So, I’ve always wanted to do a quick, solo Disney trip, and thanks to a last minute trip to Tampa, I’m making that happen - TODAY! I booked my airline tickets last Friday, so I have not done a ton of planning. This trip had been on and off for weeks, and when I saw that hotel rooms were disappearing, I went ahead and booked a room directly with the Swan. I kept putting off cancelling it and thank goodness I did, since I’m not sure if this trip would have happened otherwise! This will be my first time at the Swan.
My goals are to do all of my favorite rides:
FOP
ROTR
HM
My sort of plan:
I’m going to finish up my last few meetings, and drive to the Swan, drop off my car and my luggage, then hop on a bus to AK.
Eat lunch at Satuuli or Nomad or something.
Ride FOP
Bus over to HS
Do Star Wars stuff - ST, single rider Millennium, Oga’s reservation at 6, possibly eat dinner, ROTR
Time permitting, hop to Epcot and watch fireworks
Saturday
Take it easy, drive to MK
Do Haunted Mansion at least twice
Also do stuff I never get to do with my family - Hall of Presidents, and PeopleMover specifically
Bell services was a mess but dropped my bags off. I did online check in and remote key after vowing not to. I didn’t check to see if I could get in my room earlier because this morning it looked like I had scored a pretty ridiculous upgrade and I didn’t want to mess with it!
I’m waiting for FOP so plenty of time to catch up.
Waited 25 min for bus at Swan. While on bus, some parents realized that their son left his magic band in the room. I saved the day by sharing the Magic mobile service with them!
Ironically could not get magic mobile to work without opening app.
After fop, headed to bus to Hollywood. While on bus, I realized that I got an email from the Swan saying they couldn’t charge my card. I spent the whole ride on hold with the swan, panicking. I decided to take the boat to the swan when someone finally answered!
I walked around a bit and finally decided to get in line for ROTR
shortly after I left the tunnel area, the heavens opened up. I could not get my poncho on fast enough.
My history with this ride is pretty bad. I’ve only ridden it to completion 50% of the time. Of course while standing in the rain, the ride went offline.
This is such a great trip!!! Thanks for taking us along! I agree with @OBNurseNH…there’s something awesome about your poncho picture! Maybe because we had them on so much our last trip and had a blast!
