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But you have shown how some beat the new FP+ system to some extent. |
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02-01-2014, 09:45 PM | #557 | |
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How do you compare the GF to the other resorts? Like you I have stayed at all resorts but fancy the Wilderness Lodge more than the others with AKL a close second. I have made the mistake of staying at every one of the All Star resorts....never again. |
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02-01-2014, 09:50 PM | #558 |
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I need to look into the DVC. Never looked into it that deep.
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02-01-2014, 09:53 PM | #559 | |
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The GF compared to the others.....it's certainly their flagship, but I think it has a feel that you either love it, or hate it. It's very common to see businessmen sitting at the pool on laptops doing business. So it certainly can lose some of the vacation feel. For us, we like it a lot. We really like the Wilderness Lodge as well - but with buying the DVC, we wanted to be somewhere on the Monorail line. Since GF just became available for sale while we were there, we thought "why not" and went with it. The nice part about the DVC is that we can stay almost wherever we want, so it's going to be fun to try some new resorts that we haven't stayed at before (like the Beach Club). The other nice part is we can bring some friends or get more than one room and not have to charge whoever comes with us. As far as the wedding....I really wanted it to be there. The fiance didn't want a destination wedding, so she ruled it out. She also ruled out a honeymoon there because "We'll be going enough anyway". I didn't get Disney involved, I just took her out to Sunset Pointe and did it there. |
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02-01-2014, 09:59 PM | #561 |
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thanks. But i dont think id get my usage out of it. We only go to Disney every 3 or 4 years.
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02-01-2014, 10:00 PM | #562 |
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02-01-2014, 10:03 PM | #563 | |
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We have talked about DVC for many years but each time we would have an unexpected expense in relation to my son's Autism. So it just kind of fell back to the back of the bus. |
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If you use your points to go somewhere else, you typically don't get as good of a rate for your points, so its more common to rent your points for cash, and use that cash to go where you want. |
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Pretty cool....mine is a polo shirt with the Dixie Landings logo on it.
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No. I have tried multiple times. The guys face I blurred out is one of the managers at the Grand Floridian. He's been a dear friend of mine for many years, and no matter where we stay, he always calls and upgrades us. I've tried so hard to even get a tour of the Castle Suite, and he says its the one thing even he can't get us close to.
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