Deb & Bill
DVC-Trivia Contest, Apr-2006: Honorable Mention
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We just returned home from 7 nights in a dedicated one bedroom at VWL (in fact, jimmytammy is in the room right now!!). The room was beautiful and very clean. No maintenance problems that we could find. We even used the jacuzzi tub and did not preclean it before using it. Check in was fast. Our room was ready when we arrived and we had some very nice Bell Service guys to help us with our bags into the room and again out of the room when we left. I was surprised that the balcony was off the master bedroom and not the living room. This was the first time we have had a room with this orientation. We usually have the master bedroom on the right.
1. Parks were busy. We saw waits for 110 and 120 minutes. Even Small World had a wait time of 40 minutes one day. Now that is crowded.
2. The dining plan is nice, but it is waaaaay too much food. We got our money's worth and still didn't use 3 Counter Service meals. Eating both a counter service meal and a table service meal is just too much.
3. We had some extra nice servers for our meals. Two great ones at the Concourse Steakhouse (Xia for dinner and Lori for breakfast). Also Katherine at Yacht Club Galley Thanksgiving dinner.
4. We met some very nice people, some DVC, some not. Billy (he's four) and his family from Connecticut were at the villas and then moved over to Ft Wilderness Cabins. Our tablemates from Texas at Teppanyaki were on their first trip to Disney and they had planned it up right. They had the Family Suites at All Stars and all their ADRs planned. They were having a great time. And the family from California at WL who were showing their teen daughter WDW for the first time. We ran into them again at Cosmic Ray's and gave them a couple of extra Fast Passes that we had gotten at Buzz Lightyear (CM gave us 10 total on our first day for the three of us, so we shared.) We even saw two families from our home town there. One we knew was going to be there, but the other we didn't. It was a big surprise to both of us to see each other at Boma.
5. Miniature golfing at Winter-Summerland is great fun when there is a nip to the air. And when you play both courses. DVC gives a 15% discount, but AP gives you 50% discount. Somehow, I was the big winner for both rounds of golf.
6. Typhoon Lagoon is great even when it is only 60 degrees outside. We went twice, once on Sunday before Thanksgiving and once on Friday after Thanksgiving. About 5 hours each day. I nearly finished my book in those two days.
7. Illuminations for the holidays is great. It made me wish for peace in the Middle East (and other parts of the world). And I love the Lights of Winter.
8. Cosmic Commander isn't quite Gallactic Hero, but I'll take it. And it beats Space Ace.
9. Get fast passes early for Soarin' and Expedition Everest. They both were gone early. And the lines got long early. My husband and son did EE twice on both days we went to AK. We only did Soarin' once, but it was fun.
10. Everyone should do the Hall of Presidents every now and then. Makes you glad to be an American. Met a man who retired from the company I worked at 25 years ago. He told me about all the changes there.
It was great staying at the VWL and we'd do it again in a heartbeat. Now we just have to save up the points again since we used two years worth of points on our VWL contract (it's only 100 points).
1. Parks were busy. We saw waits for 110 and 120 minutes. Even Small World had a wait time of 40 minutes one day. Now that is crowded.
2. The dining plan is nice, but it is waaaaay too much food. We got our money's worth and still didn't use 3 Counter Service meals. Eating both a counter service meal and a table service meal is just too much.
3. We had some extra nice servers for our meals. Two great ones at the Concourse Steakhouse (Xia for dinner and Lori for breakfast). Also Katherine at Yacht Club Galley Thanksgiving dinner.
4. We met some very nice people, some DVC, some not. Billy (he's four) and his family from Connecticut were at the villas and then moved over to Ft Wilderness Cabins. Our tablemates from Texas at Teppanyaki were on their first trip to Disney and they had planned it up right. They had the Family Suites at All Stars and all their ADRs planned. They were having a great time. And the family from California at WL who were showing their teen daughter WDW for the first time. We ran into them again at Cosmic Ray's and gave them a couple of extra Fast Passes that we had gotten at Buzz Lightyear (CM gave us 10 total on our first day for the three of us, so we shared.) We even saw two families from our home town there. One we knew was going to be there, but the other we didn't. It was a big surprise to both of us to see each other at Boma.
5. Miniature golfing at Winter-Summerland is great fun when there is a nip to the air. And when you play both courses. DVC gives a 15% discount, but AP gives you 50% discount. Somehow, I was the big winner for both rounds of golf.
6. Typhoon Lagoon is great even when it is only 60 degrees outside. We went twice, once on Sunday before Thanksgiving and once on Friday after Thanksgiving. About 5 hours each day. I nearly finished my book in those two days.
7. Illuminations for the holidays is great. It made me wish for peace in the Middle East (and other parts of the world). And I love the Lights of Winter.
8. Cosmic Commander isn't quite Gallactic Hero, but I'll take it. And it beats Space Ace.
9. Get fast passes early for Soarin' and Expedition Everest. They both were gone early. And the lines got long early. My husband and son did EE twice on both days we went to AK. We only did Soarin' once, but it was fun.
10. Everyone should do the Hall of Presidents every now and then. Makes you glad to be an American. Met a man who retired from the company I worked at 25 years ago. He told me about all the changes there.
It was great staying at the VWL and we'd do it again in a heartbeat. Now we just have to save up the points again since we used two years worth of points on our VWL contract (it's only 100 points).
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