disneydreamer781
Just a little bit of pixie dust...
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- May 24, 2016
I was probably canceling anyway for this December but this news just makes it a little easier. Expense along with risk is a serious factor for us.
You can visit resorts now and park there If you have a dining reservation or if you don't you can bus from DSAre the resorts open to outside guests yet (those not staying there) and if not, I wonder if they will open them up to tour the decorations and trees during the holidays?
I'll be there Thanksgiving week too!!! I will be sobbing on Main Street with you!!! LOL Can't wait!!!I know this holiday modification is not at the level we have come to expect from Disney. But I think it is fabulous that they are decorating and doing what they can to bring Christmas magic!!! I live in CA, and Disneyland still isn't open. I am a Dland AP and haven't been since closing date in March. We still can't eat inside a restaurant, and masks are mandatory everywhere pretty much. We booked a trip to the World for Thanksgiving week, and when I finally walk on Main Street with Christmas decorations, I think I will sob. Thank you Disney for bringing holiday magic as best as you can!
https://www.disboards.com/forums/doing-the-happy-dance.108/My apologies, but I cannot find a thread related to December travel....normally I can find it, like the "Official September 2020" group, etc. Any help is appreciated
No Christmas party, no snow, no Castle Lights, no Gingerbread houses at resorts....at what point does this not become about COVID and limiting crowds and about Disney becoming extremely cheap in everything that they do. Yes, precautions need to be taken, but its starting not to be about precautions. It's Disney beginning to use this as an excuse to cut every dollar imaginable. Its so sad....I love this place like home and it's turning into a penny pinching monster.
For us, there really is no reason to plan a special trip given the holiday offering cuts. No CP, no holiday parade, but the real killer is the castle lights. That was one of the most magical things Disney has developed in the past decade. Maybe they need to repaint them all with the new castle colors, maybe they couldn’t manage the installation given the other castle changes, maybe it’s all $$$. I don’t buy anything about crowds congregating. Just skip the show and flip the damn switch.
I’m still not over the Osbourne lights ..........
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Same here! Also from MN, also our first holiday trip, and also leaving around Thanksgiving (11/28). Are you flying or driving?I am happy to learn of the many holiday offerings and while also disappointing since its our first holiday trip, it is happening in the midst of a global pandemic. So I am happy to head to FL from cold MN at Thanksgiving
Beautiful photos! The lack of lights is the biggest disappointment about our first-holiday trip. Just another reason to go back next year and hopefully see it in all it's grandeurHere are a couple of mine....
Can someone post a picture of the lighted castle please?
Same here! Also from MN, also our first holiday trip, and also leaving around Thanksgiving (11/28). Are you flying or driving?
well, I am in TX and will be there the week after Thanksgiving, hopefully with my nieceThis must be the year for people from MN to take their first trips at Christmas. We go to Disney every other year - and I've somehow managed DCL in the years between despite the fact that my husband says Disney only every other year - but this is our very first trip at Christmas time. We are going at the beginning of December though so not over Thanksgiving, but still Christmas was what we want out of this trip anyways. I'm disappointed in the changes, but I understand. Being stuck in my house - working remotely since March - I welcome any kind of trip. And there seems to be some holiday magic still in the works. We will be flying and that is honestly what makes me most nervous.