So I decided to tell Paul. He works really hard, producing,
editing, hosting. So I told him to take the night
off and tonight we are going to do something a little bit
different. This is going to be the ladies
takeover of the DVC show. Hi, everyone.
Thank you for joining us. I'm your host, Amy Krieger.
Welcome to the DVC show. And I am joined by 4 awesome
friends. We've got Mandy Gibson.
She is a mom, a military wife and she is the director of
digital marketing for Key Holder Vacation.
So Mandy Gibson. Mandy.
Gibson, Hello. We also have Alicia McDonald.
You've probably seen her from our episode 2 weeks ago on Keys
to Kindness. Also a mom and a military wife,
and she is a lone originator for Monera.
We've got Alicia McDonald. Hi, guys.
And then we've got Amy Templeton.
You probably are familiar with her in the date night vlogs with
Jeff. And also she's been on multiple
different shows with us, some live streams and other vlogs.
We have got the lovely Amy Templeton.
Hello everyone. And I said this, I said this
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This is my first time hosting. But Amy is not only a mom, but
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And Jeff said, oh, that's me actually.
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Today we are talking about Disney Vacation Club, Disney for
couples, so I thought we could bring some experience.
We do have a couple of panelists that are out of town, so Mandy
lives in Virginia and Alicia lives in Georgia and then Amy is
local. So bringing that knowledge, we
are going to talk about all things DVC for couples and we
are going to start with which DVC resort that we think is the
most romantic for a couples getaway.
So, Amy, tell us what you think. I honestly think any resort
that's on the boardwalk, whether that's Boardwalk, Beach Club,
Yacht Club, whatever, just because it's got just such a
charming vibe to it. It's a short walk to Epcot,
which can be geared a little more toward adults with the
World Showcase. I just think that that whole
area is just so awesome for couples.
Go over and get some ice cream. Well, Jelly rolls isn't there
anymore, but when it was you could go to the piano bar.
So just that whole area I think is is amazing.
Yeah, Oh my goodness. So I I love Borwalk.
That'd be a great option. I'm a little sad right now with
what's missing. So hopefully we get we get some
of that back. Mandy, what do you think?
I was going to say Grand Floridian only because you have
like the spa there too. So you can get like a couple's
massage and do that. And then all of the dining
options right there because you have Narcoses, you have
Citracos, you have all of those right there.
You can all and then you can go over to Bay Lake Tower, you can
go over to the contemporary, you can go over to Polynesian and
there's so many great like restaurants and dining
throughout there and experiences that you can do.
So that would be Grand Floridian would be my I pick on that.
I was I was gonna pick that, but now I feel like I have to pick
something else. Alicia, what are you gonna?
Pick it too, it's fun. No, I got a better one now I I
thought of a better one. Alicia, what is your favorite
couples getaway resort? So I think that Aulani would be
at the top of the list. But if we're talking near the
parks, then I'm gonna go with Riviera just because it's one of
those resorts that if I don't have a kid, it could be very
romantic having that fireworks view from our room.
Being so close to Epcot and Hollywood Studios, you have some
great dining choices. So I think Riviera, if it's a no
kids trip, is definitely going to be my choice for romantic.
So as soon as as soon as she said Aulani, I was like, oh, she
took the one that I was going to pivot to.
But but you talk more about Riviera, I can see all those
great. I'm going to pick Alani.
So Alani for me, you know, especially like when you think
of a couples getaway, like the parks are great, Disney's great
and there's some really awesome, you know, restaurants and and
different things there. But if you're talking about just
something, you know, like romantic, you know, Aulani,
we've got the beach, we've got sunsets, we've got some amazing
restaurants around. If you've never been to, I think
it's called Nina's Fish House, which is at The Four Seasons,
right, right next door. That's an amazing place.
Paul and I are really due for an Aulani trip because it's been a
really, really long time. Alicia, when were you and
Aulani? We haven't yet.
That's why I said that I think that Alani would be at the top
of the list. So I had.
