Well! Then! Disneyland Planning.

Ok – so, we got the Ak Perm Fund Dividends yesterday – and already i feel…. broke. heh. They weren’t as big as people were hoping, and so it made things a little tighter for the whole Lessa takes her kids to disneyland so they quit bitching and makes the Asshole tag along too trip. Still going, as we’ve already put it off once? And i’m not going to do that to the kids again.

So! Lessa hit the internet and started searching for cheap tickets x5. I’m talking expedia, priceline, hottickets, cheaptickets, Alaska Air [who PISSED me off by reinstating the “kids fly free” but only to ORLANDO instead of Anahiem which is where we’re going! Bastards! Theiving bloody bastards!] and checked with not one, not two, but THREE travel agencies, one whom I’ve done website work for, so they did their damnedest to find me better deals then I’d located already.

So – our base price we started out with for airfare x5 was a grand total of $2800. Can we say OUCH? I knew we could. So, figuring 2 of those 3 travel agencies can go fuck themselves, I took the Airlines they’d mentioned and went direct to the source online.

All hail Web Discounts! Yes indeed! Taking the EXACT same flights Dottie had given me, and looking them up and adding web discounts PLUS the PFD discount through America West, and flying into LAX instead of my preferred Burbank, and I got that down to a grand total of $2222. Who’s your daddy? UHN! That’s only 414+taxes times 5.

So. Borrow daddy’s credit card (since I don’t have one) and hand him cash so he could pay it off right away and get my email confirmation and we’re good to go for the flights. I even got to pick my own bloody seating, so it’s assured all 5 of us are sitting together. Arrange a ride with someone other then TBF to pick us up at the airport, and now he don’t have to deal with LAX and can take his time getting down to join us at the hotel and I get to spend a couple hours with E, which was something she’d requested so everyone’s happy. Whooo!

So – now, we move on to hotel. Anyone and everyone knows that staying at the “Disney” hotels costs an arm and a leg – like 160 a night at the cheapest. What some people don’t realize is that there are a ton of smaller less expensive motels tucked in and about those bigger baddies. TBF and I had stayed at one of them the last time I was down there for Gaydays, and I know he’s stayed there a couple more times since then, so we’re all happy with Super 8. So I give them a call and ask if they charge more for kids. Ha! kids under 17? Free. WHOOT. So, I ask their rate for the days we’ll be down there, and am quoted 52+taxes a night for one room, 2 double beds. Not too bad, and 1/3 of the mainline hotels.

Hit the web? and web reservations bump that down to $44 a night +tax, for two queen sized beds! Boooyah! Borrow daddy’s CC again to reserve that room, will pay cash there, and instead of 250+tax it will cost me 177+tax. Again I say – who’s your daddy? UHN!

So. Park tickets. This is where it gets REAL expensive. The only “child” I have according to disneyland is the pup, everyone else pays adult prices. Ouch. It is truely a huge human trap run by a mouse, as it will cost more then DOUBLE the hotel prices to be in the parks for HALF the time. I managed to find a place, thanks to TBF that sells tickets for 5 bucks off apiece. Not a LOT, no, but they also include coupons for area restaurants! including one 20% off an all you can eat buffet at the house of blues! TBF can do some SERIOUS damage to an all you can eat buffet. *L* And every little bit counts. Total for that, plus shipping, $463.95 on daddy’s CC and cash in daddy’s hand.

Whew.

So – total damage for 2 days of research and spending? $2862.95. This inlcudes flight, hotel and park tickets. This is also over $600 cheaper then my original estimates. See? it PAYS to do your research!

So – all we need now is spending money and food money. Heh. If anyone would like to contribute to the Lessa takes her kids to disneyland so they quit bitching and makes the Asshole tag along too trip, we are accepting donations. *L* Think I’m kidding? *Points to the little button over there at the left* What do you get out of it? Many stories and pictures and post cards too! Thats right! A post card from Lessa herself from the happiest place on earth. What more could you want? *grin*

Of course – you could always just Hire me instead! I’d MUCH rather do some work for you instead and earn my way! *grin*