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[mmtska]

Hi everyone! We're here now at WDW-more specifically the Coronado Springs resort! It's been a long day, but I'm going to post some quick info.

CSR-LOVE it so far!! We checked in pretty easily. I did online checkin and it went quick and painless-minus the people in front of us that had issues. I have no idea what was going on, but as soon as we made it up to the counter we had everything set!

We were supposed to have a standard view, but I've heard what they consider a water view, and I therefore consider our room a water view It's so pretty, and we have a cool corner room-which is pretty cool looking

We headed over to the MK and got our tickets (yay only 125 bucks for me and the DH thank you military and Disney!) and headed in to at least see the castle! We got some pictures taken (the balloon and Tink in the hand for sure!!) AND I already met Pluto!!!! He was great, and I kept cracking up. We caught the end of Dream along with Mickey, and then headed over to the GF for our Narcoosee's ADR.

Narcoosee's: AMAZING! We had a really sweet CM for a waitress, who's husband is in the army, so that was neat. I'll have a full report on that later-I'm tired!!

Having a GREAT time, but it's HOT and humid! Oh well-it's Disney!

 

[teruterubouzu]

I love the new decor at CSR. Congratulations on getting a "water view"!

 

[butiflfeet]

I love live reports! And I have to say, I'm loving the remodeled rooms at CSR too

Rest up and try to stay cool! I'm sure it's going to be a great trip!

 

[KatMark]

I'm in. Thanks for the pics...that's the first full pic of the dresser I've seen from a front view. Have a magical trip.

 

[mmtska]

I'm wishing at this point we had shown up on Sunday-it was AMAZINGLY beautiful yesterday-no rain. Today I woke up at friggen 5 am to a thunderstorm. No sleep for me! We're getting ready for EMH at MK right now (I should be doing that instead of this actually.....) Packing the rain jackets. It's supposed to be 90 all week so maybe a little rain will actually feel good, but just in case of a downpour!!!

Crowds (cuz you know it'll be asked) not overly bad. DTD was a little crowded last night, but I think that was more of people walking in a group, slowly, while taking up the entire road. There was a group of like 12 people walking side by side......I wouldn't have overly cared, but I had to go to the bathroom!

MK wasn't bad either

after the Dream along with Mickey show.

Be back later-either this afternoon (not likely, but we'll see ) or tonight with more!!

 

[MissMichelle]

yay--love live reports...especially ones where people stay at my home away from home--CSR

 

[mickeystoontown]

Thanks for the live report. Hopefully, you will be able to post more. Have a great day!

 

[Minnie&Nana]

What fun!! Thanks so much for taking the time for a live report!

Love the pics...looking forward to more.

p.s. Where's your room located at CSR: Cabana's, Casita's or Ranchos?
Corner rooms are great!!

 

[milmore104]

I love your reviews so far. Thanks for taking the time during you vacation to post.

 

[mmtska]

What fun!! Thanks so much for taking the time for a live report!

Love the pics...looking forward to more.

p.s. Where's your room located at CSR: Cabana's, Casita's or Ranchos?
Corner rooms are great!!

We are in the Ranchos. I like our room, but I have the door decorated and no one comes by, so no one has really signed anything boo!

 

[WishMom09]

Loving the live report!
Hope you had an awesome day today!
Can't wait to hear about it!
Were the ride lines long??

 

[mmtska]

Ah, I love this place. We're back in the room for a bit-DH is passed out and I'm listening to the Disney Channel in the background We went for am EMH this morning and I'm SO glad we did!! We got to the MK around 750. I figured we be there earlier, but no-DH took forever to get out of bed and read and we didn't get to the bus until 720. It took about 23 seconds to get through the turnstiles and everyone else went to the right-we went to the left and I'm glad we did!

The left (right in front of the tunnel entrance)

And the right

Yeah no contest....we booked it back to Winnie the Pooh and were the 2nd family on. (FYI we have Ridemax and it worked GREAT!!) We got done super early on our itinerary, so we had to wait for adventureland to open. At 10:00 we were done with our morning for ridemax and had nothing to do until our ARD at 4:45......so we decided to wander. By 1 pm we had ridden everything we wanted-except Cinderella's Carousel and Mickey's Philharmagic. This is what Adventureland looked like

And about 2-ish this is what Main Street looked like

We ate at Starlight Cafe-YUM-but I wish we had gone to Pecos Bill's. I really wanted cheese sauce for my fries..... For Dinner we had Crystal Palace. OMG that was so good!! We met all the characters in about 45 minutes and then were so nice.

I've been reading a lot of negative comments on here: Crowds, nasty CMs, bad food, poor service, etc and so on. So let me just say this-We've had a great time so far. I've conversed with tons of great CMs and totally got confused when a photographer said I had poo on my shirt (in my defense I thought he said blue, and I kept looking for blue paint!) I was wearing my Pooh shirt and got comments like that all day The lines were manageable, if you know how to use fastpass. We walked on Buzz in about 5 minutes (btw we GOT the FP at noon-they were for 1, so I don't think many people were using FP.) It's busy, but not horrible. We're going to either head to Epcot for pm EMH or back to MK for Wishes, so see you real soon!

 

[mmtska]

Off to the AK today! Hope it doesn't rain *crosses finger* or if it does, at least right after we gett off of Kali!

 

[milmore104]

Off to the AK today! Hope it doesn't rain *crosses finger* or if it does, at least right after we gett off of Kali!

Rain Rain go away!

 

[KatMark]

Have a great day! I'm so enjoying your daily reports.

 

[Minnie&Nana]

Have a great day! So enjoying your daily reports..but one question..what is Ridemax, please? I must be out of the latest loop.

Thanks!!

 

[heaven2dc]

Thanks so much for reporting "live"! You are such troopers handling the heat but sounds like you got it all down as to where to go when

Anxious to read all about your day today

 

[teruterubouzu]

I love the live updates! Hope you had a rain free day today. You'll have to post a review of ridemax when you return. I'm curious about how it works.

 

[Maybelle]

loving the live report....keep it coming!

 

[mmtska]

Rain Rain go away!

It worked!! No rain until this evening when we headed home

Have a great day! I'm so enjoying your daily reports.

Thanks! And thank you for talking up CSR-I really like it here, and would totally come back when we return!

Have a great day! So enjoying your daily reports..but one question..what is Ridemax, please? I must be out of the latest loop.

Thanks!!

Thanks! Ridemax is a program that will make a schedule for you. You pick your park and your day, and pick the rides you are interested in. It then comes up with an itinerary that is the best way to go to each ride with the least amount of wait times. So far-so good!

Thanks so much for reporting "live"! You are such troopers handling the heat but sounds like you got it all down as to where to go when

Anxious to read all about your day today

I am still melting from today! I'm completely believing that AK is hotter than any of the parks!

I love the live updates! Hope you had a rain free day today. You'll have to post a review of ridemax when you return. I'm curious about how it works.

Rain free day, until Illuminations-oh well!!

loving the live report....keep it coming!

Thanks for reading!!