2011 Yacht & Beach Club FAQ, Part III- DO NOT POST HERE- Summer/Fall

[Feckless]

Working from home, just checking the DIS while the kids and I wait for Hurricane Maria to hit! Had to call DH to come home from work to repair a window - went to work with the laundry room casement open and when I came home with the kids (they closed the schools at noon) the window had blown straight off the house!!!! Yes, an open window + hurricane = disaster! Even worse than the Sprite Zero one!!! DH came home and repaired the mechanism and reinstalled the window. Stupid of me to leave it open but it was literally the calm before the storm. Hope this doesn't get as bad as Igor last year - we lost power for 4 straight days. That SUCKED. Wish me (and my basement and roof) luck in weathering the storm!

Wish I was at the BC right now!!!!

 

[Tltorrez]

Another suggestion would be to go to the quiet pool. They can sit in the lounge chairs there.

You haven't met my 9-year old. he would be the opposite of "quiet".

Besides, he's really dying to do SAB. Of course, all this is dependent on a GP discount coming out before the end of the month. Otherwise, we'll be at the Swan and it's a moot point.

 

[babyrich]

Teena,

So glad you both had a good time.

We have 38 days to go!!!! My DH said he will bring the suitcases down for me on October 1. I've been bugging him since August!!!!

I still cant believe we are going to be so close to Epcot during F&W!!!!

 

[jenneth79]

Teena - I don't know how you dealt with the possessed TV... the first time it happened, I'd probably be hiding under my covers! (after making my DH get up and unplug it

So glad you had a relaxing time and happy Anniversary! So glad they took care of you and made sure you had appropiate reading material!

Feckless - Good luck wtih Maria... say safe and dry!

 

[Marlton Mom]

Thanks makes sense. Now we know where they have taken all of them!

I apologize for making sense. It was not my intention and it shall never happen again.


~Marlton Mom

After the pool on Thursday (the love bugs were sooooo bad), we headed back to the room to find two construction workers on our balcony. We just closed the drapes and proceeded with showers and changing for dinner. They were singing and having a good time apparently. We figured we might be charged extra for the entertainment.

Maybe they were waiting for you to slip a dollar or two in their waist bands? That's what Matthew McConaughey always wanted when he 'danced' on my balcony at the Beach Club.
*Note to self: Pack Extra dollar bills for dancing balcony construction workers.

Honestly, I think this is the best money making venture for the Beach Club since they decided to start charging extra for room views! Who woulda thunk you could request a Phone book room or dancing construction worker view? And to think some people are COMPLAINING! They wouldn't know an upgrade if it smacked them in the head!

Shake it for Mama!
~MM

PS. Here's a big to CindyDare or sharing her live trip reports!!! Thankyou, thankyou, THANKYOU!!!

 

[vanillarum]

Hey Nannette, just wanted to let you know we received our DISer pin in the mail yesterday. TYVM. Now to take a looooong nap and wake up on Dec 2nd ! (Need that xtra day as I haven't packed yet (GASP !) Thanx again.

 

[Marlton Mom]

Working from home, just checking the DIS while the kids and I wait for Hurricane Maria to hit! Had to call DH to come home from work to repair a window - went to work with the laundry room casement open and when I came home with the kids (they closed the schools at noon) the window had blown straight off the house!!!! Yes, an open window + hurricane = disaster! Even worse than the Sprite Zero one!!! DH came home and repaired the mechanism and reinstalled the window. Stupid of me to leave it open but it was literally the calm before the storm. Hope this doesn't get as bad as Igor last year - we lost power for 4 straight days. That SUCKED. Wish me (and my basement and roof) luck in weathering the storm!

Wish I was at the BC right now!!!!

Good luck with the Storm Feckless.
~MM

 

[TeenaS]

The TV turning on loudly during the night was spooky. Jeanne and I once on the Disney Magic had a room where the lights turned on and off by themselves. We laughed ourselves silly. That room was possessed!! Great memories!

