From Oil Wells to Jingle Bells-Bells,pg.66, See you in September!

[nebo]

Nope, the road to Mt Evans hasn't changed! Now you just have to share the narrow, no guard rail road with 15 million bicycle riders and a few mountain goats! So I guess its more like an obstacle course these days.

Loving your report through the highs and lows. Thanks for sharing!

Jill in CO (looking at Mt Evans from my balcony!)

Hi Jill, and welcome. My sister had moved out there then, and my buddy and I drove out to visit, when we were barely 20. She lived in Broomfield, then moved further west to Parker, but I never got to see the Parker house. And that drive up Mt. Evans scaredthe hell out of me.

I was so nervous, shaking just reading this... I just HATE this for you guys!! And Kiefer's response, or lack thereof, just makes my blood boil!!!!!! A free night?? Hello??? It should have been an entire WEEK!!! I'm with you though, I'd just want justice, no amount of room compensation can make up for this experience. This is enough to never want to go in July, sheesh!!

~~~Dawn

Dawn, all I can say is don't go in July, if you do it better be at a villa or deluxe resort.

How unbelievably awful! I can't stand it when people think the rules don't apply to them, but then when the management decides the rules shouldn't apply either...! I hope you got more satisfaction than just one free night!

Well, no, one free night was it. Did I mention don't go in July?

That's disgusting. A free night doesn't do diddly, because how can you enjoy your days in the parks, etc, that cost a chunk of change, when you can't sleep?
Around here, we call people like this group "compound words." You can figure out the two epithets you'd like to string together.

Yes, over that weekend I got very creative using compound words.

oh yeah! around midnight, coming back from the DSA, when securtiy had told them the pool was closed, I walked past a mom complaining to the security guard about it. and giving us dirty looks. and I heard the guard, in very "woosy" fashion, say to her "well, I can see both sides."

can see both sides??!! what other side IS there? pool is closed at midnight. quiet time after 10 pm. that means no screaming, yelling, chanting, soccer playing, etc.

if there had been no big soccer tour group there, and we had been there with, say, 3 other couple, drinking out of glass bottles, smoking, laughing loudly, splashing in the pool, screaming, etc, you better believe We would have been promptly shooed to our rooms.

but NOW, a Disney "official" has commiserated WITH the group, basically told them that "well. you're ok, but, since someone complained, sorry." making US look like the bad guys!?

so.. basically, whatever it may say in writing, whatever the "official" rule... the "actual WORKING " policy is:
let the groups do whatever they want. they come here every year and spend money. make other customers feel like jerks for complaining, make them feel like they are not also guests, not important. if someone upsets this status quo, try to "hush" them. .. but... above all! DO NOT upset these groups! they are royalty. sheesh.

yes, everything Smidgy has said was right. I was getting tired of thinking and pounding away at the keyboard by the time I got to that part, and my mind started skipping things. But yes, 'Ol Keifer did refer to this as "Latin Month". Would have been nice if they told us that when we booked.

Totally agree. If they are going to allow them to act like this THEY (as in Disney) have an obligation to tell US (their regular, well-behaved, rule following guests) what is going on. But they know if they did that we wouldn't come in July and we wouldn't stay at the All-Stars, especially not Sports. But you know, if they are so worried about losing our business maybe they should make sure that these groups behave so EVERYONE has an enjoyable, pleasant,and memorable (in a good way) time. I suspect that the Brazilians would still come for their soccer tournament even if they couldn't stay up terrorizing people all night.
I really hate this happened to you guys! I think you handled it very well though. It had to be hard to keep your cool in all that craziness!

When you are outnumbered by about 1000 to one, it's pretty easy to keep your cool, but your anger then refocuses on the people that are allowing it to happen in the first place. And these are people that we have given every spare dime we have to them and even dimes we don't have yet.

It's not bad in the parks, they get swallowed up there and are not really that noticable, I would just stay away from July.

It's not like Disney can't fill up those rooms. What is the deal? Do these bean brains pay more or what? It seems the cast members are afraid of them. It's the same with the pop warner bone heads too.
When we went last March we stayed in a hotel in downtown Disney all we had were some band kids that were really sweet.

