Simba's Girl
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- Jul 28, 2000
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Wow! What a great resort!
Drove down from MA on Thursday 12/2, we left very early thanks to my 2 YO being awake at 3AM and us not being able to get back to sleep
. Stayed in Fayetville, NC for the night and arrived at my parent's home in The Villages, FL around 3pm on Friday. My 2 DDs (2&5) were great and we found that the portable DVD player we purchased a wonderful investment! The weather going down was clear and sunny. When we arrived the weather was overcast and chilly both Friday and Saturday. The weather cleared up and warmed up fantasticaly the rest of the week was in the 80s and humid. The trip home (to MA LOL) was clear warm and sunny on Friday but rainy and miserable on Saturday, but at least it wasn't snowing!
On Sunday we had breakfast with the Princesses in Norway-we had a terrible time. We didn't get a chance to meet Aurora, both my DD's favorite, she was running terribly late and we probably would've waited for her for another 20minutes at least! My oldest DD and my DH are allergic to eggs so basically the only reason why we were there was to meet the princesses too. We tried speaking with the chef, asked for the eggs to be served separatly, but ended up with DH and DD's meals pre plated with WAFFLES! When I questioned this to the waiter he was kind of stand offish about it stating that the "chef wouldn't have given them if they had eggs in them" well, I had DH (the egg tester LOL) taste them and he thought that there were eggs in them. Also DH and DD could've had the biscuits but they didn't serve them to them. We had a really bad experience here especially compared to the other meals we ate (Boma, Le Cellier, Liberty Tree and heck even at Ghirdelli they did a great -went above and beyond-job making sure there were no eggs in our food) I would love to write and complain about it.
We got to "open the Tavern" at LTT that was way fun!
At the begining of our trip alot of CMs seemed kinda grumpy-for no reason- or at least none that I could tell, but as our stay went on it seemed that those were the exceptions. It was a bit more crowded the first few days than I expected but the levels went way down toward Wednesday and Thursday-mabe that's why. All I know is that its very strange being alone on NY street in MGM...
I found that MGM had the best Christmas Decorations and The Spectacle of Lights was great (LOVED THE SNOW!*especially in 80 degree weather*).
Now for SSR-I loved it! I Love being members, I Love having APs, totally changes how you see the parks. We saved probably a few hundred $ by eating breakfast and dinner/lunch in our room. The pool was great (oh and was that a *slight* odor of manure at HRS or was that my imagination?), slides fantastic. Or room had fireworks views, Epcot and MK (saw and heard slightly illuminations and Wishes)-the room # was 2832 in case anyone wants a FW view and wants to request it. Only small complaint is is that we our studio was not stocked like it should've been (had to call and request bowls, we had no sponge), and a drawer was broken in the dresser. Oh and it was too funny going from SSR on Thursday to a very run down motel on I95 in Rocky Mt, NC...
And I couldn't believe all the people we met from MA and all the Red Sox attire we saw every day....
Oh and one last thing...I admit that I'd rather stay in a 1B than a Studio...I sense an add on in the future, I can clearly see the advantages now-especially with the girls...
Heather
Drove down from MA on Thursday 12/2, we left very early thanks to my 2 YO being awake at 3AM and us not being able to get back to sleep
. Stayed in Fayetville, NC for the night and arrived at my parent's home in The Villages, FL around 3pm on Friday. My 2 DDs (2&5) were great and we found that the portable DVD player we purchased a wonderful investment! The weather going down was clear and sunny. When we arrived the weather was overcast and chilly both Friday and Saturday. The weather cleared up and warmed up fantasticaly the rest of the week was in the 80s and humid. The trip home (to MA LOL) was clear warm and sunny on Friday but rainy and miserable on Saturday, but at least it wasn't snowing!On Sunday we had breakfast with the Princesses in Norway-we had a terrible time. We didn't get a chance to meet Aurora, both my DD's favorite, she was running terribly late and we probably would've waited for her for another 20minutes at least! My oldest DD and my DH are allergic to eggs so basically the only reason why we were there was to meet the princesses too. We tried speaking with the chef, asked for the eggs to be served separatly, but ended up with DH and DD's meals pre plated with WAFFLES! When I questioned this to the waiter he was kind of stand offish about it stating that the "chef wouldn't have given them if they had eggs in them" well, I had DH (the egg tester LOL) taste them and he thought that there were eggs in them. Also DH and DD could've had the biscuits but they didn't serve them to them. We had a really bad experience here especially compared to the other meals we ate (Boma, Le Cellier, Liberty Tree and heck even at Ghirdelli they did a great -went above and beyond-job making sure there were no eggs in our food) I would love to write and complain about it.
We got to "open the Tavern" at LTT that was way fun!
At the begining of our trip alot of CMs seemed kinda grumpy-for no reason- or at least none that I could tell, but as our stay went on it seemed that those were the exceptions. It was a bit more crowded the first few days than I expected but the levels went way down toward Wednesday and Thursday-mabe that's why. All I know is that its very strange being alone on NY street in MGM...
I found that MGM had the best Christmas Decorations and The Spectacle of Lights was great (LOVED THE SNOW!*especially in 80 degree weather*).
Now for SSR-I loved it! I Love being members, I Love having APs, totally changes how you see the parks. We saved probably a few hundred $ by eating breakfast and dinner/lunch in our room. The pool was great (oh and was that a *slight* odor of manure at HRS or was that my imagination?), slides fantastic. Or room had fireworks views, Epcot and MK (saw and heard slightly illuminations and Wishes)-the room # was 2832 in case anyone wants a FW view and wants to request it. Only small complaint is is that we our studio was not stocked like it should've been (had to call and request bowls, we had no sponge), and a drawer was broken in the dresser. Oh and it was too funny going from SSR on Thursday to a very run down motel on I95 in Rocky Mt, NC...
And I couldn't believe all the people we met from MA and all the Red Sox attire we saw every day....
Oh and one last thing...I admit that I'd rather stay in a 1B than a Studio...I sense an add on in the future, I can clearly see the advantages now-especially with the girls...
Heather
