skier_pete
DIsney-holics Anon
- Joined
- Aug 17, 2006
Hello everyone! Thanks to all the friendly folks on the "Other Lands -> Australia" boards who've helped me so far, I've decided to continue my existing thread and continue it a new post that will also work as my Pre-Trip Report.
You can check out the advice to-date right here:
Help an American DISer with advice
But, a quick summary to date: Our family has been planning a major trip to visit Australia for many, many years. My DW has been to visit 3 times in her younger days, the last time was in 1996 just after we met. She has wanted to go back for ever since, however I said I would only go if we could really go for a long stay, and once our kids were old enough.
Well, we've saved our money, and our DD turns 9 in May, so our time has finally arrived. The trips been downsized considerably from my original "dream trip", mostly because of cost, but I am still using my entire vacation allotment (and most of our back account) to take 4 weeks of vacation and about 3 weeks in Australia. We are all already very excited!
For those joining in from my last TR - this will be a PTR as well. I'm going to use the first half dozen posts of this thread to keep track of the trip plans.
However, I will continue to post with questions about specifics of the visit. All the Aussie folks on this board have been so helpful I hope you continue giving me opinions, even if I am not able to use them all!
Being a Disney planning board, we are including on this trip a visit to Disneyland resort, so I am not neglecting the Disney portion of the trip. However, that is a mere 3 days out of 4 weeks, so if you've come here just for Disney, you might be a bit disappointed.
Here's the breakdown of the trip
Part 1 (July 21 - July 24): Disneyland - Link - Updated Jan 30, 2012
Part 2 (July 26 - July 30): Sydney
Part 3 (July 30 - Aug 6): Melbourne and Surroundings
Part 4 (Aug 6 - Aug 15): Cairns -> Brisbane (the coast)
Part 5 (Aug 16 - Aug 18): The return / California Part 2
Click on the specific section if you want to know more.
You can check out the advice to-date right here:
Help an American DISer with advice
But, a quick summary to date: Our family has been planning a major trip to visit Australia for many, many years. My DW has been to visit 3 times in her younger days, the last time was in 1996 just after we met. She has wanted to go back for ever since, however I said I would only go if we could really go for a long stay, and once our kids were old enough.
Well, we've saved our money, and our DD turns 9 in May, so our time has finally arrived. The trips been downsized considerably from my original "dream trip", mostly because of cost, but I am still using my entire vacation allotment (and most of our back account) to take 4 weeks of vacation and about 3 weeks in Australia. We are all already very excited!
For those joining in from my last TR - this will be a PTR as well. I'm going to use the first half dozen posts of this thread to keep track of the trip plans.
However, I will continue to post with questions about specifics of the visit. All the Aussie folks on this board have been so helpful I hope you continue giving me opinions, even if I am not able to use them all!
Being a Disney planning board, we are including on this trip a visit to Disneyland resort, so I am not neglecting the Disney portion of the trip. However, that is a mere 3 days out of 4 weeks, so if you've come here just for Disney, you might be a bit disappointed.
Here's the breakdown of the trip
Part 1 (July 21 - July 24): Disneyland - Link - Updated Jan 30, 2012
Part 2 (July 26 - July 30): Sydney
Part 3 (July 30 - Aug 6): Melbourne and Surroundings
Part 4 (Aug 6 - Aug 15): Cairns -> Brisbane (the coast)
Part 5 (Aug 16 - Aug 18): The return / California Part 2
Click on the specific section if you want to know more.