A pivot. That is only.
For a year, so it's still on our list to get.
There. All right, tell Cody that's the
next. That's the next one.
OK, so let's you know, let's talk about favorite Disney date
night spots. So this doesn't have to be tied
to a DVC resort. It can be a restaurant, you
know, it can be anything that you like to go to entertainment
wise, but just a really good date night spot when it comes to
being on Disney property. And this can be Disney World, it
could be Aulani, it can be any Disney Resort, Disneyland,
anything like that that that you have experience with Mandy, what
comes to the top of your mind? The first thing I thought of was
like doing like a dinner, like close to like Boardwalk or Beach
Club, maybe like an ailing compass or something like that.
And then being able to just go and like have drinks around like
World Showcase, like that was like the first thing like fun.
Not just like going to dinner and drinks like, but having a
little bit of like the park atmosphere in there as well.
So that was going to be like, that was kind of the first thing
that came to my mind. I love that, Amy, what do you
think? Well, we're local, so we, we
love going to Disney Springs if we're not doing parks, if we're
not going to stay at a resort, if we just want to go out for
the night, Disney Springs is so great because there's so much
live music, so many restaurants, so many bars, It just, you can
spend so much time there and it just we, we just love it.
We love it for a date night, anything so.
So anyways, Jeff, Jeff and Amy and I keep saying that we're
going to do a date night at the Cirque du Soleil show.
Yeah, so. Oh that would be nice.
Yeah, so sometime we're going to do that.
We're going to record it. Probably not record the show,
but you know, just record like, you know, there's there's
there's like a gift shop in the bottom and just what it's like
and getting tickets and then maybe going going somewhere.
And then Amy, you guys went to a show at Holly or, Oh my
goodness, the House of Blues, right?
Recently with Derek not too long ago.
Was it a comedy show? Oh no, that was at Universal.
Oh, I don't know why I thought that was at Hard Rock.
I don't know. For some reason I kept thinking
that was at House of Blues. Yeah, it was at Universal.
We went and saw Elijah. No.
Who did we go see? I don't know.
We went and saw a comedian there.
OK, I that's also a good date night spot then, but not not
Disney related. Alicia, what is your favorite
Disney date night spot? So we are parks all the way for
date night, but I'm choosing Epcot, I'm going to go ride
Guardians and then I'm going to eat around all the festivals
around the world. No thanks.
You know what? I'll speak to you.
We were, we Gray and Paul and Amy and I did opening of GO-82
and like we kept talking like the whole the whole time about
like how like we wouldn't necessarily go here on every
trip, but it'd be like such a cool thing on like a special
occasion. So like that would be really
awesome to do like as a date night, you know, kind of splurge
a little bit, have that or even do 'cause they have like the
fireworks, they have the dessert package as well that you can do.
So even like doing something like that on a date night would
be really fun. Yeah, Geo is definitely more of
a date night type place. Like it doesn't feel like take
your family. It's like go for something, you
know, the drinks. Yeah, it's more like about the
cocktails and the small bites and the view.
But that's funny, Alicia. I liked yours because nothing
says romance like going on guardians.
Yeah, I'm OK. Listen, I'm.
About thrills, though. I get it.
That works. So I think for me, it would be
one of my favorite date night spots is narcosis.
So if you've never been there, it's it's at Grand Floridian.
It's it's kind of on the water. And then in the evening they
have just really, really great fireworks use and they pipe in
the music obviously. And you can stand out on it's
like a little like balcony slash deck that that goes, you know,
around the whole building because it's shaped kind of
like, I don't know, octagonal, but but that's just a great way
I think to like have dinner and then you end the night with, you
know, like a show with the fireworks.
So you you definitely want to time it if you do that around,
you know, starting, I would say like an hour or so before the
fireworks. And we've done that a couple
times. And they do such a nice job of
and all, really all restaurants that have firework views, just
like California Grill and the ones that, you know, Topolino's,
they do a really good job of pacing people who have dinner
around the fireworks time, you know, for narcosis.