With the summer rates now so high, I don't think they can fill the resorts up, they're not offering free dining into next year out of the goodness of their hearts. How nice it must be for them with a press of a key, there, 20 rooms filled!

I feel horrible about the treatment you received, so sorry!

Marita, we've met, you know us and how much we love Disney, this was not fun to write about. I have done everything I can to just weave this into the story, though yes, I did make it a centerpiece, but I hoped it was the "story" that everyone would enjoy reading with this being just another part of it like having to turn around at the beginning.

In no way do I wish to turn this into a Disney bashing, or Brazilian bashing thread. I have even tried to temper my anger at the whole thing with a bunch of dumb jokes, that's why I separated the two chapters, but helpless anger is a much stronger emotion, and yes, sigh, even stronger then a dyslexic ghost line.

I know I'm being a total instigator here, but isn't there at least one news station/outlet in Orlando that likes to pick on Disney and would love this as a story. We know you're not alone by the amount of closed threads on the boards...I would think this would be a great story to kick Disney's behind.

It could be Tracy, but I don't want to go that route. We still love Disney and look forward to going back maybe in December, that last thing in the world I would want is to be blackballed, that would break our hearts. I just look at this as a learning episode, we are not going back in July ever again.

OMG! My blood pressure wentsteadilyup as I read. Hope te rest the trip is much better

Janet, it does get better, eventually, soon. Simmer down there girl.

btw thanks for a trip report that actually got me the guts to post. this started out like a fun albeit misshap filled trip (sounding like one of our vacations to the world) now it is like a nightmare so sorry. just can't wait to see how this plays out.

Well, look who's out of the anemone. Welcome QB, we will return to our normal mishap filled vacation after a short break.

That's because the Japanese are about honor and not being disrespectful, apparently something they should teach those soccer groups.

Well put Shawn.

Yep, as you said, much worse than Pop Warner.... MUCH worse indeed! We were only mildly bothered by the PW folks last Dec. But this?? This is beyond ridiculous.

I am so sad and angry that this happened to the 2 of you. But I also can't help to imagine if this happened to a family that had to save for years to be able to take their ONE "dream" trip to Disney?

Most of us here, who flock to these boards like addicts to free crack, have been able to go more than once, some a lot more than once. But for a lot of folks that isn't the reality. And THIS could have been their experience too. I'd be SICK if my first trip went down like this ~ it'd be my last trip too because I wouldn't go back.

Surely Disney must know this could be the case? Or do they really not care? Have they lost sight of Walt's dream? Walt wanted you to leave your cares behind when you entered his World! You spent an entire 2 days at his resort worrying and having a pit in your stomach because of the threat of confrontation around every corner.

While I don't know yet how the rest of your trip played out, I do hope that in the end you felt that Disney helped to make it right. If you didn't I hope that you consider writing a letter to guest relations explaining what happened. Not so you get anything free (although it would be nice and I think they owe you) but so that they understand that they were lucky it was you and Smidgy. You know the real Disney. You know the magic. Those families that may have been on that once-in-a-lifetime trip do not. Wonder what they say to their friends and families about that trip. Wonder how many people have a tainted view of Disney as a result of experiences such as this. How is that going to effect the bottom line? How are those Brazillian soccer tournaments paying off in the end?

Sorry...... I rarely, if ever, rant on here. Especially on a trippie! But AUUUUGGGHHH it makes me angry.

I really hope it gets better. Please tell me it's gonna get better.

LBAW, I left this quote in it's entirety, very well said.
Our one time there in Pop Warner season we met up with some Dis friends who brought along a Disney World newby with them. We were all staying at Music, and I felt real bad that this is this woman's first time at Disney and she has to deal with the Pop W. crowd. Both Smidgy and I kept apologizing for Disnye, saying it's not usually like this.

 

[Self_resqing_princz]

First of all HOLY COW! Second, I think after the confrontation I would have asked to switch sections... any section but that one. Since you didn't feel comfortable... I mean, when you are on vacation the room should feel like your home... safe and comfortable. Since you two didn't feel either, I would have told them they needed to change your location-- on them.
I can't believe all that. How terrible! I can't believe Smidgy wasn't MORE upset at this point... it almost seems they had killed your Disney. So sad! So sorry to hear this.

