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Please stand clear of the doors. For favor, manténganse a lesson with the must.

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Please stand clear of the doors. Hello everyone, I'm Alicia.

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And I'm Nathan.

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Welcome to episode 204 of Adventures and Mouscapades. This week we've done golden tickets, but that was just Disney World. What if we went beyond Florida and made this even harder?

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Indeed. If you listen to episode 198 just a few short weeks ago, okay, several long weeks ago is the way the world works these days. Um, yeah, we we had a list of 10 things and this we borrowed this from somebody online and expanded on it a little bit. And we had a challenge of these 10 perks, choose two uh that we would use. And we kind of thought we could make this a lot tougher on ourselves in order to choose which things we would uh we would be interested in. So that's what we're doing. We're giving ourselves our own patented, it's not patented, Disney torture test. With that, let's dive in to our 10 contestants, shall we? Let's do it. All right.

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For our platinum ticket options, these are all lifetime benefits. So permanent pixie dust.

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Exactly.

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First one, Club 33 membership at Disneyland. An ultra-exclusive private club tucked inside Disneyland. It offers fine dining, impeccable service, and access to a hidden world of Disney luxury. Membership includes special perks, events, and a level of prestige that few ever experience.

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Indeed. Second on our list of 10 is Club 33 membership at Disney World. They are separate things. This is the East Coast counterpart to Disneyland's Elite Club, granting access to private lounges in multiple parks. There's one in each park, priority reservations, and a VIP experience that transforms every visit into something extraordinary.

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Next one is six Disney Cruise line cruises a year in Concierge. Sail the season ultimate style with six annual cruises in concierge level staterooms. Every itinerary is yours to choose, and flights are covered, making global Disney Adventures effortless and luxurious.

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Or, number four, two adventures by Disney trips per year. Embark on two guided, story-rich vacations annually to destinations worldwide. These immersive experiences combined Disney level service with cultural exploration, with all flights included for stress-free travel.

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Next on the list is a house in Golden Oak and all of the membership benefits. You can own a home in Disney's most exclusive residential community. You enjoy private club access, concierge services, and a lifestyle steeped in Disney magic right outside your door.

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And for those who aren't familiar, Golden Oak is a neighborhood that is just steps away from Magic Kingdom and Epcot there in Florida.

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Multi-million dollar houses.

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Some are incredibly large, some are stupidly large. Yes. Take your pick, whatever you want. Also on our list, 12 VIP tours per year. Skip every line and experience the parks like royalty with a personal guide. These tours offer backstage access, priority seating, and curated itineraries for the ultimate stress-free Disney day.

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Then we have free dining at any on-property restaurant. Dine like a king or queen at any Disney restaurant, parks, or resorts without ever seeing a bill. From quick bites to signature dining, every culinary craving is covered for life.

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That's a good thing we uh had lunch before we recorded this because it's starting to make me hungry thinking about all of those options. Speaking of options, number eight on our list is free accommodations at any on-property resort. Stay anywhere on Disney property in any room category at no cost. From value resorts to the most luxurious suites, your dream Disney stay is always waiting.

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Number nine, we have free minivan access, like M-I-N-N-I-E. Yeah. Yeah, mini mouse. For all your transportation needs at Disney World, enjoy private Disney themed transportation across property whenever you want. No waiting, no hassle, just seamless travel with a touch of pixie dust.

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And finally, on our list of 10 options, one week every year at every Disney Parks resort worldwide. Spend a week annually at each Disney destination across the globe. This includes park access, VIP tours, premium accommodations, dining, and travel, making you a true citizen of Disney's worldwide kingdom. And for those who may not know, this would include all four parks in Walt Disney World, the two parks at Disneyland of California, the two parks in Paris, the two parks in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and you know, when it finally exists, Disney and Abu Dhabi. There we go. Yeah. And it wasn't really clear in there. I want to specify for you, Alicia, that would be one VIP tour per park per year. So every year you get to go to each park. Every year you go get to go. Well, no, you get a week in each park, but you'd only get one tour per park. So you'd get a week to be in Florida, but you only get four VIP tours, one per park. Okay. I'm just making the rules. All right. So that's the list. Any questions?

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No.

