2011 Yacht & Beach Club FAQ, Part II

[natebenma]

We still on for a "meet" on July 25th at 6 PM???

My avatar alter-ego plans on being there, but I can't decide what to wear. I keep trying things on and asking my husband "Does this make me look flat?"

 

[nannette]

When the BC is done, I was told it's heading over to the YC.

Woohoooo!!! They'll probably be at YC for my trip!! Guess what... I don't care because I'm at Disney and can it really be that bad?!?! I'm gonna say Nooooo!! Disney means no stress I wonder if I'll say that on Saturday when I have to call and make 2 reservations for the first two day of my upcoming trip. Good thing IPO is making all the rest on Monday no stress for me. Bring on the construction I'm gonna take a page from Teena's book and strike up a convo while on the balcony

I don't know every since I had my cancer scare 2 years ago in July I don't stress over things...

my motto is... Life is short and you just never know what it's going to give you... so enjoy all of it while you can!


~Nannette

 

[Sue M]

Agreed! Just wanted to share our experience here, in case that's helpful. We don't usually make many requests on our reservation - maybe full balcony - but that's about it. We almost always do regular check-in, just in case we have questions or something comes up. I've never encountered a long line at BC in the regular check-in line, whether spring or summer, morning or afternoon. It could be that we're lucky, but it's always gone smoothly.

In fact, the longest wait we experienced at check-in was last July - that was the one and only time we've ever done on-line check-in. (And I mean longest line at WDW - not just BC!) In that case, we were entirely ready for a "grab-and-go." It was a quick 4-day trip (just an extra trip we booked while we had APs) and we were prepared to take anything the CM at the front desk gave us! The guest ahead of us in line, however, was not prepared to do that. She had several demands - serious demands. We were fine - it happens! (It was far worse for the CM helping the guest than it was for us.) Eventually, a very nice CM came over from the regular check-in line to help us and we proceeded to grab and go! That CM, however, seemed surprised that we were sticking with the grab-and-go program!

I always do regular check in too, because I usually have a room request.

Judging from peoples posts, I can see why the CM would be surprised you've actually stuck to the grab & go. So many posts read- well, I asked for a different room, and the CM didn't mind, etc Probably the same people who go in the express check-out at the grocery store with more then the posted item limit

 

[mickeynut1]

Just booked out very first stay at the BC for this winter!!! Great thread..lots..and lots of good info...although I admit I mostly skimmed!!

Would love some dining recommendations for those days when we are not in the parks... especially breakfast in the BC area...

Have transportations questions too...do you usually walk to Epcot...and what about DHS...

TIA ... BlueSkies

Cape May is probably our favorite place for breakfast . The buffet is great with alot of variety and the characters are so cute dressed in beach clothes . For transportation, it's great walking to Epcot......walking to DHS does takes longer (about 15 minutes), but it is a pretty walk . There is also boat transportation which works great too .

 

[TexasMouseFan]

Last summer dd broke her leg in two places and had to have surgery to put screws in her leg. She was in a long leg cast for 8 weeks. She got the cast off two days before we left for Disney. Although she could walk, very slowly at first, the orthopedic surgeon told us she had to be in a wheelchair almost the whole trip. We had a gv cl room booked. We were on the 5th floor and didn't have any problems. We folded the wheelchair up in our room and then used it everywhere, except when we went to the pool. We didn't have any problems except for the idiot at the MK who commented, in front of dd, that dd probably just used the wheelchair to get to the front of the line since it didn't look like anything was wrong with her. grrrrrrrr.

Hope everything goes well for you dd.

Thank you for the help. I am afraid we may hear the same comment while we are there. The immobilizer is not really easy to get on and off. Plus, since it will be so hot, we may just let her stay in the wheelchair without the brace for a while. All that is important is that we know we are doing what our doctor told us to do. Plus, I have a note if anyone questions us.

Did you have any special request for your BC room? Am I better to get a room close to the lobby? Thanks!

 

[Marlton Mom]

Hey Marlton Mom, how did you ship them? Did you find a noodle-shaped box? Curve them around in a square box? (I'm wondering how they would hold up if they're squished. I'm not a noodle connoisseur, but as the Best Aunt In The World, I need to think about these things for my nieces.)

You need to post pictures of your noodles next to the wimpy noodles.

