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[trishadono]

Just as an FYI, if you don't want all of the bands, if you don't confirm your shipping address and don't customize the bands, they will not ship any bands to you (not even plain gray ones). We have been eligible thus far to receive 13 sets of bands since the end of August. Because we always resort hop, we only customize one set of bands per trip for the first resort and leave the remaining bands untouched in MDE so that they don't ship.

Were grey bands waiting at the hotel when you arrived? If yes you just didn't take them?

Just curious

 

[jcjen519]

Were grey bands waiting at the hotel when you arrived? If yes you just didn't take them?

Just curious

I don't know if specific bands with names would be waiting. we forgot some of our bands in december and they had grey ones for anyone who didn't have one with me. I'm guessing if you don't do anything with them then nothing happens at all. That those people would be able to get some of the grey ones that they keep on hand.

 

[TigrLvsPooh]

I am walking on air right now!!!! After 3 weeks of torturous checking and rechecking I finally got spots for the Feel the Force VIP event! Thank goodness!!!!! Now hopefully my kids won't be trampled this year and we'll actually have a decent spot for the parade and fireworks.

I emailed IPO to let them know they can take us off the waiting list. Only 10 days left to go!!!!!

 

[Koh1977]

I am walking on air right now!!!! After 3 weeks of torturous checking and rechecking I finally got spots for the Feel the Force VIP event! Thank goodness!!!!! Now hopefully my kids won't be trampled this year and we'll actually have a decent spot for the parade and fireworks. I emailed IPO to let them know they can take us off the waiting list. Only 10 days left to go!!!!!

Awesome!!!

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[Ferrentinos]

I am walking on air right now!!!! After 3 weeks of torturous checking and rechecking I finally got spots for the Feel the Force VIP event! Thank goodness!!!!! Now hopefully my kids won't be trampled this year and we'll actually have a decent spot for the parade and fireworks.

I emailed IPO to let them know they can take us off the waiting list. Only 10 days left to go!!!!!

Awesome! We just did this last Saturday and we found it to be worth it. Lots of desserts and drinks... lots of space... good viewing spots... might not be for everyone but we loved not having the stress of finding viewing places!!! Enjoy!!

 

[Ferrentinos]

Hi all! We are back from 4 glorious nights at AKL CL! We had such an amazing experience so I thought I'd post the highs and low's!
HIGHS:
-The lounge is gorgeous, spacious and very welcoming!
-The food offerings are delicious - all day, every day! Evening apps were so different and wonderful! Loved the variety of hummus at night and the tea in the afternoon was a nice treat! The scones with cream shouldn't be missed!
-The jungle juice mimosas - drink many of them if you can!
-Our room had an amazing view and was maybe a 2-3 minute walk to the elevator and lounge - no problems with the room being on 4 and the lounge on 6 - We had a bunk bed room which was lovely!
-The CM's in the lounge were out of this world! They when out of their way to be friendly, accommodate us in anyway, answer our questions and then some! They were definitely a highlight of the trip!

LOWS:
-The only real complaint I have is that there weren't "to-go" cups like Poly has... I hated giving DD3 such breakable dishes, cups and plates! She didn't break any but I was constantly concerned! Also, I didn't realize I could ask for a coffee cup to take "to-go" until the last morning - I wish they would just have these out! I will take some disposable things next time!
-I wish the lounge looked out over the Savannah - I know that it can't be moved but I would have loved that view while we snacked!

Overall, we had such an amazing experience CL at AKL! I highly recommend the experience!

Now... looking forward to trying out GF SL in July!!!

 

[TigrLvsPooh]

Hi all! We are back from 4 glorious nights at AKL CL! We had such an amazing experience so I thought I'd post the highs and low's!
HIGHS:
-The lounge is gorgeous, spacious and very welcoming!
-The food offerings are delicious - all day, every day! Evening apps were so different and wonderful! Loved the variety of hummus at night and the tea in the afternoon was a nice treat! The scones with cream shouldn't be missed!
-The jungle juice mimosas - drink many of them if you can!
-Our room had an amazing view and was maybe a 2-3 minute walk to the elevator and lounge - no problems with the room being on 4 and the lounge on 6 - We had a bunk bed room which was lovely!
-The CM's in the lounge were out of this world! They when out of their way to be friendly, accommodate us in anyway, answer our questions and then some! They were definitely a highlight of the trip!

LOWS:
-The only real complaint I have is that there weren't "to-go" cups like Poly has... I hated giving DD3 such breakable dishes, cups and plates! She didn't break any but I was constantly concerned! Also, I didn't realize I could ask for a coffee cup to take "to-go" until the last morning - I wish they would just have these out! I will take some disposable things next time!
-I wish the lounge looked out over the Savannah - I know that it can't be moved but I would have loved that view while we snacked!

