tlinus,
Thank you for the offer of the contact name. I will let you know if I end up needing it. No, I did not get a survey from HRH (hmmmm) but I did already receive one from RPR.
Back to the report...
It was our first day at HRH, and we spent the evening at the pool. The kids loved it! I really, really liked the zero entry feature. We brought lifejackets from home (more on those in a minute) but the kids didn't use them very often.
Dh and I were feeling very "vacationy" and decided to have a beer poolside. I had a bud light and he had a corona. After tax and tip, the bill came to $12.57. Yipes!!!
Now, about those life jackets. We were in the pool for only an hour or so when dh comes over to tell me that one of our life jackets (that we brought from home) was taken! A woman had seen a girl take it off our lounge chair, and told dh what she looked like. I can't begin to tell you how angry I was. The life jackets weren't cheap - in fact they are very similar to the ones that HRH lets their guests use. Well, we looked all over and couldn't find this girl. Then, we see another girl, not fitting the description, come down the slide with OUR life jacket on. Since I knew she wasn't the one that took it, I approached her and asked her to point me towards her mom or dad. Her older sister (teenagey) was there with her and after I explained why I wanted to speak to her parents, she understood and said to go ahead and take the vest - that her sister had gotten it out of the bin at the top of the slide and would just go get another one. Well, long story short, the lifeguard at the top of the slide tells the kids that if they see a life jacket lying around that is not being used and they bring it up there they can go to the front of the line for the slide. He needs to specifically say that it needs to have an "HRH" written on the back. I will mention it in my survey to HRH. Moral of the story, keep your life jackets hidden when not in use!
Here are some pics taken at the pool:
A little blurry, but you can make out the depth. There is a pretty strong current.
Really, really blurry, but you can at least get an idea of what the dive-in movie looks like:
We eat here the next day (pics of food follow later in this post):
We only let the kids watch a couple minutes of the movie, then we headed off to bed. They didn't even complain - we were all really tired!
It was not a good night. My daughter woke up around 11 saying she didn't feel good. She made it to the bathroom in time to throw up. Felt better, and went right back to sleep and slept through the rest of the night.
The next morning, we woke up to find a letter had been slid under our door saying that a sprinkler had gone off during the night, causing alarms to sound and that if we were checking out that day and needed extra time, to let the front desk know. We never heard any alarms go off, so I assume it was in another part of the hotel. I remember someone else here had posted that it something to do with a guest bumping a sprinkler head with the ironing board...
Well, my daughter said that she felt FINE, so we chalked it up to maybe too much sun and went ahead with our plans to all go to the Richard Petty Driving Experience with my husband. We caught a cab and were there in not much time at all. The man at the entrance, though, was just STRANGE. Even after telling him that we were visiting Universal, not Disney, he kept saying things to the kids like "Are you going to see Mickey?" I thought he was a jerk and was trying to "get back at us" for not doing Disney. My husband just thinks he was "clueless."
Well, my daughter starts feeling sick again and I decide I really need to take her back to the hotel. The Richard Petty shuttle took us to Disney's TTC where we caught a cab back to the hotel ($37.75). I was hoping that our trip insurance would cover that, but they say they won't.
We made it back to the hotel and my daughter threw up again. (And again, she felt much better afterwards - you know how that goes!).
My husband and the two other kids returned from Richard Petty right around lunch time. Thankfully, I remembered people on this board recommending Flippers, so we placed an order for two medium (8 sl) pizzas and an order of garlic bread (because I thought my daughter might eat that). They said it would take about 35 minutes, and that's when it arrived - good and hot! My dh had to go to the lobby to get it - I guess that is the norm? Total for 2 medium pizzas and four cans of pop (soda to some of you - LOL!) was $29.75.
After lunch, my husband took the two "well" kids to IOA, with the understanding that they were just "checking out" the rides and that we would all ride them again when their sister felt better. They rode a few rides and returned a few hours later. My husband said he thinks they were missing their sister!
By the time they returned, my youngest (by three minutes -
) was feeling MUCH better and we decided to head to the pool. We swam for a short while and then decided to eat at the Beach Club. All in all, it was a pretty good meal, but I was SHOCKED when dh later told me that the bill had come to $80!!! Dh and I had iced tea, one kid had juice and two had chocolate milk. Dh had a chicken sandwich, I had fish and chips that I shared with oldest (by three minutes) daughter, son had a cheeseburger, youngest had a hot dog, and we ordered nachos to share. Well, upon closer inspection of the receipt, they charged us for refills on our drinks. We never noticed it on the menu, but it's there...
Chips and Salsa (like you couldn't figure that out..)
