Brief Summary of 11 night stay at WDW

[magicmouse]

WDW MAY 2003 MEMORIES

RESORT:
Stayed at POR AB section room 1440
Resort was beautiful, with river, ducks, squirrels and rabbits.
Good playground with swings & big slides
Main pool tremendous -with fountains and great slide, tiles with alligators on round edges. Quiet pool,next to laundry, warm & deep-nice winding ’ s’ shape.

Loved the working water mill at food court
Very nice bakery with excellent cakes and pastries
Nice dinners at food court – tried philly cheese steak sandwich, chicken parmesan with spaghetti and garlic bread - really nice fries – big portions. Great pizzas.
We got the refillable mugs for hot choc, coffee, tea, orange, cherry coke, coke, sprite and hi c.
Our room had wooden log bed posts, patchwork design bedspread, wooden log mirrors, 2 sinks (handy) good hot shower with Brer Rabbit & Alligator themed shower curtain. TV cabinet was very big with stained pine and decorative engravings, Sony TV.
Stunningly beautiful winding bayous with white bridges over, and water lilies, located throughout Alligator Bayou section, beautiful butterfly garden at Acadian house manor section.
Good bus service - short walk from room, & boats to DD.

FOOD:
Had some nice meals onsite
EPCOT – Lotus blossom café combo’s, McD’s for kids at refreshment post in Canada and Liberty Inn America. Yakitori house-good beef curry and beer.
MGM – ABC Commissionary – good fish and chicken strips, really good cheesecake
MK – best meal – Crystal Palace lunch buffet- good salmon, steak, pasta, salad & tropical coleslaw. Cosmic Rays, good salad bar for burgers. Good tropical smoothies at Aunty Gravity’s
AK – Chakranadi chicken shop – great chicken stir fry & rice, Restaurantosaurus- great salad & McD’s
DD – DQ – snickers cheesecake – delicious.
CONTEMPORARY – Chef Mickeys – delicious savoury breakfast - omelettes, veg lasagne, pizza

PARKS:
Did/rode just about everything-
Favorite rides - Splash mountain, Thunder Mountain Railroad,, Haunted Mansion, Tower of Terror, Kilimanjaro safari’s
New things we did/saw:
Epcot flower and garden festival was beautiful, much better than last year. Adored the floral Mickey & Minnie on swing, dalmation maze, flower dragon at China pavillion, Floral Mickey & Minnie with paint palette at entrance of park.
Got EPCOT passports and kids had them stamped and signed at each country
Rode upfront in monorail
Used resort buses
Whole family rode Space Mountain
New Tower of Terror-drop sequence very scary
EPCOT –did universe of energy, figments journey into imagination
Got autograph books and autographs of most characters
Got photos with Lilo and Stitch - adorable

SHOPS
Bought Pins inc, mothers day, may day, tinkerbell, 2003, 75 years of Mickey, LE pins, Visited World Of Disney store at DD – WOW!
Bought Disney clothes, bumbag, backpack, bandanas for dogs, snowglobe, Chef Mickey photo, ToT poster. Guest of honor badges for girls, Got Beanies – Prince Mickey, Princess Minnie, Pluto, Pal Mickey (we love him!), cheerleader Minnie, Eeyore.

OFFSITE – Good filling breakfast buffets at Ponderosa, annoying waiter.
China Jade Chinese buffet dinner ok– not great.
Walmart – great for cheap beer. 24 cans for $10 & toaster for breakfast in room $7

UNIVERSAL –
IOA – did most rides, Hulk was closed. Loved One fish 2 Fish ride, Jurassic River Adventure & Spiderman. Kids spent ages in If I ran the zoo, to cool off
Ate at Confisco Grille, good starter - chicken dippers with buffalo sauce and blue cheese dip, main course – chicken spinach sandwich, average/good. Turkey & mashed potatoes ok. Dessert french toast & ice-cream ok-good

US – Rode Jimmy Neutron new ride – ok good for kids, spent ages in Ball park playground shooting foam balls at people!! Could not get husband out of here….
Ate at café next to MIB. Good Chinese combos.
Did most attractions here, enjoyed Blues Brothers show, loved Men in Black ride. Saw Shaggy & Scooby.

MEMORABLE MOMENTS:
Loved P.O.R.
Watched Spectromagic and Illuminations twice – excellent!
Celebrated daughter’s birthday at Chef Mickeys breakfast buffet, cool!!!!
Loved the Crystal Palace restaurant

Temperature very hot/humid – in 90’s /100’s, only rained twice, Parks extremely busy for time of year.
Overall - Excellent WDW holiday!!!!!

 

[Muffy]

Wonderful detailed trip report! I had to laugh when I read that you could not get your DH out of the ballpark playground! I have been to Universal but have NOT seen this playground where you shot foam balls at people! It sounds like something I may be interested in! Tell me more!

Muffy

 

[Nanajo1]

Great concise report. I felt like I was there. Thanks for posting.

 

[travelgoddess]

We are planning a Dis trip for a week in the fall, and also want
to go to IOA for 1 day. Did you rent a car, or take a taxi?

 

[Minniespal]

Thanks for the fab reports!!!!

 

[magicmouse]

We had a rental minivan to get to offsite places
Next time we are only renting a minivan for the final week of our 3 week stay in September, as we are renting a vacation home offsite for that week. Disney transport worked well for us whilst onsite

 

[pnelson]

How old are your kids? Old enough and tall enough to go on everything at all parks??

 

[Credit Man]

Enjoyed your report. Thanks for posting.