 

[natebenma]

We're back from our mini-vacation at the Beach Club. It was wonderful!

We checked in early and was greeted at the door and taken up to club level. We're old so they put us in 5654 ... very close to the elevators. And as previously reported, there was no phone book in the room. We quickly changed our clothes and at 9:30 headed down to SAB to wait for them to open. We were told we were Family of the Day at the pool and got in early, got extra large towels and reserved seats. Very cool!

We played cards under the umbrella and every other hand hit the pool to cool off. Had burgers from Hurricane Hanna's. The love bugs were there to help eat our lunch. Tuesday and Wednesday they were there but not so much that it was uncomfortable. Thursday they multiplied by thousands and we spent most of the day in the pool to avoid them.

We got back to the room around 4 to change for our Cape May dinner. There was a beautiful gift waiting for us in the room with a beautiful 32nd anniversary ornament and some wine glasses. So nice!!!!!!

We had a nice message on the phone from Patrick, one of my managers wishing us a happy anniversary. Then a second message was from George, another one of my managers, informing us that they had noise complaints from our room and they were not accustomed to guests like us that make so much noise and to please simmer down. Very funny!

We went down to dinner and I saw George and gave him a hard time. We had a super dinner and then walked around outside to help digest. Upon arriving back at the room, the first thing we saw was a phone book on the bed. It just made our day. We sat on the bed and argued who was going to read it. I won.

Bob read his book instead. We were asleep early but at 12:37 AM the TV came on loudly on its own. I jumped out of bed, ran over to the chest and knocked things over trying to find the remote to turn off the TV. Very strange. Bob said it was a ghost.

Next day it was back to the pool and another CM made us Family of the Day. I told them we were Family of the Day the day before and he said, well, you're Family of the Day again today too. Holy Cow!!!!

We played cards and floated around on our noodles all day. That night we had dinner at Teppan Edo ... the filet was soooooooooooo good!!! I couldn't wait for Wednesday night. Bob fell asleep around 8 PM. I watched Survivor and Big Brother Finale. So thrilled that Rachel won!! Fell asleep at 11 PM, and at 12:37 AM the TV came on loudly again. This time I had the remote by the bed so it was an easy fix.

The next morning I found one of the concierges and I said, hey guys, I'm very electronically stupid ... our TV is coming on LOUD every night at 12:37 AM. Can you show me how to unprogram it. She said "that's what happened to the TV". Apparently it was in other rooms. Every time a guest tells the CM what the tv does, engineering comes and gets it and "fixes it" and it ends up in different rooms. Well, apparently it really never gets fixed. Now it's in 5654. Then the CM went back to the room with me and put a small sticker on the bottom of it so if another guest comes to them with the same story, she can see that it's the same TV and report that it is never really being fixed, just relocated. I'm sure engineering thinks it's fixed but it isn't! They called it in to engineering. After the pool on Thursday (the love bugs were sooooo bad), we headed back to the room to find two construction workers on our balcony. We just closed the drapes and proceeded with showers and changing for dinner. They were singing and having a good time apparently. We figured we might be charged extra for the entertainment.

Third night we met Lauren and had dinner at Italy. It was great!!! Got back to the room, Bob went to sleep early and I chatted with friends and fellow CMs most of the night.

Came home this morning and I'm busy doing laundry and such. Overall it was one of our best vacations. We decided we want to do it again at the BC ... the food was great, the pool wonderful and it was sooooooo relaxing.

The CMs up on the fifth floor are great. It's hard for me to give a true report on them since they treat me differently since they know me. There were some rude guests and some wonderful guests in the lounge but you certainly can't judge the lounge on the guests that happen to be staying there. We got to hang out a bit with some fellow disers too which really made the trip extra special!

I took some pictures with my trak phone and my pal, Lauren, posted them on facebook and I asked Dee to post them on the thread here since I don't know how to do it.