 

[Self_resqing_princz]

Surely Disney must know this could be the case? Or do they really not care? Have they lost sight of Walt's dream? Walt wanted you to leave your cares behind when you entered his World! You spent an entire 2 days at his resort worrying and having a pit in your stomach because of the threat of confrontation around every corner.

This comment brought a tear to my eye.... Walt's dream. I've never been to Disney thinking about it as "a man's dream" even though the statue of Walt and Mickey are right in front of the Castle. I've always just thought about it as any other amusement park.... a park for people to spend their money.

 

[pixidustmom]

Well hello. I am new to your TR's and I have to say I am really enjoying yours. Well not all the soccer team stuff. I keep thinking Thank Goodness we were not there during that, as could see my DH not staying as calm as you. I really can't understand how they kept being able to go on like that. I think security was scared of them
You sure have your some bad luck with accidents too. I'm impressed with you still moving on and not really complaining.
Well I look forward to seeing more updates and I sure hope your next stop is a good one.

 

[Rozz]

Everybody has said everything I deleted from my previous post before submitting it, and said it better. I was trying to exert some control over my emotions and not blast out what was on my heart. Disney is a global business that has to constantly find savings/increase profits and also juggle international relations; the latter of which seems to translate into, we will lay down and let others walk all over us.

I still don’t get it though. If Disney’s regular work force can’t deal with the behavior, you’d think they could bring in the expertise to handle it. What do I know except to never, ever go in July! If my family had your experience, my husband would have done something rash and possibly had a heart attack. I truly admire how you handled yourself and dealt with a situation that was out of control.

 

[HaleyB]

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[COLOR="blue"]HaleyB, you did a great job adding to the story, I never go back and proof read when I submit a chapter so it was kinda fun to also see what exactly i was spewing in the early chapters. I have no doubt that road would have terrified me too, i remember once driving up to Mt. Evans in Colorado back in '75, it was a littel bit higher than Pikes Peak and there were little or no guard rails back then. Now it's probably a 4 line highway with water parks and mini golf on each side.

Byn the way, it took me forever to figure out KWIM, but I came up empty on DED I thinik it was, help me please. [/COLOR]

So. Do you ever sign emails Nebo? DED is kind of like that. I forgot nobody else knows what it means.

DED is slang for something like "so funny it killed me" (as in dead) but it has a very limited use.

 

[HaleyB]

Beware of July. Got it.
Really hate that you had to deal with all that garbage.

We were really lucky to be just behind the groups when we went in Aug.
Aug, right before Free Dining starts there is a golden window.

 

[TwiddleDeeTwiddleDum]

I hope you did end up reporting both the bus driver & the motor scooter guy - the nerve to say to a guest about such disruptive behavior - that they are OUR guests is insulting.

Hind site is 20/20 but too bad you didn't think to call the local police to file an incident report about being threatened with resort manager present. Maybe they would have done something more acceptable than to offer a comp night. What good is a comp night when you've been harassed to that extent?

 

[Angelrose]

nebo and smidgy I'm so sorry you had to go through this. Have you written to Disney? wdw.guest.communications@disneyworld.com This is the only way to make them understand what you went through. Write exactly what you posted smidgy. That made it perfectly clear. Include your phone number. They will call you back. Hopefully something will be done in the future. You never know.

 

[nebo]

boy those last couple of chapters made me never want to back in July. We always stay at pop and I cant remember ever having those kind of problems. I feel so sorry that happened. And I am also sorry I called you Nemo, I really meant NEBO

So far it seems that Pop is exempt from all the tour groups, at least the big organized ones. let's hope it stays that way, unlike Riverside

First of all HOLY COW! Second, I think after the confrontation I would have asked to switch sections... any section but that one. Since you didn't feel comfortable... I mean, when you are on vacation the room should feel like your home... safe and comfortable. Since you two didn't feel either, I would have told them they needed to change your location-- on them.
I can't believe all that. How terrible! I can't believe Smidgy wasn't MORE upset at this point... it almost seems they had killed your Disney. So sad! So sorry to hear this.

If our stay had been longer then two nights, I'm sure it would have been handled differently by us. We just got to the point where we just wanted out of there.

