Just got home yesterday from a great trip to WDW. I have never written a TR but will try to do my best.
This trip was a big group of friends and family. Total was 27 but we were not all together all the time.
The people I was with most of the trip were the following:
Me
DH
DD (7)
My cousin (who is lovedvc on these boards)
Cousin's dh
Cousin's ds (8)
Cousin's ds (5)
Friends Barbara and Dave
Friend's dd (9)
Then others here and there. Like I said big group on this trip.
We all stayed at CBR except for my cousin, she is DVC so she stayed at OKW. We were all on the dining plan.
Friday, October 13th.
Left the house at 12:30 for the start of our disney vacation. Check in with Jetblue was great did online checkin before we left home. While waiting for our 3:30 flight from JFK, my cousin and I went to get a snack and who do we see but Chicken Little (not the disney character, not Kevin Couvias from American Idol). He was heading to go do a show in Syracuse, NY. My cuz took my pic with him with her camera phone. He was very nice.
Landed at MCO around 6:15 and went to magical express, bus was there but then waited about 10 minutes for it to fill up more and head to CBR. By around 7 we were at CBR.
Checking in was fine but then had to wait about 20 minutes for an internal shuttle to take us to Old Port Royale to get some food, we were all starving. Got to use our first counter service credits. After filling our bellies we walked to our rooms at Trinindad North. Rooms were nicely decorated and a decent size but had a view of the parking lot. We had booked preferred rooms but that gives you preferred location very close to main pool and food court but not a preferred view. We had 5 rooms in a row on the second floor but our room was kinda around the bend from the other 4. Our view was the worst of the bunch. The other 4 rooms had a partial view of trees and greenery but all we had was the lovely parking lot. We were in room 3140.
The men decided to hang in one room for awhile to watch the Mets game and I was in our room with dd and friend's dd waiting for our luggage. At around 10:10 I got a knock on my door and here was my luggage or so I thought. My dh's golf clubs and one bag had arrived but there was one problem. One bag was still missing. Bellhop said it could be on the next truck or could still be at MCO because sometimes ME tags fall off. Great, that is all I would need. I started to unpack the one bag and I thought I split up all 3 of us pretty well into the 2 bags but as I put stuff away I realized I had shorts, bathing suit, PJs and stuff in this bag but NO shirts (they were all in bag 2). DH and DD had a few of each thing they needed but not lucky me. My friend Barbara said she would loan me shirts if my bag doesn't come.
DH comes back to our room and we head to bed. DH is watching the Mets game and I am laying in bed wondering where my shirts (and oh yeah my toiletries bag was in there too) were. So I decide at about 11 p.m. to call the bell hop to see if my bag had at least arrived at the hotel and luckily it had.
He said it is already on its way to my room. I hang up the phone and not 2 minutes later the knock on my door. Hooray I say I can brush my teeth and go to bed. So I unpack that bag and head to bed.
Ok I will post more later. Next up Magic Kingdom....
This trip was a big group of friends and family. Total was 27 but we were not all together all the time.
The people I was with most of the trip were the following:
Me
DH
DD (7)
My cousin (who is lovedvc on these boards)
Cousin's dh
Cousin's ds (8)
Cousin's ds (5)
Friends Barbara and Dave
Friend's dd (9)
Then others here and there. Like I said big group on this trip.
We all stayed at CBR except for my cousin, she is DVC so she stayed at OKW. We were all on the dining plan.
Friday, October 13th.
Left the house at 12:30 for the start of our disney vacation. Check in with Jetblue was great did online checkin before we left home. While waiting for our 3:30 flight from JFK, my cousin and I went to get a snack and who do we see but Chicken Little (not the disney character, not Kevin Couvias from American Idol). He was heading to go do a show in Syracuse, NY. My cuz took my pic with him with her camera phone. He was very nice.
Landed at MCO around 6:15 and went to magical express, bus was there but then waited about 10 minutes for it to fill up more and head to CBR. By around 7 we were at CBR.
Checking in was fine but then had to wait about 20 minutes for an internal shuttle to take us to Old Port Royale to get some food, we were all starving. Got to use our first counter service credits. After filling our bellies we walked to our rooms at Trinindad North. Rooms were nicely decorated and a decent size but had a view of the parking lot. We had booked preferred rooms but that gives you preferred location very close to main pool and food court but not a preferred view. We had 5 rooms in a row on the second floor but our room was kinda around the bend from the other 4. Our view was the worst of the bunch. The other 4 rooms had a partial view of trees and greenery but all we had was the lovely parking lot. We were in room 3140.
The men decided to hang in one room for awhile to watch the Mets game and I was in our room with dd and friend's dd waiting for our luggage. At around 10:10 I got a knock on my door and here was my luggage or so I thought. My dh's golf clubs and one bag had arrived but there was one problem. One bag was still missing. Bellhop said it could be on the next truck or could still be at MCO because sometimes ME tags fall off. Great, that is all I would need. I started to unpack the one bag and I thought I split up all 3 of us pretty well into the 2 bags but as I put stuff away I realized I had shorts, bathing suit, PJs and stuff in this bag but NO shirts (they were all in bag 2). DH and DD had a few of each thing they needed but not lucky me. My friend Barbara said she would loan me shirts if my bag doesn't come.
DH comes back to our room and we head to bed. DH is watching the Mets game and I am laying in bed wondering where my shirts (and oh yeah my toiletries bag was in there too) were. So I decide at about 11 p.m. to call the bell hop to see if my bag had at least arrived at the hotel and luckily it had.
He said it is already on its way to my room. I hang up the phone and not 2 minutes later the knock on my door. Hooray I say I can brush my teeth and go to bed. So I unpack that bag and head to bed. Ok I will post more later. Next up Magic Kingdom....
I also saw lots of tired little kids. Got to look at the positive I guess..... at least your pictures are sunny and turn out great 
Our luggage came off rather quickly and off we went to the parking garage (my dad picked us up). Boy was it chilly when we got out of the airport. We missed our warm or should I say HOT weather. 
