Hello Shirley,
Nice to be back, We stayed at the Marriot Residence Inn/Sea World international center, just off I-drive at 11000 Westwood Boulevard, It is a brand new hotel that just opened before we arrived and was absolutly beautiful, we got free breakfast buffet included daily and the pool was lovely with water fountains squirting around it, there was also a spa at the side and towel changing facilities.
The hotel also had a laundrette,small shop, barbeques,small games room,vollyball court and beautiful gardens, the staff were very helpful and polite and treated us as if we were family!
The rooms were all suites (although the kitchen was very small) and we had plenty of room for 5 people.
I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this hotel to anyone as we found it far superior to the Disney All Stars, although i don't know the real price of the Marriot as our origional hotel group were double booked and paid for us to stay there at no extra cost to us, being a 4 star hotel and given the luxury decor of the place i guess it wouldn't come cheap.
The only minus points were the breakfast never differed at all and we got fed up after a few days and there was still building work going on next to it but it never really bothered us.
The 100 year celebration parades were lovely, the MK one was especialy magical and so was the Disney Stars and Motor Cars Parade at MGM. The EPCOT parade was a little dissapointing for us as it was almost exactly the same as the millenium one.
I think the flame tree was open when we were there but i can't exactly remember.
Hope i havn't waffled on for too long Shirley but when i'm on a roll it's hard to get me to stop he he!
Anything else you want to know, just ask and i'll try my best to keep it short (some hope, lol)
Luv Audrey
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