Want to meet in Disney in week of 1/20

[mrfred]

Disney has a couple special activities that they reserve for 'grand gatherings'. one of them is being able to be on a boat in the 7 Seas Lagoon for the Magic Kingdom fireworks and other Peter Pan oriented stuff (my kids love peter pan and tinkerbell, etc.) Unfortunately, we only have 6 people in our party!

so it would great if we could meet up with another family in Disney so we can become a 'grand gathering' and do this activity.

another one is the 'Good Morning Gathering', which is breakfast at Tony's, the Lady and the Tramp themed restaurant in MK.

I hope to hear from someone, it sound like a lot of fun.

 

[rickandcindy23]

We're here now and are staying at Disney's Old Key West until the 20th. We will leave the parks at about 4:00 for home. Is that too early for the Grand Gatherings?

 

[lisa1001]

This is a great idea; however, we too will be leaving late afternoon Jan 20. We're from northern VA also, and I see you are using the 3 day school week for a vacation, but we opted for the 4 day school week.

 

[JudyS]

Disney has a couple special activities that they reserve for 'grand gatherings'. one of them is being able to be on a boat in the 7 Seas Lagoon for the Magic Kingdom fireworks and other Peter Pan oriented stuff (my kids love peter pan and tinkerbell, etc.) Unfortunately, we only have 6 people in our party!....

Wow, this is a great idea!

I do not have a trip to Disney currently planned bawl but I'd love to do something like this in the future. I have yet to meet anyone from TUG -- I had a meet-up at Disney planned once, but got stood-up.

Just a heads-up -- those boat trips get booked up way in advance. However, there are sometimes cancelations. Also, if you go to www.disboards.com you may be able to find someone with a boat booked, that they want to share in order to cut costs. I have done this twice, and it was very nice.

 

[mrfred]

We're here now and are staying at Disney's Old Key West until the 20th. We will leave the parks at about 4:00 for home. Is that too early for the Grand Gatherings?

yeah, we arrive on the 20th, so we'll just miss each other. :-(

 

[mrfred]

This is a great idea; however, we too will be leaving late afternoon Jan 20. We're from northern VA also, and I see you are using the 3 day school week for a vacation, but we opted for the 4 day school week.

well, maybe you can meet up with Rick and Cindy for your own Grand Gathering.

(and about missing school days, I didn't know any of that week was off. Now that I look, I see it on fcps.edu's calendar, but since out kids are elementary, only 1/26 is off. still, that helps.)

 

[mrfred]

Just a heads-up -- those boat trips get booked up way in advance. However, there are sometimes cancelations. Also, if you go to www.disboards.com you may be able to find someone with a boat booked, that they want to share in order to cut costs. I have done this twice, and it was very nice.

while my wife was talking to the disney event scheduling people, no one was saying it was booked up, just that we didn't have enough for a Grand Gathering.

 

[kapish]

Feb 11- 16?

If one of the 'grand gatherings' is being planned for days between Feb 11-16, we may be able to participate. Thanks