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Sam's May Disney World trip - PREP 411

WDW Prep To Go - a Disney World planning podcast

Shannon Albert from WDWPrepSchool.com, a Disney World planning site

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 184 minutes

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Summary

Sam traveled to Disney World to meet up with her sister and nephew for a week-long vacation they've been planning for two years. She shares about their split stay at Coronado Springs Club Level and Grand Floridian Villas, how the weather affected their trip, and where to find the best mac and cheese on Disney property.
 
Post trip begins: 36 begins
 
Pricing provided by Sam:
Coronado Springs 5/9-5/13: booked with travel agent in June 2023
  • Tower standard view 
  • Original cost: $4,662 — includes Disney Dining Plan and 4-day tickets
  • Added a bounce back offer three months later and upgraded to Club Level for only $250. Then removed the dining plan and saved $1,000!
 
Grand Floridian 5/13-5/16: rented points
  • resort studio theme park view 
  • Booked June 2023
  • Cost: $1,976  - DVC Rental Store 
  • Added dining plan for this part of our trip
 
Tickets: originally booked 4 day, 1 park per day as package with Coronado stay but when the 4-day magic ticket offer was released our travel agent was able to switch to that and we saved over $500.
 
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0:00.0

Today we'll have Sam's May Disney World Trip that's coming up on this episode 411 of

0:05.2

W.W.W.P.P. To Go. Oh, Hello and

0:25.0

welcome to W-Drip Herbc-Tego, Re-Talk Strategy and ideas for people playing their Disney

0:31.0

World trips and we often have trip reports.

0:33.2

Today is one of those for today we are back at Disney World with Sam who

0:40.4

recently traveled with her sister and her sister's adult son.

0:44.6

They had a split stay and we had points and lots of different elements to their trip

0:50.3

that were interesting and the plans changed slightly once they got there and so you'll hear about that in just a minute.

0:56.2

As always a reminder to follow on social media we are always putting stuff out to try to be helpful.

1:02.4

Lots of articles about whatever, but also just, you know,

1:07.8

videos and fun stuff that goes up on social media. So be sure to follow there. If you are a social media person, also if you want to be a guest like Sam, the only way to do that is through Speak Pipe. If you would please leave a voicemail either using your computer or your phone on the Speak Pipe app,

1:26.0

then give us the details of your trip and if it works with our schedule, then somebody and my team will reach out and get you on the calendar.

1:35.0

Also a reminder that we do partner with Small World Vacation,

1:38.0

so the links to request a quote for your trip are always in the show notes including this one so feel free to fill that out if you're

1:46.5

interested in an upcoming trip I am a big fan of Small World that's why I'm partnered with

1:51.7

them but I love that their team is full-time

1:54.7

agents, they're very knowledgeable, very experienced in all aspects of Disney Travel,

1:59.4

including Disney Royal, Disneyland, Disney Cruise, Adventures by Disney, all of it.

2:03.8

So I feel like you are in safe hands

2:06.8

when you work with Small Worlds,

2:09.7

so feel free to submit a quote request there.

2:12.4

Without any further ado, here are my chats with Sam.

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