They brought out our drinks and then our appetizers.
And then they're like, OK, we have fireworks.
You know, in this many minutes, these are the best places to
see. And then they waited until after
the fireworks when we were back in our seats.
And then they started with the entrees and everything.
So they do a really good job. And we've had that same
experience at California Grill as well.
So any of those sorts of signature restaurants, to me,
that's like the date night, especially if it can involve a
fireworks view. Let's let's shift gears a little
bit and talk about some nightlife at Disney, which I
feel like it's a little different now because when I
think nightlife at Disney, I think of what just closed Jelly
rolls. But is there anything that you
can think of now like for an evening for some nightlife?
You know, if you brought the kids, maybe they have a sitter,
you know, after date night, Like, what would you do?
What would be your favorite nightlife spots?
Alicia, what do you think? What do you think?
Oh man, I didn't think of it like that.
I thought of it more kind of as like ending the night I wanted
to be over at Fantasmic watching the show that's just, to me, the
perfect Disney show. And then night, whether it be
kids or as a date night. So I would have to choose
Fantasmic. OK, yeah, that's perfect.
And honestly, I used to you used to have more Disney nightlife
back when there was Downtown Disney and Pleasure Island at
Downtown Disney and Jelly Rolls was around.
But I'm pretty sure that me and you really likes going into the
Atlantic Dance Hall and and busting out her dance moves.
Well, you know, sometimes. I don't think you've ever have
you ever. Even stepped foot in, I've never
been in there. Like, yeah, like I was gonna
say, I've never even been in there.
So here we are. I mean, what do you think about?
You're not missing anything 'cause I've only been in there a
couple times and there was maybe 10 people in there and that
included bartenders and anybody else working like it was empty.
Yeah. Really hoping to see that become
something else. I hope they put something fun in
there. I mean, I, I kind of, I struggle
with why they even took out the piano bar to begin with, but
that's a whole nother conversation of which we've
gotten into I'm sure many times before.
But it's so. Fun.
But yeah, Jelly Rolls. I was hoping that maybe they
would move Jelly Rolls to the Atlantic dance hall and like
refurb that whole building because it's so big and would
accommodate so many more people. That was the hard thing with
Jelly Rolls is unless you got there early, it was like
standing room only. So I was hoping they would do
that and use that that Atlantic space better, but not in charge
of the world, so it's fine. This is what they should do.
They should do one of two things.
They should either put in like some sort of like Speakeasy like
that would be so cool to have in that area or turn it into like
kind of like a jazz club and even do like they could even do
like Tianas, like New Orleans, kind of like theme.
I know that doesn't match the World Club, but like, I feel
like one of those two should be the replacement.
That's my hot take. I feel like a jazz club was in
the rumor mill, but I don't. I don't know how a jazz club
could be as lively as as like. Jelly Rolls was the epitome of
nightlife at Disney, and I don't have you.
Have you, Alicia and Manny of you, ever been to Jelly Rolls?
Yeah, I have. You've not.
I am experienced the boardwalk at the bare minimum.
OK, Oh, you're missing out. You missed all the all the best
times. So if you if you've never got to
experience Jelly rolls because it's now gone, It was it was a
piano bar. It was like dueling pianos.
And so you would similar to if you've, if you've ever been on
one of the new icon class ships, they, they do a very similar
concept where you make requests and then they play them and they
can play pretty much near everything.
And then, you know, obviously it's a little big sing along,
but we've had we've had a lot of really good times there.
So, so Amy, with that out of the picture, what, what would you
say would be nightlife at Disney?
Same as my last answer, a little bit, a little bit.
So Disney Springs nightlife for sure with all the live bands and
stuff. But they also do karaoke at
Stargazers and Jeff and I love karaoke and I just think that's
fun to also do for a night out. They do it at Stargazers.
They also do it at the Swan and Dolphin.
