HHI Adoration & Information 2009

[dvc at last !]

We'll be checking in a week from tomorrow, so I'll check on the bike prices. How did it work for renting bikes at the resort? We were interested in doing it so some pre-arrival info would be helpful.

We're planning to take our laptop and post a live-from report with pictures, so if there is anything anyone wants to know about, please let us know and we'll do our best to find out. This will be our first trip to Hilton Head. Can't wait!!!

I am looking forward to your live-from report.
Our trip to HHI end of June will be our first trip to HHI, too !

 

[dvc at last !]

Here at work today! and took a minute to go to the Salty Dog webcam. Talk about jealousy Those people don't know how good they have it.

dallastxcpa,

What is the Salty Dog webcam ?

 

[nzdisneymom]

What is the grocery store situation near the HH resort? Also, does HH have the option to order groceries ahead of time and have them delivered?

What about fireworks? We have friends who go to Hilton Head every summer and they said they always go over to the Disney resort on Tuesday to watch the fireworks... is that just a summer thing?

 

[dallastxcpa]

dallastxcpa,

What is the Salty Dog webcam ?

It is a live web cam at the Salty Dog restaurant.

http://www.saltydog.com/webcam/

There is an option to just watch what is going on or you can drive the web cam.

 

[dallastxcpa]

We'll be checking in a week from tomorrow, so I'll check on the bike prices. How did it work for renting bikes at the resort? We were interested in doing it so some pre-arrival info would be helpful.

We're planning to take our laptop and post a live-from report with pictures, so if there is anything anyone wants to know about, please let us know and we'll do our best to find out. This will be our first trip to Hilton Head. Can't wait!!!

Really looking forward to your report. Also, if you could send me a copy of the program report for the week. Either scanned or PM me and I will give you an address. I would love to post an example to this thread of the activities available.

Thanks

Lorrie

 

[nzdisneymom]

Really looking forward to your report. Also, if you could send me a copy of the program report for the week. Either scanned or PM me and I will give you an address. I would love to post an example to this thread of the activities available.

Thanks

Lorrie

I'll do it -- I don't have a scanner, so PM me with your address and I'll mail you a copy.

 

[MinnesotaChill]

Hello everyone -

I have a couple of questions for everyone! Long post, so questions are in bold.

We've never been to HH and were planning to go next summer (2010). June 13-18. We have a June use year, however, and we have points that expire May 31,2010. As I understand it, that means we'd lose those points.. correct? I am sort of wondering if they wouldn't expire if they were committed to a reservation, but I am thinking they will.

So, we're thinking about adjusting to Spring Break, which is late March/early April. I'm wondering what we'll miss out on besides fireworks...since it is our first trip, I don't mind that we won't get to do everything on our first trip, it will give us something to look forward to on the next trip. Anything else significant we'll miss? We're from Minnesota, so I'm not worried about the weather, we're tough. It sounds like we'll get at least some time outside. Since we are driving, I was thinking we'd do HH Sun-Thurs, but will this be enough time? If we have to, we can drive many hours as a trade off to stay at HH longer.

Will I have trouble getting spring break at 7 mths?

Finally, a word to those of you who drive. We did 34 hours each way to Phx this year in January with three kids and a very large standard poodle. We had an absolute blast. Two secrets - we didn't do fast food unless absolutely necessary. I had a few books that listed great local cafes and restaurants across the USA. We'd take turns looking through it and would choose where we wanted to eat and then make it our goal to be there for the meal we were hoping to eat. Rarely did we spend more than fast food (often less) and we had some really fun meals. Sometimes we were the only non-locals. The kids really had fun trying new things, and we didn't get the sluggish feeling that you can get from eating junk for three days each way.

The other secret - we bought the kids (DS 9&10 and DD 10) two used Nintendo DS games that they were able to play together. I didn't get the first one out until the second day of driving and they played it the rest of the trip. They had to work together and that gave them great incentive to cooperate and get along. They liked it so much that I never brought out the second game. I'd let them play Nintendo for awhile, then they'd have to read for awhile, etc. We made the whole trip (68hours) watching only 3 movies and we had a lot of fun.

Okay, that's a lot. Hope I didn't scare anyone away!

 

[scottb8888]

got here yesterday.... mid 60's and the cm said the place was not near full due to remodeling!

 

[nzdisneymom]

Hello everyone -

I have a couple of questions for everyone! Long post, so questions are in bold.

We've never been to HH and were planning to go next summer (2010). June 13-18. We have a June use year, however, and we have points that expire May 31,2010. As I understand it, that means we'd lose those points.. correct? I am sort of wondering if they wouldn't expire if they were committed to a reservation, but I am thinking they will.


Will I have trouble getting spring break at 7 mths?

Are your points such that you can't bank them (which I guess only happens if you've banked those same points previously)?

We were able to get our spring break at 7 months out with no problem - but it's not the week pre- or post-Easter. We even got a 2BR no problem which surprised me.

 

[chum]

What is the grocery store situation near the HH resort? Also, does HH have the option to order groceries ahead of time and have them delivered?

What about fireworks? We have friends who go to Hilton Head every summer and they said they always go over to the Disney resort on Tuesday to watch the fireworks... is that just a summer thing?

