We're just back from our fourth annual October trip to HH. Just a quick report:
THE GOOD:
Just about everything was great, as usual, starting with the "welcome home" at the gate. We had really great weather - sunny with temps in the mid-70s to low 80s all week. Slept with the porch doors open most nights - no bugs.
B'lew Crabbe has a new tales of HH & Ghosts that he did one evening by the play area. Dolphin cruise was wonderful - most we've ever seen at one time. They were chasing fish, stunning them by whacking their dolphin tails, and then surfacing to catch the stunned fish.
The restaurant at the beach house is now staying open 11 - 3. I was told it was to be year round, and not closing seasonaly as in past years.
New naturalist again, but he seems ok. Kathy was great with the young kids at the campfires.
One bedroom unit 1216 was clean, in good repair, with just two carpet stains. All supplies / dishes / etc. seemed in place.
THE BAD:
Not much. We were in building 12 at the end near the housekeeping building and were awakened at 6:30 AM one morning when a trash truck came to collect the dumpster and kept the "beep, beep, beep" of the alarm going for about ten minutes. On the other hand, there was great musical entertainment from across the harbor (non-Disney) that we could hear from our porch each evening.
No High Speed Internet service or Wi-Fi. I really missed that. Dial-up is sloooow.
They ran out of cookies at the Lodge by 4:00 PM one afternoon. I'll have to go earlier in the future.
THE SAD:
The place seemed only about 30% occupied. Way underutilized. Maybe they need to rebalance the points charts to get the place used more. It must be tough for the cast when only 6 - 12 people show up for an event.
THE GOOD:
Just about everything was great, as usual, starting with the "welcome home" at the gate. We had really great weather - sunny with temps in the mid-70s to low 80s all week. Slept with the porch doors open most nights - no bugs.
B'lew Crabbe has a new tales of HH & Ghosts that he did one evening by the play area. Dolphin cruise was wonderful - most we've ever seen at one time. They were chasing fish, stunning them by whacking their dolphin tails, and then surfacing to catch the stunned fish.
The restaurant at the beach house is now staying open 11 - 3. I was told it was to be year round, and not closing seasonaly as in past years.
New naturalist again, but he seems ok. Kathy was great with the young kids at the campfires.
One bedroom unit 1216 was clean, in good repair, with just two carpet stains. All supplies / dishes / etc. seemed in place.
THE BAD:
Not much. We were in building 12 at the end near the housekeeping building and were awakened at 6:30 AM one morning when a trash truck came to collect the dumpster and kept the "beep, beep, beep" of the alarm going for about ten minutes. On the other hand, there was great musical entertainment from across the harbor (non-Disney) that we could hear from our porch each evening.
No High Speed Internet service or Wi-Fi. I really missed that. Dial-up is sloooow.
They ran out of cookies at the Lodge by 4:00 PM one afternoon. I'll have to go earlier in the future.
THE SAD:
The place seemed only about 30% occupied. Way underutilized. Maybe they need to rebalance the points charts to get the place used more. It must be tough for the cast when only 6 - 12 people show up for an event.
