1926moon

*slow clap* WOW! Your reviews are so incredibly detailed! Over the last few weeks I have read your entire Dream review - it is almost a year and a half before we go on our trip (on the Dream, we are hoping) and I feel like I can pretty much live vicariously through your review :D

Nice work and thank you <3

Kristine.

I am sure I will enthusiastically post here once it gets sorted ;)

I am going to be staying SOMEWHERE on property!!!

Gotta go - thanks again for all your help, I am sure I will be back in the next few months (or days, as I continue to thread dive the Disney threads!).

You were not rude at all!! Sometimes without the use of smileys I come off as brusque - hence my overuse (or abuse as viewed by some people!) of smileys.

I absolutely appreciate all of your tips and insight (and I am secretly envious that you are a DVC member - a girl can dream ;)).

As far as renting DVC points goes, I am just trying to do everything I can to get in there right at that 11-month mark :p

You can't put in a request for DVC a year in advance. Bookings at the owner's home resort can be made 11 months in advance. At resorts other than the home resort' date=' they can be made 7 months in advance.

 

You can call the person you are renting from at any point you wish, but he/she can't book it for you until the magical booking window arrives. Sorry.....[/quote']

 

 

I am aware of this, we were *almost* DVC members, the fact that the Grand Californian is the one closest to us priced us out of the market!

 

As we are renting through one of the DVC rental/broker sites, my hope is to have our request in ASAP - even before the 11 month mark - in hopes that it would be flagged for priority when that 11 month date comes up. I figured there was nothing to lose doing it that way, and maybe it might just give us a little bit of a better shot successfully booking into one of the resorts we are hoping for.

I am totally flexible and fine with not getting the Boardwalk - that is the just first thing I am shooting for:D I have many, many second choices. In fact, if for some reason it works out that we cannot* rent DVC points I am good with some of the moderate resorts too.

*though as I would be putting my request in well over year in advance, so I am hoping one of them will work out.

Oh, I am totally on top of all of the above! The sole reason I have not booked any of my accommodation yet is because I am waiting on the cruise dates, once I have that all systems are a go!! Here is my plan:

1) Flights - booked through airmiles, I have been able to filter my tuition through my credit card and that has earned me more than enough points to cover our flight from Vancouver Island to MCO (about a $2,000 savings when all said and done!)

2) Cruise - 4 night Bahamas, with a balcony.

3) US Hotel - 2 nights at the new one, the one with the vintage theme - we have quite a few vintage vehicles so my husband is stoked about this hotel!

4) WDW Hotel - I am actually looking at renting DVC points for this one, I am not sure if I am allowed to mention through what business I am booking through on here, but they have a decent reputation and a friend of mine has used them. Because of the money we save by renting DVC points it actually allows us to book into the Boardwalk Inn!! Boardwalk Inn is our first choice, with the Beach Club second.

DL is nice because it is so compact! I will admit that is one thing I am daunted by at DW - I can't get my head around not walking everywhere!

Once they release the dates and I quickly book our cruise, I am sure I will be back here with many questions and too much enthusiasm;) It is just my husband and me and we are both Disney fanatics, I am completing an online FT degree program while working FT and this trip is basically the carrot on the stick to keep me going!!

Also, I have been thread-diving in this section - I cannot believe how many helpful threads and tips there are in this forum!! I was able to whittle down my original half-dozen questions to just the two I had above :D

Thank you <3

We are west coasters and have been to DL many, many times; we have yet to go to the east coast so this will be our first trip out that way. I can't figure out if I am more excited about the cruise, DW, or any of the Harry Potter related stuff that is at US!

Thanks :)

Hi folks :)

We are looking at a Disney cruise in early May, 2016, followed by some time at Universal and then DW. I am pretty excited!!

I have a question about the release of cruise schedules/dates for this time. When does Disney usually release them? It just doesn't seem all that far away, I am kind of surprised they are not up already!

A second question because they have not yet released the schedules - we are hoping for the four day Bahamas cruise on the Dream, has anyone heard if they are going to continue the Dream on a similar schedule as it is on now? The 4-day/3-day rotation? I love the idea of the four day one - two ports + one sea day to explore the ship, it is the perfect amount of time for us.

Thanks!

Kristine:)