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Rope Drop Radio: A Disney Travel Podcast

RDR 72: Hurricane Irma Trip Report

Rope Drop Radio: A Disney Travel Podcast

Rope Drop Entertainment

Travel, Portorleans, Disney, Waltdisneyworld, Places & Travel, Ropedrop, Disneyland, Society & Culture, Cruise

5707 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Did you wonder what it was like to have your family vacation during a hurricane?  To answer that we brought on Rope Drop listener Brook who was in Walt Disney World during Hurricane Irma.  She talks about her experience with the cast members, people at the park, damages, and more.  

If you are thinking of taking a magical Disney Vacation, please let Michelle McKnight plan it for you.  You can reach her directly at [email protected]

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, rope droppers. We want to thank our amazing sponsor, the rope drop queen herself, Michelle McKnight.

0:05.4

She's an independent travel agent affiliated with MEI travel and mouse fan travel. We have used her on number of vacations and can't speak highly enough of her services.

0:14.2

If you were thinking about a Disney vacation, she's the one to talk to. Her services are completely free. Disney pays her after you travel, and she is a wealth of knowledge that has saved us a lot of time and money. So check her out on Facebook at RopeDropDre Queen or email her at Michelle.McKnight at M-E-I-Travel.com. Now on to the show.

0:35.2

Helping you navigate the Disney parks.

0:37.9

With the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.

0:42.5

You're listening to Rope Drop Radio.

0:45.1

Welcome to another Rope Drop Radio.

0:46.8

Derek and Doug here talking all things Disney.

0:49.7

And over the last weeks, a lot of pictures have surfaced from some of the damage that Hurricane Irma has done.

0:56.2

Doug, neither you or I were there that week, but we did have a lot of listeners who did get to go to Disney during that time.

1:02.7

And so like we've been doing lately, we've been bringing fans of the show onto the show.

1:07.3

And so we're welcoming Brooke Aube onto Rob Drop Radio.

1:12.4

Thank you for being on the show,

1:19.2

Brooke, and you just happen to be at Disney World during Hurricane Irma. Yes, it's our plan to plan a vacation six months at advance and be there during a hurricane. Well, is this a once-in-a-lifetime

1:25.9

trip or are you a Disney regular?

1:28.4

I am now a Disney regular.

1:30.5

It was a trip that we had planned after a lot of, you know, saving and deciding that we wanted to take our kids there.

1:38.4

This is the first time that we've taken an extensive vacation at Disney World.

1:42.8

And I can say that it definitely will not be our last.

1:45.9

So how old are your kids just to lay the groundwork for the stories ahead?

1:49.9

Yeah, my son is going to be eight in a couple weeks and my daughter will be six in November.

1:56.6

That's a really good age for their first time there.

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