Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Ah but Spirit, you must admit that the Village is far worse now than it once was. Back in the day, the HNY had wonderful fountains and a reflection pool with an art deco map of manhatten in the summer time. The village had live music everywhere, and a real fiesta atmousphere. There were even a fireworks and lazer show on Lake Buena Vista. Those were the days.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 Those days were before my time (at DLP) alas ... but the basic Village look has largely been the same since '92 ... it's just ugly and bland.
Originally Posted By barboy "As to the 'Disney standards' you refer to, you must realize by the convenient application at WDW of late (and DL further back) that it is an ever-flowing, dynamic concept." Nicely stated!
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "Tokyo our flights cost $495 " Holy crap, I want to find fares like that!! It's harder for me to get to Tokyo from the East Coast because of the extra cost just getting to the west coast.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Yep, me too. Best Tokyo price for us is $900. Orlando - $680, LA/SF - $720, Paris $120. Guess where we are spending much of our time park wise this year?
Originally Posted By barboy Keep in mind that our $495 flights: (1) were out of San Fran International--- one of the easiest/closest launching pads from the US over the pacific. (2) since we don't really work(at least in the traditional way) we get to pick when to travel. So if attractive fares are available we can grab them irrespective of time of year, days and hrs.. Unlike most peoples' schedules Sat's, Sun's and holidays are just like any other times for us. (3) were 2 years ago. 1+ year ago I saw the "Mother Lode" of all fares on Travelocity under their "flexible flights" section: RT(obviously) from SFO to Paris: $383 Needless to say I should have grabbed it but at that time I just had no desire to go to Europe, after all I enjoy East Asia the most.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>Holy crap, I want to find fares like that!! It's harder for me to get to Tokyo from the East Coast because of the extra cost just getting to the west coast.<< First of all... if you are in the east coast, you DO NOT want to go to the west coast, as it adds more money to your fare and 25% more flight time to get there. Also, the more stopovers you make from point A to point B should make the fare *cheaper* because it takes longer and makes the routing less desirable. So going to the west coast would be an option if you don't mind your trip to the far east to take you on average 8 hours longer to get there, as opposed to flying out of the east coast... like on Continental EWR to NRT?
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>as it adds more money to your fare and 25% more flight time to get there.<< Mistake. It should have read <<as it may cost less but adds 25% more flight time to get there.>> Sorry. Now carry on, and I don't mean rollerbags.
