Hi Wolfpackfan! It's your favorite cheerleader from the sidelines (lol)! You will have a wonderful time when you go to Hilton Head. I am so happy you are considering my home for your home (big grin). Anyway, I'd like to give you a word of warning first. Make sure you have an ink pen handy for signing on the Mickey's and palm trees because my bet is you will be sold on the place!
Also, my family stayed at Hilton Head without any incentive "deal" and I was surprised our first full day to have a message from the preview center offering us $100 food credit to hear the timeshare presentation (of course I had already planned to make a call and schedule one but this just made it all the more sweeter) so maybe something like this will happen to you. One of the tv channels shows the
DVC video non-stop and I mean literally 24 hours over and over again and at the end it instructs you to dial (40 or 50) from your villa phone to schedule a discovery tour so if you do that, you may want to inquire about the food credit. Its good at several area restaurants including Tide Me Over, the counterservice place on-site, and its also good for Scott's Fish Market right over the bridge as you're leaving the Disney resort to your right. We had a good meal there and for the three of us it was about $75 so we used almost the entire $100 credit in one place.
As far as activities go, the pool is heated to I think 80 degrees and quite a few people were making use of it. The beach house is great and I think the pool was heated there too because quite a few people were using it. It's shaped like an "H" and was cute. The beach house is nice as well because it has a fireplace, large screen tv and quite a few tables and chairs for playing checkers and cards. There's also a ping pong table at the beach house and of course there's the ocean! We walked on the beach and even dipped our toes in the ocean, it was cold but fun.
Back at the resort, there's lots to do including spending some time at Big Murgy's Den which is in the main lodge building. They had cookies and warm apple cider and a fire going most days. There is also a pool table, checkers and tv in the room with old books and rocking chairs. We always had a good time there. There are also activities scheduled each day that you can take a part in including dolphin cruises, kareoke and campfire sing-a-longs.
Off site, there are outlet malls, restaurants to sample and golf to name a few things, plus lots of people were riding bikes all over the island so if the weather is favorable that's an option too. This stuff might sound boring but we had a lot of fun doing "old fashioned" things and can't wait to go back to relax again. I was so relaxed that it took me a day or two back at work to get "up to speed" and get back in my "rush" mode!
I'll end this because it is getting really long but if you want some detailed trip reports to read on Hilton Head click on this link
http://www.mouseplanet.com/dtp/trip.rpt/ and there's a section called "All Other Reports", click on Offsite DVC and you can browse through 20 or so reports on the DVC resorts including many Hilton Head reports by Sue Holland.
Hope this helps ya' and please report back and let us know what you think of the place.
Lisa
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