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July 2024 - day 4 (AK Lightning Lanes)
Hello at 1039 from No Man Lounge, where we robed jobs at 1030 to get in. But let me go back a little bit. So today we've done a park every day and this is our last of the four parks. So we had three lightning lanes booked this morning, which I highly recommend if you want to churn especially. So we arrived in time to tap in for our 9, 15 am Kilimanjaro Safari. It's once we tapped in, we were able to book a Remy's lightning lane over at EPCOT. I wouldn't count on me able to do that because obviously that one's super popular, but we snagged it and then rode Kilimanjaro Safari. We also modified our Niagara River Journey lightning lane to be grows never after. So that's two tier ones posted EPCOT. And then after going on the standby line at Cali River Rapids, which we haven't done in a long time, but it was only five minutes, we tapped into Expedition Everest with the lightning lane and then booked Soren. So now we have three tier ones at EPCOT stacked for later today if we want to use those. And that's the only way you're going to be able to get a few tier ones is after you tap in for a lightning lane and you book, you can get tier ones as many tier ones as you want. So that is a way to do it. That's one of the reasons we wanted to test it out today. We probably aren't going to have TIPCOT because our flight is out tonight, but we wanted to just prove that we could do it and that's exactly what we did. So after getting off Expedition Everest, we came over to No Man Lounge, which opens at 10.30, not a long line during the summer where the crowds are more casual and not heavy theme party enthusiasts. A lot of people don't know about it, so it's not super difficult to get in. But as I mentioned before, we get hungry early during our trip. So we often eat on tier around 10.30, so that worked out well for us. So we are now ready to have a few small plates and a couple drinks here before we have a single pass lightning lane for flight of passage booked right after this. So I'll be back later to let you know how that goes. Hello at 6.39 p.m. exactly eight hours later. I just realized I missed an update before we finished up our park time. So let me get you caught up before I fly home in just about five minutes. So we ended up going on flight of passage using a single pass lightning lane and then heading back to our resort with a flight tonight. I had the hotel for until tomorrow morning at 11 a.m. But that allowed us today to go back to the hotel, take showers, lay down and rest for a little bit and pack up before leaving. So basically paying for the hotel for part of the day. I don't like having that in between time where you check out at 11. And then have to put your bags of all services and don't have a place to be. That is a source of major anxiety for me. So I'd rather pay for a hotel for partial day, which works better when you're at a value remotterant. And the prices aren't quite as high. Would not do that as deluxe. But anyway, we ended up back at the resort and packed up, took a lift to the airport and now headed home. Normally when we do fly home early in the morning, like the next morning, but we have so much travel that we're really trying to maximize our time at home. So that the people who love us at home don't forget what we look like. But anyway, so we've learned a lot about lighting lanes. That was the whole point of this trip to Disney World, was just to make sure we were familiar with that process. Regarding animal kingdom specifically, we think that although we are a fan of buying lighting lanes or any kind of, you know, whatever they want to call the service, if people are trying to figure out what to buy or not buy based on optimizing their budget, animal kingdom would be a great one to skip. Still think that buying a single pass lighting lane for flight of passage would be to your advantage because those lanes get so long. And then you can rope drop, you know, something else, and then go use that lighting lane. And then you could hop to another park if you wanted to get a lightning lane for that second park. But we ended up getting three tier ones that I've caught today. After we tapped into Kilimanjaro Safari, we got one. After we tapped into Expedition Everest, we got another one, and we modified one at animal kingdom over there. So I wouldn't count on being able to get Remy's, but we ended up with Remy's resident ever after. And so on. So that's one way to do it. Anyway, lots of learning. I'm glad that we were able to experience it first hand so that we can help other people figure it out for their trips. I think that is going to wrap up this trip. I will be back soon with more trippy ports and trips because we have several over the next few weeks. [BLANK_AUDIO]