We leave in a little over a week! Here is what we know so far:
Travel Dates: March 21-27, 2012
Travel Method: Car/Plane
Resort: Del Sol Inn
Ages Represented in Group: Early 20's
DLR Resort Experience Represented in Group: 2-3 visits each
Comments: 2 year anniversary and Ferron's Birthday!
Cast of Characters: Me (22), Ferron (22)
The Planning:
Transportation: Car- Redding to Sacramento
SW Airlines- SMF (Sacramento) to SNA (John Wayne)
I searched and searched daily for a good deal on tickets. Finally, Southwest was having tickets on sale for $69 one-way and we were able to purchase our tickets for $270 for
both of us round trip!
SNA to Hotel- friend picking us up
Lodging: Del Sol Inn
Deluxe Room, King
Distance from DLR Entrance: Across the street
Tickets: Premium APs... was going to do 5-day park hoppers, but decided that is were were going to continue our Disneyland tradition, APs would be a better option. Plus, who doesn't love some of the extra perks?
Priority Seating: Thursday 3/22- 7pm P.F. Chang's at the Anaheim Garden Walk, Our "Anniversary" dinner
Saturday 3/24- 2pm Big Thunder Ranch BBQ (our first time eating here... SO excited!)
Monday 2/26- 1pm Tortilla Joe's Ferron's Birthday Lunch!
The Itinerary:
Tuesday, March 20- Load up the car for the drive to Sacramento
Wednesday, March 21- Attend class from 8 to a little after 9 (I have to take a quiz), go home, drop car off, and then leave around 10:30 for SMF. Expected arrival is around 12:30-1pm. Our flight leaves at 2:15, so I'm PRAYING that everything will go smoothly. We may do early-bird check-in that morning. Not sure yet. Estimated arrival at SNA is 3:40 in which we will be picked up from the airport and taken to our hotel. I expect us to be inside the park no later than 5pm. I expect us to grab FPs for Indy asap and then grab some grub as I'm sure we'll be hungry by then.
Thursday, March 22-27th- Not sure on a guestimated itinerary for these dates yet, but will work on one within the next couple of days and let you know!
How it all came into place- January rolled around and says to me "I want to go to DL again for our anniversary." Now, who am I to tell him no? We start trying to figure out what our tax return will be... crunching numbers... and all of that good stuff. The planner in me starts looking up Costco deals, Disney ticket packages, and ala cart hotels and tickets on a daily basis. We contemplated several different hotels: Hilton Anaheim, Embassy Suites, Desert Inn, and the Del Sol.
We debated between different tickets as well: 5-day park hopper, Deluxe APs, and Premium APs. For the time frame we wanted, purpose for going, and what we wanted from our hotel, it all seemed to fall into our Premium APs at the Del Sol.
We chose P.F. Chang's as Ferron loves Chinese food and they are having a great special while we are down there, not to mention we've always wanted to go. Again we've always wanted to go to the Big Thunder Ranch BBQ. And, with Tortilla Joe's we are going to use a Patina gift certificate that Ferron will get for his birthday!
I am super excited and can't wait to go visit Mickey in just about a week!!
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