Another reason to love DVC

[KelNottAt]

Earlier this month, my extended family spent a week at a 4-star hotel in Las Vegas. The trip was great and we had a blast (Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, Cirque, Blue Man Group, David Cooperfield, and more). We lost a little too much money, but that’s a different story…

Even though we loved our vacation, I have to say I felt myself longing for DVC-type accommodations. There were 4 of us in a 2-queen room with only 3 dresser drawers. And, since this was Vegas, everything was geared toward minimizing your time in the room. (They want us out there to play play play and spend spend spend!) So this meant no mini-bar, no mini-fridge...nothing. Not even a coffee maker in the room. We speculated this was to force us to patronize one of the two (count ‘em - not one, but two) Starbucks in the hotel.

So by day 4, when we had our 10th restaurant meal in a row and paid another arm and a leg for a nearly-healthy meal, DVC was all I could think about. Eating out all the time was time-consuming, expensive, and inconvenient. I had to get dressed and look presentable just to get breakfast. Waiting, ordering, eating and paying turned (what could be) a 15-minute villa meal into a 60-minute ordeal. We squabbled over whose turn it was to pick the restaurant. Meals became a chore of the trip…not a nice vacation treat.

Don’t get me wrong…we loved Las Vegas and plan to go back. And I love eating out at least once a week when we’re home. But the next time we take a week-long vacation anywhere, I’m demanding a kitchen, or at least a fridge.

All this makes our upcoming BWV trip look even better.

Kelley

 

[dianeschlicht]

LOL! Do I see a Vegas timeshare in your future?

 

[lsutiggeratwk]

I'm with you on the meals. Even with all the great restaurants at WDW, I get tired of "park food". It is really great, even in a stuido, to be able to fix something different to eat. And who wants to be presentable for breakfast!!

 

[Pa@okw95]

I doubt that most hotels can have cooking facilities in them at Vegas, probably a law against it, cooking facilities for guests to use that is. I never gave a thought to eating in a hotel room no matter how long I stay there, but the exception is DVC where we do eat breakfast. Everyone is different, but eating out for me is very much a part of the vacation. When I stay in casinos anything to keep me away from the tables is a good thing. We don't eat park food when we are at WDW, only use the restaurants, not the fast food joints, although I must confess to grabing a hot dog at the American pavilion every year. There are just too many nice places to eat at WDW and the food is great with some exceptions of course. Everyone is different, I love food.