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What's next? All right. Let's debate. This time, because I'm a PM, I wanted to add data into the mix here. So we are going to debate our options just like we did last time. But this time we're going to use a scoring system to help us empirically decide what the best options are. We will score each option on a scale of one to 10 in each of these categories. Value, frequency of use, uniqueness, convenience, and wow factor. For value, how much monetary worth does this perk represent annually? Frequency of use, how often would you realistically use it? Uniqueness, how rare or exclusive is the experience? Convenience, how easy is it to take advantage of this perk? Time, logistics, all the rest of that stuff. And wow factor. How much does this impress or excite you personally?

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So we're doing scale of one to 10. Yes. Can we use each number only once?

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No. Okay. Individually rate each thing.

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Okay.

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I don't want to, we're not going to stack rank. That would take too long. Okay. Um, we are going to weight these categories though. Value is 30%, frequencies 20%, uniqueness is 20%, and then convenience and wow factor get 15%. If you do math, that's 100%. Wow. That's right. We will come out with a 1 to 10 score for each of these 10 options. Any questions, Alicia? You good to go?

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Good to go.

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All right. Let's kick off the great debate. All right. All right, Alicia, first up, we need to talk. Do we want to do Club 33 in Disneyland or Club 33 in Disney World? Which Club 33 membership offers more value and exclusivity given the differences in park size, number of lounges? One has a restaurant, another one doesn't. Overall experience. What are we doing? What are you thinking?

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Uh Disneyland.

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Yeah?

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Yeah. Because there's also the lounge over in California Adventure.

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True.

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It has a full restaurant. It's not just a lounge.

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True.

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Now, I haven't been to any of the Disney World ones, so I do not have firsthand knowledge of that. I think I'd rather do Disneyland though.

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Yeah. There's something about the nostalgia factor of the original. I think there's also the how do we want to say it? The clientele that you will likely get to rub shoulders with, you may see some more familiar faces in California than you do in Florida. Yeah. So okay. Um, value. Uh, this one's expensive. Yeah. If you're going to uh uh pay for this, I would say uh kind of given all of the other things, there's a lot of very expensive things on here. Uh I'm gonna give this, I don't know, we'll just start off. This is hard. I used to do judging for high school marching bands. Like the first band up, like where you start your scoring, dictates what scores to happen for the rest of the day. Do we want to start this one out at a seven and eight? What are you thinking?

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With this, would we have to pay for dinners and drinks? Or is that all included?

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Oh, great question.

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I'm I'm or is it just the membership itself?

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No, I think this is just the membership. This is um all of the perks you get with the membership. So this is really access to the lounges, this is access to the the restaurant. You still have to pay for food and drinks and all the rest of that stuff. Uh, you do get four annual passes, you do get uh individual day tickets, you get uh, I think it's three or four VIP tours a year. I mean, this isn't a very spendy thing to do for just the buy-in, and then there's annual dues as well. Um, but it, you know, it comes out in the wash in terms of the benefits that you get. But to your point, you're still having to pay for those dinners if you do want to eat there. What are you thinking? Uh I'm I'm kind of talking my du myself down, like maybe a six.

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Yeah, six or seven.

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I had seven originally. Uh-huh. I see what you did there. I'm not gonna acknowledge that. Um you just did. I know. Let's do whole numbers only. Six, okay. Uh frequency, how often would we use this? I I if we were it down there, I'd use it all the time.

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Yeah.

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That's a great assumption. Let's assume we're living. Well, obviously, with number five owning a house in Florida, um, we'd have a house in Florida. But other than that, let's assume that we still live here. Okay. Other than that, don't worry about money. Which wouldn't that be nice? Um, so frequency of use of a Club 33 membership at Disneyland. I'd give this probably a six for us, a five for us.

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Um I think if we had membership down there, we'd go down a lot more often.

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True. That's okay, that's fair. Seven?

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Yeah.

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Okay. Uniqueness, uh, ten.

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Yeah.

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Uh convenience, which is how easy is it to take advantage of this uh perk, you know, in terms of time and logistics. Assuming we still live here, I'm gonna still it's pretty convenient to take uh and no, it's it's actually not because we'd have to get plane tickets.

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Um it's not just like a uh technically none of these are convenient unless we're living there. Yeah, I'd say five.

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Okay. Wow factor ten.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Okay. All right. Cool. All right. Club 33 at Disney World. Value.

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I have no idea how much this one is.