 

[LMO429]

YAY!!! TEENA!!! So glad you had such a fabulous time! and fantastic trip report. You so deserved it!!!! xoxoxo

 

[natebenma]

Thanks again, cindydare for your awesome live reports! I'm going to miss them!!! But probably not as much as you will!

I almost just spit coffee all over my screen at this one!

Line forms here for the complaint department for computer keyboards ruined by spitting coffee after reading one of MM's posts!!!

I'm thinking we might do Cape May for dinner.

An excellent idea!!!

You haven't met my 9-year old. he would be the opposite of "quiet".

Well, we leave tomorrow morning for our Anniversary trip and stay at the YC!!!

You're trip is here already???

Have a FANTASTIC time!!!

Working from home, just checking the DIS while the kids and I wait for Hurricane Maria to hit!

Good luck with the storm!

I apologize for making sense. It was not my intention and it shall never happen again.


~Marlton Mom

There you go again!!!

 

[jakeybake]

Congrats Teena on a great trip! You certainly deserved everything you got and more!!

Love the pics!! Just make sure you are working sometime from 12/3-12/7 so we can catch up when I'm at my conference!!

And I'll give you one guess as to where I'm booked, and no it's not my precious BC. I may end up crashing on a SAB lounge chair that week!!!

All the best my friend!!!

J

 

[Feckless]

The pic of Teena reading the phone book made me LOL!!!!

Getting ready for the eye of the storm. Should hit soon... Power on for now.

 

[Rorey]

So happy you had a wonderful time Teena!! And I'll be silly and comment on Big Brother, I was ecstatic that Rachel won!! DH thought I had lost my mind! lol And I'm hoping Survivor picks up a bit as the first episode was ok, but loved seeing Ozzy back! Sorry I'm a reality tv show junkie lol

Thanks for the live trip reports cindydare. Love them!!!

MM - I LOVE your posts, you brighten my day so much!! Thank you!

 

[TeenaS]

So happy you had a wonderful time Teena!! And I'll be silly and comment on Big Brother, I was ecstatic that Rachel won!! DH thought I had lost my mind! lol And I'm hoping Survivor picks up a bit as the first episode was ok, but loved seeing Ozzy back! Sorry I'm a reality tv show junkie lol

Thanks for the live trip reports cindydare. Love them!!!

MM - I LOVE your posts, you brighten my day so much!! Thank you!

Oh me too (reality TV junkie). Rachel deserved it definitely. However, I was shocked at who voted for who. I called it all wrong.

Survivor is great too ... The first few weeks though I don't enjoy alot because I haven't gotten to know the people yet. It helps that they bring back some vets! The last season was my favorite ... I'm a Boston Rob fan!

Looking forward to Amazing Race. And I'm happy we will all know one of the teams ahead of time!

 

[Minnie&Nana]

Dee, thank you so much for the pics of Teena and DH at BC. How much wonderful cout it be than knowing they had such a delightful vacation?

 

[MickeyT]

Welcome back Teena. Glad you finally got your trip in after the 'Great Stone Delay of 2011'. What a year! See you in December.....

 

[natebenma]

I'm a Boston Rob fan!

Me, too! Love the way he "tawks".

 

[sheri18]

Teena....it was great to meet you...
we had a wonderful stay at the BC...all the CM's were so great to us....one day my GS lost one of his new disney cars so my DIL asked if anyone turned it in...the next day they had a new pak of cars for him....how thoughtful...I will try to do some type of TR once I get the pics uploaded....

 

[DisneyMomx7]

Oh me too (reality TV junkie). Rachel deserved it definitely. However, I was shocked at who voted for who. I called it all wrong.

Survivor is great too ... The first few weeks though I don't enjoy alot because I haven't gotten to know the people yet. It helps that they bring back some vets! The last season was my favorite ... I'm a Boston Rob fan!

Looking forward to Amazing Race. And I'm happy we will all know one of the teams ahead of time!

LOL - My older kids make fun of me because I still LOVE Survivor!
Giant Boston Rob Fan here too!!!!