Well hello. I am new to your TR's and I have to say I am really enjoying yours. Well not all the soccer team stuff. I keep thinking Thank Goodness we were not there during that, as could see my DH not staying as calm as you. I really can't understand how they kept being able to go on like that. I think security was scared of them
You sure have your some bad luck with accidents too. I'm impressed with you still moving on and not really complaining.
Well I look forward to seeing more updates and I sure hope your next stop is a good one.

Hi and welcome! Oh don't worry, I've got a lot of complaining left in the tank yet, and really, the next stop couldn't possibly be any worse, could it?

Everybody has said everything I deleted from my previous post before submitting it, and said it better. I was trying to exert some control over my emotions and not blast out what was on my heart. Disney is a global business that has to constantly find savings/increase profits and also juggle international relations; the latter of which seems to translate into, we will lay down and let others walk all over us.

I still don’t get it though. If Disney’s regular work force can’t deal with the behavior, you’d think they could bring in the expertise to handle it. What do I know except to never, ever go in July! If my family had your experience, my husband would have done something rash and possibly had a heart attack. I truly admire how you handled yourself and dealt with a situation that was out of control.

Well thank you Rozz, I guess. Not really sure how else it could have been handled. At least we're almost ready to put this stuff behind us and move on.
Almost.

Beware of July. Got it.
Really hate that you had to deal with all that garbage.

We were really lucky to be just behind the groups when we went in Aug.
Aug, right before Free Dining starts there is a golden window.

The only time we have been there is August is on the first day free dining started and we wondered how it was right before that.

I hope you did end up reporting both the bus driver & the motor scooter guy - the nerve to say to a guest about such disruptive behavior - that they are OUR guests is insulting.

Hind site is 20/20 but too bad you didn't think to call the local police to file an incident report about being threatened with resort manager present. Maybe they would have done something more acceptable than to offer a comp night. What good is a comp night when you've been harassed to that extent?

I don't believe calling the cops would have done the slightest good, there were just too many of them coming in and out not to mention the language barrier. Again, probably would have been done differently with a longer stay.

nebo and smidgy I'm so sorry you had to go through this. Have you written to Disney? wdw.guest.communications@disneyworld.com This is the only way to make them understand what you went through. Write exactly what you posted smidgy. That made it perfectly clear. Include your phone number. They will call you back. Hopefully something will be done in the future. You never know.

We have been comped in the past for previous mixups, and not sure I want to get on one of their lists of people always looking for something extra. Now that we know better, we just won't make that mistake again.

 

[fsmith2845]

Nebo.. Just wanted to say i've been a long time lurker on this TR (read through "honey i shrunk the checkbook" last night and today... You do a great job on your TR.. keep up the good work..

Sorry to hear about your bad experiences during this last stay. I'm not sure I would have handled things quite as calmly as you, however, as you said, not sure that losing control of your calm would have done much more than elevated the situation into something even more ugly.

There is another thread on here BAD BOYS BAD BOYS Undercover Security. There are some great stories of security just "coming out of the woodwork" when a problem was encountered. Too bad some of those couldn't have been around when your "friend" was harassing you at the DSA... of course from the sounds of it, it would have required quite a few to come out of the woodwork though to make the area peaceful again...

Keep up the great work.. hopefully we'll be through the bad times on this TR so that "stressed out Nebo and Smidgy" can finally retire and have a disney magical vacation afterall!!! (oh and get a good nights sleep) LOL

 

[nebo]

Sunday morning arrived way too soon for our liking.

We had hoped to be out of there by 8:30, but I didn't even wake up till 8:30.

The first thing I noticed on waking was that the sheet was hurting my little toe. When I got out of bed to inspect it, I found the skin was completely gone on the side of the little toe on my right foot, and almost the same thing on the left foot, this one still had a flap of skin hanging there.
Great, looks like I'm stuck with clip clops the rest of the trip.
i had felt it starting to burn at the MK and planned on changing as soon as we got back, but, well, one thing led to another and never got around to it.

By the way, this is what the Home Run pool normally looks like on a regular night. '

Rather pretty, isn't it?

By the way, these pics are from a Feb. trip in 'O8, took me awhile to find them.

I'm still shaking cobwebs out my head from lack of sleep as I headed to the food court with my mug for coffee, and to pick up a Sentinel.

