Vacation Planning

So first, an update with Swagbucks...I emailed them back to respectfully ask that they reactivate my account, since I never had multiple accounts.  I was told, no we are not going to do that.  I emailed them back again, asking to know what they used as a basis to show that I had multiple accounts, and surprise surprise I didn't receive a response back.
So. I went to the Better Business Bureau and filed a complaint.  I am waiting to hear what their response is there.  Apparently there are quite a few complaints that are exactly the same as mine.  If they reinstate after this complaint, I will cash out any SBs there, and never use it again.

Now, on to the fun stuff.  I started to plan for the vacation in January.  We have already booked the cruise and our flights.  We are flying into Tampa but we will fly back from Orlando.
We know that we need hotels for Tampa and Orlando, that I have started to 'think' about, but we haven't decided on anything yet.  We know we need to rent a car for Tampa and for Orlando, but we can't decide on which rental agency to use.  About the only thing money-wise that I have actually looked at and nearly fainted from were the tickets to Disney World and Universal.  I looked at Disney through AAA since we are members, but they only have discounted tickets for 3 days.  I think J's work may get discounted tickets for it, so I will have him look.  If we do have to buy directly from Disney, it's $89/day so $178 for both of us.
Universal does have 1 day tickets through AAA and they are $123/day but that gets you both parks.  Total for both of us $246.

Total for both days for both of us....$424. And that doesn't include taxes!
I had started a budget of $3000 for spending money and fun for the cruise and extra days.  I'm thinking I'm going to have to UP that budget significantly.

Here I thought I was doing good with the budget I had started, and here I was most likely WRONG. But, I'm glad I'm doing this 6 months from when we are supposed to leave, so it is NOT a surprise and we don't have to put out the credit cards to cover something we weren't expecting.  If we have money remaining after the vacation, great! Goes into a vacation surplus or into savings.
Better to be over prepared than under prepared methinks :)

Have you ever had a vacation where you either under or over budgeted for?

Swagbucks.....

So like a lot of people I use Swagbucks to search, do surveys, daily polls, etc.  Today I went to log in to my account (which is unusual because I never log out) only to find they deactivated my account!

I have no idea why, I am still waiting for a response, but the best part?  I have never actually 'cashed' in on the SBs that I have which is about 8500 of them.  I was saving them for something big.

This has definitely left a sour feeling on SwagBucks.  Even if they reactivate my account (and I have no idea if they will or if they will reinstate the SBs I had) I will cash out what I can and cancel the account.  Why should I feel like I need to use them if they just go ahead an deactivate my account without any notification.

Edited To Add: So I received my response from them, apparently I am 'using and sharing multiple accounts'. Uh...no I'm not.  I only have one!  Sent them an email back telling them so and that I respectfully ask that they re-instate my account.  So that I may cash out and stop using Swagbucks.
Anyway, the week has been pretty good.  Today is payday for J and tomorrow for me.

We did our taxes via TurboTax.  We took the 'chance'.  If anything happens, we'll deal with it then, but there really wasn't much to them.
Both the Federal and State have been accepted.  In fact the Federal was accepted about 30minutes after e-filing. The State was accepted yesterday and has already been processed.  States that DDNP will be on 07/16 (give or take).

I made a deal with J that he can have about 30% of the refund to do what he wishes with it, and the rest I get to put towards debt, house, other necessities for us.  I hope this will appease J so that I don't have to feel guilty if he asks to buy something that we don't really need.

So that's pretty much this week.  The weekend will involve a WWII event in Chantilly, VA at Sully Plantation.  Weather should be nice, and we usually have a good crowd.

Hope you all have a great weekend!