I’ve been meaning to post a few things about our trip 2 weeks ago. We were in room 3067. I was nervous because it is almost directly across from the single elevator & next to the ice machine room. We were pleasantly surprised that we never heard the elevator & only rarely heard the ice machine. Although a few times it was early, maybe 7ish but not often enough to be bothersome. I had originally booked rack rate & then changed to Disney’s 25% discount. A week before, I found the room for about $2000 total for the week on Priceline with a VIP deal. It was nonrefundable for that price, but by then we were sure we were going. I saved about $2K over the Disney discount & $3K over rack rate so
I was pretty happy.
I didn’t think crowds were as light as reported, but certainly not bad. The weather was hot as it usually is in September. It rained almost every day & the humidity was high. We go this time most years but we thought it was the rainiest week we’ve had in a long time.
We only went to SAB once, in the early afternoon. And as usual, even tho there weren’t many people in the pool, most of the chairs had items on them. We were able to find 2 chairs in the shade, but mostly there were single chairs. The quiet pool was great, until the clouds & thunder rolled in.
We took the boats to Studios & even back from Epcot. We usually always walk to & from Epcot, but with the heat & humidity, I just couldn’t do
it every time. No issues with the boats at all, everyone complied with the mask rules. Only took buses to MK, caught it right there a few times & waited about 30 minutes once. Coming back from Boo Bash on the 12th, we had a private company motor coach. The driver wasn’t very friendly & the bus smelled nasty, but it got us back to the hotel quickly. That was the only time we didn’t have a Disney bus, but there we saw private motor coaches in many bus stops at MK. We did Boo Bash twice, hoping to avoid crowds both on the buses & in the parks. That didn’t really work out. The buses were full going & SRO returning to Y & B on the 14th. Boo Bash was more crowded than a regular after hours event too. I looked for bus times on the app several times while we were heading to the bus stop & never saw the times show up.
I really had intended to do the ceramics painting this trip. But maybe next time.
Mobile ordering for breakfast worked great from Ale & Compass. But we also just ran down for pastries & juice a couple times with no waits. I changed several of our ADRs while we were there & even changed times day of too. We usually stay club level but after 4 trips this year, we’re getting used to doing without it.
Beaches & Cream take out window has a roped off area. Although we never saw big crowds there.
Views from room 3067. It has 2 queens, shower/ tub combo. Desk & chair, sofa/ daybed & no connecting room.
It is a waterview. But really limited as far as views of the water. If I was paying full waterview price, I would be pretty disappointed. But for the discounted price I paid, it was fine! Wedding gazebo is to the left. And a direct view of the Epcot fireworks! Sorry, no pictures of those. And we did get boarding passes for ROTR both our days, once on iPad with hotel wifi; once on iPhone with data.
We did see more dogs this trip than ever before. But we heard no barking or anything like that. But we did see dogs every day, including a family who had their dog in the sitting areas of SAB.
Oh, we did do online check in, got our room ready text as we were driving from the airport about 10am. Our magic bands didn’t open the door but my phone did. We stopped at the front desk on the way to the park, for them programmed & had no issues after that.
We’re at CR next weekend for the 50th anniversary. We’ll miss YC, but walking to MK won out for this trip. We took 5 trips this year, so we need to lay off awhile. I’m planning to retire in early April, so our next trip probably won’t be til after that, maybe right after Easter. Hope we can last that long, lol!
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