October Disney Florida 2011

stas4949

Hi Everyone

Is October a good time to go to Florida for 3 weeks?

Also when would be a good time to book if we are going in 2011 (2 adults, ds1 17, ds2 15, ds3 & ds4 13years old).

We were thinking a villa would be good.

Many thanks in advance for all your help..... :T:D

brook_son

this site is great for advice www.thedibb.co.uk

stas4949

brook_son wrote: »

this site is great for advice www.thedibb.co.uk

thanks for that, off to check it out and just discovered the Orlando thread on here so starting to trawl through that...... :T

jackieblack

stas4949 wrote: »

Hi Everyone

Is October a good time to go to Florida for 3 weeks?

Also when would be a good time to book if we are going in 2011 (2 adults, ds1 17, ds2 15, ds3 & ds4 13years old).

We were thinking a villa would be good.

Many thanks in advance for all your help..... :T:D

Hope your local schools have a sympathetic attitude to term-time holiday absence.
Whatever our personal opinions on taking children out of school (and it has been debated hotly many times before on here) the fact is that lots of local authorities are getting really strict about this.
Worst case scenario, you're looking at £50 (if paid within 42 days, £100 if not) penalty notices, each parent, per child.
If your 17 year old is in Further Education, they may lose their place on whtever course they're on.

I'm not wanting to 'put a downer' on your excitement, it may all be fine, I hope it is, but if you bear this in mind then you might avoid getting a nasty shock!

fatmanonabicylce

Yes, 'ware the fine. Admittedly, these are largely nothing more than extra tax raised by an Education organisation that has failed catastrophically over the last twenty plus years. Our Town Hall Soviet has fined us for taking our son out of school for the last week of year six. Funny- in year six, they stop teaching at Christmas just to teach to the SATS test for all the stuff they couldn't be bothered to work on in the previous six years. They have cut the school year by a week for the six term system and another week for Teacher Training- although that is badly needed, one has to admit. Our Education Authority is incompetenet enough to have let a school go into special measures and then trot out the reasons, which were ones parents had been telling them for years. Still, the Labour Party got their Soviet state finally, and need an ill-educated population that can't work out they've been had.

melb

that's ridiculous