Feckless
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Hello all!!! I'm here at the YC CL... It is AWESOME. 
The room is slightly bigger than the one we had at BC, and the fact that the balcony door slides instead of opens makes the room seem even bigger. We have a lovely chair with an ottoman and a view of the gazebo with a side view of the lagoon. 
Room 5152.
We got the Magic Bands are CL staff helped us so much to make our stay wonderful. When the other family came, they couldn't use MDE because of a problem with entering in the name of our city (I had the same problem last year and spent an hour on with tech support before it was resolved). So, they couldn't make FP+ reservations. Staff was incredible and just gave the other family 3 anytime FPs per day on their bands so that we can all go together. Also matched our lunchtime BOG FPs as well. They had to try a couple of times to get the room keys working, but we just drank beer. 
The surprise was incredible. We told our kids in Toronto and my DD would not stop hugging me. This is the DD that isn't very demonstrative! They wouldn't go to Epcot on Saturday morning because they wanted to make sure that we were around for the surprise of the other kids. You should have seen their faces! I will do a TR when I get home - I have video.... I think the other DS might have been close to passing out when he came around the corner in the lounge and saw us.
Spent the first night at Pop. The room was clean, and perfectly fine. We had a delay at Toronto airport so after a 3 1/2 hour flight to get there, we had another 7 hour wait to get the flight. Arrival time was originally 11:20, and we arrived at 2:30 am (which is 4 am at home for us). My son was up for 22 hours straight (so were we all) so it was beyond rough. The aircraft was very squatty, and then sharing double beds was difficult after all that. Got up in the morning at hit Everything Pop. My GOD that food court was madness! The lineups were huge. I just wanted a Mickey waffle kids meal and it took forever to even get to the front of the line. The poor CM who was working there was completely alone, and she had to dish up the food and do the "make your own yogurt parfait" station herself. She kept running out of things and nobody was helping her - she had to leave and get more supplies. There was a cook who kept bringing trays of waffles but otherwise it was allllll her. It was loud and chaotic, and we got the heck out of there as soon as possible. We arrived at the YC and were whisked up to the 5th floor immediately for check-in. Sooooo nice. DH was like, "OK, NOW I get why you want to stay here!" I could totally imagine having a great holiday at Pop, and it had some awesome theming elements, but once you get used to a Deluxe, you get totally spoiled rotten.
This is getting too long... LOL We had a good dinner at Via Napoli last night. The service was NOWHERE NEAR what we had at Tutto Italia last year, but the pizzas were great. We were in this long room off to the side, and it was like noise was amplified, so I found it extremely loud.
Had a touch of bad luck - I was coming in from the balcony and tripped on an open suitcase and fell hard onto the corner of the table. What a goose egg! Scared my DH to death. No concussion, but it was a hard smack. Black eye and very sore head today. Not enough to keep me out of the MK for just after RD! Used all our FPs and had an awesome day. BOG lunch was incredible with the FP.
In the room with wine and snacks and ice on my knee (still swollen from the fall) Literally threw money at the kids to go to the arcade. LOL
Staff at CL is amazing. Love them all! No idea what the recent bad reviews are all about. No clue at all.
More tomorrow...
The room is slightly bigger than the one we had at BC, and the fact that the balcony door slides instead of opens makes the room seem even bigger. We have a lovely chair with an ottoman and a view of the gazebo with a side view of the lagoon. Room 5152.We got the Magic Bands are CL staff helped us so much to make our stay wonderful. When the other family came, they couldn't use MDE because of a problem with entering in the name of our city (I had the same problem last year and spent an hour on with tech support before it was resolved). So, they couldn't make FP+ reservations. Staff was incredible and just gave the other family 3 anytime FPs per day on their bands so that we can all go together.
Also matched our lunchtime BOG FPs as well. They had to try a couple of times to get the room keys working, but we just drank beer. The surprise was incredible. We told our kids in Toronto and my DD would not stop hugging me. This is the DD that isn't very demonstrative! They wouldn't go to Epcot on Saturday morning because they wanted to make sure that we were around for the surprise of the other kids. You should have seen their faces! I will do a TR when I get home - I have video....
I think the other DS might have been close to passing out when he came around the corner in the lounge and saw us.Spent the first night at Pop. The room was clean, and perfectly fine. We had a delay at Toronto airport so after a 3 1/2 hour flight to get there, we had another 7 hour wait to get the flight. Arrival time was originally 11:20, and we arrived at 2:30 am (which is 4 am at home for us). My son was up for 22 hours straight (so were we all) so it was beyond rough. The aircraft was very squatty, and then sharing double beds was difficult after all that. Got up in the morning at hit Everything Pop. My GOD that food court was madness! The lineups were huge. I just wanted a Mickey waffle kids meal and it took forever to even get to the front of the line. The poor CM who was working there was completely alone, and she had to dish up the food and do the "make your own yogurt parfait" station herself. She kept running out of things and nobody was helping her - she had to leave and get more supplies. There was a cook who kept bringing trays of waffles but otherwise it was allllll her. It was loud and chaotic, and we got the heck out of there as soon as possible. We arrived at the YC and were whisked up to the 5th floor immediately for check-in. Sooooo nice. DH was like, "OK, NOW I get why you want to stay here!" I could totally imagine having a great holiday at Pop, and it had some awesome theming elements, but once you get used to a Deluxe, you get totally spoiled rotten.
This is getting too long... LOL We had a good dinner at Via Napoli last night. The service was NOWHERE NEAR what we had at Tutto Italia last year, but the pizzas were great. We were in this long room off to the side, and it was like noise was amplified, so I found it extremely loud.
Had a touch of bad luck - I was coming in from the balcony and tripped on an open suitcase and fell hard onto the corner of the table. What a goose egg! Scared my DH to death. No concussion, but it was a hard smack. Black eye and very sore head today. Not enough to keep me out of the MK for just after RD! Used all our FPs and had an awesome day. BOG lunch was incredible with the FP.
In the room with wine and snacks and ice on my knee (still swollen from the fall) Literally threw money at the kids to go to the arcade. LOL
Staff at CL is amazing. Love them all! No idea what the recent bad reviews are all about. No clue at all.
More tomorrow...