Overall, we had such an amazing experience CL at AKL! I highly recommend the experience!

Now... looking forward to trying out GF SL in July!!!

Thanks for that review! Are are excited to arrive next week! If you have any photos to share I'd love to add them to our first page.

 

[Ferrentinos]

Thanks for that review! Are are excited to arrive next week! If you have any photos to share I'd love to add them to our first page.

I know I'll sound dumb... But how do I share photos on here??? In all my years I've never done it! I'd be happy to share pictures!

 

[trishadono]

-The jungle juice mimosas - drink many of them if you can:

I never heard of those! Sounds absolutely yummy!!!

 

[TigrLvsPooh]

I know I'll sound dumb... But how do I share photos on here??? In all my years I've never done it! I'd be happy to share pictures!

You can PM me the links to your host album (ie Photobucket) or if you don't have them uploaded you can email me the photos and I can host them for you. My email is: ekmurphy12@aol.com

 

[Ferrentinos]

You can PM me the links to your host album (ie Photobucket) or if you don't have them uploaded you can email me the photos and I can host them for you. My email is: ekmurphy12@aol.com

Sending you an email with a bunch of pictures. Feel free to use any that look OK!

 

[iona]

Hi all! We are back from 4 glorious nights at AKL CL! We had such an amazing experience so I thought I'd post the highs and low's!/QUOTE]

Thanks for your review! We're heading back there next week and this has just made me even more excited!

 

[TigrLvsPooh]

Sending you an email with a bunch of pictures. Feel free to use any that look OK!

Thanks for the photos! I've added them to page 1

 

[abk96]

Hi all! We are back from 4 glorious nights at AKL CL! We had such an amazing experience so I thought I'd post the highs and low's!
HIGHS:
-The lounge is gorgeous, spacious and very welcoming!
-The food offerings are delicious - all day, every day! Evening apps were so different and wonderful! Loved the variety of hummus at night and the tea in the afternoon was a nice treat! The scones with cream shouldn't be missed!
-The jungle juice mimosas - drink many of them if you can!
-Our room had an amazing view and was maybe a 2-3 minute walk to the elevator and lounge - no problems with the room being on 4 and the lounge on 6 - We had a bunk bed room which was lovely!
-The CM's in the lounge were out of this world! They when out of their way to be friendly, accommodate us in anyway, answer our questions and then some! They were definitely a highlight of the trip!

LOWS:
-The only real complaint I have is that there weren't "to-go" cups like Poly has... I hated giving DD3 such breakable dishes, cups and plates! She didn't break any but I was constantly concerned! Also, I didn't realize I could ask for a coffee cup to take "to-go" until the last morning - I wish they would just have these out! I will take some disposable things next time!
-I wish the lounge looked out over the Savannah - I know that it can't be moved but I would have loved that view while we snacked!

Overall, we had such an amazing experience CL at AKL! I highly recommend the experience!

Now... looking forward to trying out GF SL in July!!!

Thanks for the review. It would have been nice if the lounge overlooked the Savannah.

Looking forward to hearing about your GF SL stay in July. We are going near the end of July and I can't wait to hear about the refurb and all the food offerings.

 

[The Sunrise Student]

Hello Folks,

I have made advanced reservations for AKL CL for 2015 May 21st to June 1st. (This is hopefully during two SWW next year.)

My Question for you is how helpful has the IPO office been to get those really hard reservations? I see some of my SWW peeps here from the tips and tricks thread and I was wondering was it easier to use the IPO or did you still get stuff on your own. I know there were many reservations I got this year pre-Disney announcement of the event/dinning and I am not so inclined to think that the IPO office would be as responsive, I mean heck we found some of the CMs when we called rarely knew all the details and I seemed to know more than they did on those reservations I made pre Disney official announcement.

Do you get what I mean? Not sure I am asking right... I just wonder if I should only give the IPO the easy non SWW stuff and do the others myself next year?

Thanks for your help!

 

[The Sunrise Student]

Hi all! We are back from 4 glorious nights at AKL CL! We had such an amazing experience so I thought I'd post the highs and low's!
HIGHS:
-The lounge is gorgeous, spacious and very welcoming!
-The food offerings are delicious - all day, every day! Evening apps were so different and wonderful! Loved the variety of hummus at night and the tea in the afternoon was a nice treat! The scones with cream shouldn't be missed!
-The jungle juice mimosas - drink many of them if you can!
-Our room had an amazing view and was maybe a 2-3 minute walk to the elevator and lounge - no problems with the room being on 4 and the lounge on 6 - We had a bunk bed room which was lovely!
-The CM's in the lounge were out of this world! They when out of their way to be friendly, accommodate us in anyway, answer our questions and then some! They were definitely a highlight of the trip!

