DH and I got home last night from our first DVC trip. We stayed at BWV in a Boardwalk view studio #5031 from 10/4 - 10/12. Our home resort is BCV, but by the time we purchased in April there was no availability there for this trip. We bought DVC without ever taking a tour, so we were happy to find that everything was better than we expected. We're thrilled with our purchase!
We checked in around 1:30 pm on 10/4 and the room was not ready. Next time I will wear "Florida clothes" so we can hit the parks until we can get into our room. Alas, we were wearing jeans and were burning up after walking around on the Boardwalk for a while. So, we sat in the lobby and called every 30 minutes or so to check on the room. Unfortunately, it wasn't ready until about 5:30. If we hadn't been sitting and waiting for the room it wouldn't have bothered us, but after all the anticipation I was just ready to see the room! The CMs were very apologetic and when we got into our room it was just perfect.
I had read about the long walks to the room from the elevator, but I really was not prepared for it! I imagined one very long hallway, but in reality it was about four really long hallways! If we wouldn't have been on the fifth floor we would have taken the stairs.
I was surprised that we got a full cleaning instead of just trash and towels on day 3. I thought maybe we would only get trash and towels on day 7, but we got a full cleaning then too. Not sure how that happened, but it was nice
Thanks to the refurb on the Luna Park slide, we were able to pool hop to SAB. It's awesome! We're not usually pool people, but we just loved it.
All in all a great trip. We got to see a taping of the Wayne Brady show. No advanced tickets, we just happened to be walking by when they were getting ready to start and there were extra seats. His guests that day were Carrot Top and Monica. We went to MNSSHP, which was fun. I got my picture taken with Art from the Beach Club Travel Channel special, and saw Jennifer and Dave, the Passporter authors, while waiting for a bus. I wanted to say hi to them but unfortunately the bus filled up and they didn't make it on. I was in the top 10 for fastest fingers on WWTBAM twice (we went three times) and once I was #1 when time ran out, but DH made it into the hot seat and got to 32,000 points, which was very exciting!
I rode Mission Space which was fun but made me a little sick. Not ruin my day sick, just sit down and drink a Sprite before riding anything else sick. I was test riding it for DH and decided that he wasn't allowed to ride it. He was okay with that and played the games at the ride exit instead. We saw Wishes when it debuted on Thursday, and it's awesome! The fireworks are so perfectly timed to the music. We lucked into seeing it again on Saturday night. We decided to have dinner at 'Ohana and after they tried to seat us at a table that was already full, we ended up with a table next to the window with a perfect view of the castle. Our server brought us the check at exactly 7:30, and the lights dimmed and Jimminy Cricket started the narration. She acted surprised and said that they were told that there were only going to be 10:00 fireworks that night. It was very magical to get to see the fireworks again on our last night, especially since we hadn't planned it that way.
We definitely like the weather better when we normally go in December or January. This was just too hot and crowded for us. The best thing about DVC is that since we know we'll be back, it was okay to skip the rides with the long lines. We can always ride them next time!
I can't wait until the next trip! Let me know if you have any questions!
We checked in around 1:30 pm on 10/4 and the room was not ready. Next time I will wear "Florida clothes" so we can hit the parks until we can get into our room. Alas, we were wearing jeans and were burning up after walking around on the Boardwalk for a while. So, we sat in the lobby and called every 30 minutes or so to check on the room. Unfortunately, it wasn't ready until about 5:30. If we hadn't been sitting and waiting for the room it wouldn't have bothered us, but after all the anticipation I was just ready to see the room! The CMs were very apologetic and when we got into our room it was just perfect.
I had read about the long walks to the room from the elevator, but I really was not prepared for it! I imagined one very long hallway, but in reality it was about four really long hallways! If we wouldn't have been on the fifth floor we would have taken the stairs.
I was surprised that we got a full cleaning instead of just trash and towels on day 3. I thought maybe we would only get trash and towels on day 7, but we got a full cleaning then too. Not sure how that happened, but it was nice
Thanks to the refurb on the Luna Park slide, we were able to pool hop to SAB. It's awesome! We're not usually pool people, but we just loved it.
All in all a great trip. We got to see a taping of the Wayne Brady show. No advanced tickets, we just happened to be walking by when they were getting ready to start and there were extra seats. His guests that day were Carrot Top and Monica. We went to MNSSHP, which was fun. I got my picture taken with Art from the Beach Club Travel Channel special, and saw Jennifer and Dave, the Passporter authors, while waiting for a bus. I wanted to say hi to them but unfortunately the bus filled up and they didn't make it on. I was in the top 10 for fastest fingers on WWTBAM twice (we went three times) and once I was #1 when time ran out, but DH made it into the hot seat and got to 32,000 points, which was very exciting!
I rode Mission Space which was fun but made me a little sick. Not ruin my day sick, just sit down and drink a Sprite before riding anything else sick. I was test riding it for DH and decided that he wasn't allowed to ride it. He was okay with that and played the games at the ride exit instead. We saw Wishes when it debuted on Thursday, and it's awesome! The fireworks are so perfectly timed to the music. We lucked into seeing it again on Saturday night. We decided to have dinner at 'Ohana and after they tried to seat us at a table that was already full, we ended up with a table next to the window with a perfect view of the castle. Our server brought us the check at exactly 7:30, and the lights dimmed and Jimminy Cricket started the narration. She acted surprised and said that they were told that there were only going to be 10:00 fireworks that night. It was very magical to get to see the fireworks again on our last night, especially since we hadn't planned it that way.
We definitely like the weather better when we normally go in December or January. This was just too hot and crowded for us. The best thing about DVC is that since we know we'll be back, it was okay to skip the rides with the long lines. We can always ride them next time!
I can't wait until the next trip! Let me know if you have any questions!
and being within walking distance of Epcot sold us on it. When we finally admitted that we have a Disney "problem" and would probably be returning yearly for the forseeable future, we decided to go for it. We did take the tour while we were there this trip and got to see the one bedrooms, which are awesome! I'm excited to be staying in a one bedroom in January with DH and my brothers.
