golden birthday trip tips?

Originally Posted By brearminn

I am planning a special trip in 2012 for my 30th birthday, this is my golden birthday you only get one in a lifetime i was born on the 30th and i am turning 30 so even though i have visited WDW many times i want this to be the most unforgetable ever for myself, i have invited my family and friends. as i have started planning i find it to already be like everyother one of my wdw trips, how can i make this one the most spactacular one ever, since i have 5 years to plan and save, i am not making cost a factor.

ANY SUGGESTIONS??

 

Originally Posted By brerminn

Sorry i know i accidently added an A to my name.

 

Originally Posted By FerretAfros

Well, my biggest suggestion at this point would be to save up a ton of money. Since that is so far from now, I really don't think any of us know what sort of neat little things there will be to do, but hopefully the same general stuff will be there. I would suggest taking one of the tours offered. Few of the tours are simply showing you around the park, but insteady they show you the park in a whole new way. I've personally always wanted to do the Segway Epcot tour, or one of the backstage ones. I don't know which ones will be around then, but I would expect something that interests you would be there.

I would also doing something really fancy, but still really fun, like the dinner and reserved seating for Fantasmic!. Although you could also have a nice dinner elsewhere in the park or even nearby and camp out for your spot, it seems a lot more fun and extravagant in that royalty kind of way to just get reserved seats.

Although the parks are great, I would also suggest taking some time off from them, and spending a day just looking around the resort. Rent a boat and play around on the water for a while. Go look at some of the resorts and all the neat stuff that they have to offer. At night, watch the Electrical Water Pageant float around the Seven Seas Lagoon. Play some miniature golf, and just do all those little things that seem to often get lost in the vacations. I'm not sure what will be around, but I'm pretty sure they will have all sorts of neat new little things to do.

 

Originally Posted By dixielandings

go to guest services and get a birthday button
they say you will get extra treatment from the cast
my son will be turning 4 when we are there in 2 weeks i will let you know how it goes

 

Originally Posted By nats30

I thought the golden bgirthday was when you were 50 not 30.

 

Originally Posted By nats30

Sorry for the spelling error

 

Originally Posted By nats30

Sorry for the spelling error

 

Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey

I didn't know there was such a thing as a golden birthday - I thought you just got old.

Golden anniversaries are an accomplishment, but do you get to be golden just for not dying before you're 30?

 

Originally Posted By beamerdog

^^^^LOLOL

Actually I did. My parents bought me a gold watch since they never thought I'd make it to that big 3-0h.

 

Originally Posted By beamerdog

Try deciding on a theme for the whole trip (not just your birthday). Like finding 30 of something, or having your whole party do a scavenger hunt associated with things that you like or do all thru the parks.

I would contact guest relations in each of the parks and the hotel where you plan to stay and ask them for specific suggestions. I once contacted the pastry chef at one of the better hotel restaurants (don't want to mention names for fear of getting someone in trouble) and she made a HUGE cake for my DH's 50th birthday with 50 candles on top. It was a truly spectacular surprise for him. Of course, I don't think it would be quite as bright with 30 ;-)

I have had lots of cm's go the distance to make things special for my family.

 

Originally Posted By Labuda

Golden birthday i8s indeed the year you turn whatever age on the same date you were born. For me, my golden birthday was my 18th.

 

Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey

My golden birthday was when I was 2, 31 years before I even knew what a golden birthday was.

I got screwed!

 

Originally Posted By Labuda

No worries, Nikki - I didn't know it was my golden one when I was 18, either! lol

 

Originally Posted By Bucky N Satchel

I was 2 as well . Maybe I can make 66 MY golden birthday since that was the year I was born.

 

Originally Posted By Labuda

Good idea! 73 will be my next golden age! LOL

 

Originally Posted By beamerdog

Oh no! I missed both opportunities :-(

 

Originally Posted By danyoung

A few weeks before my 40th birthday I took up scuba diving lessons. I graduated 2 days before my birthday, and headed off to WDW. My first official logged dive was in the Living Seas! It was just incredible, hanging out on the other side of the glass with all the fish! I finished the evening with dinner at Coral Reef, and then partying at Pleasure Island (where I got carded on entry - a great gift for a 40 year old right there!!!).

 

Originally Posted By Spirit of 74

^^^Danny, when you dove the Living Seas were you mistaken for a whale and left in the tank overnight?

(just a shot for the MIA TDLFAN!)

 

Originally Posted By danyoung

Cheap, and so beneath you, oh Spirit.

 

Originally Posted By Spirit of 74

I feel sooooo dirty ...