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I don't think the price is as different as it used to be. I think it's kind of comparable.

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Okay.

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I but still, I'm gonna give it a five. It doesn't have a restaurant. Yeah. And I don't think they have the same hours. Like their lounges aren't open as late, I don't believe. I'm gonna give it a five. Frequency, I'm gonna give this was a six, five. That's a cross-country flight for us.

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Yeah.

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Like five? Five. Yeah, okay. Uniqueness is a ten.

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Yep.

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Yeah. Um, convenience, four for us in our current situation. Yeah. Wow factor is a ten. Yeah. I agree. All right, cool. All right. Next up on our debate questions is a home in Golden Oak versus unlimited resort stays. Is owning a home in Golden Oak worth more than having free accommodations at any Disney resort worldwide, considering flexibility and lifestyle?

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Um, I'd go for the unlimited resort stays.

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Yeah, I actually think I would too. I would love to own a home in Golden Oak, but uh being able to go anywhere else and like even forget the the cost of travel and all the rest of that stuff. Like, if you take the cost of accommodations off the the table, like that's a huge dent in your trip. So okay, all right. So we're gonna go unlimited hotel stays, is would be our preference.

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Yeah.

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All right. Well, let's let's do some numbers here. In terms of value, a home in Golden Oak clearly is a 10.

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Yes.

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That that is that's a lot.

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Yep, millions.

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Uh frequency of use. I mean if we owned a home in Golden Oak, we would use it all the time.

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Yes, that would be an everyday type thing, right?

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Yes, I'm gonna give that a 10. Yes. Uniqueness, 10. Convenience. That's awfully convenient. Yeah. Um, is this a 10? Yeah. Wow factor. Is it is it 10?

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Yeah. This is this is gold star.

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This is weird. This is weird. We just said this isn't the thing we would choose, and yet we just gave it tens. I love scoring.

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Well, there's scoring versus personal opinion, which are two very different things.

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Okay, that's fair. That's fair. All right, so free accommodations, value.

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I think that's a 10.

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That's a 10. Yeah. Uh frequency of use.

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That's a 10 as well. I mean, we would use it all the time. All the time. How often would you realistically use it?

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Would we need a house here? Could we just travel the world living at Disney resorts? 10. Oh goodness. Yeah.

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Okay.

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Uniqueness. Mmm. This one gets knocked down in uniqueness. Seven, eight, eight, seven? Seven. Seven? Okay. Convenience. How easy is it to use that? Well, I can book a hotel room on my app.

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So yeah, it's pretty convenient.

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Yeah. Um, it it's a step down from owning the home and actually having your stuff there. You do have to pack and move. So I'm gonna knock it off a point. We'll give it a nine. Okay. All right. Wow factor. Eight?

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Yeah, I think that makes sense. Okay. It's pretty cool, but again, the whole packing and moving a week at a time.

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Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. All right. Next up on the great debate. And this one is actually very interesting because these two service offerings are often compared, or one is often referred to as a gateway to the other. So Disney Cruise Line Concierge, and that is six cruises a year, versus adventures by Disney, two of those a year. Would you rather explore the world by sea with six luxury cruises annually, or by land with two immersive A B D trips each year?

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Cruise line.

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Yeah, you get more use out of it.

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Yeah.

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It's not saying I don't want to do an A B D trip or several.

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But it is um, I think the longest ABD is like 14 days.

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I disagree. The longest ABD is an outlier. It's a month long. That is the trip around the world.

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Yeah. Oh my gosh, do that twice a year. Okay.

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Okay, but I think in general, I'm with you. I would um I would do DCL concierge on six cruises a year. Yeah. Uh they would all be very long cruises.

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Oh, there's a transatlantic.

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All the transatlantics, all the Panama canals, all the long ones. Oh, there's an 11 night to uh to the Southern Caribbean. Oh, they're doing a 10 night to Alaska. All of the long ones.

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That is more our speed. While I do, I would love to do an ABD Adventures by Dizzy Disney. I like the relaxation of the cruises.

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Yeah. Agreed. Agreed. Agreed. Okay. So let us do some rankings. Let's see. Do you want to do concierge on DCL first? Sure. All right. Value. Um that I would think that's actually more, that is more expensive than a Club 33 membership.

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Yeah.

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So we had Club 33 at uh a six in Disneyland.

