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Mandy's Thanksgiving with boyfriend's parents trip report

I just booked a 4 night stay during Thanksgiving week for my boyfriend, his parents and myself. We are staying at All-Star Sports. Really don't want to stay there because of the refurbishment of the food court but that's all they had available for those dates for the value resorts. We don't really eat at the resort except maybe breakfast or a snack or two. Maybe it won't be as bad as I think. They also mentioned that they arcade isn't available but that's okay too. I think this is his dads first time coming to Disney World and it took a lot of pushing for him to come because he was originally given the wrong numbers so he kept saying it was expensive. But we only asked them to pay a small portion of the trip. We will have the Disney Dining Plan with 1 TS, 1 QSR and 1 Snack per day. We are also thinking about getting photopass+ because his mom wants to get as many pictures as possible of his dad on the trip. My boyfriend is also going to try and set up a ride along at the Richard Petty Driving Experience for his dad.

If we do go ahead and get the photopass+ we will set up either the Crystal Palace or 1900 Park Fare for dinner since they are covered on the photopass+ and the characters are there all day at both. We really like Raglan Road, The Plaza Restaurant, Liberty Tree Tavern, Teppan Edo, Coral Reef and 50s Prime Time Cafe.

His parents would fly in November 26 and that's when we would check in. Then they would fly out November 30. Not really sure which days we would spend in which parks and we would us our ADRs to help guide us. We may go to MVMCP while they are here if there is a party going on. We will be celebrating my boyfriends fathers birthday as well along with his first visit.

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yay wonderful~! So glad you were all able to "talk him into it" biggrin

We are staying at Sports too....so anxious to hear what you think.......

Thanksgiving is not far away! !

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Great plans!! Always look forward to reading more as you plan it out. AND you're taking a 1st timer clapping awesome

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Magic Mirror wrote:
yay wonderful~! So glad you were all able to "talk him into it" biggrin

We are staying at Sports too....so anxious to hear what you think.......

Thanksgiving is not far away! !

I like All-Star Sports. We stayed one night there back in May when his mom was in the state to take his grandma up north.

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WHoo hoo! Sounds like fun.

I think you'll be fine without the food court - just make plans to eat somewhere else.

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Sports is my favorite all stars and with all adults it shouldn't be that much trouble without the food court.

Sounds like a fun trip!! Hope you have a blast!!

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Thanks.
November 26
We check in to All-Star Sports with an ADR at Teppan Edo for dinner at 8:55 pm.

November 27
We have an ADR at Tonys Town Square Restaurant for dinner at 7:05 pm.

November 28
We have an ADR at 50s Prime Time Cafe for dinner at 9:30 pm.

November 29
We have an ADR at Raglan Road Irish Pub & Restaurant for dinner at 8:00 pm.
This is also when we might try to plan the ride along for his father at the Richard Petty Experience and also maybe play a game at Splitsville.

November 30
We check out.

Only new restaurant we have is Tonys Town Square Restaurant.

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Sounds like a great plan Mandy. Missed getting to Raglan Road last week - love their bread & butter pudding. If you haven't tried it yet, I highly recommend it for dessert and it's big enough to share. Enjoy your time off.

BTW - how is your training going?

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I'm still working during this time. Training is going good. Haven't done much of anything yet. Tomorrow will be my first day actually doing stuff.

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Sounds like an awesome trip!! Can't wait to hear your reviews of Raglan Road.

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JMUDukz wrote:
Sounds like an awesome trip!! Can't wait to hear your reviews of Raglan Road.

We love Raglan Road. I've gone there just to have a drink at the bar. I got the shepherds pie I think (it was ground beef on top of mashed potatoes) and I didn't like it very much. I like to try new things each time I go.

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So I was checking the My Disney Experience when I clicked on manage magic bands and cards..... then it appeared. The options to customize magic bands!!!! So my DB, his father, mother and I will have magic bands for our trip!!!! yay yay yay yay yay clapping clapping clapping clapping clapping clapping clapping yeah yeah yeah yeah stars stars stars stars banana banana banana banana banana banana banana banana I'm so excited!!!!

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Cool!! clapping

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I'm so excited! I've always wanted a magic band! Now I get to have one!

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FUN! biggrin awesome

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So I was looking at my reservation for 50s Prime Time Cafe and noticed it was set for after the park closed. I gladly called Disney and they got it fixed. The reservation was for 9:30 pm, park closes at 8:30 pm that day and Disney got us reservations for 7:30. I am currently on the phone with Disney to see why I can't get into my account. When I log into mydisneyexperience it tells me that my account can't be located and to call. The phone number that was listed only had me on hold. I tried a different number and same result. I just called a different number got one person then she transferred me to another person who said I had reservations and saw them then I explained that I can't get into my account at all. Now I'm on hold for the same department I was trying to contact earlier. Guess I'll just sit here and wait until someone answers. The only thing I like about being on hold with Disney is that the songs are fun to listen to.

On the bright side, our magicbands ship out in a couple days yay yay

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My bands should have shipped too...watching the mail.

I hear you about MDE...inconsistent for me too. eek

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I finally got everything fixed. I got access to my account but I couldn't link my reservations because it said it was linked to me already. I ended up calling again and turns out I have two accounts assigned to the same email. So now I am trying to see if I can delete the one account.

Today is our last day to customize the bands.

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We got Mickey Mail!!! clapping clapping clapping yay yay yay yay

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It's a good thing we didn't wait until we got this notification to customize the bands. We would of been out of luck with customizing. We also got the Magical Express tags and vouchers for his parents. One of the ME vouchers has my name on it but I don't need the ME although his mom does.

So do you know if his mom can use the ME voucher even though it has my name on it?

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Yes, I think she can as long as you guys are staying in the same room (or at least her bag will end up in your room). BUT if her bag should get lost, remember that your name tag is on it, when Disney tries to track it down (and they do track it down. FAST. So impressed).

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Whooo hooooo! Mickey mail!!!!! banana

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Our magicbands were almost delivered today. No one answered the door when the UPS person came. I think they are going to make a second attempt to deliver.

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We got more Mickey mail!!!! yay yay

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Mandy is yours purple or pink?

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pink. I was also considering purple.

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I didn't have purple as a color option...and in the pic yours looked a little more purple so I was hoping maybe they added some color choices waiting

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They have purple now!!!???

I want a new magic band!! laugh

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I hope they don't have purple. My mom wanted purple and it wasn't available when I customized ours. If they do now, I'll never hear the end of it. laugh

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I'm pretty sure purple is an option now.

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I have not seen purple as an option. These are the colors.

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I saw this picture on doctordisney.com. It is the only site I've found that shows a purple band.

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