Great trip to the Fort!

[tinkerdorabelle]

So we're back after an 8 night stay at the Fort. I just can't say enough of how wonderful FW is. We drove down from NY, squeezing into Anastasia State Park for the first 4 days, so beautiful there! It was a perfect time of the year to go, a week after Easter, crowds were lower, FW prices lower and weather was gorgeous. We were in the 1600 full hookup loop this time, after having done 300 preferred loop last year. Nice loop but the first site they put us in we were so close to the site next to us that from our picnic table you could literally touch the trailer next to us. We went to the front desk and they changed us to a spot a couple over and we had a huge site on the canal which was absolutely gorgeous. The only thing my husband wasn't a fan of was the way the hookups were set up with the electric being waay back in the corner of the site behind the sand area and the cable and sewer towards the middle. Other loops have the hookups set up better. We have a 24 ft van RV, so this was an issue BUT we just parked farther back partially on the sand and made it work. Looked like most of the sites in that loop were set up that way. I think if I didn't mind being farther away from things, the 1900 loop was a really nice, quiet loop, large private sites. Being it was just my husband and I, we just enjoyed the Fort mostly, riding our bikes all over, going to the pool, biking over to Wildnerness Lodge, playing miniature golf as we ended up with 3 free tickets each, riding monorail over to the MK resorts Polynesian, Grand Floridian, Contemporary, going to Disney Springs and the Boardwalk, etc. I honestly felt like I wish we didn't bother with doing the 2 parks we did. We did AK and MK, having done Epcot last time and it was a lot of fun, but I think next year we aren't going to bother with any parks if it's just my husband and I, or just AK again to see the new Pandora which is opening in a few weeks. There is a wonderful restaurant right next to Pandora now that overlooks the water. But the cost is so high and we had just as much fun doing all the other things there are to do at the Fort and in the area. It is such a wonderful, healing, beautiful campground. Saw tons of wildlife, including a HUGE owl which swooped right at us carrying a poor squirrel, just a couple feet above the people in front of us and then maybe 5 feet tops over our heads! The squirrels there are crazy! A cute one must know what Mickey bars are bc we were sitting at the Meadows eating one and it literally kept trying to climb on our laps! I was laughing and screaming at the same time hehe. There were turkeys in our loop also. Aaaaaah it was so beautiful, so sad to be home. Already planning for next year. I have to say also that if you are a tenter, the 1500 loop was incredible, a prime location right by the pool and Meadows. We were fairly close to the bathroom area the two loops share, and would cut through there to get to the pool area.

 

[snowmedic]

It's good to hear you had a great time, and are already thinking about going back. The Fort is addictive and we usually make the 3000 mile round-trip twice a year.
We have stayed in the 1600 loop twice now, and in the same site and love it. We where at the end of the loop by the other CS. When we went to the pool, we would walk over to the 1500 - 1600 CS and just to the left of the ice machine there is a little path that cuts through to the main road, from there we where careful to cross the road to get to the pool.

 

[peg110]

Glad you had a good time. I hear what you say about the Hook Up locations. It seems for us, that there is always an issue. Our last trip to the Fort, the hookups were near the front of the pad (Electric, water, sewer, etc..) and my sewer hose was stretched to the absolute limit. I guess it's time to get another section of hose.

 

[tinkerdorabelle]

It's good to hear you had a great time, and are already thinking about going back. The Fort is addictive and we usually make the 3000 mile round-trip twice a year.
We have stayed in the 1600 loop twice now, and in the same site and love it. We where at the end of the loop by the other CS. When we went to the pool, we would walk over to the 1500 - 1600 CS and just to the left of the ice machine there is a little path that cuts through to the main road, from there we where careful to cross the road to get to the pool.

That's what we did, we were just a few sites down from the CS that shares with the 1500 loop, and that path was so convenient! We were so happy to discover that. The 1500 tent loop has it made, it you are a tenter you have a really super prime location there, a really great campground for tenters or people with popups and no sewers.

 

[tinkerdorabelle]

Glad you had a good time. I hear what you say about the Hook Up locations. It seems for us, that there is always an issue. Our last trip to the Fort, the hookups were near the front of the pad (Electric, water, sewer, etc..) and my sewer hose was stretched to the absolute limit. I guess it's time to get another section of hose.

We really liked the 1600 loop but that hookup issue in that loop drove my husband crazy lol.