Me: 39, Disney Dork, family vacation planner, school SLP
Nick: 39, passenger prince, seller of big trucks
I started planning this trip in the summer of 2024, when new itineraries were released, and I saw an itinerary that I was excited about on a ship that I was not excited about, that lined up with my anticipated April vacation. I booked it (without a placeholder!) as soon as I could, and then continued on with planning the lineup of vacations before this one.
Eventually it was time to get other components of this vacation booked, and I was quite successful with that. Our cruise would be a 4 night on the Disney Wish, leaving Monday April 27 from Port Canaveral, returning on Friday May 1. So I booked us on points at the Hyatt Place Cape Canaveral, a pretty new hotel near-ish to the port for Saturday and Sunday nights. Then I booked us on points at the Walt Disney World Dolphin, for the Friday and Saturday nights after the cruise. I found flights with JetBlue, roundtrip from Manchester to Orlando (RIP to that beautiful flight arrangement). Originally we were booked to fly down Friday night, April 24, but then JetBlue changed to a morning flight, so we ended up with a flight early Saturday morning. Our flight home remained relatively stable, with us flying home Sunday midday. I booked a rental car from Saturday to Monday, picking up at MCO and returning at Port Canaveral. Then I booked car service to the Dolphin with Gearfusion, after much debate about which company to use. On Black Friday I bought tickets through Undercover Tourist for Kennedy Space Center.
As the trip got closer, more details got ironed out. We lamented the lack of mixology classes to book (WHY did I get up at midnight when there was nothing worth booking for activities?!). I analyzed the map of Lookout Cay. We bought Epcot tickets. We bought tickets to Illuminature at the Brevard Zoo after a LOT of weather analyzing and we started packing. Gizmo got sulky when he saw the suitcases. And then finally, after a week that included enough black ice to shut down the highway and send me detouring to work in mid-late April, it was go time. We loaded up the dogs and the suitcases on Friday evening after work and spent the night at my in-laws so that we could be closer to the airport the next morning. I think we finally got to their house around 8 pm after a long day, so we just visited for a bit and then went to bed.
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