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TUGGER meet up! Jan 19! Orlando

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Hello everyone! Once again we are planning to host the annual (except last January) TUG get-together at the Golden Corral in Orlando this year in January 19th.

hope you can come!

We will be meeting at the Golden Corral On Vineland for early dinner:
8707 Vineland Avenue
Orlando, FL 32821
At 3 pm.. (they’ve changed the time for dinner.)
Senior cost is $15.99 ( not including drinks.. altho often the waiter will bring drinks later anyway?) and we can stay as late as we wish!!!
looking forward to it!



Ron and Joan
(Timesharing again after the pandemic travel break)
 
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Is this a different Golden Corral location than the last meet up?
 

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On our calendar! Hopefully, we won’t have to cancel again!
 

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Ratz! We are departing on the 16th.
 

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Joan, I believe this is not the one where we met before.

Our kids will be with us but we can leave them for a bit to come.
 

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Here is the address of the one I attended in 2019; 8707 Vineland Ave, Orlando, FL 32821
 

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I am sure that is the one.
 

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Ratz! We are departing on the 16th.
You are correct… that manager wanted to charge us again at 4 pm … rethinking ..unless everyone wants to go …
 

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[triennial - points]
There was some thought of changing locations, because the Golden Corral manager at the 8707 Vineland Avenue location wanted people staying as late as the TUG bunch to pay up a second time after 4PM.

Possibly the people in charge at the other Golden Corral locations are unaccustomed to the late-staying habits of the TUG crowd & wouldn't try to get us to pony up a 2nd time on meet-up day.

By me, staying late at Golden Corral has always been part of the attraction of TUG meet-ups -- not so much because they bring out the steak after 4PM (although that's nice) but because TUG people get so much enjoyment from the extended visiting time. Non-stop entrees & desserts & coffee are just nice extras. If that means choosing a different location, or even having to pay more, well . . . for us that's not a deal killer.

Maybe the 8707 Vineland Avenue Golden Corral manager would be willing to negotiate, as in charging us stragglers who stay past 4PM something extra for the privilege, but not making us pay the full suppertime amount. I mean, he knows we'll only be occupying 2-3 tables, if that, & that we won't have ravenous appetites for all-you-can-eat dining same as the people just coming in.

Regardless, all the TUG people planning on going to TUG meet-up January 19, 2022, will need clarification on exactly where to show up -- same Golden Corral as last time (8707 Vineland Avenue), or different location that was mentioned (8032 International Drive). Shux, there's even a Golden Corral location over close to Vacation Village At Parkway, plus another 1 further out Rt. 192 west of the Disney Gap. By me, they're all OK for TUG meet-up purposes. I just need an authoritative answer to the question of exactly where we should show up 2PM on 1-19-2022 for TUG meet-up.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​
 
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We are gone from our Cape Canaveral timeshare week 5 days prior to the TUG get-together. Would have loved to be part of it!

Hoping that we do get together with Jim and Paula!
You can always swing by St Augustine if you’re going on north 95 and see us there.
 

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Thanks for taking charge Joan, we will be there wherever you hold the get together.
 

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We will be meeting at the Golden Corral On Vineland for early dinner:
8707 Vineland Avenue
Orlando, FL 32821
At 3 pm.. (they’ve changed the time for dinner.)
Senior cost is $15.99 ( not including drinks.. altho often the waiter will bring drinks later anyway?) and we can stay as late as we wish!!!
looking forward to it!

Ron and Joan

 

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Amended our calendar accordingly, looking forward to seeing everyone and meeting more TUGGERS!
 

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updated OP for you
 

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We will be meeting at the Golden Corral On Vineland for early dinner:
8707 Vineland Avenue
Orlando, FL 32821
At 3 pm.. (they’ve changed the time for dinner.)
Senior cost is $15.99 ( not including drinks.. altho often the waiter will bring drinks later anyway?) and we can stay as late as we wish!!!
looking forward to it!

Ron and Joan



3:00 pm is a great time in my opinion. In fact, since Covid, I always try to eat around 3:00 pm because the driving is easier, the parking is easier, and the seating area in the restaurant is just about empty (Covid safety).



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We will be meeting at the Golden Corral On Vineland for early dinner:
8707 Vineland Avenue
Orlando, FL 32821
At 3 pm.. (they’ve changed the time for dinner.)
Senior cost is $15.99 ( not including drinks.. altho often the waiter will bring drinks later anyway?) and we can stay as late as we wish!!!
looking forward to it!

Ron and Joan

We will be there -- The Chief Of Staff & I. We're already counting the days.

Not only that, we will bring name tags again. (At our age, we need all the reminders we can get.)

And speaking of reminders -- remember, each time after you go back for more at the Golden Corral buffet, come back to a different table from the 1 you just got up from. That way more people can spend face-to-face time with more different TUG people than if everybody stayed parked at the same place at the same table all afternoon & all evening.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​
 

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And speaking of reminders -- remember, each time after you go back for more at the Golden Corral buffet, come back to a different table from the 1 you just got up from.
Will there be at least 20 different tables? :D Otherwise, this may not work for me...
 

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There are plenty of tables. We will be there!
Frank and Terry Castiglia
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We are down here now just for 3 weeks and so we will miss the January get together again as we will be in Belize. Maybe when we start to use our St. Augustine condo ourselves, we will be in the area in a January.


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Alas, I’m scheduled to be at a conference in Miami on the 19th. So close but so far away :(
 

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Will there be at least 20 different tables? :D Otherwise, this may not work for me...
This procedure is so you can eat with different people to get to know them. It usually happens that you get to meet everyone then .
 
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