But that that to me is just a fun night out.
If we can't go to Jelly Rolls and hear our songs played on the
piano by other people, then we'll just go sing them
ourselves. I didn't even know that they did
that at Stargazers and then at the Swan and Dolphin.
I think it's at kimonos, right? Yeah.
The karaoke. OK, which is the sushi place.
Yeah. So.
So that brings me up to when we did our our little like Disney
Springs crawl for DVC fan Oktoberfest.
And we did one for a different Summerfest the year before.
But Stargazers was actually a really good place, just a it
wasn't crowded. It was just a nice place to go
have a drink, you know, they had food, they were open late.
So that's a really good one. And then also the House of
Blues. Every time I think a House of
Blues, I want to call it Hollywood Plan Hollywood, but
it's not House of Blues has the front porch and we've had, you
know, we've hung out there. They have, you know, they have
some outdoor bars and outdoor food and there's a lot of
seating over there. So those are always some, some
really good spots as well. So Amy, I'm glad that you you
brought those up. Manny, what do you think?
I don't know. I immediately went like Epcot
again and just there's always like some sort of show, whether
it's it's be or like the Broadway series that they do or
like festival of the holidays and you have the narrators, you
know, like that's always a good thing.
But what we've done before, especially like we're like
Epcot, Boardwalk area all the way apparently tonight.
But what we've done before is we've actually hung out at
Abracadabra. We've, we've hung out there with
some friends before, just like after like a day at the parks
and the kids will like go swim or you know, whatever.
And then, you know, we'll kind of hang out there.
They're old enough, by the way, to swim by yourself, but but
that's like, so we would do that and we've done that before too.
And so like that's just kind of fun and like just a nice way to
like in the night or like in the nice day, just kind of hang out
there. It's very, I don't know if you
guys have ever been there before, but it's just, it's kind
of chill. I don't know, we really like it,
but that's kind of like an A nice way to just kind of in the
night. It's not crazy by any means, not
karaoke, but it's just like, I don't know, nice.
It's. Chill, they've got some unique
drinks. And if have you ever had the
chips? The chips with the dips at
Abracadabar. Those are really good to do.
I do like that you brought up the concerts because that's
something that could also be a really good, you know, like date
night or, you know, the nightlife, I guess, because
there are some that are later. Amy, you and Jeff just went.
Jeff just went. Yeah, I was going to say spoiler
alert, date night video coming soon.
We just went and had dinner and a date night at Epcot and went
to did the dining package with the Eat to the Beat and saw
Jordan Sparks. It was, it was like the perfect
night. We showed up at 4:00, we went
and ate dinner, we went to the 645 show and then we busted out
of there to come home and watch football.
So it was like just a perfect like evening away.
Like I would do that every night of the week.
It was so much fun and we didn't ride a single ride we didn't
like. It was just in and out.
We did what we wanted to do and it was great.
Yeah, and they have concerts for pretty much every, every
festival, right, Except for so they do the E to be for food and
wine. They do Garden rocks for flower
and garden and then the Broadway shows for the Festival of the
Arts. So yeah, those are always great.
The last time we went to 1 Dan and Jeff drug Paul and I to
Hanson. So that was that's that's Dan's
favorite. That tracks.
OK, let's shift gears a little bit and think about, you know,
more relaxation. So do you think about if you
have a favorite, you know, a spa or some sort of relaxation
experience, you know, something at Disney to do as a couple
that's more on the on the relaxing side.
Alicia, what do you think of? So I'm going to kind of stick
with the theme of the night. I'm going over to the boardwalk
and just taking the stroll right there on the boardwalk.
Just going to kind of take it easy, go out along the lake,
going to get a corn dog. That's relaxing to me.
The corn dog The relaxing corn dog.
Amy, what do you think about? Well, now that Mandy mentioned
the grand flow and, and spa packages and stuff, I kind of
feel like I need to check that out 'cause we, we've never done
any kind of spa package or anything at Disney.
