Oh man!! I would have burned them up already! LOL BUT we also have Allegiant Air that boasts $70 oneway tickets to Sanford! I would have been there, done that!! I understand what you mean about saving them though too!! What happen at AKL, if you don't mind me asking?
Well... ugh!
AKL... we were SO excited about it, as animals is one of Sean's really BIG things (his make a wish trip was to the San Diego zoo and wild animal park). Anyway... the FIRST night we were there we got a phone message at 10 pm, that the power would be going out intermittently the following night (beginning at midnight till about 3-4 am). With a kiddo who is electrically dependent, this is NOT a good thing. (and our TA had let them KNOW all of this when she booked the room).
I called right away to the front desk, and they assured me that when housekeeping came the next MORNING that they would leave us a battery back up for Sean's bipap. We came back early from the parks (2 pm) to check and be sure that we had a back up... and we did not. Called again, they said it would be there within the next 2 hours. Mom is busy in a panic, trying to figure out back up plans, seriously considering going out and buying our OWN battery back up beyond the little 2 hour one we already had.
Still no back up power supply... went TO the front desk, had our TA call, still by 6 pm, nothing. Finally we got one around 9-9:30 pm. Only one little problem... it wasn't CHARGED UP!!!! Plugged it in, and tried to get some sleep. Power went out at about 11:30 pm, and voila... battery back up started BEEPING every 30 seconds as it slowly discharged. SLowly I say, because it only lasted 1 1/2 hours. Called the desk, and they brought us up another... IT lasted an hour. Called the desk again and they brought us up 2 more... all of them of course beeping every 30 seconds, as no power was getting TO the back ups so it had to let us know that it was slowly discharging as our son was breathing in and out on his machine....
Needless to say sleep was NOT HAPPENING that night. The next day we were fried... totally wasted day. We went to the desk and asked for a re-imbursement of our nights stay... AKL is NOT CHEAP you know, for a savannah bunk bed extended length room! They said no. Finally, after our TA getting involved, not getting ANY calls back from management, either to her OR to us... and AFTER our a5 night stay at ALK and had moved to our next 5 nights at BWV they agreed to give us half a nights re-imbursement.
Grrrrr... we were SO peeved... truly angry. Our TA was a dear, so upset on our behalf she connected with the cruise folks (this was just before our 4 day wonder cruise, with a group of 200 people from special needs families!). THEY were great... apologized all over the place for the lack of the management at AKL. AND when we found out that THEY had messed up our room (we were a 4 person group booked into a 3 person handicapped room!) they went out of their way and found out that the handicapped room across the hall from us was vacant... so we got BOTH rooms.
Finally about 2 MONTHS after we got home from the trip our TA got some satisfaction by her contacts sending us the 12 1 day passes to the world...
I will never EVER go to AKL again. Never. I realize it was management who so badly messed up, the people from Africa that did the story telling, games, etc, the servers, all really nice people and caring, but the desk and management staff stunk big time. (can you tell I am still peeved? LOL!).
Anyway... so we will use the passes eventually... just don't want to do it too many times too quickly or the kids will get even more spoiled than they already are! LOL! (me TOO!).
Hows that for a "short story?" LOL
Whatever floats your boat
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