Bobbity boutique is a ball ache to get a slot mind. We failed miserably
Haha aye I have a feeling it's gonna be a chew! May get a ChatGPT agent setup to try and snag a spot! Failing that will be trying walk ups..
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Haha aye I have a feeling it's gonna be a chew! May get a ChatGPT agent setup to try and snag a spot! Failing that will be trying walk ups..
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She rang them. Ended up with huge phone bill. Glad she never rang everyday. Lad on here told me vpn works which it did but nowt was available.
If you buy them full price, definitely agree. If you grab them when they are selling cheaper because of bonus offers, or using boosts etc it can still work out cheaper than buying full fare. Your plan sounds good tho, just boost or buy if you are a few short!
It can definitely vary that time of year, but the quieter parks are a big plus! Just checking last time we were there in January, it was Jan 23 and I dont remember it being cold, all our pics are still shorts and t-shirts, and the bairn similar so must have been ok. Pack for decent weather, worst case grab some warmer stuff from the outlets I guess ha!
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They were working on the one in Disney springs back on may mind so may open.
Looks like it's 60 days in advance from 5am. I will test some agents to see if they can get thru and actually book as they may block them!
I done similar for Disney tickets, to get dates changes, never thought and it was something daft like an 80quid call! I should have rang up EE and added the 5 quid international add-on I suppose, lesson learned!!
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Luckily I had bought a nice coat in the outlets and an Orlando Magics hoody at the game a few days earlier, so my photos are of me with them on. It wasn’t that cold everyday, maybe 3 or 4 and the people we spoke to said it was unusually cold.
Other than when we went the first time when we were both under 25 and hiring a car was silly money. We had always hired a car and had a villa. But the prices of parking at parks these days might be cheaper to get an Uber there and back, which seems nuts. I am very roughly aiming to save about
£2500 for tickets for the 3 of us
£2500 for the villa
£800 for the car
£750 for flights (after points)
The cars vary so much as well! It was £850 when we looked first, kept checking with Hertz and Avis, managed to get them both to match tiers, so that helps as gets fast track, upgrades etc..all helps! Went down to £478 a few weeks back so I jumped and booked. Parking is nuts mind, yep! Keeps going up and up. So I make sure we pop to all of the parks each day to get my moneys worth of the parking haha. Works well, go for breakfast somewhere, goto a park, spend an hour or two, go somewhere else, pop and get some lunch somewhere, then another etc.. all good.
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Last time we booked an SUV but by the time go to the desk they had all gone so they ‘upgraded’ us to a dodge caravan. That was actually really handy since we had planned on using two cars and that meant we could take one. I’m budging about that much, if I get it cheaper I will. It’s all too early to be getting anything booked or even getting accurate pricing. We are just looking now since we hadn’t long been back from Paris and it’s the next thing to look forward too.
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This isn't going to help anyone, but I remember checking if the one in Springs was open back in April.
Only problem is, I can't remember
Can't remember who we were with, possibly Hertz? but yeah, they didn't have *ANY* cars after we'd been travelling for about 13hours. Became a right twat on.
I wouldn't both with a car at all anymore, as long as I was sure we could always get all 5 of us in a taxi. $30 for parking at the parks when its $150 to get in is just a piss take (and $20 more per night at the hotel + tolls + the actual price of the car, insurance and petrol)
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Always good to have something to look forward too! It's one of those places, it costs what it costs unfortunately, just gotta do it if you can!
Check with Hertz or Avis, one of them upgrades you to their top tier for having a master card world elite, loads of cars have that these days. Then get the other to match your status, then book direct with them and you get decent perks or an easier process (i.e. don't need to goto the counter and queue, your car is there waiting for you, straight to the car park etc.. all helps!)
This isn't going to help anyone, but I remember checking if the one in Springs was open back in April.
Only problem is, I can't remember
Can't remember who we were with, possibly Hertz? but yeah, they didn't have *ANY* cars after we'd been travelling for about 13hours. Became a right twat on.
