edk35
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You know, the people who complain about anything non-DVC.
I am here for the week. However, I could not get Sunday at the Boardwalk, so I booked a night's stay at the Carribean Beach Resort.
Never again.
When I checked in (and I was only second in line!), I had to wait about 15 minutes. The people ahead of me were being helped, and there were three other stations with cast members with heads looking down, working on God knows what.
Finally, I get called over.
I get put in building 42, second floor.
Looking at the map, it was 10 million miles away. And the cm told me that I could not take my luggage with me on the Disney buses that come in and out of the property.
I told him I wasn't going to walk my luggage all the way to the room and that I would die before getting half way there.
They had someone from the bell services take me in one of the vans.
Yeesh.
Then, I get into the room and it looked small. I know, I know, I'm used to our villas.
I figure, "I'll make the best of it. I'm only here for the night."
That's when I got into the king size bed.
It looked comfortable.
Did you ever hear, "Looks can be deceiving?"
You're seen those commercials for Disney where three or four children are jumping up and down on a bed?
I think it was filmed in my room!
The bed was awful and it squeaked with every turn I made.
The four pillows were all hard.
I.
For some pics today, take a look at http://pics.dvcdisneyandme.com/main.php?g2_itemId=5928
Later...
I can say ADD ME TO THIS LIST TOO.
We just realized this exact same thing on Thanksgiving night. OMG NEVER AGAIN. Matter of fact look at my signature. You will see how strongly I feel about it. Okay...we booked SSR for Nov. arriving the 20th for 7 nights and we tried to get Thanksgiving night and never got it. We booked in late Aug. so that is probably why. So I said I really want to stay Thanksgiving night at Disney instead of coming home that night ....we did this last year and I was so bummed about it. Okay..so I book a FAMILY SUITE at All Star Music for that night. N E V E R A G A I N 
The check in went great, no problems there but the atmosphere of that resort was NOT FOR US. There were people smoking at every turn it seem. My dd actually ran around the resort most of the time we were there (which wasn't much) to avoid the smokers. My kids hated the 3 pull out bed deal there. The one chair thingie had this big stain on it. The food court was not what we expected. Matter of fact the only cute thing about the ALL Stars are the icons. We walked around looking at them the next day since we had some time to kill before heading to the airport. I ADMIT IT..WE ARE DVC SPOILED....CALL US SNOBS....but this family will never stay again. My kids were like "mom what is up with these towels?" (they were so thin)"why is there no bodywash or conditioner" My dd said she about killed herself getting out of the sleeper sofa to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, because of the metal framing of her bed, no room in the room to get around with all three pulled out. For us....s the best part of Thanksgiving was spending time together on the Holiday at DTD having a nice lunch at Planet Hollywood, seeing a movie and having dinner together at Chef Mickey's that night. If I had it to do all over again...WE WOULD FLY HOME on Thanksgiving if we could not stay DVC. I also posted a thread about how we dumped the 7/4 deal in Jan. We were going to stay in two rooms at CSR and it just didn't sit well with me so I booked OKW instead on points. 
Perhaps acting less like a child and more like an adult would help?
LOVE IT. 
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