WDWKOOK
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- Mar 10, 2009
Good morning ya'll.
You're welcome.Thanks!! Perfect!!
Good morning ya'll.
You're welcome.Thanks!! Perfect!!
Welcome to the thread and congratulations on booking the Old Faithful Club. It's great that the IPO could help you and now you're all set. BTW, the real live person is actually at the Poly so sometimes you might get an aloha! instead of a howdy!
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I don't know what went wrong this morning, but the website wouldn't let me book anything, they were "currently down" so I called, nope, I'd go through all the hoops, no yes, 1, dining reservations, Dining with an Imagineer - "let me get you a reservationist" then silence - call ended!
seriously I couldn't believe it - what is happening? Luckily when I pulled up my WL email for CL, there was a phone number, I called, and I got a real live person first try! AND he made my reservations for me! and he also said he did Dining with an imagineer for his birthday, but he had to stalk the reservation list for 2 months, but he got one for his birthday!
In 180 days from today - we will be at the most special place!
Welcome to the thread and congratulations on booking the Old Faithful Club. It's great that the IPO could help you and now you're all set. BTW, the real live person is actually at the Poly so sometimes you might get an aloha! instead of a howdy!
I stayed at the WL for the first time from 12/13 to 12/17. It has always been a dream of mine to stay at the Lodge around the holidays and I was not disappointed.
We had a first floor room with a view of the path that separates the Lodge from the Villas. The first floor balcony/patio felt huge in comparison to upper floor balconies I've had at other resorts.
Our room (1142, I think) was clean and in great shape.
The walls on the beach were coming down on 12/17, our checkout day. The pool looked to be open the whole time we were there but we never used it - it was too chilly for swimming for us.
All the CMs we encountered were wonderful and we had no issues with bus or boat service.
We had a nice surprise on our first night when a local choir was scheduled to perform in the lobby - it was a great way to kick off our trip.
My only disappointment was our lunch at Whispering Canyon Cafe. We ordered the skillet and it didn't come with any pulled pork. When we finally flagged our server down, he said they had just run out of pulled pork - it would have been nice if he had mentioned it before dumping our skillet and running. We also didn't get any extra of anything else to replace the pulled pork at first. We did ask for more chicken and potatoes later as there wasn't enough on the first platter for all 4 of us to eat with a whole protein missing. I understand that places run out of certain items and am not upset about that but it would have been nice if it had been acknowledged and replaced with something else without us having to call attention to it ourselves.
We also never got any cornbread but I honestly didn't realize that until after we left and I don't even know if they serve cornbread anymore. The WCC has always been a favorite of mine though I haven't eaten there in a few years so I was really looking forward to this lunch but it was a bit of a bust. The service overall was poor - I wasn't looking for any funny antics as we were a group of adults, but our server barely paid us any attention at all, nevermind all of the goofy stuff you often see at the WCC. We did have some good appetizers in the Territory Lounge one of our other nights and the service there was great.
Bumping with a photo. Hope everyone who is there is loving the decorations, and those of us who are not there...photos and shared love of the lodge!
We are headed there in 31 more days! What apps did you have at the
Territory lounge? And sorry Whispering Canyon Cafe was a bust. I've been going back and forth with whether or not to cancel our reservation there.
We had pulled pork nachos, the BLT flatbread and the truffle fries. The truffle flies at the Crew's Cup lounge at the Yacht Club are better but these were still good and they give you A LOT.
How late might we expect the holiday decorations to stay up? We're hoping to drop in the first full week of January (Jan 5 or later) and would love to see them.
I was wondering if there is anything I can purchase that will recreate the incredible smell that welcomes you to WL?
Of all the things I miss about Disney/WL that scent is pretty near the top of my list.