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Eventually, I mean, if if this is if we're just doing one year, we're not though. We're doing over the lifetime of the thing. This would cost more than more than a house, too.

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That's true. Uh plus you have more experiences. Oh, should we knock that? Hmm. Do we want to go back and edit our scores or just ship it?

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Just ship it.

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I mean, we're gonna have to Are we gonna give DCL a 10? Yeah. All right. Ten on value, frequency of use. Ten. Ten. Um uniqueness. How rare or exclusive is the experience? I don't think I I'm gonna say eight. I think getting into concierge.

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I don't know that it's I still I think it's a little lower than that. I think it's seven because every ship has concierge available. True. And the newer ships have a lot more concierge rooms.

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Very true, very true. Um, convenience.

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How easy is it to take advantage of the sperk? I mean, it's pretty easy.

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Yeah. We do have to travel, but the flights are included. Yeah. Nine? Yeah.

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Yeah. Okay.

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Uh, and then wow factor.

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How much does this impress or excite you personally? 10. 10.

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All right. And then the other one was ABD trips, value.

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These are, I'd say, um, they're probably they range from I think 3,000 up to 12,000 per person per ABD.

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Right. But there's also the value of the experiences. And that's like an intrinsic, like it's not a monetary value. I'm gonna give the value of this perk. I would like to give it a six or a seven.

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I was gonna say seven.

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Okay. I'm gonna ignore what I just said. You're welcome, Jen Alpha. Frequency of use. We would use the heck out of this at two times a year.

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Yep.

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Yeah. Uniqueness. I don't think this is super unique. I think some of the experiences are though.

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I think this is more unique than Disney Cruise line, though.

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That's oh, I like that perspective. Yeah. Eight? Eight, nine, eight, eight. What did we what did we do for seven for the cruises? Nine. Nine. You got it. Convenience. I think this would be more convenient. Well, at least as convenient as DCL, which was a nine. There's only two of these trips, so it's not as true. Yeah. Can we give it a 10? They take care of you. They handle all of the transfers and all the rest. They pick you up at the airport and they drop you back off of the airport. WoW Factor, is this a nine?

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This is a nine, I think. Yeah. Okay. All right. Uh, the next one is VIP tours versus club 33 membership. Does skipping every line and having a personal guide 12 times a year beat the prestige and perks of Club 33 membership?

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I don't think so. I don't think so, but it's a lot closer than I think some of the discussions we had during our golden ticket episode were. Because you do get, I think it's four VIP tours a year, maybe five with a uh with a pat with the membership rather. But like having 12 tours, like that's that's pretty, that's pretty incredible, but you still have to buy the tickets and all the rest of that stuff. And I think the prestige and the perks of Clarity 3, that's something that's a different level. Yeah. So I'll I'll I'll be with you. I'll I'll agree. Club 33 will beat having 12 VIP tours a year.

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We already did Club 33, so going through the 12 VIP tours per year.

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Yep. Value. This is I want to say a nine. Those tours are, you know, including tip and everything. You're looking, you're looking at five to you know, nine, maybe even ten thousand dollars for a day times twelve.

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Yep.

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Um, I think you're getting some incredible value out of that. Now, it's it's not a multi-million dollar home. Uh you know, uh, but it ain't cheap either. So I'm gonna I'm gonna say nine. Okay. Frequency of use. Uh 12 times. Yeah, exactly. I give this a 12 on a radio. Yeah, I'm gonna give this a 10. Uniqueness.

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It's pretty exclusive, although any there's like no wait list to to get membership to this. Um eight? Yeah, yeah, that's fine.

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All right, convenience. How easy is it to take advantage of this in terms of time logistics?

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I think you just call them up and see if they have availability. That's pretty convenient.

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It is. There's a limit of availability.

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Yeah.

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Nine? Sure. I'm gonna give it a nine. Wow factor. Uh I'm gonna give this a nine.

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Okay.

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I mean, it's up there, but yeah. Okay. All right. Next up, let's see. What is our next comparison, Alicia?

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Free dining versus free accommodations. Which perk saves more money and enhances the Disney experience? Never paying for food or never paying for a hotel room?

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Clearly, the answer would be both. Um your room will cost more money. Like to me, this one's just practical.

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Yeah.

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And it comes down to value. It's not that the food isn't valuable.

