's largest party venue.

Mark L. Fendrick - April 2004

• Time of Year: Spring
• Travel Method: Plane, Personal Car
• Resort: PCR
• Accommodations: Standard
• Ages Represented in Group: Adult
• WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
• Comments: Mark provides a good report to run in the shadow of Father's Day. This vacation for Mark was going to be an easy week vegetating at home since his wife could not take the same time off from work. But after the seed was planted that he should take a solo trip to Walt Disney World to visit their daughter, he decided to do it.

Sue Holland - April 2004

• Time of Year: Spring
• Travel Method: Personal Car
• Resort: PORFQ
• Accommodations: Standard
• Ages Represented in Group: Adult
• WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
• Comments: Another short trip for Sue as she sneaks in weekends here and there before finally getting another long visit in. Traffic and Grad Night makes for a more crowded experience than usual.

Lisa Willis - April 2004

• Time of Year: Spring
• Travel Method: Personal Car
• Resort: PCR/PORFQ
• Accommodations: Standard
• Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Teen, Adult
• WDW Experience Represented in Group: Frequent
• Comments: For Lisa and her family this trip was shorter than usual, being only five days rather than their standard nine. But of course that didn't stop them from having a great time, even if they did get to experience some of the Spring Break crowding.

Sue Holland - April 2004

• Time of Year: Spring
• Travel Method: Personal Car
• Resort: PCR
• Accommodations: Standard
• Ages Represented in Group: Adult
• WDW Experience Represented in Group: Veteran
• Comments: Sue seems to be only getting short trips in lately (too much time on those cruise ships!), and here she squeezes in another to hook up with fellow trip report writer Larry Wilmot and family on their annual visit from Scotland. Aside from her visits to Comedy Warehouse, this trip will be played by ear according to the whims of her companions.