I'M BACK! - and I don't want to be!
I'll post on the trip boards later but I wanted to drop you a quick note here! (While DS tries to get back on schedual for napping I need to be quiet!
LOVED THE LODGE!
ALthough I thought we would never get there!
The sign is only markedf or Fort Wilderness - and we didn't realize til after we went by it that it was the same entrance - thank god its one big circle - back around we went!
The building is spectacular! The Lobby is breathtaking. Our cm at check in was ok - broken english not cheery but did his job. Our rooms weren't ready though (and it was 3:15). THey gave us a little card with a number to call and gave us room keys (No idea where they were though!).
We went to Roarink FOrks and bought our mugs (GREAT INVESTMENT - DD loved that they leave cherry 'juice' in squirt bottle to make her own 'shirly temples' - I loved that I could add hot chocolate mix with coffee to make a 'mocha' coffee)
DS - almost 2 LOVED the bridge in the lobby! run over - look into water - run over look at other side, etc! After a while I got tired of chasing him from side to side and just stood on the end watching him!)
THE POOL-
Gorgeous layout - with the falls and the hot tubs! DD LOVED the pool slide must have gone down it 100 times in ten days! (DS loved it the first time when dad went with him - then they told us we couldn't do that and when he tried it on his own - not fun - he flipped over somewhere on his way down and came down face first in the water - so be careful on the slide with little ones!)
My favorite thing on vaca was to sneak out of the room at 6am leaving everyone behind! go to roaring forks make me 'mocha' coffee then sit in the hot tub ALL BY MYSELF! Noone was around except one groundsman! I asked him first and he said no prob! LOVE IT! THe stars were still out and it was SO quiet! Worth waking up early for!
OUR ROOMS-
We had requested connecting (with a friend) and bunks - standard view.!
No bunks - which was probably just as well (explain in trip reports).
Great View!
We were in 4007 and had a view of the pool - waterfall and lodge - (trees in the way of the lake)
I didn't find anything spectacular - or anything to complain about in the rooms
(oops except - the glasses! DS picked one up and dropped it on the only spot it could break the marble between the connecting doors! Everyday we had to hide them because housekeeping kept putting them back
6 days in he broke another one!
Loved the showerhead options too!
Long walk to the elevators but right above roaring forks and next to pool and boat launch!
Loved the towel animals (except that one room kept getting BIG ones and the other little - which causes envy with little ones in connecting rooms!)
TRANSPORTATION-
I will NEVER take a Disney Bus again!
Loved the boat rides (actually chose to be on the boat during fireworks rather than fight the crowds!)
Loved the monorail!
Took the bus once - and once was enough! Thank god we had the rental to use! We attempted to go to DownTown Disney one night! WE had had a very relaxing day and wanted to stroll the shops and get a bite to eat! NOT!
First -our mistake- we got on the wrong bus (to mgm instead) had to go to camp ground - got to MGM were then told we had wrong bus - go toff waited for the right bus - then finally made it to DTD- more on that later- to go home we waited FOREVER for a bus (20 minutes seems like forever with kids!) then bus driver closed the door in our face as we went to get on!
Oh - then I seem him at the back of the bus boarding wheelchairs first (no prob - just should have said something) well obviously he couldn't work the equipment - another 15 mintes til we boarded the bus (very crowded)! Drop off at camp first (including wheelchairs) and finally back to the lodge!
ALl I can write for now!
DS will NOT go nite - nite I better go lay down with him
it sounds like it's off to DTD first thing for a pair of ears.