LOWS:
-The only real complaint I have is that there weren't "to-go" cups like Poly has... I hated giving DD3 such breakable dishes, cups and plates! She didn't break any but I was constantly concerned! Also, I didn't realize I could ask for a coffee cup to take "to-go" until the last morning - I wish they would just have these out! I will take some disposable things next time!
-I wish the lounge looked out over the Savannah - I know that it can't be moved but I would have loved that view while we snacked!

Overall, we had such an amazing experience CL at AKL! I highly recommend the experience!

Now... looking forward to trying out GF SL in July!!!

Thanks for the review, next year will be my first CL experience and I choose to do it at AKL... I am such a planner and a go, go, go person that I never thought CL was worth the money cause I didn't think I would be around to use it... BUT with us staying for 12 days/11 nights in 2015, I thought if there were ever a time to try it, that would be the time!

If any of you have things I should know, tips and what not please spill all your advice on me... I really will soak it in. I have been the over planner my whole life so this will be such a new experience for me using the IPO and what not.

I do know that I want to do the AKL CL only safaris, anyone done those before, anything I should plan for them?

Thanks bunches in advance for all your help!

 

[The Sunrise Student]

Hello Everyone,

I was reading some of the post about being able to select a 4th FP via the app, but when I logged in via my computer it tells me I have made all the FP selections I can for the days listed.

Is there some trick? I do know that they announced that you could get more FPs at kiosks once you used up your three FPs but I haven't seen anything otherwise until now.

Please me

 

[momtwoboys]

thanks for the recent review of AKL CL! We are debating trying it out for April 2015. But we would be in a DVC studio... I love reading everyone's experiences!

 

[AngiTN]

Hello Everyone,

I was reading some of the post about being able to select a 4th FP via the app, but when I logged in via my computer it tells me I have made all the FP selections I can for the days listed.

Is there some trick? I do know that they announced that you could get more FPs at kiosks once you used up your three FPs but I haven't seen anything otherwise until now.

Please me

If you can ever book them via the app it won't be till you have used the 3 initial ones. So you can't do anything more now. Gotta use those 3 first

 

[mickeynut1]

Hi all! We are back from 4 glorious nights at AKL CL! We had such an amazing experience so I thought I'd post the highs and low's!
HIGHS:
-The lounge is gorgeous, spacious and very welcoming!
-The food offerings are delicious - all day, every day! Evening apps were so different and wonderful! Loved the variety of hummus at night and the tea in the afternoon was a nice treat! The scones with cream shouldn't be missed!
-The jungle juice mimosas - drink many of them if you can!
-Our room had an amazing view and was maybe a 2-3 minute walk to the elevator and lounge - no problems with the room being on 4 and the lounge on 6 - We had a bunk bed room which was lovely!
-The CM's in the lounge were out of this world! They when out of their way to be friendly, accommodate us in anyway, answer our questions and then some! They were definitely a highlight of the trip!

LOWS:
-The only real complaint I have is that there weren't "to-go" cups like Poly has... I hated giving DD3 such breakable dishes, cups and plates! She didn't break any but I was constantly concerned! Also, I didn't realize I could ask for a coffee cup to take "to-go" until the last morning - I wish they would just have these out! I will take some disposable things next time!
-I wish the lounge looked out over the Savannah - I know that it can't be moved but I would have loved that view while we snacked!

Overall, we had such an amazing experience CL at AKL! I highly recommend the experience!

Now... looking forward to trying out GF SL in July!!!

Thanks for your review....glad you loved AKL CL . We love AKL and I have heard nothing but great things about CL (your review included ), so I am very excited to try it out on a future trip.

Thanks for the review, next year will be my first CL experience and I choose to do it at AKL... I am such a planner and a go, go, go person that I never thought CL was worth the money cause I didn't think I would be around to use it... BUT with us staying for 12 days/11 nights in 2015, I thought if there were ever a time to try it, that would be the time!

If any of you have things I should know, tips and what not please spill all your advice on me... I really will soak it in. I have been the over planner my whole life so this will be such a new experience for me using the IPO and what not.

I do know that I want to do the AKL CL only safaris, anyone done those before, anything I should plan for them?

Thanks bunches in advance for all your help!

I think trying CL during your next stay is a great idea, especially on an 11 night trip .