Incredible pictures!!!
Sounds like you all had a wonderful safari day. I wish we had done the ... Forget what it's called... Adventurer club...
Wilderness explorers looks like fun, I love the animal trails!
Nice safari pics! Looks like you had a great ride! Gotta love when the giraffes are so personable.
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great pictures
crowds look scary in the "best park". We are going Thanksgiving week also
Wilderness Explorers... why couldn't I remember that. lol Definitely doing it next time.
Curious to hear about the drama. I know you are not one to make drama out of nothing, so I can only imagine what this is.
I LOVE Dinosaur! I was a huge Dino-nerd as a kid, I love everything about that area.
Oh no!! SO glad your drama worked out the best way possible. Too bad about any missing gift cards, but at least you had your ID and got your APs no problem!
Kali!! Perfect ride on a hot day.
Great pics with the characters, perfect way to pass the time until FotLK (which is basically my favourite show ever in the history of the universe.)
Can't wait to see what you think of the Beach Club!
Gee, I don't know where to start... I would have had full blown cry feat if I thought I lost everything. So happy you at least had your license and TIW . Lesson learned I will not keep AP and license together... Thank you !
Don't you live when you put your desires on back burner for your kids to do something then they back out? Lol. Glad you got to do Kali in the end.
I absolutely live the character mojo the boys got! I love when they are so interactive! DD is not as interested in a lot of the characters any more.
I am really loving your tr.
Glad you " drama" wasn't as bad as it could have been. I thought maybe it involved someone stealing your stuff and you having to confront them!!! :0
great updates
I am glad the drama wasn't as bad as you initially thought.
All caught up. Looks like an awesome AK day! Sorryabout the APs but, at least it ended well.
So when I last left ya'll, we were on a bus headed for Caribbean Beach so that we could grab our car and move to the Beach Club.
The boys seemed to be making plans on the bus ride.
Once at CBR, we hopped in our car and took off. Up next, the glorious (or was it?) Beach Club. I must be honest and say that we were excitedly nervous about this stay for a couple of reasons.
First, we had rented points and I had this unbelievable fear that the DVC member would cancel our reservation at the last minute leaving us without a place to stay.
Second, we had read (and heard from friends who had stayed here) that the guests at BC were snobby. This also had us a bit worried.
Lastly, since we weren't actual DVC members, we worried that we would be treated "differently".
On the way there, we stopped in at McDonald's to grab a very quick bite to eat and then we headed off to Beach Club.
Upon arriving at the little guard building, he asked why I was there so I presented him with my id as he found our names on the list. Check that one off the list - we have a reservation!!
We continued driving to the lobby area and were met by friendly CM's who opened our doors for us. I let them know that we would be parking our own car for the week but that we would definitely welcome help with the luggage.
Then something happened that DH still laughs at me for to this day..... - A CM approached me with an ipad looking device and said, "Welcome to Beach Club, Mrs. Richard. I will take you to the reservation desk." Ummm hello??? How does he know my name????? I asked DH later and he laughed at me for forever since I had JUST provided ALL of my info to the guy at the guard house. Yeah in those 3 minutes I forgot that I had given it to him and I'm sure he radioed it over but for this country girl, that meant the world to me. It definitely showed that I was important to them.
We followed the guy inside who led us straight to the counter and we were checked in without issue. It didn't take long at all and they were so friendly. DH and the kids enjoyed exploring the lobby while I received our room keys.
Afterwards, we drove our car over to the Villas and parked it. We were first greeted by these friendly guys!
SO many times we were able to see rabbits and ducks on the lawn at our hotel. There were even a few days that the ducks swam in the same pools we did. They were so cute.
And then we got to this......
Not sure why I don't have room pictures but we did love our room. Our youngest was not fond of the sofa bed but he still seemed to sleep well each night. There will be more pictures throughout the report as I seemed to always snap more and more pictures of the hotel.
We weren't in our room for very long when the bellhop brought up our bags. We also found the balcony (which I LOVED) and promptly smashed DS7's finger in the sliding door. He seemed to be fine and after a few tears we convinced him to head downstairs for an ice cream!!!
We were off!
My time date stamps say it's 7:00 p.m. right here. The grounds of this hotel are absolutely gorgeous but the one thing that we noticed was the "burnt pizza oven" smell each time we entered Beach Club from Beach Club Villas. Yes I know....here we are at the Beach Club with all of these beautiful views and I most remember the smell, but I am a "smell" person. To this day when I walk by a pizza oven at a local restaurant and encounter that smell, I'm immediately drawn back to the Beach Club.
The pool - would we have time to use the pool during our visit or would we be too busy to enjoy it? OR would the rains that are about to come take away our chances to enjoy the pool?
We checked in and the sweet hostesses told us that it would be about an hour wait. I tell you Beaches and Cream is ALWAYS busy!!! We took our pager and went to the arcade.
Within 35 minutes our pager went off. It was MUCH shorter than the projected time. We were SOOOOO excited to finally get our chance at a Kitchen Sink. We had tried on both previous trips but never actually made it to a table at Beaches & Cream to try one.
See I told you that we were excited!!! Looks like the waitress is even excited for us!
I thought the designs on the glass were cute!
THERE is our kitchen sink!!!! Our very own kitchen sink!! What did we do first?? We took off ALL of the whipped cream and put it in a bowl by itself because none of us eat it. lol.....After that we dug in!!
Were we able to finish it???
What do you think?
Hmmmm......well.......
Almost!! We were able to get to the very bottom but there were still some things left in our bowl. It was delicious and we enjoyed it but we probably wouldn't do it again because this is about the time I realized that my boys don't like their foods/flavors to touch each other! Ummm....oops! It all gets mixed together in that bowl!
We paid our waitress and left. We went swimming in the pool and enjoying some water volleyball for a little while but we did end up going to bed early because we had to get up early the next morning. We were headed to Daytona to tour the speedway!
In answer to my question about the Beach Club, we never ever once met snobby CM's or snobby resort guests. We all fell in love with the hotel and LOVED how close it was to Epcot and Hollywood Studios. I would definitely stay here again in a heartbeat. However, DH found two other DVC resorts that he loved better later on in the week. He is now fully convinced that we need DVC!
Let's see.... how do I respond to this update....
: EXCEPT of course the finger incident. That is ... But glad he was okay.
Now for the very last sentence in this update....