CarolAnnC
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Was hoping to pull together a full trip report, but have been a bit under the weather since vacation here, so I thought I would just post about some highlights.
Vero - was DH's first visit to Disney's Vero Beach Resort. We enjoyed Captain Hiram's one evening for dinner and Mulligan's (across from the Ocean Grill) another night. Both are located on the water, and the food was very good, too.
We spent a half day at the pool, heading out early morning. It opened at 8 am and when we arrived around 8:15 we could see the chair savers in full force. Now there is a sign posted near the clean towels stating that chairs cannot be saved, to be considerate of other guests. This seemed to be ignored for the most part. There was an incident where a guest across from us, who had saved a total of 7 loungers, one table with umbrella and 4 upright chairs with towels, and freaked out when a CM had come by and removed the towels. This was a full 4 hours after we arrived, and there had not been anyone sitting there the whole time. Each chair had 3 towels on it. Said guest found a CM screamed at him, used profanity, and then stated he was calling MS right then and there to complain, which he did on his cell. After the call he went over and grabbed another load of towels.. There went 3 towels on each chair again. By my count this amounts to 66 towels this one guest used. The whole time we only saw him and a woman sit down on two of the lounges. At one points two children came up with boogie boards from the beach, briefly spoke and headed out the gate again towards the beach. This had to be the most wasteful thing I have ever seen at a pool. It was crowded and I am sure many would have been able to use those chairs and vacate them long before he ever showed up to use only 2 of the 11 chairs.
We had a 2 bedroom villa and it was ready shortly after we checked in at 2 pm. Although I did not get out to the beach at night, my family reports there were turtle tracks back and forth from the ocean to where the nests must be.
I had not been to Vero in about 10 years so I was disappointed to see so many of the little mom and pop type gift shops are now gone from the village area. There were plenty of upscale boutique type stores, but I am not interested in shoes nor men's suits when on vacation. Give me those hokey t-shirts, postcards and seashell trinkets! LOL! We did find a few things in the Pharmacy there but that was about it.. Loved Hale's oranges. No shipping home during the summer months, however.
Green Cabin Room - we spent some time there early evening for a drink and enjoyed it very much. There were bugs biting outside and the chairs were not so comfy on the porch so we headed inside where we soon found live entertainment with a vocalist playing guitar and prerecorded music in the background. We tipped him, though he first tried to wave us off.
Tried Sonya's for breakfast Saturday morning. The character breakfast was going on next door at Shutters but we wanted just a nice ala carte meal so we opted for Sonya's. I enjoyed the farmer breakfast with eggs, sausage, homefries and toast. Decaf was excellent.
Will post more a bit later...
Vero - was DH's first visit to Disney's Vero Beach Resort. We enjoyed Captain Hiram's one evening for dinner and Mulligan's (across from the Ocean Grill) another night. Both are located on the water, and the food was very good, too.
We spent a half day at the pool, heading out early morning. It opened at 8 am and when we arrived around 8:15 we could see the chair savers in full force. Now there is a sign posted near the clean towels stating that chairs cannot be saved, to be considerate of other guests. This seemed to be ignored for the most part. There was an incident where a guest across from us, who had saved a total of 7 loungers, one table with umbrella and 4 upright chairs with towels, and freaked out when a CM had come by and removed the towels. This was a full 4 hours after we arrived, and there had not been anyone sitting there the whole time. Each chair had 3 towels on it. Said guest found a CM screamed at him, used profanity, and then stated he was calling MS right then and there to complain, which he did on his cell. After the call he went over and grabbed another load of towels.. There went 3 towels on each chair again. By my count this amounts to 66 towels this one guest used. The whole time we only saw him and a woman sit down on two of the lounges. At one points two children came up with boogie boards from the beach, briefly spoke and headed out the gate again towards the beach. This had to be the most wasteful thing I have ever seen at a pool. It was crowded and I am sure many would have been able to use those chairs and vacate them long before he ever showed up to use only 2 of the 11 chairs.
We had a 2 bedroom villa and it was ready shortly after we checked in at 2 pm. Although I did not get out to the beach at night, my family reports there were turtle tracks back and forth from the ocean to where the nests must be.
I had not been to Vero in about 10 years so I was disappointed to see so many of the little mom and pop type gift shops are now gone from the village area. There were plenty of upscale boutique type stores, but I am not interested in shoes nor men's suits when on vacation. Give me those hokey t-shirts, postcards and seashell trinkets! LOL! We did find a few things in the Pharmacy there but that was about it.. Loved Hale's oranges. No shipping home during the summer months, however.
Green Cabin Room - we spent some time there early evening for a drink and enjoyed it very much. There were bugs biting outside and the chairs were not so comfy on the porch so we headed inside where we soon found live entertainment with a vocalist playing guitar and prerecorded music in the background. We tipped him, though he first tried to wave us off.
Tried Sonya's for breakfast Saturday morning. The character breakfast was going on next door at Shutters but we wanted just a nice ala carte meal so we opted for Sonya's. I enjoyed the farmer breakfast with eggs, sausage, homefries and toast. Decaf was excellent.
Will post more a bit later...
Spring Break '10...sounds like a plan to me.
Have seen people actually stop, read the sign then go on to become a guilty party. 
Self entitlement? Maybe a few even take the sign verbatim. It doesn't say you can't reserve chairs,lounges and tables just don't use your personal items. Use a strangers. Is your b___ considered a personal item? 