If you know Marlton Mom, you know that even though she spends the big bucks on the voluptuous pool noodles, she's dirt cheap with as much as she can get away with.

This means that the noodle packing contraption involved a trip to the dollar store and the ever popular Duct tape!

You see I bought these laundry bags at the Dollar store thinking they would be useful to DH who is in charge of laundry (Stop drooling people, he wrecks EVERYTHING! For 2 years I was walking around with multiple pairs of shorts that had perfectly formed bleach polka dots all over the butt side!)

Anyhoo I opened the laundry bags when I got home and discovered that they were Dollar Store DUDS!!! (SHOCKER!!!! ) Not wanting to waste 2 whole dollars (Plus tax!!) it occurred to me that they would make a useful wrapping 'sheath' for my voluptuous pool noodles. The length was overlapping just enough so I taped the laundry bags together over the pool noodles and I applied my famous "brown paper shopping bag" label with the pertinent info.

Those 4 voluptuous pool noodles were so light I figured the Post Office would owe ME money to ship them, but alas they got me on a technicality.
Apparently the length and girth of said voluptuous pool noodles came into play and it wound up costing me $16 bucks to ship them to the BC on the slowest boat to China that the post office runs.

At night, when I'm fading from another exhausting day of being Marlton Mom, I dream of those pool noodles, trucking their way down I 95 in some broken down jalopy of a mail truck, getting closer, Closer, CLOSER to Storm Along Bay! I dream of how I'll float around the lazy river clinging to my one source of comfort, far, far away from my floating lounge chair and above ground pool at home. (I have the water return jet in my 18 foot round, above ground piece of heaven angled, so that when I float in the lounge chair, it spins me around for that perfect rotisserie tan! )

Like Tom Hanks in the movie Cast Away I'll make friends with my voluptuous, pastel colored, pool noodles, and perhaps even give them names, like Milson, Nilson, Bilson and Wilbur.... but then the evil children in my vacation party will come and try and steal my noodle friends from me!

Sure, I'll try and fight them off valiantly, but in the end I know I'll succumb to those crocodile tears and relinquish all but one. Tis the life of a mother.....

For months now a thought has been puzzling me. HOW WOULD I GET MY NOODLE FRIENDS BACK HOME AGAIN TO FROLIC IN MY ABOVE GROUND POOL AT HOME??? There is no easy way since there isn't really a post office that I can go to on Disney property that would handle 4 voluptuous pool noodles.

Reluctantly, it has occurred to me that my love affair with my Beach Club babies will be brief. Although it hurts me in my heart I must LEAVE them at the BC!!!!

Therein lies the dilemma. Once I depart WHO WILL CARE FOR THESE LOVELY, V O L U P T U O U S, LINGUINE-ESQUE POOL NOODLES???

Danny's Mom has gracefully volunteered to take these beasts of bliss off of my hands, but who shall get them after her??

Will I be up at night wondering if my babies will be beached in some dumpster, carelessly tossed aside for one of those Hurricaine Hannah Happy meal buckets?

No.

I think NOT!

Here's the deal. The last person to have them arranges for the next person to get them.

Simple huh? We have the list on the front of the BC/YC thread of people who will be down at the resort. Just pick somebody that will be there after you, arrange to pass them on and together we'll keep these pool noodles alive and frolicking in Storm Along Bay for generations to come!

Sound Good?

Ok so I'm going to pass them to Danny's Mom when I check out June 20th. Danny's Mom you need to figure out who you are going to pass them to.

Okie dokie everybody?

~ Marlton Mom

 

[Marlton Mom]

My avatar alter-ego plans on being there, but I can't decide what to wear. I keep trying things on and asking my husband "Does this make me look flat?"

Good one Dee!!!!

 

[DisneyMomx7]

Thank you for the help. I am afraid we may hear the same comment while we are there. The immobilizer is not really easy to get on and off. Plus, since it will be so hot, we may just let her stay in the wheelchair without the brace for a while. All that is important is that we know we are doing what our doctor told us to do. Plus, I have a note if anyone questions us.

Did you have any special request for your BC room? Am I better to get a room close to the lobby? Thanks!

We didn't have any special requests. We were on the 5th floor since we were staying cl. She just got in the wheelchair and down the elevator we went! The only time she really walked was when we were at the pool and then we just slowed down and waited for her. We were there for 17 days so she was walking a lot better at the end of the trip than the beginning, but we still had to use the wheelchair for the parks.

