2princessintraining
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With the comp nights included, we have booked our next stay at the GF, hopefully for a much better trip this time around!! We will be there 4/12-4/19,2006. It is a while away, but something to look foward to 
Updated-5/20
Just back from the GF.
As usual, the hotel is beautiful....our stay was like a comedy of errors however.
Check-in went smoothly, even had pixie dust
our way...got a LV of the Poly instead of the GV we paid for. So off to a good start right? Our luggage and refrig. come rather quickly and we go to put some stuff in the safe and it won't work. We call for maintenance to come and also ask for someone to override the AC as we like the room COLD. Said someone would be right up....well, an hour and 1/2 later someone finally comes and fixes the two items. Didn't complain, because I was in Disney and out of the miserable NY weather. The next two days are uneventful. On the the 24th, the monorail breaks down on the way to the Poly, for 45 minutes making us late to our PS at O'hana's, then in turn making me miss my DH & DF racing at the Richard Petty Speedway...two more times on this trip we would be stuck on the monorail for over a 1/2 hour each time...(not fun!!!). One day at Gaspiralla's grill Kirstie Alley is there, (looks pretty good too) and orders after I do for her children, so she immediately gets served as do the people after her...they forgot about our 3 grilled cheese sandwiches. After about 20 minutes I ask for my order, and I just get blank stares. My DH asks to speak to a manager, we get our food for free.
THe Rock pool gets shut down while we are all swimming in it for a "mysterious" reason, (a possible pooping accident) but noone will say for sure. This really bothered me, because that is how Rotovirus is spread, and that is something everyone should be told about...my daughter was in the hospital EXTREMELY ill from the Rotovirus after swimming lessons from the same exact reason.... Pool incident #2 ...chemicals were changed during the stay and I broke out in a rash from head to toe. Of course, noone else in my family got a rash, just me.
Had a wonderful swedish massage. Would recommend the treatments. My second time having them at the GF.
Grad Nights...would never go again during them. I was stuck in traffic trying to get back to the hotel. Since there is a limited way to get to the GF when the monorail is not in use, via our rental car or Disney transportation you had to sit in traffic while coach bus after coach bus gets to go ahead of you. In total on Friday night the 29th we sat in traffic (with at least 100 other cars trying to get to the WL, Poly and GF for about 1 hour). It was awful. As paying resort guests, there should have been an alt.. route for us.
I did make a very calm complaint to the general manager at the GF...and here is where the Pixie Dust comes in. ..we got a 2 night FREE stay at the GF with passes included!!! For our future use. In her own words "to restore the magic of Disney for us". She said it takes about 4 weeks to get the paperwork sent to us, but I was shocked. This isn't why I complained, just that this trip there was a real lack of that "Disney Service" we have all come to love....but my faith has been restored.
Other than that, and the fact that our plane home was diverted to Baltimore for 2 hours yesterday due to fog, it still was a good vacation.
Any questions?
Updated-5/20
Just back from the GF.
As usual, the hotel is beautiful....our stay was like a comedy of errors however.
Check-in went smoothly, even had pixie dust
our way...got a LV of the Poly instead of the GV we paid for. So off to a good start right? Our luggage and refrig. come rather quickly and we go to put some stuff in the safe and it won't work. We call for maintenance to come and also ask for someone to override the AC as we like the room COLD. Said someone would be right up....well, an hour and 1/2 later someone finally comes and fixes the two items. Didn't complain, because I was in Disney and out of the miserable NY weather. The next two days are uneventful. On the the 24th, the monorail breaks down on the way to the Poly, for 45 minutes making us late to our PS at O'hana's, then in turn making me miss my DH & DF racing at the Richard Petty Speedway...two more times on this trip we would be stuck on the monorail for over a 1/2 hour each time...(not fun!!!). One day at Gaspiralla's grill Kirstie Alley is there, (looks pretty good too) and orders after I do for her children, so she immediately gets served as do the people after her...they forgot about our 3 grilled cheese sandwiches. After about 20 minutes I ask for my order, and I just get blank stares. My DH asks to speak to a manager, we get our food for free.THe Rock pool gets shut down while we are all swimming in it for a "mysterious" reason, (a possible pooping accident) but noone will say for sure. This really bothered me, because that is how Rotovirus is spread, and that is something everyone should be told about...my daughter was in the hospital EXTREMELY ill from the Rotovirus after swimming lessons from the same exact reason.... Pool incident #2 ...chemicals were changed during the stay and I broke out in a rash from head to toe. Of course, noone else in my family got a rash, just me.
Had a wonderful swedish massage. Would recommend the treatments. My second time having them at the GF.
Grad Nights...would never go again during them. I was stuck in traffic trying to get back to the hotel. Since there is a limited way to get to the GF when the monorail is not in use, via our rental car or Disney transportation you had to sit in traffic while coach bus after coach bus gets to go ahead of you. In total on Friday night the 29th we sat in traffic (with at least 100 other cars trying to get to the WL, Poly and GF for about 1 hour). It was awful. As paying resort guests, there should have been an alt.. route for us.
I did make a very calm complaint to the general manager at the GF...and here is where the Pixie Dust comes in.
..we got a 2 night FREE stay at the GF with passes included!!! For our future use. In her own words "to restore the magic of Disney for us". She said it takes about 4 weeks to get the paperwork sent to us, but I was shocked. This isn't why I complained, just that this trip there was a real lack of that "Disney Service" we have all come to love....but my faith has been restored. Other than that, and the fact that our plane home was diverted to Baltimore for 2 hours yesterday due to fog, it still was a good vacation.
Any questions?
We choose to make our own fun and not leave that up to Disney.
I had no idea it was a Grad Night weekend until we arrived. Fortunately, our room faced the pool and not the lagoon so evening noise was never an issue for us. 
