Candleshoe
Trying to build a better mousetrip.
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- Jul 17, 2004
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Hi! We're here and loving it. There's good and bad but no ugly 
The rooms are great. We have a billion pillows and luggage services was wonderful. We rented a car Fri night and stayed offsite, then drove to a grocery store Sat am and shopped (overshopped I'm afraid) then drove to pop century and checked in at noon. [Planned on early early but hey, I got to bed at 4am so *that* wasn't happening!] Check-in was a breeze. Christian and his manager made things super smooth. Grabbed the car and drove under the porto checquieurieririrriiri (ha! Christian and I agreed it was a made up word!), and luggage service came to check us in. We had a)baggage b) refrigerated stuff c) freezer stuff. (vanilla icecream for my first night specialty drink!) We then drove to the Hilton to drop off the car (avis) and walked to Down town Disney. Enjoyed walking around, and ended up at House ofBlues where we enjoyed a meal w/ the pre-6pm 20% AP discount. Woo! Then walked a short distance to the Pop Century bus and rode back. Called the # they gave us and our room was ready -- 6112. Loving it. Walked straight to our room and our baggage was here but not our refrigerated or frozen (we requestethat they did NOT bring those yet. so it was perfect). We spent a good hour relaxing and unpacking and DH went and got our refrigerated stuff in that time -- but not the frozen yet. Much later in the evening he went and got the frozen and I made myself a drink. Was going to be a pina colada but at the store I bought B52s-Kaluha and so I just mixed that in with the ice cream for a yummy treat. [and the 1st night nightmare which had nothing to do with Pop Century was all over!]
The not-so-good--- they make it difficult for us NON-souvenier buying folks in walking through the building to get to the bus stops! hah! Where we are is perfect for DH because he is really getting the most out of his mug. I got one too simply because my current job calls for an 55mile drive to work and so I counted it as a small souvenier with drink priviledges
I can use it for a commuting coffee mug. But DH fills it 1time in the am, 1-2 times mid day when we come back, and 4-5 times in the evening. Did I mention he's a cocacola-addict? Where we are is very close to the soda machines.
Bad-- The popjets are not working. DD4 played in them sat night for an hour! then they haven't worked since. sigh*
well .. family's back from their walkabout picture taking tour and dd is unhappy so i gots to go.
lots of love to the disfamily
stop by and say hi if you're inthe neighborhood. Tonight is MNSSHP for us and we'll be the three musketeers (2 tall 1 short)., LTT at 4:00ish.
toodles!
Sherry
The rooms are great. We have a billion pillows and luggage services was wonderful. We rented a car Fri night and stayed offsite, then drove to a grocery store Sat am and shopped (overshopped I'm afraid) then drove to pop century and checked in at noon. [Planned on early early but hey, I got to bed at 4am so *that* wasn't happening!] Check-in was a breeze. Christian and his manager made things super smooth. Grabbed the car and drove under the porto checquieurieririrriiri (ha! Christian and I agreed it was a made up word!), and luggage service came to check us in. We had a)baggage b) refrigerated stuff c) freezer stuff. (vanilla icecream for my first night specialty drink!) We then drove to the Hilton to drop off the car (avis) and walked to Down town Disney. Enjoyed walking around, and ended up at House ofBlues where we enjoyed a meal w/ the pre-6pm 20% AP discount. Woo! Then walked a short distance to the Pop Century bus and rode back. Called the # they gave us and our room was ready -- 6112. Loving it. Walked straight to our room and our baggage was here but not our refrigerated or frozen (we requestethat they did NOT bring those yet. so it was perfect). We spent a good hour relaxing and unpacking and DH went and got our refrigerated stuff in that time -- but not the frozen yet. Much later in the evening he went and got the frozen and I made myself a drink. Was going to be a pina colada but at the store I bought B52s-Kaluha and so I just mixed that in with the ice cream for a yummy treat. [and the 1st night nightmare which had nothing to do with Pop Century was all over!]
The not-so-good--- they make it difficult for us NON-souvenier buying folks in walking through the building to get to the bus stops! hah! Where we are is perfect for DH because he is really getting the most out of his mug. I got one too simply because my current job calls for an 55mile drive to work and so I counted it as a small souvenier with drink priviledges
I can use it for a commuting coffee mug. But DH fills it 1time in the am, 1-2 times mid day when we come back, and 4-5 times in the evening. Did I mention he's a cocacola-addict? Where we are is very close to the soda machines. Bad-- The popjets are not working. DD4 played in them sat night for an hour! then they haven't worked since. sigh*
well .. family's back from their walkabout picture taking tour and dd is unhappy so i gots to go.
lots of love to the disfamily
stop by and say hi if you're inthe neighborhood. Tonight is MNSSHP for us and we'll be the three musketeers (2 tall 1 short)., LTT at 4:00ish.
toodles!
Sherry
