weirdguyonvacation
Earning My Ears
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- Dec 3, 2005
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Hi All;
From your friendly neighbourhood weirdo's from Colorado Springs.
Let me do a quick trip report so far, Really quick as I have to stand on my left leg with my right hand over my head with tin to get a wireless signal in our room. Anyway, I digress...
We started our trip on Thursday, December 1st, DD's 6th birthday. We drove to Denver to prepare for our flight on Friday morning and stayed at the Holiday Inn on Tower Road. REALLY good rate on the park and fly. When I check in I see a sign that states $20 upgrade to suite or jacuzzi suite. I say to the girl at the desk "Hey, that sounds nice", she's says "Sorry, we're sold out but look, you'll been given a free upgrade to a suite." AWESOME!! Let the upgrades continue please.
Anyway, I register and sign up for the morning shuttle and away we go to our suite.
After touring the suite and lugging up 50 thousand pounds of luggage, okay I exaggerate, 48 thousand pounds, we head over to Bennigans across the street because I would rather have other people look like idiots rather than me signing songs.
So, DD had about 10 very loud people sign "Happy Birthday" to her, it was great, she loved it
After a night of virtually no sleep, could be from the concret bed and pillow set we slept on or the excitement stiring our blood to a dull roar, we headed out to the airport. Shuttle staff was good, I now know why I have no legs left on my luggage though, THACK, THUMP, PLUMP (It reminded me of the old Batman cartoons. Check in had no wait, I really like the self check in, good for people who know how to use computers, especially frustrating when you're stuck behind someone who still doesn't know how to use a debit card.
Security was good, for once DH wasn't picked so we all got to leave security at the same time
Only snag was when we were sitting in the terminal watching all the maintenance guys play with the plane. OUR plane! I thought, it better only be the legs from my luggage they're fixing or I'm going to feel really bad about getting on that plane. So, at boarding time they decided to send in a new plane and move us to a different gate, 40 minutes late but there's a better chance we'll make it so "OKAY"
Flights went smooth and then off to the car rental in Tampa, first time I used Travelocity to rent a car and I have to say I'm impressed. No problem, cheaper rate and they still gave me an upgrade at a "discounted rate", we needed a larger car to lug the 48 thousand pounds of luggage.
We're staying at Shades of Green at WDW and I have to say, I'm impressed with the hotel service but I've found the 2 out of 2 restuarants we've tried here unimpressive, poor service, midgrade food and of course the high prices you're finding on all food in the resort made these restuarants places where I'll try to stay away from.
Anyway, went to Magic Kingdom today and had a really good time, the fireworks tonight were great and they were taping the parade today for Christmas Day ABC.
Ok, I'm off for now, DH just turned off the light and I can't see what I'm typing anymore.
Take care all, see you soon, I'll probably be on tomorrow after Animal Kingdom.
Deidre
From your friendly neighbourhood weirdo's from Colorado Springs.
Let me do a quick trip report so far, Really quick as I have to stand on my left leg with my right hand over my head with tin to get a wireless signal in our room. Anyway, I digress...
We started our trip on Thursday, December 1st, DD's 6th birthday. We drove to Denver to prepare for our flight on Friday morning and stayed at the Holiday Inn on Tower Road. REALLY good rate on the park and fly. When I check in I see a sign that states $20 upgrade to suite or jacuzzi suite. I say to the girl at the desk "Hey, that sounds nice", she's says "Sorry, we're sold out but look, you'll been given a free upgrade to a suite." AWESOME!! Let the upgrades continue please.
Anyway, I register and sign up for the morning shuttle and away we go to our suite. After touring the suite and lugging up 50 thousand pounds of luggage, okay I exaggerate, 48 thousand pounds, we head over to Bennigans across the street because I would rather have other people look like idiots rather than me signing songs.
So, DD had about 10 very loud people sign "Happy Birthday" to her, it was great, she loved it After a night of virtually no sleep, could be from the concret bed and pillow set we slept on or the excitement stiring our blood to a dull roar, we headed out to the airport. Shuttle staff was good, I now know why I have no legs left on my luggage though, THACK, THUMP, PLUMP (It reminded me of the old Batman cartoons. Check in had no wait, I really like the self check in, good for people who know how to use computers, especially frustrating when you're stuck behind someone who still doesn't know how to use a debit card.
Security was good, for once DH wasn't picked so we all got to leave security at the same time
Only snag was when we were sitting in the terminal watching all the maintenance guys play with the plane. OUR plane! I thought, it better only be the legs from my luggage they're fixing or I'm going to feel really bad about getting on that plane. So, at boarding time they decided to send in a new plane and move us to a different gate, 40 minutes late but there's a better chance we'll make it so "OKAY"
Flights went smooth and then off to the car rental in Tampa, first time I used Travelocity to rent a car and I have to say I'm impressed. No problem, cheaper rate and they still gave me an upgrade at a "discounted rate", we needed a larger car to lug the 48 thousand pounds of luggage.
We're staying at Shades of Green at WDW and I have to say, I'm impressed with the hotel service but I've found the 2 out of 2 restuarants we've tried here unimpressive, poor service, midgrade food and of course the high prices you're finding on all food in the resort made these restuarants places where I'll try to stay away from.
Anyway, went to Magic Kingdom today and had a really good time, the fireworks tonight were great and they were taping the parade today for Christmas Day ABC.
Ok, I'm off for now, DH just turned off the light and I can't see what I'm typing anymore.
Take care all, see you soon, I'll probably be on tomorrow after Animal Kingdom.
Deidre
I ended up having to take almost 4 hours to do the few fliers that I need to. I even had 3 of them on a USB drive thing. The download & printing was painful.
We stayed at SoG last October for the first time! I loved it! The room was larger and the beds larger than the Hyatt Grand Cypress on the concierge floor where we stayed one time! I agree - the food wasn't that great, but I felt the cost was comparable to any similar restaurants outside the park.
