bobbiwoz
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Checked into BCV 9AM on the 10th. Room wasn't ready, a studio, so, we headed to Epcot, and at 1 PM found that 249 was all set for us. Great condition, location faced the woods. SAB was wonderful, dinner at Cape May Cafe was perfect and Herman's Hermit's put on a great show. This was our "40th anniversary of meeting each other" (on the Boardwalk at Seaside Heights NJ, great Boardwalk!) vacation, and this night set the tone for wonderful times yet to come.
The next day we arrived at OKW for check-in and our room, a 1 bedroom was ready at 8:30AM. I cannot walk down stairs easily, so I had asked for an elevator building or 1st floor, well, we got the first floor in an elevator building
. The villa was 6314, and it was wonderful, great condition, great, great, great! Our new goal is to spend a 2 week vacation in a 1 bedroom at OKW 
Now, from our balcony you could see the bridge with traffic, so I'm guessing it wouldn't be everyones choice, but it did "work." The balcony faced the golf hole, there was a stream, and a gaggle of ducks would come for bread in the morning. (Is there a story behind the duck decoy that's placed there?)
The first day, at Epcot, one of the Epcot greaters noticed my DIS button, she mostly posts on the cruise board, and I don't remember her name, maybe timon
but we had a nice chat! I met KarenB on an OKW bus 
and I've read her wonderful reports of her vacation.
Our highlight, ending the WDW stay was a Wishes cruise with "dwzicc" and his family! What a great time we had and it was great meeting him and his family. I had gone on the Disboard that has posts for joining people who had room on booked cruises and boy were we lucky. It was wonderful sitting in the boat, hearing the music and seeing the fireworks (we saw tink fly) and then no crowds to beat getting back to the resort. We had driven our car to VWL for the evening.
We ended our 9 night Florida stay at a Marriott resort on Hutchinson Island. What a wonderful resort, but the hotel was not oceanside. There was a tram that ran continuously from 7AM, maybe until 11 at night from the hotel, to the golf center, to the beach, and that worked for us. The resort provided umbrellas and beach chairs, which is a definite plus over VB, but we both missed VB.
Our final highlight was snorkeling in Biscayne NP, in Homestead. It was a drive, about 2 1/2 hours to get there, and we had tried previously to get out on the water when we were staying closer, but weather was against us. This is a NP that's 95% underwater, and the reef had beautiful coral. Our captain said that John Pennycamp SP (on Key Largo) had a wider variety of fish, but the NP had better coral. Don't know, when we tried the SP 2 years ago, weather conditions weren't good and snorkeling was cancelled. So, long drive or not, both DH and I were glad we went.
Great accomodations at both BCV and OKW, we are so glad we joined DVC.
Bobbi
The next day we arrived at OKW for check-in and our room, a 1 bedroom was ready at 8:30AM. I cannot walk down stairs easily, so I had asked for an elevator building or 1st floor, well, we got the first floor in an elevator building
. The villa was 6314, and it was wonderful, great condition, great, great, great! Our new goal is to spend a 2 week vacation in a 1 bedroom at OKW Now, from our balcony you could see the bridge with traffic, so I'm guessing it wouldn't be everyones choice, but it did "work." The balcony faced the golf hole, there was a stream, and a gaggle of ducks would come for bread in the morning. (Is there a story behind the duck decoy that's placed there?) The first day, at Epcot, one of the Epcot greaters noticed my DIS button, she mostly posts on the cruise board, and I don't remember her name, maybe timon
but we had a nice chat! I met KarenB on an OKW bus and I've read her wonderful reports of her vacation.Our highlight, ending the WDW stay was a Wishes cruise with "dwzicc" and his family! What a great time we had and it was great meeting him and his family. I had gone on the Disboard that has posts for joining people who had room on booked cruises and boy were we lucky. It was wonderful sitting in the boat, hearing the music and seeing the fireworks (we saw tink fly) and then no crowds to beat getting back to the resort. We had driven our car to VWL for the evening.
We ended our 9 night Florida stay at a Marriott resort on Hutchinson Island. What a wonderful resort, but the hotel was not oceanside. There was a tram that ran continuously from 7AM, maybe until 11 at night from the hotel, to the golf center, to the beach, and that worked for us. The resort provided umbrellas and beach chairs, which is a definite plus over VB, but we both missed VB.
Our final highlight was snorkeling in Biscayne NP, in Homestead. It was a drive, about 2 1/2 hours to get there, and we had tried previously to get out on the water when we were staying closer, but weather was against us. This is a NP that's 95% underwater, and the reef had beautiful coral. Our captain said that John Pennycamp SP (on Key Largo) had a wider variety of fish, but the NP had better coral. Don't know, when we tried the SP 2 years ago, weather conditions weren't good and snorkeling was cancelled. So, long drive or not, both DH and I were glad we went.
Great accomodations at both BCV and OKW, we are so glad we joined DVC.
Bobbi
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