As I was walking, the car popped back in my head, it had better be allright!

When the manager was in our room last night, I mean early this morning, he told us that a lot of them would be leaving today, all I said was great, so were we. But so far on the way to the main building, everything still looks pretty dead, which didn't make sense considering what day it was, Sunday.

Sunday is always the biggest changeover day, especially now that they have higher prices for Fri. and Sat. .

But apparently most of them are still sleeping, the one's I did see weren't wearing the yellow shirts, guess they don't need to show they're from Brazil when they are flying Brazilia Airways, or whatever airline it is.

When I walked out with my coffee and paper, I just stood for a few moments and looked around the main pool.

Everything seemed so serene, it didn't seem possible that all that crap happened in the little time we actually spent here.

I just shook my head and walked back to the room.

Diane was ready to go, but now I notice the eviction notice hanging from the handle. I checked the bill, and as far as I could tell, that second night is still on there. But I was pretty sure it would be since they are a lot quicker to take money from you than give it back, I wasn't worried about it.

Soon we each grabbed a handle of the cooler and a suitcase in the other hand and made our way to the car.

And there it still sat, all by itself, one other car in the lot a few rows away.

We then put the stuff down near the back of the car and I pulled out the key fob and pressed the unlock button, like I've done a thousand times.

Nothing.

I pressed it again, this time a little closer.

Nothing.

It should have blinked the taillights twice, then made a "clump" sound as all the doors unlocked.

My brain was just crawling along this morning, and Diane took it from me and tried it herself with the same results.

As we walked up to the driver side door she started unlocking it manually, and I was thinking, "Holy crap! They got to the car after all. I have expected her to scream as she looked inside at the damage they did, but she didn't do that either.

Then I walked around the back to the passenger side, again checking the tires but they seemed ok. Then Smidgy came around the front end and saw something I didn't see yet.

Our minds were working in two different directions right at this point, I'm thinking what did those creeps do to the car, but she was now in self preservation mode.

She quickly opened the passenger door and flung in the seatbelt that had been hanging out of it, the seatbelt that was preventing the door from completely closing!

Now my mind is racing.

This doesn't make sense, I was the last one to the car, and if that belt was caught, I wouldn't have gotten the cheep sound and heard all the doors lock when I checked it Friday.

But wait a minute;
After I did that, then she came back out to get the Atlas and some snacks, and when I came back and checked yesterday I didn't have the keys, I just looked mainly at the tires.

Everything dropped into place then.
They didn't do anything to the car, she just didn't let the seatbelt retract again, something I've warned her about doing a hundred times. Then, when she came back out to the car, the dangling twisted seatbelt got caught when she closed the door, and she ofter just clicks the lock button on the door to lock it, where I use the button on the fob that sets the alarm.

So why doesn't the fob button work? Elementary my dear Watson.

When this door quit being a door and became a jar instead, that meant the inside dome lights never went out, thus running down the battery preventing any power options to operate.

Then I glared at her.

"You know why the locks won't work? Because the battery is dead. When I go and stick the key in the ignition and turn it, absolutely nothing is going to happen. "

And I did, and it did.

"I told you a hundred times to make sure...."

"I know, I know, I"m sorry."

I wasn't really thinking straight. I was thinking that we just got one night comped on the room, and now we're going to have to give the money back to a service station or AAA to get this car on the road again. Plus, this is still the original battery, I'm not sure how well it will take a jump.

We both look around, I dreaded the thought of having to go up to someone pulling in and saying, "Hey man, nice day isn't it? Ya think ya can give me a jump, man?"

Smidgy said she'd go see if she can find somebody so I waited by the dead car.

I opened the hood for the universal sign of distress, and I could just picture a big group of yellow shirts walking by and laughing at me.

This was a nightmare, a total, complete nightmare.
You have no idea how badly I wanted to put this part of the trip past us, and now, like any decent, respectable nightmare, we can't leave. Like when you try to run and you run in slow motion.

Stepen King did a short story on a couple in this kind of a situation too.

By the way, the "thump" sound I was desribing the other night was the sound of the soccer ball hitting the building. Since we had the strange rhythmic chanting and the thumping noise already, I through in the suddenly cold room because that always seems to go with that stuff when strange rooms start making strange noises.