Relaxing for us is like hanging by the pool with a cocktail.
So. But I, I love a good massage.
So I will take recommendations for Mandy.
Yeah, it's been like it's I actually haven't been recently.
I think like the last time was like 2019.
So like pre COVID. So I don't know what things look
like now, but we did a did I did a massage there.
We did some like we couldn't get into Bippity Boppity boutique
for my daughter. And so we, they had like a salon
package there where they could still like get their makeup done
and their nails done and their hair done.
And so we did that and we did like massage and stuff.
So it was really nice. I mean, like the service was
really great. I'm sure it's still the same
cause. What what all the Grand
Floridian has the spa and then? Saratoga.
So Saratoga's gone? Yeah, It never came back.
Oh, it's. Gone.
Yeah. So on property and correct me if
I'm wrong, we've got Grand Floridian, which is no longer a
census spa. It's not just the Grand
Floridian, I think Spa. And then over at the Swan and
Dolphin we have man Mandara. Something like that.
Something like that that I'm pretty sure, yeah.
And maybe like The Four Seasons is technically on property.
I think there might might be a spa there.
But those are like the two that I know the most.
But the Disney wise you've pretty much just got Grand
Floridian since Saratoga is gone.
Interesting. Yeah, Amy.
Yeah, Time's a token. I know we need.
And, and ground flow's not even my favorite.
So I but I will go there. I will go there for a spur, a
massage, Yeah. You can stay somewhere else and
then just, you know, go over there or stay at the Poly and
then go over there or something also.
Depending on where you stay, like I would be totally fine
just spending an evening sitting on a balcony with a glass of
wine, preferably with a fireworks view.
Like I don't want to go anywhere.
Like give me a glass of wine, sit me on the balcony and let me
just like take it all in. Like that to me is relaxing too
so and cheaper. And and very, very much.
Cheaper boxed wine. I'm not, I'm not all.
Bougie and stuff. No, no, that's that's the best.
One of my favorite things, if it still existed, would be when the
Polynesian used to have the Twilight Feast, which was
basically that you could order like a whole, the whole Ohana
meal room service and it came to your room.
It was huge. Like most people would just
order like for one. And it was enough to feed two or
more people. And so they have that like right
before the fireworks and just, you know, wine and noodles and
fireworks on your balcony. Yeah, that would be perfect.
I I agree. And the spas are nice.
Paul and I actually haven't been to Oh my goodness, same, same as
most of you. You know, pre COVID, I'm pretty
sure is since we've been to the Grand Floridian Spa, we did a
couple of massage ones. It was nice.
And then and then we had one, I think one of you mentioned, you
know, you can go to the spa if you're staying somewhere else.
We stayed at Saratoga and went to the spa.
So we tried to use Disney transportation, which was a hot
mess. And we left like an hour and a
half before our appointment. And because of the buses and how
long it took and everything we were, we missed our appointment
completely. And so they felt bad for us and
we didn't get to have our massage, but they gave us free
pedicures or manicures. Sorry.
So Paul had to get his hair, his nails done with with manicure.
OK, well. Here's this is this is since
we're, you know, military spouse ended up today.
Alicia, have you guys stayed at Shades of Green ever?
We have, yes. It's very similar to Saratoga.
Oh, really? Yeah, and they have, they have a
spa there, Magnolia. Spa we actually just used it for
my daughter. So we had did the Grand
Floridian spa with my daughter for the Halloween party last
year, but this year I saw shades of green and theirs was like $35
for a Princess makeover. So she got her hair up and
glitter and well, the nail people were gone, but they let
us kind of take over and I ended up hitting our nails while we
were there. But it's OK.
Oh my goodness. No, that's, that's really nice.
Unfortunately, you do have to have some sort of military
access to get on the shades of green.
So I know this is not for everybody, but if you do have a
military ID card, you can get on the shades of green.
And they do have, I've heard. I have not been to that spa.
It sounds like Alicia had a good experience, but we have several
friends who have been there and they really like that spa, too.
