Some Kind Words from Chris

By Dave Shute

On a day when I’m busting my butt trying to figure out the 2016 prices, while doing my real job too, it’s really nice to get emails like this one from Chris:

I know that yourfirstvisit.net is a vehicle for selling a book and advertising, but it is impossible to believe that it is not also done out of love and generosity of spirit.  And although the site does not cure cancer or male pattern baldness or bring world peace, it has made a huge difference in my family’s life.

I grew up in Florida and had been going to Disney world at least every couple years from the age of 5 -25.  But, moving far away, getting a busy job, having 3 kids in succession, I found almost 15 years had passed without a visit.  So, when a death in the family brought us to Orlando anyway, I took the whole family (two tiny tots and a pregnant wife) for an impromptu, unplanned visit to Disney World.  It was a disaster.  I had to cancel the character dinner on our second night there because the children refused to go back to the park after their nap at the hotel.  My wife swore she was never going back again.  It became my mission to repair the “damage” that trip had done.

I started researching how to have a better trip – and that is how I found your site.

You helped me appreciate the value in, and find a great deal on, a DVC villa on the monorail (through point rental).

You helped me go at a great time of the year with low crowds and cool weather.

You helped me learn and appreciate the need for planning and the timing for making dining and fastpass reservations.

We easily took afternoons off and had a much-needed rest day, we got to eat at every restaurant we wanted to go to, and see every single attraction we wanted, many 2, 3 or 4 times.  Maybe one ride a day did we have to wait more than 30 minutes in line.  We have great video, pictures and memories of a truly magical time.  It was the most wonderful time in the lives of my still young children.  Now they want to live at Disney World and my wife could not believe how much better this trip was.  She, like I, was thrilled by the joy and astonishment on our children’s faces moment after moment, day after day.

A number of websites and books and computer programs helped along the way, but it was yours that identified for me what needed to be done to get the vacation “right,” and pointed me in the right direction (and gave me lots of useful advice and tools).  Thank you, so much.

All the best to you and your site in the future,

Chris

Chris–thanks a million!

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