That breakfast looks delish! Good call on the buffet. I have to admit, it's my favorite way to do breakfast.
I'll keep my fingers crossed that AKL will come through. Have you made any more calls just to check, even though you are on the wait list? The suspence would be killing me!
I love me a breakfast buffet. It trumps all other breakfasts. Disney has several beautiful breakfast buffet options, which makes it difficult to decide!
I haven't called MS in about 2 weeks. But I do check DVCMember.com almost daily.
I think I might call them today to see if my Wait List has suddenly come through....
I love the pics....! Wearing swimtrunks in barely warm weather.....
Mid-Westerners are not the only ones that are crazy, I do stuff like that all the time...
Or ya know, post your TRUNKS on the DIS!
Ah the resort dance. Such fun and such torture all at the same time! Fingers crossed that it all comes through for you! I wouldn't trust the waitlist system either (not that I have ANY experience w/ it or know what I'm talking about! ). I say keep calling.
It seems that with everything the best option is to keep calling, keep buggin' em and eventually you can get what you want....and all the information being different depending on what CM you speak to. I recently read on the DVC boards that the Wait List "cycles", so it doesn't go immediatly to the Wait List like I was told by 2 CMs. So knows what is true!
Thanks for crossing your fingers for me. Every CM seemed very confident it would come through since it's still so far away, but still...it's at the 7 month window when AKV owners can start shifting their rooms to another resort, and nothing has budged it seems.
Well, Kalahari was fairly awesome, it looks like.
There is life outside Disney World, I guess.
I don't know that it matters so much if you have a room for New Year's Eve.
By the time fireworks are over and you get through the crowds to the bus and to the resort, it's going to be daylight anyway. Then you can just pretend you're out for an early morning swim and fall asleep in the lounge chairs.
Joe and I were also surprised there was life outside Disney that was
almost Disney-quality. We found ourselves commenting on that several times throughout our 2 days there.
I like your theory on NYE! Maybe we'll just save the points and take advantage of those loungers. DMIL and DFIL would be all for it, right?
I know, I have to stop changing my mind!
Does your entire family basically leave all the vacation plans up to you? A Universal trip will be a blast I'm sure!
Good luck with the wait list Brook! We're waiting on just one day at OKW to open up for our early December trip. The DVC owner is unbelievably awesome and I know has called to check on it as well. If you cross your fingers for me, I'll cross mine for you, ok?
Sounds like a plan!
Have you ever stayed at OKW? From what I have read/heard the rooms are just huge and the deck/patio has a table for 4! I would LOVE eating meals out there, esp if my room overlooked the river and you could watch the boats go by.
There you go! Problem solved!
I should present it seriously to the family to see what their reactions are.
I think the difference in the dedicated 2 bedrooms and the 2 bedroom lock off would be in the kitchenette. In the lock off, you basically have a one bedroom and a studio connected which means the studio will have a kitchenette and if I'm not mistaken a queen bed and a sleeper sofa. The dedicated 2 bedroom has 2 queen beds in the 2nd bedroom and it seems like the bathroom area has a bit more space since you don't have the kitchenette to deal with. Am I rambling? I'm tired sorry
I guess I would go with the dedicated 2 bedroom....but I really don't mind the lock off either.
Ahhhhhhhhh! Thank you Jordan! That jogs my memory. You weren't rambling, makes total sense.
If it was just DMIL and DFIL I would go with the lock off so they could have a little kitchen for conveience, but I would now perfer a dedicated because then DSIL won't have to sleep on a pull-out. I don't think she'll care overall, but I'll feel better about it!
The chances of the dedicated coming through is probably pretty slim though...
Great updates! Henry looked like he had a blast! I have a few shots of our girls doing gymnastics on a the beds last summer for our "Training Run". They LOVE when we stay in a motel. In fact I think we could have just booked a few nights in the POP and not mentioned the parks and they would have still been thrilled. I hope all your DVC dilemas work themselves out! I'll be waiting for the Minnesotan Shout Out.
I was reading in the Unoffical Guide the other day that some of the top things kids want to do on vacation is swim in the pool and sleep in.
Yet, we overblow it and take 'em to Disney while they would be happy in the Motel 6!
I will definitely put the Kalahari on my bucket list. It is just too interesting to not go there at least once.
Your my kinda gal. If there is a buffet, there is no other way. Especially for breakfast.
Congrats on the rooms at Kidani. I'm sure the other days will come through.
The Kalahari definetly is interesting. We really loved it and hope to return! What is your favorite Disney breakfast buffet?
Great update. I love the profile picture of Henry. So precious. I am always trying to take pictures like that of Claire too. LOL!
Sounds like your trip is coming along, but I bet you will happy no matter where you stay....even poolside in a lounge. LOL!
I have so many pics of Henry's profile, I just love it. They never turn out quite the way I want, but all well!
I think you are right-we'll be happy no matter what, but if that room came through, it sure would make things more simple. Moving resorts can be such a pain...
Congrats on getting under 200 days......
Thanks!! I was so happy to see it!
And then my next thought was about how we used to make ADRs at 180 days. I'm NO WHERE close to knowing what to do there!
to how many Mondays. Now I'm curious!
28 more Monday's.
BUT, that is better than the like 6373839 I had when I mentioned it on your PTR!
WOOHOO!!
