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<font color=green>AKL is my new favorite<br><font
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- Oct 23, 2001
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We loved this resort! The ease of access to MK and Epcot makes it a big winner. The excitement of the monorail and the lake are added bonuses. My kids loved this slide better than any other we have stayed at yet.
Just some thoughts...The walk from our room(NW-7333-3rd floor) to the Food and Fun center was not as bad as I anticipated. Much easier and closer than our walks at PO, CSR and WL. The mug is a must if you are staying several nights(we stayed 5 nights and they more than paid for themselves, plus we all have a souvenir).
Our room offered a view of the fireworks, space mountain AND the lake. Very nice, perfect view IMHO
! The room and bathroom size were more than adequate for our family of 4. DS slept on the daybed and loved that. Lots of good space in the bathrooms to put your stuff too as the toilet room also had a vanity area. Easy to walk to MK and ride the monorail back. Easy and quick to get to Epcot also. We drove to AK and MGM. The only thing that seemed to need replacing was the hall carpet in some areas. Not real noticeable unless you were looking, but they were stained in areas. A few doors were being painted one morning. Everything in our room looked and worked great.
DD got a hairwrap by the towel pickup counter near the pool. ONLY opened on Saturday and Sunday now. It is seasonal too. You can buy a box of Entenmanns doughuts(8) for $3.49 on the 4th floor attached to the giftshop. Great for early entry mornings. DH or the kids would go refill our mugs when they got dressed and ready, and we ate doughnuts 2 mornings. The CM's were very nice. Our kids both got the Disney Adventure Magazine that arrived after we checked in. They also have a good supply of bandaids etc at Guest relations(the box had all types of medicines individually wrapped in twos-pain, sinus, antacids etc-we just needed a bandaid for me!). The lifeguards were excellent. Saw our first rescue of a girl about 3 who went under at the bottom of the slide. Lifeguard blew a whistle, jumped in with that orange thingie and did her job. Girl came back later with a lifevest and unfazed!. Pool was almost soley ours around 1-2. Lots of attention from lifeguards! Very crowded the one day we went at 4. Icees in our mugs were great by the pool!
'Ohana and PSB were well worth it! Quick monorail ride to Poly. Our PSB was at 8:30 and we had PLENTY of time to spare taking the monorails.
Parks were NOT crowded at all except MK on Wed evening for Spectro and fireworks. We felt we had Epcot World Showcase to ourselves at times. Arrive at 8 for EE at MK or 9 at the other parks and you have a couple hours of no lines.
Utilize Fastpass and always have one working for you if needed.
Can't wait to return later this year.
Just some thoughts...The walk from our room(NW-7333-3rd floor) to the Food and Fun center was not as bad as I anticipated. Much easier and closer than our walks at PO, CSR and WL. The mug is a must if you are staying several nights(we stayed 5 nights and they more than paid for themselves, plus we all have a souvenir).
Our room offered a view of the fireworks, space mountain AND the lake. Very nice, perfect view IMHO
! The room and bathroom size were more than adequate for our family of 4. DS slept on the daybed and loved that. Lots of good space in the bathrooms to put your stuff too as the toilet room also had a vanity area. Easy to walk to MK and ride the monorail back. Easy and quick to get to Epcot also. We drove to AK and MGM. The only thing that seemed to need replacing was the hall carpet in some areas. Not real noticeable unless you were looking, but they were stained in areas. A few doors were being painted one morning. Everything in our room looked and worked great. DD got a hairwrap by the towel pickup counter near the pool. ONLY opened on Saturday and Sunday now. It is seasonal too. You can buy a box of Entenmanns doughuts(8) for $3.49 on the 4th floor attached to the giftshop. Great for early entry mornings. DH or the kids would go refill our mugs when they got dressed and ready, and we ate doughnuts 2 mornings. The CM's were very nice. Our kids both got the Disney Adventure Magazine that arrived after we checked in. They also have a good supply of bandaids etc at Guest relations(the box had all types of medicines individually wrapped in twos-pain, sinus, antacids etc-we just needed a bandaid for me!). The lifeguards were excellent. Saw our first rescue of a girl about 3 who went under at the bottom of the slide. Lifeguard blew a whistle, jumped in with that orange thingie and did her job. Girl came back later with a lifevest and unfazed!. Pool was almost soley ours around 1-2. Lots of attention from lifeguards! Very crowded the one day we went at 4. Icees in our mugs were great by the pool! 'Ohana and PSB were well worth it! Quick monorail ride to Poly. Our PSB was at 8:30 and we had PLENTY of time to spare taking the monorails.
Parks were NOT crowded at all except MK on Wed evening for Spectro and fireworks. We felt we had Epcot World Showcase to ourselves at times. Arrive at 8 for EE at MK or 9 at the other parks and you have a couple hours of no lines.
Utilize Fastpass and always have one working for you if needed.Can't wait to return later this year.
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