familymagic7
Earning My Ears
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Ok, never done a report before, but here goes! Went to Beach Club Villas for first time w/ DH & our 5 kids along with my parents who have never been there!!
Day 1--Free day. Enjoyed looking around the resort & Boardwalk. Went to Boma's for dinner--This was our favorite on last trip, but a little disappointed this time. Service was great, but everything tasted like it had tons of nutmeg in it.
Day 2-Epcot. What a great day! Weather was wonderful. We enjoyed the Living Seas w/ no wait, saw the Circle of Life film (we hadn't seen this for a few years, forgot how much I enjoyed it), met characters at the character caravan, & my daughter finally got to go on Test Track. She & grandma got a kick out of it! (By the way, my kids are 13, 11, 8, 7, & 3--the 11 yr old DD is the one that likes all the thrill rides). We had PS at Le Cellier. I enjoyed it immensely, but I think it was a little too "tricky" for the rest of my crew. I loved seeing the Tapestry parade w/ my folks to see them amazed at the magic of Disney. Then we were all amazed when we experienced the Candlelight Processional (None of us had seen it--We went to their very last show of the season, & it was phenominal. I would highly recommend this to anyone!)
Day 3 (New Year's Eve)-Because of the age of our children, we opted to go to Animal Kingdom instead of one of the parks that would be open late. Ended up being a great choice b/c major rain hit in the evening & we were inside dry & enjoying a wonderful dinner at Cape May Cafe. At the AK, we loved the Festival of the Lion King (for the 5th time!), Tarzan Rocks, the Safari, meeting characters (even Lilo & Stitch), & my DH got a kick out of taking the folks on Dinosaur. Left the park midday & the kids swam in SAB--Totally enjoyed that!
Day 4-MGM. This ended up being our grumpy day. I know some people love this park, but it is just not our favorite. It seemed we walked in circles trying to figure out what we wanted to do (bty, my oldest DD vetoed going at all) & got cranky & left. They have some neat things, but none that we cared to do again. We ended up dividing up--DD's swam, my parents swam in the quiet pool & enjoyed the beach, & we ventured over to Epcot to just walk around for awhile. We regrouped later & enjoyed Fantasmic & the Osbourne Lights. It was nice to end on a good note! (I did not mention before, but we started the day at 7:00 am at the Screen Door gift shop to get in & purchase New Year's Day pins for our children & had a bad Disney experience with cm's & some nasty people
However, mgmt was quick to remedy situation
Day 5-Magic Kingdom. This day was MAGICAL!! It was so awesome. We hit Splash Mtn, BTMRR, Small World, Hntd Mnsn, Aladdin & Pirate's right off the bat & then got FP's for Space Mtn & Buzz Ltyr for about the same time (we divided up for those). Then saw the parade & my 3yrold DS got picked to go out with the characters--GMa had to get teary over that! Ate dinner at the Plaza which was nice & then watched Spectromagic (still love that every time I see it)
Day 6-Mom & Dad leave for home We still have a day to relax. We had dinner at 1900 Park Fare (wonderful) & then went to Contemporary for pin trading. Boy were we naive about this whole pin thing!! The kids trading was very cool & nicely controlled, but outside the "kid boundary", there was nothing Disney about this. People were nasty to our children, and there is no other way to say it, there were a lot of swindlers. There were 2 nice men, and that was about it. I'd like to see Disney make the grown-ups go somewhere else, b/c that whole scenario gave us the creeps.
I know this seems like we didn't do much at the parks, but we purposely paced ourselves for my parents. This was our fifth trip in 7 years, so we just enjoyed watching my folks take it all in. We give special kudos to America West airlines, Yourride Trans., Holly & Alex at the Yacht Club gift shop. Any questions, let me know. Thanks for reading!!
Day 1--Free day. Enjoyed looking around the resort & Boardwalk. Went to Boma's for dinner--This was our favorite on last trip, but a little disappointed this time. Service was great, but everything tasted like it had tons of nutmeg in it.
Day 2-Epcot. What a great day! Weather was wonderful. We enjoyed the Living Seas w/ no wait, saw the Circle of Life film (we hadn't seen this for a few years, forgot how much I enjoyed it), met characters at the character caravan, & my daughter finally got to go on Test Track. She & grandma got a kick out of it! (By the way, my kids are 13, 11, 8, 7, & 3--the 11 yr old DD is the one that likes all the thrill rides). We had PS at Le Cellier. I enjoyed it immensely, but I think it was a little too "tricky" for the rest of my crew. I loved seeing the Tapestry parade w/ my folks to see them amazed at the magic of Disney. Then we were all amazed when we experienced the Candlelight Processional (None of us had seen it--We went to their very last show of the season, & it was phenominal. I would highly recommend this to anyone!)
Day 3 (New Year's Eve)-Because of the age of our children, we opted to go to Animal Kingdom instead of one of the parks that would be open late. Ended up being a great choice b/c major rain hit in the evening & we were inside dry & enjoying a wonderful dinner at Cape May Cafe. At the AK, we loved the Festival of the Lion King (for the 5th time!), Tarzan Rocks, the Safari, meeting characters (even Lilo & Stitch), & my DH got a kick out of taking the folks on Dinosaur. Left the park midday & the kids swam in SAB--Totally enjoyed that!
Day 4-MGM. This ended up being our grumpy day. I know some people love this park, but it is just not our favorite. It seemed we walked in circles trying to figure out what we wanted to do (bty, my oldest DD vetoed going at all) & got cranky & left. They have some neat things, but none that we cared to do again. We ended up dividing up--DD's swam, my parents swam in the quiet pool & enjoyed the beach, & we ventured over to Epcot to just walk around for awhile. We regrouped later & enjoyed Fantasmic & the Osbourne Lights. It was nice to end on a good note! (I did not mention before, but we started the day at 7:00 am at the Screen Door gift shop to get in & purchase New Year's Day pins for our children & had a bad Disney experience with cm's & some nasty people
However, mgmt was quick to remedy situation Day 5-Magic Kingdom. This day was MAGICAL!! It was so awesome. We hit Splash Mtn, BTMRR, Small World, Hntd Mnsn, Aladdin & Pirate's right off the bat & then got FP's for Space Mtn & Buzz Ltyr for about the same time (we divided up for those). Then saw the parade & my 3yrold DS got picked to go out with the characters--GMa had to get teary over that! Ate dinner at the Plaza which was nice & then watched Spectromagic (still love that every time I see it)
Day 6-Mom & Dad leave for home
We still have a day to relax. We had dinner at 1900 Park Fare (wonderful) & then went to Contemporary for pin trading. Boy were we naive about this whole pin thing!! The kids trading was very cool & nicely controlled, but outside the "kid boundary", there was nothing Disney about this. People were nasty to our children, and there is no other way to say it, there were a lot of swindlers. There were 2 nice men, and that was about it. I'd like to see Disney make the grown-ups go somewhere else, b/c that whole scenario gave us the creeps. I know this seems like we didn't do much at the parks, but we purposely paced ourselves for my parents. This was our fifth trip in 7 years, so we just enjoyed watching my folks take it all in. We give special kudos to America West airlines, Yourride Trans., Holly & Alex at the Yacht Club gift shop. Any questions, let me know. Thanks for reading!!
That's our one regret, but our timing for fastpass was lousy that day.