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Is this assuming we do not have DVC membership? Because if this is assuming we do not have DVC membership, then yes, hotel will be better. If this is assuming we do have DVC membership, I think food would be better.

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Oh, like given our current situation, if you were gonna choose one of these, which one would make more sense? Yeah. Okay, I can go with free food. We already have it's not free, but it's prepaid accommodations. Okay, I can get behind that one.

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Well, okay. Now I'm second guessing myself.

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No, now you're arguing.

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Because free accommodation, you can pick any accommodation.

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Uh-huh. We could it's gonna be pop century. No shade.

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No, we could hit the adventureland suite every time at Disneyland Hotel.

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Uh-huh.

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I changed my mind.

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We could get the the the three-bedroom uh grand villas wherever we want to go.

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Pending availability. Yeah, I think I think room. Yeah.

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Okay. All right. We're back to room. Yep. All right. So we've already ranked free room, free accommodations. Let's look at free dining in terms of value. I mean, this is pretty valuable, but given the scale of everything else that we've gone through, yeah. Uh everything else is a lot more expensive. I'm gonna give uh four. Five?

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I think five. Food is expensive.

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That's fair. Especially if it's free and you're gonna eat more of it or eat better, make better selections.

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And if your food is paid for, like if it's if you get free food, you're gonna hit all the booths.

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Yes.

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You're gonna hit you're not gonna worry about cost for anything, and you're gonna have every single meal on property.

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Very true. Never do dishes again. Frequency of use, 10.

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Yeah.

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Uniqueness. I don't think this is I mean, it's just five? Like, would you say four?

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I said four.

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I'll go four.

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Okay.

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Uh convenience, ten. Yeah. Oh, you gotta book you're getting into reservation. Do you have you're still having to play the reservations game even if you're paying for food. So it's really just is the check comped at the end of this or not? Um are you upgrading the perk?

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I I would upgrade the perk.

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Okay. If we're able to eat wherever we want, whenever we want.

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Every restaurant has a Novak table.

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Love it. No complaints there. Where are we gonna rank this in terms of convenience then? 10?

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Yeah.

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All right. Wow factor.

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Five.

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Yeah. Yeah. Agreed.

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Agreed.

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All right. Next we are comparing minivan access versus VIP tours. Look, having minivan access would be fantastic. Love it. It does not compare. It's not our VIP tour. It's not a VIP tour. Yeah. Uh I will take minivans to get to my VIP tour and back.

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Yeah. Oh no, we wouldn't need to. They'd pick us up.

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That's not how that works. You do need to meet them in the park. Damn it.

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Okay.

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But uh yeah, it's um it's it's not up.

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Okay. Minivan access value.

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Four. Three.

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Those are some expensive Ubers. Lifts.

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Yeah.

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But yeah, okay, yeah. Four.

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Okay. Frequency.

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How often would you realistically use it? We'd use it if we had this, we'd use it every single time.

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All the time. Ten?

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Yeah.

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Okay. Uniqueness. Four.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Convenience. Ten. Wow factor. Five, four. I would love it. I would use it, but it it's it's fine.

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It's just it's your show. It's your chauffeur. Yeah. It's literally what it would be. Yeah.

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I am your chauffeur when we do these trips. So no change for you, although I am more beautiful. Thanks for the stunning silence that followed that statement, hon. I love you.

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Love you too. Global Disney Week versus Golden Oak home. Would you prefer one magical week every year at every Disney destination worldwide or living permanently in Disney's most exclusive neighborhood? I think I would do Global Disney Week.

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Yeah. I I could be persuaded for the sake of argument, not that we're arguing about it. I think I'd take the home. No. I'm a coin flip on this one. I really am. I and the where my brain is is if I'm not paying for housing anymore, I can probably afford a global trip somewhere. And I would love to, well, we're not on our global jaunts around the world that would, you know, consume, you know, that's what, uh six, six, seven uh weeks out of the year. Um it's everywhere. Oh my God. I would much rather be living in Orlando near all our friends.

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So there's nothing saying we wouldn't have a house there already. It doesn't have to be a Golden House Oak house.

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Okay. All right. I I will you have convinced me we're we are trotting the globe.

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Housing costs in Orlando is very different than housing costs in Seattle.

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Very, very true.