Good luck!

 

[DisneyMomx7]

Count me in on the Marlton Mom's Fabulous Noodle swap if it can get to July 16th!!!!

Marlton Mom - we have an inground pool and I never realized we were using inferior noodles! Guess I'll have to hit Target before Memorial Day!!

 

[pixarmom]

My avatar alter-ego plans on being there, but I can't decide what to wear. I keep trying things on and asking my husband "Does this make me look flat?"

1) Love it! I'm trying to figure out how to get in a flat appearance with Dee at the meet.

2) Teena, I should know this, but could you please remind us of your Memorial Day weekend schedule at BC?

 

[pixarmom]

County me in on the Marlton Mom's Fabulous Noodle swap if it can get to July 16th!!!!

Marlton Mom - we have an inground pool and I never realized we were using inferior noodles! Guess I'll have to hit Target before Memorial Day!!

Marlton Mom, if this lasts until the end of August, we're in!!!

 

[BLTtinkerbell]

Ok so I'm going to pass them to Danny's Mom when I check out June 20th. Danny's Mom you need to figure out who you are going to pass them to.

Okie dokie everybody?

~ Marlton Mom

I believe I am checking in as Danny's Mom is checking out. I will be at BC CL GV June 25th - June 29th.

 

[Marlton Mom]

Hey Dee,

If I keep track of the pool noodle list is there any chance of posting it on page 1 where the monthly lists are kept??

~MM

 

[PittPantherfan]

Good point! We are CL too so perhaps that will help. I'm sure the men/work may occasionally be on the upper floors but the equipment won't be on the doorstep.

They looked like they were all of the way up to the 5th floor facing the lake when we were there two weeks ago. Maybe they are done there now.

 

[TeenaS]

If you know Marlton Mom, you know that even though she spends the big bucks on the voluptuous pool noodles, she's dirt cheap with as much as she can get away with.

This means that the noodle packing contraption involved a trip to the dollar store and the ever popular Duct tape!

You see I bought these laundry bags at the Dollar store thinking they would be useful to DH who is in charge of laundry (Stop drooling people, he wrecks EVERYTHING! For 2 years I was walking around with multiple pairs of shorts that had perfectly formed bleach polka dots all over the butt side!)

Anyhoo I opened the laundry bags when I got home and discovered that they were Dollar Store DUDS!!! (SHOCKER!!!! ) Not wanting to waste 2 whole dollars (Plus tax!!) it occurred to me that they would make a useful wrapping 'sheath' for my voluptuous pool noodles. The length was overlapping just enough so I taped the laundry bags together over the pool noodles and I applied my famous "brown paper shopping bag" label with the pertinent info.

Those 4 voluptuous pool noodles were so light I figured the Post Office would owe ME money to ship them, but alas they got me on a technicality.
Apparently the length and girth of said voluptuous pool noodles came into play and it wound up costing me $16 bucks to ship them to the BC on the slowest boat to China that the post office runs.

At night, when I'm fading from another exhausting day of being Marlton Mom, I dream of those pool noodles, trucking their way down I 95 in some broken down jalopy of a mail truck, getting closer, Closer, CLOSER to Storm Along Bay! I dream of how I'll float around the lazy river clinging to my one source of comfort, far, far away from my floating lounge chair and above ground pool at home. (I have the water return jet in my 18 foot round, above ground piece of heaven angled, so that when I float in the lounge chair, it spins me around for that perfect rotisserie tan! )

Like Tom Hanks in the movie Cast Away I'll make friends with my voluptuous, pastel colored, pool noodles, and perhaps even give them names, like Milson, Nilson, Bilson and Wilbur.... but then the evil children in my vacation party will come and try and steal my noodle friends from me!

Sure, I'll try and fight them off valiantly, but in the end I know I'll succumb to those crocodile tears and relinquish all but one. Tis the life of a mother.....

For months now a thought has been puzzling me. HOW WOULD I GET MY NOODLE FRIENDS BACK HOME AGAIN TO FROLIC IN MY ABOVE GROUND POOL AT HOME??? There is no easy way since there isn't really a post office that I can go to on Disney property that would handle 4 voluptuous pool noodles.

Reluctantly, it has occurred to me that my love affair with my Beach Club babies will be brief. Although it hurts me in my heart I must LEAVE them at the BC!!!!

