Finally, we were paying the tolls and getting super close to the Exit for Walt Disney World.
Cortlyn was so excited to be at Disney World, but she still had NO idea what this was going to be about! haha...Just driving up, she was excited. We followed the signs to our resort... Pop Century and pulled in! Corey was immediately impressed by the security guard.
He was super nice and talked to Cortlyn in the back seat. Corey is easily impressed if he is given good customer service and this guy was excelling. Of course, the Cast Members are paid to be happy, but you know, you can tell some of the CM’s really ARE happy to work at the happiest place on earth!
We parked and went into check in. Cortlyn was just in awe with the Christmas decorations and Corey was enjoying looking at the stuff hanging on the walls. We walked down to check in (we did not do online check in). It went very smoothly and the lady that checked us in was super nice. I *might* have teared up when she gave me the “1st visit” buttons for Corey and Cortlyn
. They immediately put them on and I snapped a picture and Cortlyn was just so excited!
Who could blame her?? And her trip was JUST getting started! We added our credit card to our room key and then I noticed that they printed out a room key for Cortlyn! I wasn’t expecting that since she didn’t need partk tickets being under 2, but they did print one! I thought that was a nice extra, since it has her name printed on there.
We walked over to the 70’s building (and we were super close!) and we were in room 0118, building 10. It was perfect! I didn’t want to be close to the pools and we weren’t! In fact, we never go near the pools (Cortlyn would want to go swimming and while we did bring the stuff to swim, its a little cool for that, so I didn’t want to tempt her, you know? I know the pools are heated... but we would be FREEZING
in the walk back and forth! Anyway, so our room is near a little hidden playground and it looks like a little forrest right outside our room. (Our room was close to where that guy is standing I believe.)
In fact, there are lots and lots of squirrels... which I have an unnatural fear of! I have had quite a few run up near me or across the path that I am walking!! We are pretty close to the checkin area and the buses- YAY! So, I’ll always be requesting this building, because for us, its perfect!
My phone starts to ring and its Shelley... asking me to open up the door to the room next to us! They are standing on the other side of the door! YAY!!! We did our girly scream and we startled Cortlyn... She ran off crying! Poor thing! We didn’t mean to!! We finally convinced her to come out of hiding and that Shelley & Brian are our friends! Corey is busy getting our stuff out of the car and I’m trying to get a little settled in.
Here are a few pictures from Pop. This resort was GREAT for our trip and we were perfectly happy with our choice of value! My husband had wanted to stay at All Stars Sports, but he loved this resort.
Cortlyn walking with Brian and Shelley around Pop:
Corey LOVED the massive fooseball game!
Us at Pop! Heehee... Cortlyn had NO idea how close we were to the pools right then! This was just outside the food court area I believe
Coming from the Parking Lot, LOVE the huge 8 track!
Building 10! We were down this side to the left. Not a bad walk to the parking lot AND we we pretty close to the buses!
Walking from the parking lot to our room. Isn't this just beautiful??