Some coming attractions on yourfirstvisit.net over the next month or so:
REVIEW OF THE VILLAS AT DISNEY’S GRAND FLORIDIAN RESORT AND SPA
Disney’s latest accommodations offering opens this week—the Villas at the Grand Floridian. Amy Girl and I are booked into a two-bedroom villa there in early November, so look for a review shortly after!
MORE TESTING OF FASTPASS+ AND MAGICBANDS
As part of that visit, we’ll do the second round of FastPass+ and MagicBand testing (for the findings first time around, see this). This test will focus on FastPass+ for parades, fireworks, and character greetings
KICKING OFF THE RE-VISITS TO THE DELUXE AND DVC RESORTS
Over the last twenty months I’ve re-visited and re-reviewed all of the moderates and values—and all their different room types.
The November visit also “officially” kicks off the re-visits and re-reviews of the deluxe and DVC properties, so besides the Grand Floridian we’ll also be at the Animal Kingdom and Wilderness Lodges. Some of the current reviews are as much as four years old (most are newer!), so this will be a welcome refresh of this material.
IMPROVED FLOOR PLANS!
There’s more than 60 floor plans on this site. Denise from YourFloorPlan is making them all much easier to use!
Today I put up the first five here. See the example at the top of this page. I’ll be rolling out the rest over the next 6 months.
THE PROS AND CONS OF EVERY WALT DISNEY WORLD RESORT, FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS ACTUALLY STAYED IN THEM ALL!
I announced yesterday a new series on the pros and cons of all the resorts. You can find similar stuff elsewhere, but not written by anyone who has recently stayed for multiple nights in all of them. The next entry in the series should be out later this week…
FINISHING THE DRAFT SET OF MATERIAL FOR 2015
I’ve already published Disney World price season projections for 2015. Next to come is the 2015 crowd calendar, and after that the 2015 week rankings. This should all be out within a month. I’ll then revise it all in the summer of 2014.
OK, that’s the scoop. I hope all this stuff is useful to you all!! And let me know anything else you’d like to see, or to see updated!
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Hi Dave!
How’s it doing?
Long time no appearing here, I was away on an European vacation which included, as predicted, EuroDisney (or Disneland Paris as you wish).
I do have some comments about it, but a short advice would be “it’s Orlando shrank at least half its size”.
Great job as usual, pal!
Cheers, Tom
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Hey Tom, great to hear from you!
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Wow.. Those Floor plans Are such A Great Tool For Visual People Like Myself.
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Thanks, Sharon!
Was this even remotely helpful?
Well then mosey on over to the home page, and like it on Facebook or pin it on Pinterest!
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It was good. There was a large tree to the right which obstructed the castle somewhat. Great view of Tink and didn’t notice the trees during the fireworks, just the preshow with images on the castle.
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Dave we accidentally got to try the FP+ for Wishes earlier this month.
On our MK day we’d scheduled and used our 3 FP+ for the “mountains.” We’d taken a break for a late dinner at Kona Cafe and returned to the MK for Wishes. We split up to gather our favorite treats, leaving my wife to stake out a spot on the bridge from the hub to Tomorrowland.
While we were gone she was asked by a CM to move. Not wanting to get too far from where we’d left her, she was milling about when a CM approached her and pointed to her magic band and asked if she wanted to FP+ the fireworks. She said we’d already used our 3 for the day. The CM winked and said I think you can use 4, anyway our scanners don’t really work anyway…
So, the four of us ended up watching the show (including Tink going right overhead) with about 20 other people on the grassy knoll between the Tomorrowland bridge and the Castle.
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Thanks, Steve! Did you like the viewing location?
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Dave, you’re awesome! I can’t believe you take the time to gather all of this very, very helpful information to share with us. Thank you so much.
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Thanks Heather you are so sweet!
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