I’ve never asked for a tray (I just feel weird doing it), but I have definitely used one. The first day of our stay, I use a tray to carry things back to our room from whatever QS is available at the resort. Then I keep the tray in our room for the remainder of our stay. It’s very useful for trips to the lounge! I just bring it with me when I leave the room. I have learned to stash it inside a drawer or my suitcase during the day, however, because housekeeping will pick it up and return it if it’s left out in the room. At most of the lounges, we prefer to bring food back to our room and eat on the balcony. We do enjoy the actual lounge at WL (I think it’s my favorite resort) and often sit at one of the tables for two by the balcony enjoying the view of the resort. I try to bring our dishes back, although I felt badly doing this at 5 pm at BC because I had to leave our dishes on a table that otherwise could have been occupied by someone else. It was very busy there for the evening appetizers!
Sorry I haven’t posted an actual trip report. I often do, but it’s not smooth sailing in my life at the moment. I lost my mom quite unexpectedly to cancer in June. She and my daughter (8) and I had lived together from before my daughter was even born so this has been a significant loss in both of our lives. My daughter and I really enjoyed our trip. It provided us with a much-needed chance to check out from all that’s been going on in our lives these past few months. Disney really is our happy place. We couldn’t have asked for a more wonderful vacation.
Someone asked me for a review of the evening appetizers. I will try my best to remember it! I always get home from these trips and wish I’d taken photos. I always feel weird, though (like with asking for a tray, lol), going around taking photos in the lounge...especially when it’s a busy place, like evenings at BC. I tried to convince my DD to do it, but she felt weird, too (“really, mom? Really?”). I did take photos one morning at WL this trip when the lounge was empty, lol. I will post those later.
So evening appetizers at BC...they always had cheese and crackers and an area with apple slices, caramel, peanut butter and jelly, and rolls. Sometimes also butter for the rolls. An assortment of cold salads (three, I think? Or sometimes two with crudités as well). And there were usually two hot dishes available as well. Usually these were meat. We are vegetarian so I can’t recall what exactly was there. I know one night there was mac and cheese (the first time we have ever seen it in a lounge, oddly enough! DD was thrilled!). I think another night I saw chicken nuggets. Often there was something on small plates by the salads. It almost always had shrimp so we didn’t eat it. There was a selection of wines, but I don’t drink alcohol so I didn’t pay attention to what was there. There were the drinks were available. Juices and lemonade, a large container of water (no small bottles. We had a split stay with the first half at WL where there were small bottles. I always took an extra one or two to our room each time we went to the lounge and brought all of the extras along when we moved over to BC), the refrigerator with soda, and the espresso machine and coffe, tea, hot chocolate. And the ice cream freezer!! I was able to make a meal out of evening appetizers every night we didn’t have a dinner reservation. Sorry for the lack of photos!
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