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Yes. I feel like we could get a house in Orlando that we like for a lot less than one in Seattle. Yes. And looking at the Golden Oak homes, they don't have any smaller homes.

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That's true. A lot of those places are honestly too big.

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They are humongous.

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Yeah. I don't need a 7,500 square foot estate. I I just I don't.

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No. I and that's one of the main reasons that I would go with personally the Global Disney week.

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Okay. Well, Global Disney Week is the one thing that we haven't put numbers behind yet. So value for a global Disney week. How much monetary worth does this represent? Uh this ain't cheap.

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Um This includes park access, VIP tours, accommodations, dining, and travel. This would I think this is up there. This is a nine or a ten.

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I'm gonna give this a nine because it's not uh it's not a house and it's not something that's gonna uh free accommodations for the year.

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Um this is true. It is, however, every year. The cost of a house True. You go you have to balance it out.

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We going ten?

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I I think it's either a nine or a ten. I'm just giving you devil's advocate here and saying I'm gonna go nine.

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Okay. All right. Frequency of use, ten. Ten. Um uniqueness. That's a you that hitting every park every year. Every year. Yeah. That's a that's a that's a ten. Yeah.

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Convenience. This is not super convenient because of course, neither are the six cruises a year.

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No, but twist our arms, let us suffer. Eight?

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Okay.

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Yeah. Wow factor.

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This is up there.

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This is nine or ten. Nine?

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Yeah.

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Okay. Sounds good. All right. We have ranked everything, but something I've noticed here. Yeah.

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There is no mention of Aolani anywhere.

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Oh. Have we failed in our we get we get some perks and we we buy more points at Awalani.

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I guess that that would be accommodations at any. Well, it's not on pro that's not considered on property. Or is it its own property?

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Oh, I like it. We just backdoored our way into Awalani.

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Cool. Or Hilton Head or Vero B.

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Right, exactly, exactly. I mean, we're not we're not uh, you know, equal opportunities, folks. All right, we have a few more comparisons to do, and then we will look at the numbers. Disney Cruise Line Concierge versus Global Disney Week.

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Can I alternate?

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Would you rather sail the high seas? No, I'm gonna alternate. I'm good. You're gonna alternate?

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Yeah.

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You're gonna do global?

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No, I'm gonna do Disney Cruise Line Concierge one year, then I'm gonna go do Global Disney Week the next.

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Okay. Got it. I don't know. Um which offers the better global Disney experience? Six luxury cruises annually or visiting every Disney park worldwide once a year. This is a difficult one. This is how do you want a vacation for free?

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Yeah.

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This is do you want a relaxing vacation or do you want to be able to go do stuff in the parks?

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You could still relax in the parks. If you're going every single year.

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That's true. Your your must-do list is real small.

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Yeah. And it also includes a VIP tour. So you're gonna hit. You don't have to do, I'm gonna, you know what? I'm gonna do the Global Disney week. I love DCL so much. Yeah. But I think we can still do relaxing and whatnot during a global Disney week.

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Okay. I'm gonna take, I'm gonna take DCL. Okay. Um, I'll invite you on my trips, you invite me on yours.

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Perfect.

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All right. Adventures by Disney versus a global Disney week. Is the cultural depth and storytelling of ABD trips more compelling than the breadth of visiting every Disney park worldwide?

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You want to say yours first and then I'll say mine?

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I think you get more out of the Global Disney week and you're going to some unique places, you don't have to spend every day in the park, but you have accommodations and travel to get there. You have a VIP tour to maximize your park time when you're there that gives you an opportunity to use some other days on that global travel week to visit. I'm gonna take the Global Disney week.

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I was gonna do Global Disney Week, just knowing us and how we vacation. Adventures by Disney is very much a go, go, go thing. Yeah. And when we vacation, yeah, we do like to do that every once in a while, but we very much need relaxation time.

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Yes. Yes. All right, Global Disney it is. And our last comparison free dining versus club 33 membership. Does unlimited dining at any Disney restaurant rival the exclusivity and prestige of Club 33 access, where you have to pay for dinner and drinks?

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I am a snobby bougie person. I want my club 33 membership. Thank you.

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Yeah, I'll take 33 as well. I just yeah. I can still get my grilled cheese at Club 33. They will.

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Can you, though?

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Yes.

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Did you do did you do that?

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No.

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I know Sterling did.