Not much time had passed when Smidgy came back and said she found a worker that will try to help us out, in the meantime she is going to get the rest of the stuff from the room.

A couple minutes later a guy pulls up on a cart.

"You the fellow with the dead battery?"

I looked around at the empty lot, then at the raised hood, and ten sarcastic lines popped into my mind that would have been followed by, "Here's your sign!", but all I said was, "What gave it away?"

Then he turned around and got on what looked like a walkie talkie, and spoke for few moments and told me that Ed would be with me shortly.

Then he left.

A few minutes later another guy comes up, in a bigger cart.

Yay! "Hi Ed, you gonna help me out of this mess?"

"Can't, I'm not Ed."

"You sure?"

"Pretty sure, my name's John."

"Maybe your middle name's Ed?"

"Nope, Walter."

"Walter?"

"That's right, Walter, got a problem with that?"

Uh oh, this conversation isn't going as planned.

"No, no, I don't suppose you can pretend to be Ed?" "It would mean a lot to me."

"Sorry, now you don't worry about a thing young feller, Ed will be along soon so you just wait right here and don't go nowhere."

And he turned back towards his cart.

This time my sarcasm won, before I knew it I was saying;
"Ok, I'll turn off the engine and just wait for Ed to show up."

As he was getting in I saw him pause, then shake his head and it sounded like he mumbled, "Everybody's a comedian."

Soon, another cart pulls up just as Smidgy was coming back with the last batch.

This time I held my tongue until I read the nameplate.

"William."

Sigh, what, are we going to have to go through the whole alphabet until the big wheel stops on E?

"Hello, William, how can I help you?"

"I came to see if I can start your ve-hic-le, and most people just call me Ed."

"Ah, of course, whatcha got?"

And he pulls what looks like a small laptop out of his cart, with two short wires hanging off of it.
I was hoping that he'd have a generator or something he'd fire up to jump start it.

Then holding this thing to his chest, he walks over and says "Ok, which one's the positive post?"

"It's the one with the big positive plus sign next to it," I replied. On this morning my sarcasm knew no bounds. I had just cleaned away the dirt to make it easy to read.

And he hooked it up.

I was scared to death he was then going to ask which one was the negative post, if he had I would have lost it but thankfully he hooked that up and told me to go try it.

I tried, it didn't even grunt, and I sighed.

"Now hang on there a moment, sometimes I don't always get a good connection the first time, there, now try it again."

So I did.

"Varoooom!"

(ok, how would you spell the sound of a car starting up?)

I thanked him and thanked him, then I asked how much but he just shook his head. Then I tried to give him a tip and he just shook his head.

"A Manhattan? How about a nice Manhattan, I can make one up for you right now, heck, I need one for myself as well?" But he just shook his head and said this happens all the time, don't worry about it.

This kinda goes to show you; sometimes when things aren't going well you immediately see the worst case senario and jump to dire conclusions.

Not 20 minutes had passed since we found out the car was dead, now we are on our way.

Our first stop was back in Kissimmee, the liquour store in particular to replenish what we didn't plan on drinking but ended up drinking the last couple nights. This store is on 192 right next to a Publix close to rt. 27, we've been there before.

As I was coming down the aisle in the lot towards the store, Diane says the store looks like it's closed down.

"Why do you say that?" I didn't need anymore hassles.

"Well, mainly because there's a big "Closed" sign hanging in the window."

Yep, she's got that sarcasm gene in her family too, you oughta here our kids that got it from both ends.

She then runs into Publix to ask if anyone knows where another liquor store is.
And I am not leaving this car, especially not turning it off until I'm reasonably sure that the battery is recharge enough.

When she came back out they had told her that they think it's open, so I drove back over there, and it was, the closed sign was for the store next to it that looked like it was part of the liquor store. She ran in and I sat.

I still couldn't get my mind off the previous events, was now grateful that it didn't end in a fight.

Fight?
Me?

I never get in fights, last fight was over 30 years ago.

You all know me, all I need to do usually is give that fierce, determined look that I can make so well.