I wouldn't both with a car at all anymore, as long as I was sure we could always get all 5 of us in a taxi. $30 for parking at the parks when its $150 to get in is just a piss take (and $20 more per night at the hotel + tolls + the actual price of the car, insurance and petrol)
Was that during/shortly after covid? They had a nightmare selling stock as they usually do, then covid hit and they were left well short! We had some quiet irate people lurking around the garages being sent to other locations etc as there were no cars left at all. Bonkers really when you think!!
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Yea I’ve leant a lot recently about perks you can use to get things like that. We are going to be flying from Gatwick so if I do ok for points I might convert them to Marriot Bonvoy points and get a cheap night there before flying the next day. Then use a car to get free lounge access at the airport.
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No, it was this April just gone. We had to basically bribe them to get next in line.
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I can’t remember who we went with that time, it was 7 years ago. The advantage of the car when you have a villa is being able to go out to Walmart and stock up. Having the villa to do your own meals is nice, plus having a provide pool for the busier weekends is good. Just means having to budget for car parking or the uber.
All the perks can make it a loss less hassle! We were downgraded back to blue with BA when they changed all the rules for earning tier points, so I started to use KLM/AF but you cantata BA for Florida IMO, the deals are always class. So I managed to get BA Silver equivalent by status matching to Royal Jordanian, who were also OneWorld so you can use the perks with BA, check in, lounge access etc.. Clart on but it can help when travelling
Holy shit! Then no excuse, thats horrendous of them!!
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All the perks can make it a loss less hassle! We were downgraded back to blue with BA when they changed all the rules for earning tier points, so I started to use KLM/AF but you cantata BA for Florida IMO, the deals are always class. So I managed to get BA Silver equivalent by status matching to Royal Jordanian, who were also OneWorld so you can use the perks with BA, check in, lounge access etc.. Clart on but it can help when travelling
Holy shit! Then no excuse, thats horrendous of them!!
I only learnt about BA status too late. I can get the points from using the credit card but I don’t think that is enough even for Bronze. I’m going to have to look into how to bridge the gap, I’d really rather not be booking another BA flight just for the sake of it.
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More I watch about this the more the size of it surprises me. Gonna change whole look of the park.
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I've been having a look at flying Virgin Atlantic using points rather than BA like I had originally planned. I have always flown Virgin Atlantic in the past but when I had looked in the past the number of points and fees looked absolutely nuts compared to BA and Avios. I have since been told that they now use dynamic pricing that can change upto 20 times per day, so what I had seen were right at the top end. I put in some random dates for next year because when I will actually go isn't available yet and came back with Upper Class flights for 177,000 with £1000 fees for the 3 of us. I have already go 80,000 points on my Amex account. I do also have 128,000 points on my Avios account so looked at what I could use these for and it turns out they can go towards car hire, park tickets and hotels. So back of a fag packet maths has me at
hotel in Manchester pre flight - 40,000 points, 0 cash
virgin upper class flights - 170,000 points, £1000 cash
parking - £120
car hire - 115,000 points, 0 cash
Disney tickets - £1785
Universal tickets - £1167
total 332,000 points, £5640
I could offset some of those Disney and universal tickets with points if I can collect them in time to reduce the cost further, but it is already a big number I need to collect. Obviously this doesn't include meal plans, parking etc, but I think £5.5k for three to go to Orlando for 2 weeks flying upper class is not bad.
hotel in Manchester pre flight - 40,000 points, 0 cash
virgin upper class flights - 170,000 points, £1000 cash
parking - £120
car hire - 115,000 points, 0 cash
Disney tickets - £1785
Universal tickets - £1167
total 332,000 points, £5640
I could offset some of those Disney and universal tickets with points if I can collect them in time to reduce the cost further, but it is already a big number I need to collect. Obviously this doesn't include meal plans, parking etc, but I think £5.5k for three to go to Orlando for 2 weeks flying upper class is not bad.
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No digs in Orlando ?
anth
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sorry missed that out. Villa for £1500, it is in the spreadsheet so is included in the total.
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It’s a good price that mind.