Yeah, as we're talking of. On the property very cool yeah
and shades of green obviously to have military access, but it's
it's pretty close to it's really close to the Polynesian, isn't
it, location wise it. Is it's.
Right across from the Polynesian.
Good 'cause you could walk to the Polynesian.
Yeah. And now that path is cut it off,
yeah. Yeah, when they did all that
construction right there when they built the tower, Yep, we
can't work over there anymore. So, so thinking about no park
days. So you're on a trip with your
significant other and you're not allowed to go ride Guardians
Alicia. So how are you?
How are you going to spend a no park day?
So I think that's the perfect opportunity to kind of go out
and explore some of those fancier restaurants.
So me and my husband, when we do get date nights, we usually use
like a babysitting service, but we do like to kind of try those
restaurants we know our daughter is not going to sit at.
So like we really want to go to Flying Fish and try that.
But we were able to do Hoop Dee Doo.
I know that kids can go there, but our daughter has a
attentious band that will not sit through that long of a show.
So that was really nice to go over and explore like Hoop Dee
Doo kind of do those different restaurants that we just know
she's not going to enjoy. Amy, how do you spend a new
Parks Day? You know, we like to just
explore the resorts. You know, we, we stay at the
resorts, but sometimes not we don't spend enough time there
because we're going to this park or that park or we're going to
Disney Springs or we're always going somewhere.
But just to stay at the resort and just wander around and and
see what the actual resort has to offer is great.
Also, we've we've done mini golf with friends, which is fun.
Going to the pool or even just staying in the room and and
cooking dinner in your room and just having just a normal
regular day, not going to the park.
Yeah. Yeah, Danny, what do you think?
When so? Many, well, I was going to say
too, and like so many of the resorts now do like activities
like not just community hall, which are for kids, but like
Amy, you guys did one like last year at Wilderness Lodge, right?
Yeah, I was just thinking about that one and there was, there
was actually no kids there because it it was more adult
focused. It was not that a kid couldn't
do it, but it was creating there was multiple different options
of for like wood pieces. So you can make a tray, wooden
tray or a, I don't know what you call it, like a hook.
You know, the thing that hangs like your coats and things.
It was wooden and had had a design on it and there there was
a lot of different options that way and that that did take a
little bit more attention and skill.
So that would be a really good, you know, like couples activity
and then you make something for your for your house or they do
like design wine glasses or you know, I mean all kinds of things
like that at the resorts. Yeah, and they do.
I think they do some too, where it's like some of the, you know,
like the paint. It's usually like wine and
paint. I.
Don't think that's what they call.
It the resorts, but it is like there is like an age limit on
there too. So you don't get as many like
smaller because it is like same thing with the wilderness lodge
activity. It's a little bit more advanced.
So like that's really kind of a cool activity if you did want to
kind of get out a little bit. And what I like have wanted to
do without my children is the night, I forget what it's called
specifically. I'm horrible at this, but the
Night Safari at Animal Kingdom Lodge.
Yes, star. I think it's called like
Starlight. Safari or something that's.
The parade. That's the parading.
I might have made that up. But anyway, I thought that would
be like, I thought that would be so cool to like you could go and
have dinner at Animal Kingdom Lodge and then do like the
nighttime safari. Like that would be really fun.
That would be. Really cool.
Yeah, yeah. And a really good date video or
date night restaurant at Animal Kingdom Lodge.
If you've ever been to Chico, it's definitely a very good like
couples restaurant. You know, it's kind of like an
elevated, it's a signature restaurant.
And so the the dishes are definitely, you know, geared
towards adults, but it's very good.
They have a really extensive wine menu.
So Chico's a really good one for me, a really good no parks Day 4
couples. If you've never done it, Sangria
University, it is at Coronado Springs and it used to be at the
Three Bridges, which it might still be there now, but they're
in the process of changing it the location, but used to be at
Three Bridges, which is in the middle of the lake.
