MarbleBob
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Day 4 - Friday the 6th - Part 3 - Room with a view
We opened up the door and were pretty much like, "Oh, yeah!"
The bellhop dropped off our luggage and then I tried to get a few photos before we trashed the place with all of our stuff. LOL.
It's hard to get a good perspective on the room, so I grabbed the fisheye lens for my camera.
And the bathroom area...
Strange that this is worth pointing out, but it's the small things, right? The room temperature was perfect when we arrived. So often, one of the first things you have to do when checking into a room is turn down the thermostat
This was by far the nicest room we've ever had at WDW. It's going to be hard to stay anywhere else at WDW after this! Thanks mom and dad!!!
Stepping out onto the balcony...
Looking to the left
And then looking to the right, you could just make out the lagoon.
Pretty cool to have a mix between a pool view and a lagoon view. The others had a better pool view from their rooms, but I thought it was cool to be able to see a bit of the lagoon too.
I took a panoramic photo with my phone
The kids had fun exploring our room and then roaming between the others. I found them down the hall in my sister's room a little later.
Selfie time...
They had a more direct view of the pool.
So, after everyone was all settled in, it was about 3:30pm and time to head down to the pool! We decided to start at the beach bool (with the waterside and play area... next to the, um, beach
), but here are a couple photos of the larger pool on the way over.
The following photo is from the corner closest to the main building.
And this one is from the other side, looking directly at our building. Our room was on the third floor, third balcony on the left of the big turret. The others were a couple rooms to the right of the turret.
And we made our way over to the beach pool. Awesome! Water slide on the left, bar on the right, monorail track off in the background, and the lagoon beach directly behind. So cool!!
The kids hopped right in the water and had a blast.
Sometime between 4 and 4:30 we were hungry, so we decided to look at our options. The pool bar had burgers, chicken, salads, etc. That sounded fine, but we decided to head over to Gasparilla Grill (the quick service restaurant.) We explored our options and decided we just wanted to grab some sushi, so we got the pre-prepared sushi and re-fillable mugs and headed back to the pool. We arrived to find Uncle Steve and Aunt Denise and Beth and her kids. Beth's husband was arriving on a later flight and hadn't gotten in yet. After visiting with everyone for a while, we ate our food, finished up at the pool, freshened up in our room, and got ready to head to the Magic Kingdom! (Heigh-ho, heigh-ho...)
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We opened up the door and were pretty much like, "Oh, yeah!"
The bellhop dropped off our luggage and then I tried to get a few photos before we trashed the place with all of our stuff. LOL.
It's hard to get a good perspective on the room, so I grabbed the fisheye lens for my camera.
And the bathroom area...
Strange that this is worth pointing out, but it's the small things, right? The room temperature was perfect when we arrived. So often, one of the first things you have to do when checking into a room is turn down the thermostat
This was by far the nicest room we've ever had at WDW. It's going to be hard to stay anywhere else at WDW after this! Thanks mom and dad!!!
Stepping out onto the balcony...
Looking to the left
And then looking to the right, you could just make out the lagoon.
Pretty cool to have a mix between a pool view and a lagoon view. The others had a better pool view from their rooms, but I thought it was cool to be able to see a bit of the lagoon too.
I took a panoramic photo with my phone
The kids had fun exploring our room and then roaming between the others. I found them down the hall in my sister's room a little later.
Selfie time...
They had a more direct view of the pool.
So, after everyone was all settled in, it was about 3:30pm and time to head down to the pool! We decided to start at the beach bool (with the waterside and play area... next to the, um, beach
), but here are a couple photos of the larger pool on the way over.The following photo is from the corner closest to the main building.
And this one is from the other side, looking directly at our building. Our room was on the third floor, third balcony on the left of the big turret. The others were a couple rooms to the right of the turret.
And we made our way over to the beach pool. Awesome! Water slide on the left, bar on the right, monorail track off in the background, and the lagoon beach directly behind. So cool!!
The kids hopped right in the water and had a blast.
Sometime between 4 and 4:30 we were hungry, so we decided to look at our options. The pool bar had burgers, chicken, salads, etc. That sounded fine, but we decided to head over to Gasparilla Grill (the quick service restaurant.) We explored our options and decided we just wanted to grab some sushi, so we got the pre-prepared sushi and re-fillable mugs and headed back to the pool. We arrived to find Uncle Steve and Aunt Denise and Beth and her kids. Beth's husband was arriving on a later flight and hadn't gotten in yet. After visiting with everyone for a while, we ate our food, finished up at the pool, freshened up in our room, and got ready to head to the Magic Kingdom! (Heigh-ho, heigh-ho...)
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Seriously, this place was really nice 