Therein lies the dilemma. Once I depart WHO WILL CARE FOR THESE LOVELY, V O L U P T U O U S, LINGUINE-ESQUE POOL NOODLES???

Danny's Mom has gracefully volunteered to take these beasts of bliss off of my hands, but who shall get them after her??

Will I be up at night wondering if my babies will be beached in some dumpster, carelessly tossed aside for one of those Hurricaine Hannah Happy meal buckets?

No.

I think NOT!

Here's the deal. The last person to have them arranges for the next person to get them.

Simple huh? We have the list on the front of the BC/YC thread of people who will be down at the resort. Just pick somebody that will be there after you, arrange to pass them on and together we'll keep these pool noodles alive and frolicking in Storm Along Bay for generations to come!

Sound Good?

Ok so I'm going to pass them to Danny's Mom when I check out June 20th. Danny's Mom you need to figure out who you are going to pass them to.

Okie dokie everybody?

~ Marlton Mom

If it ever gets to the point where you can't find someone to hand them down to, Aunt Teena will take them home ... they can share our storage bedroom with our noodles and squirt guns.

 

[Marlton Mom]

If it ever gets to the point where you can't find someone to hand them down to, Aunt Teena will take them home ... they can share our storage bedroom with our noodles and squirt guns.

Thanks Teena!

I think these noodles are secretly a way to get us to connect with each other in person at the resort!

Marlton Mom

 

[TeenaS]

1) Love it! I'm trying to figure out how to get in a flat appearance with Dee at the meet.

2) Teena, I should know this, but could you please remind us of your Memorial Day weekend schedule at BC?

I'll be still on my radiation schedule. I'm working Saturday and Sunday (5/28 and 5/29), then "zap and nap" the next five days (Monday - Friday), then work Saturday (6/4), Sunday (6/5) and Monday (6/6) and I'm flying off to Jeanne's to help close down the classroom on Tuesday (6/7) for a week. I won't be back to the Beach Club until Sunday (6/19) at which time I'm back on my normal Sunday and Monday schedule. They just told me I will need more radiation when I get back after helping Jeanne but they will do it on Tuesdays through Fridays for two weeks after I return. Then I should be all done and hopefully have most of my strength back for Peanut's arrival. The doctor has given Jeanne a scheduled C-Section date but said there's a slight chance the date could change. Right now it's scheduled for 7/11 so Bob and I are flying out on 7/10.

 

[Marlton Mom]

I won't be back to the Beach Club until Sunday (6/19) at which time I'm back on my normal Sunday and Monday schedule.

Whew! Just made it to see you as I leave on the 20th of June!

Who will I pester for the rest of the days that you are not there???

~MM

 

[Rorey]

Congrates! Maybe I will run into you. DH and I will be there Oct 19 to Oct 25

lol You won't be able to miss us, as my DH will be the one whining why I am making him wear Disney shirts every day of our trip (unless we're going to IoA in which case he will be wearing Hufflepuff relate tops)

Pssssst, everyone. We leave for Florida tomorrow at noon! Our vacation is actually HERE!!!

Packing the van now, but the kids wanted to see our ticker!!!

(dancing bananas as requested by DS Jonah)

Will try to check in from the BC on Friday!!!

Cheers and love to all!!!
The Bourques

Hope you have a fun time!!

And it took me all day, but I was able to read the entire thread. I feel so accomplished!

 

[BlueSkies]

Thanks for the replies Teena SJS315 and MickeyNut

Teena That walk to Epcot sounds great..much better than the changing monorails ride....but that one mile walk over to DHS not so much...I think the boat would be my choice too...I'd rather save my energy for walking in the park!

SJS WS after dark sounds so nice...I am looking foward to that!

Hello there MickeyNut! Nice to see you!!! I remember that you are a fan of Cape May breakfast...we have only tried it once (and we really did like it too!) because of the long trip over from the monorail resorts just to have breakfast.. So far two breakfast options... Teena mentioned the Marketplace....is there a TS option ..anything like the GF Cafe??? Will our winter trips be overlapping??? Would be so nice if they were

Are all of the club level rooms on the 5th floor where the lounge is??? We booked a lagoon view CL room... Hoping it will be a view across the lagoon to the BW..

Teena Sorry that the radiation is sapping your energy...its great that you have kept on working though...how nice that you have a new" Peanuts" arrival to look foward to when you are all done...