National Homeschool Graduation
Walt Disney World * May 2010
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Your Graduation Weekend Includes: 

Disney Resort Accommodations – We’ll help you choose the best resort for your family, whether your priority is the Deepest Disney Discount we can find or that once in a lifetime splurge, we'll help you each step of the way.  To participate fully, you can stay as few as 2 nights and up to as many as you would like. This is a weekend event with the option of extending your stay.  Once we receive your ticket order, you will be contacted with available options for your family by one of the 3D Travel Team.  

Cap and Gown for each graduate - you will pick up your cap and gown during the designated rehearsal, time and place to be announced at a later time. 

Commemorative Program for each graduate's family.  

Baccalaureate Breakfast – You’ll enjoy a traditional Baccalaureate with the added luxury of a full breakfast. Immediately following breakfast, we will be escorted to one of the attractions to enjoy it as a group for the first run of the day.  This will occur on the morning of the graduation which means your family and friends have the option of coming in for two nights and one full day and participating fully in this special event.  Breakfast will be served in Epcot's World Showcase and can be attended by everyone, even those who do not opt to purchase tickets, but those who opt to enjoy the attraction without a park ticket will incur a $15 fee, paid directly to Disney.  

Graduation Gala – We’ll have a private area right outside the back door of  Epcot’s World Showcase reserved just for our event in a beautiful building called Atlantic Dance Hall.  Our event will open with a traditional march to Pomp & Circumstance followed by a brief but lovely ceremony acknowledging each graduate in turn onstage. The ceremony will be followed by a casual dinner, during which everyone will enjoy various video and photo montages as a tribute to our graduates.  Each family will have the opportunity to make this a special moment for their child by working with us ahead of time to honor them. After dinner, it's time for the caps and gowns to come off as our graduates, their siblings and friends dance in celebration of all they have achieved.   

Optional Park tickets - We've secured tickets at a significant discount for this event.  You will have the opportunity to purchase discount tickets for everyone attending with you. 

Optional Graduate Accoutrements - From keepsake tassels to invitations, we'll have everything available to make this a full event for your graduate and family.  We'll send updates to registered participants when they first become available. 

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The steps to booking the National Homeschool Graduation

Event and Park Tickets
We're using Eventbrite to track tickets for the
Baccalaureate Breakfast at Epcot, the Graduation Ceremony, Dinner and Dance at Atlantic Dance Hall at Disney's Boardwalk Resort and discounted Walt Disney World Park Tickets.  To purchase your tickets, click here to go to eventbrite

Accommodations
Once you have purchased your tickets, you will be contacted by one of the 3D Travel Team: 
Carol Beth Scott, Amy Pruitt, Kim Deviese, Charlene Hanyzewski or Denise Stufflebeam.  We specialize in getting the best discount available for you and your family.  We'll help you compare prices of resorts and villas, taking into account the size of your family and other travel plans. 

Making it special for your graduate, family and friends
After your travel plans are in place, we begin the process of working with you to make the ceremony uniquely special for your graduate.  You will be contacted by Carol Beth and David Scott to set up a phone appointment where we will discuss your graduate and how best to honor him or her.  After all, this is an event to last a lifetime!






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Discounted Disney park tickets

As part of the National Homeschool Graduation, you are eligible for Discounted Walt Disney World Park Tickets.  The pricing below will show you how much you would normally pay vs. how much you'll pay as part of this special occasion.  As you can see, adding park hopping or the premium option, which includes park hopping, waterparks and Disneyquest, greatly increases the value of the tickets.  

If you are purchasing tickets for anyone age 23 & above, it's important that you purchase an equal amount in your group for age 22 & younger.  Why?  Because our group ratio is required to have the same or more youth (age 22 &younger) than adults.  This is a youth centered event and we are enjoying youth pricing.  If you do not have the correct ratio in your party, submit your ticket order anyway and we'll let you know if you are compensated for by other members of our group. 

Yes, you can purchase the tickets as a National Graduation supporter.  We kindly request that at least one member of your travel party attend the graduation as a supporter (we would love your whole group to attend to cheer, clap, eat and dance!)  and you will need to check in to the graduation rehearsal even if you do not have a graduate, as that is when we will be passing out the park tickets. 

You will receive your tickets at the graduation rehearsal.    

Park Ticket                           Our price     Regular Price (age 10&up)   Regular price (age 3-9)
2 day ticket  $125      $156  $133
2 day park hopper  $150  $206  $183
2 day premium  $165  $256  $233
3 day ticket  $170  $219  $187
3 day park hopper  $185  $269  $237
3 day premium  $190  $319  $287
4 day ticket  $205  $225  $192*
4 day park hopper  $215  $275  $242
4 day premium  $226  $325  $292
5 day ticket  $220  $228  $195*
5 day park hopper  $245  $278  $245
5 day premium  $255  $328  $295

*yep, we know this isn't a discount for this particular choice.  We have no idea why Disney does it that way, either.  We recommend you upgrade to the park hopper or the premium if you purchase a 5 day ticket so you can still feel great about your choice.  (We know we will!)

To purchase your tickets, click here and you will go to eventbrite. 

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Planning Accommodations

We're going to work with you to find the best pricing for your family or group.  We wanted to give you an idea of what you could plan for if you opt to stay onsite at Walt Disney World. 

We do recommend you stay onsite for the following reasons:
Your resort benefits are many.  The ones that will affect your bottom line are that you will pay to park if you are not a Disney resort guest at a cost of $14 a day.  Also, if you are flying, you can take part in Disney's Magical Express, a complimentary roundtrip motorcoach from Orlando International Airport (MCO).  By staying onsite, you are also eligible for all of Disney's resort wide transportation options and you will have a more secure and infinitely more magical stay.

Current pricing (no discounts have been announced, as yet, for this time period.  Rest assured, we will rapidly apply them to your room reservation if they do!)  for the weekend of the National Homeschool Graduation.  This pricing is to give you an idea of what may be available and is subject to change. 

Saturday, May 8th - Monday, May 10th

Value Resort (holds 4 plus an infant) - $189.85
Value Resort preferred location - $215.16
Extra nights for the following week in a standard room - $88.60 per night.

Moderate Resort (holds 5 plus an infant) - $279.57
Moderate Resort water view - $318.93
Extra nights for the following week in a standard room - $133.88 per night.

Our host resort - Disney's Boardwalk - $585.00
Disney's Boardwalk - water view - $723.95
Extra nights for the following week in a standard room - $285.19 per night.

Many other options are available and we will be working with you to find just the right one for you and your family!

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