How about heading to the Bahamas Sunday. Ughhhh
This is the normal forecast for Orlando for this time of year.
I called Vistana and asked them about the cancellation policy. They said I could cancel until 4:00pm on day of checkin. Cancellation fee and restricted points policy would still apply. Still waiting this out. Though it is looking less and less that we will be able to go. My wife has to work on Tuesday because the person who would normally back her up had a family emergency and had to leave the country. My wife could work from Orlando, but we are worried that if there is a power failure at the resort, that she won't be able to connect to WiFi. So we may consider going the following weekend. I still see availability.
Confirm as dioxide mentioned that I was given the same option for cancelling my reservation at Harborside today -- cancellation fee waived but SOs would be restricted. I took them on the offer, and when I checked the portal, half of the options came back as unrestricted, so not complaining here!
Missing the coast if you look at the center of the track. Though the cone still shows a potential landfall. Lets hope it keeps going further and further east with each update. THough now it looks like the Carolinas could get the brunt.
That is what I am hearing. We were one of the ones to cancel, though we weren't going to the parks anyway.
We have reservations (RCI exchange) at Islander Beach Resort in New Smyrna. We are driving from Texas to Florida. I called RCI Thursday to see what we could do. They said they will not issue any kind of refund until the resort is CLOSED. I called the resort and they are making it sound like it is a thunderstorm and everything will be normal after it makes landfall. REALLY I just wanted to cancel and not take any chances of being in a place with no electricity, water, stores and restaurants closed, gas in short supply etc. Our reservations are for check in on the 6th. So as of right now we are just sitting ducks waiting to see if we are making the trip or not.
Have you heard anything about your flights? It looks like Nassau is expecting to be in the outer bands and possibly have tropical storm force winds today
I changed my flight and left today. We flew from CLT to NAS at noon. Scheduled leave at 11:20. The flight attendant refused to go because he didn’t feel safe (clearly he didn’t check the news). We got a new FA and took off. We had to do one go around just as we were about to touch down. we landed around 2:45. I’m in my room at the HRA hanging out. All of my friends cancelled but I refused so I’m just chillin all by my lonesome. I was actually thinking about you as we were flying down the FL coast. I was thinking I hope you didn’t cancel your weekend trip to MCO. Weather currently is light winds with intermittent light rain. I can see some heavy clouds in the distance but I’m hoping this clears out by Tuesday.
We did end up cancelling since Vistana waived the $75 cancellation fee. That was before the forecasts started to show the more eastward track. In any event, we are now prepared to ride out whatever heads our way and will probably rebook for another weekend coming up as long as there are no issues in Orlando. Apparently this weekend was the one to go to Orlando. A lot of people cancelled or checked out and the parks are dead with very few people and the weather is great! Though it probably won't be like that in a couple days.