Now it's moving up to the top of the tower to Toledo, which is
going to be a much better place for it because you know, Three
Bridges is is open air. So it's very hot in the summer,
but it's going to be up at the top of the tower at Toledo.
Really great views up there. It's during the day and you're
literally, you're sitting in a class where they teach you about
sangria and where it came from and the history.
And it's more interesting than it sounds.
But also you get to try all these different sangria's and
you get a little snack and then at the end you get to make your
own sangria. So that's always a lot of fun.
So Paul and I did that on our wedding anniversary, I think
last year. And ironically, it was the same
day that we, we signed on our, on this house to buy.
So you know the decisions you make after after Sangria
University, but that one's love. And Amy is correct, it is called
the Starlight Safari. Oh.
See, I didn't make that off. I know I was making fun of you.
I'm like. That's the parade.
They stole the name for the parade.
Let's get a little more creative, Disney, OK?
When you said you made your own sangria, I pictured like,
Lucille Ball, Like stomped, Yeah.
We stomped on the grapes. And everything.
Did you really? No, I'm like I need to.
Go do this. You you got Oh gosh, it's been I
feel like it's been a year. It's been a year and a half now,
but you got like different like things that you can mix in and
different wines you could choose from and different like
garnishes and things like that. So you get to kind of choose
those things and then like mix it all together and different
fruits and stuff because, you know, it's all like different
fruits. So yeah, I, I want to do that
again, especially now that they're moving it to the top of
the tower because I think it's going to be a lot better
experience, like comfort wise. But but that's a lot of fun to
do if you've never done it. And it's every Saturday and
Sunday, I think. So it's on the weekends like in
the middle of the day. So, OK, So what sounds.
Like a lot of debris. There's a lot of debris, yes.
Mandy doesn't like debris in her food, but it's good stuff in my
drink, like oranges and yeah, in your drinks.
OK, so this is a little bit different, but especially since
this may or may not relate to you.
Although Paul and I have the exact same sweatshirt.
So what are your favorite Disney inspired outfits or parks looks?
And like, do you make your significant other ever dress
similar to you? So we see a lot of like matching
couples outfits and things like that.
I know I I've seen Amy do it at a Halloween party.
That's about as close as it guess.
As close as it gets is Halloween.
No, no, no, no. Mandy, have you ever made Josh
dress just like you for? I mean only.
No, not like when we're. I mean for.
Like when we're with the. Kids, if it's for like Halloween
party or something, you know, if we're wanting to do like
coordinating shirts, I feel like when we first did Disney, like
first couple of trips, like we were always trying to do like
matching shirts like I feel. Like, see, that's a, that's a
big thing. But now it's just like just wear
whatever you want. I don't know.
We don't. We don't really coordinate
unless it's a party specific situation.
Alicia, do you make Cody coordinate with you ever?
So have usually it is with the family though kind of all
coordinating, especially like the Halloween parties kind of
coordinate to that. It used to be like I would buy
the shirts, I put it in the suitcase and that's just what he
wore. He.
Didn't have a job? Adopted to really falling in
love with Roosevelt, so now he can find a shirt that he
actually likes and then I can coordinate off of that.
So he's really big on the Hercules, which I am OK with.
So I will find the Meg and be able to coordinate with him.
Speaking of Roosevelt, so that's this is Paul and I both bought
this because we like, we both liked it.
And I said we're just going to have to dress alike.
But this is one of the new Roosevelt's hoodies that is
Christmas theme. So they put out a whole bunch of
Christmas. And what what I like about this
is the hidden Mickeys here. So you can see like the Mickey
ornaments. But they did put out a whole lot
of different Christmas stuff. And it's not just Disney.
There's a lot of Disney, but there's also like Rudolph the
Red Nosed Reindeer and Oh my God, it's the one that just came
out. I think.
Yes, Christmas vacation. I know Paul sent that one in our
group chat and was like, yeah, I'm in trouble.
