Frugal Vacationers like us?

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Frugal Vacationers like us?
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Sun, 09-16-2007 - 3:10am

Hello everyone! My name is Crystal, and I go to WDW

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Sun, 09-16-2007 - 7:34am

Crystal,


Welcome to the board!


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Sun, 09-16-2007 - 9:32am

Welcome to the board!

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Sun, 09-16-2007 - 12:51pm
Welcome Crystal.

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Sun, 09-16-2007 - 2:35pm
Welcome to the board, Crystal! I'm not a camping type of girl normally (although DH would love it if I were! LOL) so we have not camped at WDW.

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Sun, 09-16-2007 - 3:11pm

Welcome a'board!

I'm not a camper..sorry. I've camped once in my life (I was 11) and never wish to again. We have stayed off-site 8 of my 9 trips, and we just stayed on-site for the first time our last trip.

We always bring our own snacks (although a Mickey bar is purchased at least once per trip for Aly), but we've only brought our own sandwiches once. With just 3 of us, it is much easier to just get the food there and not have to haggle with prepping the food. We do often share food, though, since the portions are so large!














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Sun, 09-16-2007 - 3:16pm

Hi and Welcome!


My first (longer) welcome got eaten by some nasty old laptop - but I can't name names or it will be mean again. :-)


We LOVE camping, and we LOVE Ft. Wilderness, but I admit we stay in the cabins there. It is quite possibly the nicest camground we have ever been to but the lack of ability to have a personal fire is a huge turn off for my dh, so he won't even consider it.

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Sun, 09-16-2007 - 7:10pm
Hi Crystal,
I have never camped at WDW, though DH and I did camp on a trip to Arizona once before we had kids. We felt kind of silly packing a tent, sleeping bags, etc. in suitcases to fly across the country, but we had a great time...I don't know how it would work to camp at WDW having to fly w/ our 3 kids, but who knows...maybe it would work! I would be concerned about the bugs...is it buggy at the campground? How cool does it get at night in November? I guess I'd also be concerned about rain.
But at this point we still don't have lodging reserved for our trip this November...I've got to get on the stick and do that! Just having a horrible time deciding. If the hotels are full, maybe we'll bring the tent and get a campsite!
As for bringing in food, we bring snacks, especially for our 4-yo, who eats several mini-meals a day. A couple sleeves of crackers, and small containers of PB&J, and lots of cold water.
Glad to hear about your frugality -- since all we do pretty much is sleep in the hotel, and sleep like rocks, at that -- it may as well be in a tent! And since we always wake up early when we camp, it'd be that much easier to get the kids going for early EMH...hmmmm...
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Sun, 09-16-2007 - 10:10pm

<If the hotels are full, maybe we'll bring the tent and get a campsite! >


You won't get one at FW.

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Mon, 09-17-2007 - 3:41pm
Thank you so much for the warm welcome! Considering our family size, and DH doesn't make a TON of $$, frugal is the option. Hey, at least we go, right? LOL! We plan carefully and get season passes every year.
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Mon, 09-17-2007 - 4:01pm

When we do eat at a sit-down at DW, it costs us $200/meal. There is just no way to budget that in very often. I make most of the food at home when we camp, things like breakfast burritoes, sausage gravy, waffles, breakfast meats. We just heat it up for an easy, quick breakfast. Dinners are usually frozen at home, then we put one in the crockpot each morning. We have it all down to a science now.


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