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It's there, it's possible.

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You know what? What? This is my challenge to you next time we are there.

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You're gonna make me order a grilled cheese sandwich. Can I get I would like an old-fashioned and a grilled cheese, please.

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If we ever get the same, we've we've had the same server a couple of times when we have been blessed enough to go there and she's recognized us. We'll have to, if if we get her again, we'll have to talk with her about hey, grilled cheese.

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Yeah. Okay. I love that. Yep. An old-fashioned and a grilled cheese at Club 33. Love it. Sold. Sold. All right, Alicia. It is time for some final rankings.

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Okay.

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Which order do you want to go?

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Lowest to highest.

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Okay. I don't know.

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No. What are we are we doing each one individually or total?

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We're gonna stack we have stacked. I have stack Excel has stack ranked. All 10 options. Okay. So I'm gonna go from our lowest total score up to our highest. Okay. All right. Coming in at number 10, we have free minivan access at a score of 6.25.

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Okay.

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Next up is free dining with a score of 6.55. Then we have so low on the list, club 33 at Disney World at a 6.6. And then a pretty decent jump up to club 33 at Disneyland at 7.45 for our number seven spot. Next up we have at number six two ABD trips per year, scoring at 8.75. Then we have free accommodations anywhere on Disney property at 8.95. And then in the fourth position, we have 12 VIP tours a year ranked an even nine. All right. Our top three platinum ticket options coming in third place. Six Disney Cruise Line concierge cruises a year at nine point two five. However, I'm getting late breaking news. It is actually a tie for second place. And DCL is in second place because it is tied also at 9.25 with a global Disney week. Our top rated option is a Golden Oak home with a total perfect score of 10. 10. Yeah. So in theory, that means because they're tied, and we are taking the top two. We get a home in Golden Oak. We spend a week in every Disney resort worldwide, and we're taking six cruises a year, people. I love math. I love math.

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Hey Disney. Yep.

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This is what we want.

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Thank you. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_01: 41:43

All right, Alicia, do you agree with the numbers? Or are we putting our thumb on the scale and choosing different options here?

SPEAKER_02: 41:50

Uh well, like I said, the numbers does do not necessarily the value and whatnot does not necessarily coincide with our personal wants and options and stuff. Right. I go, I mean, I wouldn't say no.

SPEAKER_01: 42:08

Yeah. I think you and I both really, really want Disneyland Club 33 membership.

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Yeah. Without having to pay for it.

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Right. I I think of if we're choosing two perks that us as a uh, you know, we as a family are getting, we as a couple are getting. That's one of them.

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Yeah.

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I don't think it's the home in Golden Oak. No. And I don't think we actually disc well, we did discuss this. What did we come out with? Was it was it cruises or Disney week?

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I would honestly. This is me just just spitballing here. Yeah. I would do cruises. You know why?

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Why?

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Because we can get the tower suites and bring friends.

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Yeah.

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Yep. All right. We have a Club 33 membership in Disneyland. We are taking concierge cruises six a year. Life is not golden. It's platinum people. Well, that wraps up our Disney Platinum Tickets Challenge. Back in episode 198, we thought golden tickets were tough, but these lifetime worldwide perks took things to a whole new level. Whether you're dreaming of Club 33 exclusivity, global park hopping, or a home in Golden Oak, the magic is endless. Let us know which two you'd pick and join us next time as we keep exploring the world of Disney dreams. Until then, keep the Pixie Dust alive. Yay! Thank you. Thank you.

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No, I'm clapping because Pixie Dust.

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Oh, I see what you did there.

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Please remember we are not affiliated with Disney or their subsidiaries. These are our personal opinions and suggestions based on our own experiences and our own brains.

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We mostly suggest Disney give us these things. Yes. And you could give us all 10. It's okay. You can give us more.

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We would offer much more content if we were. Yeah.

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100% more content. 100%. I would I would give more than two. I would give 200% more content. I will do three episodes a week if we had all these things.

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Wow.

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Wow.

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That's true. We recommend working with a travel agent or contacting Disney directly to plan your perfect vacation.

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Thank you for flying Star Tours. Bye-bye.

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Wow. You can really burp.

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I'm sorry.

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Do you want me to do the last one? You seem to have the giggles. I got it.

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Thanks for listening. We'll be in your ears next week.