Will you be there for Thanksgiving? That's one of my bucket list things to be in the US for it. We've been early November quite a few times.Straddle his lap, curl around him, kiss him silly, rid him of his clothes… whatever he (and esp. I) feels like doing
I’m so curious what you’ll get up to. I’ve never been, so I’m always happy to hear other people‘s stories.
I’ll be in Miami at the end of November for 2 weeks, probably not going to make my way up north, since there won’t be that much time. I’m looking forward to it, though.
Sorry, I feel like I've just been propositioned by John Stones, feel a bit faint. This is such dirty talk.
The hotels are dotted around Disney property, and depending on which park they are closest to they are considered 'Magic Kingdom resort area' etc. Disney is 40 square miles so they are scattered over a huge area. There's three categories of hotels, Value, Moderate and Deluxe. The Deluxe hotels are closest to their resort area park and have better transport links. (i.e. Magic Kingdom resort area has monorail and boat services to the park.)
Yes, you can eat wherever you stay. Every resort has a food court, and the Moderate and Deluxes also have sit-down restaurants (sometimes more than one) and the Deluxe resorts also have high-end restaurants called Signatures. Pre-COVID there was the Disney Dining Plan, which you paid for alongside your resort booking. Covered all meals (even included 1 alcoholic drink per meal - mimosas at breakfast, cocktails for lunch and dinner) and 2 snacks a day. You could use this anywhere on site, even at Disney Springs where the restaurants are not all owned by Disney. Have eaten at STK there, can't wait to go back with baby.
I cannot stress to you how amazing the dining plan was, and how much we'll miss it. Most nights we ate in a Signature and you're talking $300+ for your bill, and all we'd have to pay was the tip. In 2017, our food spend if we'd had to pay for it was over $3,300, Dining Plan cost us $1,300.
Only the Deluxe resorts are 'hotels' as we would think of them, i.e. enclosed corridors. The Values and Moderates are more along the lines of what we'd think motels to be like. There's a main building with all the facilities then several different blocks with rooms that open out to the outside. This is nowhere near as grim as it sounds, the resorts are beautiful, and walking to your car from your value room in seconds is SO much easier than trudging along endless corridors in Deluxes, walking through a busy lobby then a massive car park.
This one is a moderate.
The time to get to each park varies, and you have to take into account time to park if you're driving. My role of thumb is leave an hour before you need to be somewhere. Probably 10 minutes to get to a park then you have to park and take a tram to the main entrance. If you use Disney resort transportation (like we will be this year) the bus will drop you right at the entrance.
You can visit all the other hotels to eat or shop (you can't use the pools), and this is probably our favourite things to do. The last time we were there we randomly added an extra two days on to the beginning of the trip a few weeks before we went, we didn't have park tickets for the first day so we tried to visit every resort in one day, but didn't manage it!
To get from the airport to the hotel there was a free bus called the Magical Express, they've discontinued it now but the company who operated it have rebranded (and started charging), but it's the same service.
All on one site. Usually we don't leave site other than to go to Walmart/Target to stock up the fridge in the room, but this time I think we'll be using Uber to go out to eat a lot as the prizes onsite are just wild.
LOVE YOU SO MUCH FOR ASKING THIS.
Although he went out last weekend and he can’t handle his drink so I may guilt him tonight and make him drive 