Hi,
There's a Piggly Wiggly grocery store that is part of Shelter Cove Plaza (in the mall/marina/DVC area) DVC is on the Shelter Cove island but everything else is part of Palmetto Dunes/Shelter Cove. Bottom line is that the Pig is close and you don't have to leave Palmetto Dunes/Shelter Cove to buy food.
There are food delivery services but you have to be at the villa to receive and pay for it.
Fireworks are once a week during the Summer.

 

[LVSWL]

What is the grocery store situation near the HH resort? Also, does HH have the option to order groceries ahead of time and have them delivered?

What about fireworks? We have friends who go to Hilton Head every summer and they said they always go over to the Disney resort on Tuesday to watch the fireworks... is that just a summer thing?

We usually just ride our bikes to the Piggly Wiggly for groceries and take a backpack and I have a basket on my bike. Of course, our first trip is with our car for our initial stock up.

 

[nzdisneymom]

Thanks for the grocery information. We'll probably just stock up at Walmart near my folks (they live about 45 minutes from HHI) and use a cooler to take the cold food.

Is there a movie theater on HHI? The boys want to see a couple of movies that have recently come out. Of course when we were at Vero Beach, their favorite thing to do was get all the old Disney movies from the general-store to borrow.

 

[MinnesotaChill]

NZDisneyMom -

Yep, banked those 55 points from this year. I know I can commit unearned points towards reservations that fall within the use year I will receive them, I was sort of hoping it worked the other way that I could commit points that were set to expire into a future trip, but now as I write that it seems pretty obvious that would go against the whole idea of banked points expiring.

Thanks for the info on booking. I didn't even check to see when Easter is next year, I just finally figured out when it is this year!

 

[nzdisneymom]

NZDisneyMom -

Yep, banked those 55 points from this year. I know I can commit unearned points towards reservations that fall within the use year I will receive them, I was sort of hoping it worked the other way that I could commit points that were set to expire into a future trip, but now as I write that it seems pretty obvious that would go against the whole idea of banked points expiring.

Thanks for the info on booking. I didn't even check to see when Easter is next year, I just finally figured out when it is this year!

Yeah, I think you're out of luck for using your previously banked points for a June trip, so I'd plan for spring break then.

We went to WDW last year for spring break and our tix are expiring on Sunday... which is why we opted for Hilton Head this year, thinking we could do WDW next year for spring break. Only next year our kids' spring break butts up against Easter so we can't go to WDW. We are looking forward to having a relaxing time at Hilton Head.

 

[JVL1018]

We'll be checking in a week from tomorrow, so I'll check on the bike prices. How did it work for renting bikes at the resort? We were interested in doing it so some pre-arrival info would be helpful.

We're planning to take our laptop and post a live-from report with pictures, so if there is anything anyone wants to know about, please let us know and we'll do our best to find out. This will be our first trip to Hilton Head. Can't wait!!!

Thanks so much!
The bike rentals are right next to the activity sign up window under community hall(right near the pool), you just go there and tell them how many bikes you want, they wheel them out, ask if you want baskets and bike locks and away you go.
The first one my son had last year we decided was too big after riding around for a bit so we just went back and he got a smaller size. Very easy.

 

[chum]

Is there a movie theater on HHI? The boys want to see a couple of movies that have recently come out. Of course when we were at Vero Beach, their favorite thing to do was get all the old Disney movies from the general-store to borrow.

Yes, there are 3 movie theaters to choose from and the new Sea Turtles Cinema in Bluffton (20-30mins away).

You can still borrow Disney DVD's at the resort.

 

[JVL1018]

Thanks for the grocery information. We'll probably just stock up at Walmart near my folks (they live about 45 minutes from HHI) and use a cooler to take the cold food.

Is there a movie theater on HHI? The boys want to see a couple of movies that have recently come out. Of course when we were at Vero Beach, their favorite thing to do was get all the old Disney movies from the general-store to borrow.

There is, and they usually do a kids night out to the movies once a week.
Pizza at the resort and then they take the kids in the resort van over to the theater.

 

[Saratoga Souris]

Just returned from our first HHI trip - it won't be our last.

We rented bikes for the week ($25 per) from the resort and really enjoyed biking around. We found the 1.5 mile ride to the Beach House to be very pleasant as there is a great bike path/lane. We also rode to the Piggly Wiggly for groceries (about 0.5 mi) and bought really fresh seafood from a small "stand" a bit farther down the road (same side as PW but another mile down). Great shrimp and Black Grouper.
Ate out ,only once, at "The Wreck of the Salty Dog"; went of a Thursday night for the all-you-can-eat Crab legs. They were excellent and a great deal.
The kids had fun at the campfire singing and dancing and eating smores.

A great trip!

 

[nzdisneymom]

Thanks for all the info. So about the bike rental, how does that work for the week? Do you get a sticker on your KTTW card or do they assign you a bike that you wheel up to your porch every night? Do they have helmets or should we bring our own?

Thanks for the info about the movies, too. We'll have to check into the kids' movie night!

 

[Saratoga Souris]

We kept the bikes all week. They gave us locks and helmets!

We locked the bikes up in front of "our home" at night, but to be honest, left them unlocked between rides during the day.