Orlando Florida/Disneyworld (Part 2) *CLOSED*

dazzer68

disney_cjd wrote: »

Hi there

thanks for these. Was this the Len Testa Unofficial Guide? I am surprised you did not like it as I think its a very helpful book. DId you try any of the touring plans in it? You may have had better luck with the crowds following one of those plans or the crowd calander.

There is no doubt Christmas is a busy time but with some effort and planning it can be OK.

Overall though I am gla d you had a great time and those liee EEpc are going to take over the wrold. They are gerat.

Cheers
Craig

well who would go to florida, disney at christmas and not expect it to be packed! ive read every year that they close the turnstiles early over the holidays at its so busy.id love to do disney at christmas but theres no way i ever would!

dazzer68

ashleyrossuk wrote: »

Alot of people mension that book seperately is alot cheaper, i am looking to go away june 2010, (must start saving!). 2 adults and 2 children.

The travel agent said as the dates arent out yet she cant give a def price but looking at £4000 for the 14 days including passes to disney only, staying in pop concert hotel thing!

My question is by shopping around which i have never done before how much would i be likely to save and how difficult is it to do....

any help would be most appricated

it probably would be about that if not more, looking at this years prices. if you have a harveys world travel get them to look at jetsave holidays, we booked ours tho harveys, with jetsav flying with virgin (so effectivly virgin holiday) and we saved probably about £2000!

jadsima

As always, thanks Craig.

jadsima

sukey13 wrote: »

There are many villa estates really close to Disney:-
Windsor Hills
Lindfields
Sunset Lakes
Indian Ridge
Emerald Island

to name a few.

I found a fantastic map with the actual location of each of the communities here...
http://www.orlandovillas.com/Map.aspx

Afraid I only have a four bed, but there are lots of friendly villa owners at www.thedibb.co.uk that would be able to help you with a 6 bed close to Disney.

Have a lovely holiday!

Hi Sukey, thanks for your comprehensive response and the link, I will go on the website and see what i can get, take care.

disney_cjd

jadsima wrote: »

Thanks for the prompt response, I really appreciate the advice.
I have been sent quite a few villas in the resorts/areas I mentioned but the quality does vary. Some of them have quite a dated decor.
Hopefully when you return in Feb.
A lakeview will be nice but is not at all essential, we are more concerned about the proximity to the parks etc, the quality of the villa we get and trying to stick to budget.
BTW is the owner of the villa you used an English company or just an individual? We need a 6 bed villa.
Again, many thanks.

There are some very nice 6 bedders on Emerald Island which have some great interiors. Check out last Minute Villas or do a search for the Simbas Pride villa.

Lake fronts (or rears) are nice one for the view but also to help with the noise. Not having someone with a pool and a 4/5/6 bed house backing on to you with kids in the pool etc when you want a quiet afternoon is nice.

Also the map mentioned above http://www.orlandovillas.com/Map.aspx is very good. Map sure you zoon in and then you can see the best located villas. I would say that its those around the Emerald Is area so Sunset Lakes etc. The 429 the road that heads north is a new road and a toll road. Its a Dollar to the Disney turn off and not long on it but it cuts out the dreaded 192 and all its traffic lights so well worth it.

disney_cjd

also as for the dated interniors - we were shocked at the styles when we were furnishing our place. Now there is an Ikea in Orlando there is no excuse but at the time is was flora prints and palm trees everywhere!!

And for some reason the Americans do not put handles on kitchen cupboards, that one always baffles me LOL

mncollyer

ashleyrossuk wrote: »

Alot of people mension that book seperately is alot cheaper, i am looking to go away june 2010, (must start saving!). 2 adults and 2 children.

The travel agent said as the dates arent out yet she cant give a def price but looking at £4000 for the 14 days including passes to disney only, staying in pop concert hotel thing!

My question is by shopping around which i have never done before how much would i be likely to save and how difficult is it to do....

any help would be most appricated

Make sure you shop around, we (2A 2C) are paying over £1000 less than this for late August this year, play the travel agents against each other to get the lowest price.

Mark

FH_Brit

lightning15uk wrote: »

hi all

ihave an enquiry hope i am in the right place there is a group of us wanting to go to florida, orlando in 2011 i know long way off but got to be well planned, it is for myfriends honey moon so we would like 2 villas next to each other or across the road (very close) also we do not drive, so would like to be as close to the disney end as possible as we feel thats where we will be mostly, does anyone know what kind of price we would eb looking at for flights, villas, etc its 3 families 4a 2c, and 2a 2c and 1 infant so as long as there is min of 3 bedrooms in each that would be fine, we want to go in the uk summer holidays prob beginning of august for 2 weeks with pool oh dear i hope i haventg one on too much any grreatly appreciated x x

Far too early to get any firm prices - my friends are regular visitors to me in Florida and I'll ask himfor his rental details - I think he pays £500.00 pw for a 5 be villa with game room (pool/air hockey/table tennis etc) pool and hot tub.

Let me know if you need anything else also look at my other thread about insurance - and let each family arrange their own insurance - if any of your party break the rules ALL of you will not be covered.

See my other thread that has some useful Travel Insurance info:

Click Here for must-read information: Florida Medical & Travel Insurance

kezza12

ahrimaniac wrote: »

Well it's not a terrific nightmare but proving difficult none the less.

We were originally booked to go on holiday from 15th-27th January to Orlando, which we then paid to extend to 31st.

Then, we've had a family bereavement, and we're having to push back the holiday (again) so it is now 22nd January-7th February.

We had two bookings at the Metropolitan Express - 15th-27th was booked with Hotelopia, and the last few days was booked with Expedia.


I rang Hotelopia and they have said they can't amend the booking as there is no availability at the Metropolitan Express. Argh. I am yet to ring Expedia to see about changing that.

As it stands then, we've got bookings from 15th - 31st - 15-27 with Hotelopia, 27-31 with Expedia.

Of those, we only need 22-31, and need to find a way to book the Metropolitan for the 31, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and checkout on 7th. Do you think it'll be cheaper just to cancel every booking we have and start over, as it were?

So confused!

Also, we need to move the dates of our flexitickets - is this possible - any help? We have 14 day tickets and we'll need to move them into the new timeslot! Eeep.

sorry to hear that guys but hope this helps a bit, your flexi tickets ar valid 14 days after first activation so they should be good to use,but i would just ring the place you got them up to confirm, i booked mine for the first of october but am now going on the 4th and virgin said that they were valid for 14 days after activation

furrypig

jadsima wrote: »

Thanks for the prompt response, I really appreciate the advice.
I have been sent quite a few villas in the resorts/areas I mentioned but the quality does vary. Some of them have quite a dated decor.
Hopefully when you return in Feb.
A lakeview will be nice but is not at all essential, we are more concerned about the proximity to the parks etc, the quality of the villa we get and trying to stick to budget.
BTW is the owner of the villa you used an English company or just an individual? We need a 6 bed villa.
Again, many thanks.

so sorry just saw your post quoted by Craig! Sorry I didn't respond earlier!

We didn't really want to be overlooked or too close to other properties so I think that was one reason for the lakeview plus it will be great for realxing after the parks etc etc!!

The owner is an individual and I think I found the property on VRBO there are so many properties on there which is why it's good to know the area you want to stay (roughly!) Ours is 4 beds but there are plenty of bigger ones.

Good luck and apologies for late reply!:o