Hey there, joining in! We are going to be returning for Christmas time! This will be our 4th Holiday time visit (can you believe that
@Sherry E ??), the last 2 were the week before Thanksgiving (which I LOVED that timing for the AMAZING weather) but with an older kid in sports now we had to push it to the first week of December this year. We are staying at either the Tropicana or the Desert Palm….we have reservations at both places, but will have to evaluate if the Tropicana Executive Disney View Suite is worth the extra $400+ over the Desert Palm Parlor Suite...we've stayed at Desert Palm last year and it was nice w/ fireworks view from our Parlor Suite....any feedback on this decision would be appreciated.
We will be arriving late December 2nd. Unfortunately we won't get there until early evening because our local Santa event that *I* refuse to miss is that weekend (it is a REALLY great looking Santa with a "real" professional photographer and an amazing set). Last year we got to Anaheim by noon on Saturday and were able to spend a couple hours in DCA before our hotel room was ready to get settled in, the kids loved that little taste of the parks on the first day last year!!
Anyway, with the Candlelight Processional being that weekend I think we are going to do an ADR for WOC on Sunday night and either spend all day in DCA or start in DL and head to DCA after a short break. We just need to figure out what other meals we want to schedule besides that WOC dinner and the Santa Breakfast at Catal on our departure day (Dec 9th). Besides Plaza Inn with Minnie we may not do any other character meals and concentrate our food spending on the priority “seating” dinners for parades/shows. I Just realized our 60 day dining window will be opening shortly so I need to start getting caught up on the happenings for this year! Fingers crossed the weather and crowds are mild, our last December trip (2013) was the 2nd week of the month and we felt it was MOBBED so I’m slightly worried, but we’ll just have to go with the flow if that happens this time.