You know, like this:

There, see? Oh crap.
No, not that picture, that look would just get the pulp beat out of me.

This one.

Yeah, that was not only back when there was no gray in the hair, it was also when the hair still wanted to be part of the family. Even the moustache comes in now almost totally gray and I wouldn't mind the Sam Shepherd look so much but until it get's long enough I end up looking more like Wilford Brimley.

Finally, we are on our way to Beach Club Villas, yay!

5 nights in a place we could never afford if it wasn't for the lawyer with the points that divorced us. boy that still looks strange to type that

We pulled up out in front, and I was wrong before, this is where we had to leave the keys with a woman at an outside podium, then went inside to check in.

It is just gorgeous inside, the white nautical theme reeks of richness and luxury.

The woman behind the counter noted our pool view request, but said she had a garden view that was already for us right now.
We huddled for a second, then decided we'd prefer to wait for the pool view, we felt a tad cheated out of our last pool view.

They then told us to go park around behind in the villas lot, when we call you when your room is ready, then you will have to move the car back up front to unload and have a bellhop bring the stuff up.

I got the keys back and pulled around behind, inwardly cringing until I saw the lot.

AND IT WAS FULL!

Tears rolled down from my eyes in total joy.

"The lot is full, hey look, the lot is full." "Clarence, the lot is full!"

I was so happy to see that the fly in groups were not here, not that I expected them to be.

We were parked in an area just a bit behind the villas quiet pool.
Then we grabbed all the stuff we would need to spend some time at the pool waiting for our room to be ready.

It was only a litte after 11, I've got the newspaper, my book, my suit, sunglasses, hat, can of pop and 3 vikes clutched in my grubby little fist that I am going to really, really enjoy.

By God, I've got this coming to me.

And just as we walked through the outside gate into the pool courtyard,
her cell phone rang.

 

[mmeb144]

Very funny! I'm not sure I did it justice, reading to my DD15. I'm catching a cold. I like the search for a liquor store on a Sunday. I wasn't sure you were going to have drink joy.

And, Smidgy, who hasn't unintentionally left the belt in the car door..

 

[ddstratton]

AAAHHHH!!! Didja have to leave us with a cliffie like that?? Dead batteries are no fun. I just had one a week or so ago. No warning, either. Didn't leave the lights on, or a door ajar or anything. Just came out after work and nuttin. Apparently it had just enough juice for my remote to unlock the van, but not even a dash light after that. Luckily, DH is a mechanic and came to the rescue.

 

[McDisney]

I was totally waiting for the words "Could the owner of the Santa Fe please report to the food court, you left your lights on - in the drink station!"

Glad all was okay

 

[pixidustmom]

Please tell me the phone rang because your pool view is ready and not trouble at home? I hate a cliff hanger.

 

[Sleeping*Beauty]

Ok I'm thinking the phone was someone from All-Star Sports saying that they did take the night off your bill. But, I could be wrong. I just hope its good news.

 

[TyRy]

OMG - I have to show this to Mark..it must be Hyundai thing...my drivers side seat belt has that same problem. I'm glad that was the problem and nothing else. OH - be sure to check the screws in the door that hold the locking mechanism in place...guess I slammed mine on my belt too many times and one day..no screws, no door close .

I can't believe that liquor store is closed - we used the same one.

Did you have any problems parking at BCV?

 

[dwheatl]

Our Hyundai had a dead battery when we got home from our cruise last month. When the AAA guy charged it, we found out that the alarm had sounded until it totally ran the battery down. Be t that will make me popular with the neighbors!
Glad that your guy got there pretty fast, and that there was no charge. THAT'S the Disney spirit.

 

[BigDis]

Nebo,

I must admit that while I have read and enjoyed every post you and Smidgey have written, I have skipped over some of the responses you have gotten from others so if someone has said this already, my apologies. So...I couldn't help but think that you should have teamed up with Turtle/Hog Lady while at the All Star Sports. It would have been fun to see her reaction if one of the "guests" moved her towels/items and put them on the ground! Perhaps you could have told her to go outside and deal with the "guests" when they were unruly. How ironic that her antics seem so minor now! You could have had a big caravan over to Disney from Vero Beach.