It's a good one and there's a lot of different.
There's a lot of different prints on it too.
It's a good one. For sure yeah and they have
multiple like multiple Rudolph and Frosty and all this so tons
and tons. Roosevelt yeah Roosevelt is
getting getting a lot of love lately.
My only my only problem with Roosevelt is they have all this
IP like so many license to have all this stuff and they don't
have How to Train your dragon yet.
So that surprises me 'cause they have universal.
I was looking for one specifically for Kodi or how to
train your dragon and I couldn't find anything.
And they have universal, they have all kinds of universal
base. They have ET and yeah, so I
don't know, get with it, Roosevelt's.
We need some some how to train your dragon.
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Two, we need how to train your dragon.
Right for, for hoodies, we need hoodies and shirts and things
that the women can wear too, not just button UPS.
OK, so last thing, any other tips that you would have for
making the most during a couple's stay at a Disney, a
Disney resort. So any, any advice that you
would give any extra tips or thoughts or anything like this?
Like don't forget Amy, what do you think?
You're shaking your head. I was shaking it or I don't
know. I would say if you're, if you're
coming, maybe you normally come with family and you're just
coming for a couples trip. Do all of the things that you
can't do when you have kids or you have a million other people
that you're trying to like, please everybody.
Like do all of the things that you want to do.
Whether that's going to the Cirque du Soleil, Like we talked
about going to a fancy dinner that you're not going to take
kids to and maybe because it's more expensive or because
they're not going to last through a whole dinner, you just
don't want to take them. Or you know, some of the dining
packages. Just things that you wouldn't do
with a whole group of people and just make it special for you.
We have some friends of ours that are always like, well, we
can't really make plans because our kids tell us what they want
to do and we just have to do what they want to do.
That is your opportunity to just be in charge 100% and do adult
stuff. Yeah, I love that.
I love that. And it's OK to leave your kids
behind sometimes and go to Disney with your significant
other. It is.
It's OK. It is.
It is fine.
I say that. I say that all the time when my
friends are like, they're like, we can't go to Disney and not
take our kids. I was like, why?
People do it all the time? No, I would just feel bad.
Well, don't. They'll get over it.
They'll take them next time. They'll be fine.
They will be fine. I will say this.
I will say this though, because it it is hard that and Alicia
probably knows us too, especially like with us and not
always being their family to have like family to watch kids
to go on like trips. I would say if you get the
opportunity to do it, try to prepare a little bit.
Don't necessarily wing it, especially if you know you're
not going to get the opportunity to do it that often, especially
with like some of these, you know, if you're really have your
heart set on doing specific dining, because some of the
higher end dining, those reservations do go fast.
And so I would say as as you can try to prepare for that that
way. Like if this is a once every
couple year trip that you get to take, you know, Sam's kids, then
you've got at least you know, your dining reservations and
everything taken care of. Yeah, and then Mandy has to
bring a peace, offering Stuffy back every time she.
Every. Disney without her kid, Yeah.
Every time. Every time.
Alicia, what were you going to say?
Oh, I was just going to say to the point of Mandy, too.
I mean, there's not a lot of opportunities that we go to
Disney without our kids, but we always make it a point.
Like I said, we've used babysitting services.
They do have them for the Disney resorts and Universal.
So make that in advance so that you can actually go and
experience those different restaurants that you want to try
or just utilizing those extended evening hours, even if it's for
the parks, so that you can do some of those things that your
kids don't actually want to do with you.
Yeah, that's a great 1. And I think one that a lot of
people utilize is called Kids night out.
Is that what it's called? That's who we use.
OK, yeah. And they they will come, you
know, if you're at Disney or Universal and and watch your
kids. So yeah.
So, so it doesn't have to be a kid free trip.
It can just be a kid free night, you know, just just to get away
with your significant other. So I love all those.
Thank you both so much for joining us, us.
That's going to do it for this episode of the DVC show.
Be sure to tune in next week because we are going to talk DVC
with kids.