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Just booked flights for September! Wooooooohoooooooo!

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Sat, 01/19/2013 - 23:41
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Just booked flights for September! Wooooooohoooooooo!

Well yes, I caved! We are still hoping for a bargain trip in May but we got a great deal with our flights, I don't think we have paid much more now than we would have paid waiting for a last min trip, plus we are also going for just under 3 weeks which we wouldn't be able to do, as last min flight deals are only on charter flights and not scheduled flights. So we are flying on the 11th September and coming back home on the 1st October Smile yay!! Let the planning commence Smile

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Watson's go West May 15
The one with all the birthdays Oct 14 4 Big Birthdays and a Vow Renewal thrown in
The OMG trip June 14 30th Birthday present from the hubs
Girly trip March 14 A last min cheapy week
September 13 our first all DVC stay
TR May 2013 the last min bargain trip offsite
Oct 2012 TR with a cruise!big family trip featuring the beach club, AKL, the dream and a villa offsite
TR on a budget May - June 2011offsite condo
TR Sept - Oct 2010 big family trip in an offsite villa

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Sun, 01/20/2013 - 02:41
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yay yay yay Robyn!

Aren't deals great? biggrin

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Sun, 01/20/2013 - 03:36
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So jealous. It's probably cheaper to fly from the U.K. than it it from Vancouver.

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Sun, 01/20/2013 - 04:15
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Yaaay! That's awesome! Can't hear more about your plans--and then I get to get excited for another one of your awesome trip reports! yay yay yay

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Sun, 01/20/2013 - 23:12
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Awwwwww I dunno if it's cheaper.... We have HUGE airport taxes just to leave the country here Sad it was 500GBP (about 750 usd) each and about 300 was just taxes! Shock

Yay I will def be doing another trip report Smile

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Our Very Merry 24 nighter Nov/Dec 15
Watson's go West May 15
The one with all the birthdays Oct 14 4 Big Birthdays and a Vow Renewal thrown in
The OMG trip June 14 30th Birthday present from the hubs
Girly trip March 14 A last min cheapy week
September 13 our first all DVC stay
TR May 2013 the last min bargain trip offsite
Oct 2012 TR with a cruise!big family trip featuring the beach club, AKL, the dream and a villa offsite
TR on a budget May - June 2011offsite condo
TR Sept - Oct 2010 big family trip in an offsite villa

Sun, 01/20/2013 - 23:01
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Just checked flights. Its 900 eachand 10 hours from take off to landing. Plus 160 in ferry fees to get to the mainland and aother 3-4 hours of travel to get to the airports. The flights that leave from the island require an overnight layover. I think we will be doing Disneyland for the next few trips

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Sun, 01/20/2013 - 23:11
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omg thats horrific! what a long journey too Sad but its all worth it once you get 'home' though isnt it Smile muchlove

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Our Very Merry 24 nighter Nov/Dec 15
Watson's go West May 15
The one with all the birthdays Oct 14 4 Big Birthdays and a Vow Renewal thrown in
The OMG trip June 14 30th Birthday present from the hubs
Girly trip March 14 A last min cheapy week
September 13 our first all DVC stay
TR May 2013 the last min bargain trip offsite
Oct 2012 TR with a cruise!big family trip featuring the beach club, AKL, the dream and a villa offsite
TR on a budget May - June 2011offsite condo
TR Sept - Oct 2010 big family trip in an offsite villa

Sun, 01/20/2013 - 23:19
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It is. But not with a three year old.

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Sun, 01/20/2013 - 23:29
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Hi Robyn, you may already know this, but if not I think you may benefit from it. We are UK too. We have an AMEX card and we get loyalty points from it. They can then be changed into virgin atlantic flying club points. In the past they have had amazing deals so I paid full price and my husband went free on points (both premium economy) on a companion flight. The deals don't seem so good at the moment but you do get a little bit of money off flights with the miles plus money fares. You also get a pass to go into the first class lounge with the gold card. You can also use the AMEX points to stay in Orlando hotels including Disney hotels. Of course to get a free night in a Disney hotel you need thousands of points which means you need to have spent thousands of pounds on the card but we put everything on the card and take AMEX up on lots of special offers so it soon mounts up and if you are planning to go to Disney year after year you may find that you can pay for all or part of your flight or hotel in points in a few years time. awesome

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Mon, 01/21/2013 - 09:28
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Sorry, I forgot to say that you do have to pay an annual fee for an AMEX, so you really have to use it to make paying the membership fee worthwhile. For us, it has been we have converted points and had at least 3 free premium economy flights to USA, two discounted flights and 2 free upgrades.

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Mon, 01/21/2013 - 12:13
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Thank you miss mikki, I was just looking at the card yesterday! We were weighing up if it would actually be any good and worth it so its good to hear of someone who has made good use of it Smile thank you xxxx

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Our Very Merry 24 nighter Nov/Dec 15
Watson's go West May 15
The one with all the birthdays Oct 14 4 Big Birthdays and a Vow Renewal thrown in
The OMG trip June 14 30th Birthday present from the hubs
Girly trip March 14 A last min cheapy week
September 13 our first all DVC stay
TR May 2013 the last min bargain trip offsite
Oct 2012 TR with a cruise!big family trip featuring the beach club, AKL, the dream and a villa offsite
TR on a budget May - June 2011offsite condo
TR Sept - Oct 2010 big family trip in an offsite villa

 
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