Orange chicken sandwich:
Fish and Chips (served with tartar sauce and malt vinegar)
Kids hot dogs
Kids cheeseburger
While eating dinner, my cell phone rang and it was Andy from Gardengrocer with our delivery! Yippeee!! I went into the lobby to accept the order while dh and the kids swam some more. Andy brought groceries up to the room and had me "check off" items as he unloaded them. I really liked that, because you knew your order was complete (not quite, though, in this case) and you didn't feel like you were putting him on the spot or delaying him from getting to his next delivery. While checking off items, we realized that he had forgotten to bring the styrofoam cooler that I had ordered up from his car, and tha the "packers" had forgotten to include the butter I had ordered. He came back up with the cooler and said that he could either take the butter off the bill or deliver it first thing in the morning. I opted for having it delivered the next morning.
In addition to what's in the pic, we also had a 12 pack of Pepsi, 24 bottles of water, a tub of cream cheese, two half gallons of milk (I thought they'd stay fresher than a single gallon) and the styrofoam cooler. Cost with tax and $7 tip was $101.35.
The oranges were a little green, but the bananas were nice and ripe.
After we were all finished at the pool, I decided to stop at Emack and Bolio's to ask if I could have a couple little butters for the next morning because our grocery order had been missing it. The person was sooo nice and said take as much as I wanted and suggested I take some pb&j too (which I did not).
And, well, since I had the camera with me anyway...
There was another section with bagels and coffee, but I didn't get a pic of it.
This report is taking more time than I thought, so I'll have to ask you to wait until tomorrow for pics of food from The Kitchen and the "$7.00 cup of coffee."
Thank you for the offer of the contact name. I will let you know if I end up needing it. No, I did not get a survey from HRH (hmmmm) but I did already receive one from RPR.
Back to the report...
It was our first day at HRH, and we spent the evening at the pool. The kids loved it! I really, really liked the zero entry feature. We brought lifejackets from home (more on those in a minute) but the kids didn't use them very often.
Dh and I were feeling very "vacationy" and decided to have a beer poolside. I had a bud light and he had a corona. After tax and tip, the bill came to $12.57. Yipes!!!
Now, about those life jackets. We were in the pool for only an hour or so when dh comes over to tell me that one of our life jackets (that we brought from home) was taken! A woman had seen a girl take it off our lounge chair, and told dh what she looked like. I can't begin to tell you how angry I was. The life jackets weren't cheap - in fact they are very similar to the ones that HRH lets their guests use. Well, we looked all over and couldn't find this girl. Then, we see another girl, not fitting the description, come down the slide with OUR life jacket on. Since I knew she wasn't the one that took it, I approached her and asked her to point me towards her mom or dad. Her older sister (teenagey) was there with her and after I explained why I wanted to speak to her parents, she understood and said to go ahead and take the vest - that her sister had gotten it out of the bin at the top of the slide and would just go get another one. Well, long story short, the lifeguard at the top of the slide tells the kids that if they see a life jacket lying around that is not being used and they bring it up there they can go to the front of the line for the slide. He needs to specifically say that it needs to have an "HRH" written on the back. I will mention it in my survey to HRH. Moral of the story, keep your life jackets hidden when not in use!
Here are some pics taken at the pool:
A little blurry, but you can make out the depth. There is a pretty strong current.
Really, really blurry, but you can at least get an idea of what the dive-in movie looks like:
We eat here the next day (pics of food follow later in this post):
We only let the kids watch a couple minutes of the movie, then we headed off to bed. They didn't even complain - we were all really tired!
It was not a good night. My daughter woke up around 11 saying she didn't feel good. She made it to the bathroom in time to throw up. Felt better, and went right back to sleep and slept through the rest of the night.
The next morning, we woke up to find a letter had been slid under our door saying that a sprinkler had gone off during the night, causing alarms to sound and that if we were checking out that day and needed extra time, to let the front desk know. We never heard any alarms go off, so I assume it was in another part of the hotel. I remember someone else here had posted that it something to do with a guest bumping a sprinkler head with the ironing board...
Well, my daughter said that she felt FINE, so we chalked it up to maybe too much sun and went ahead with our plans to all go to the Richard Petty Driving Experience with my husband. We caught a cab and were there in not much time at all. The man at the entrance, though, was just STRANGE. Even after telling him that we were visiting Universal, not Disney, he kept saying things to the kids like "Are you going to see Mickey?" I thought he was a jerk and was trying to "get back at us" for not doing Disney. My husband just thinks he was "clueless."
Well, my daughter starts feeling sick again and I decide I really need to take her back to the hotel. The Richard Petty shuttle took us to Disney's TTC where we caught a cab back to the hotel ($37.75). I was hoping that our trip insurance would cover that, but they say they won't.
We made it back to the hotel and my daughter threw up again. (And again, she felt much better afterwards - you know how that goes!).
My husband and the two other kids returned from Richard Petty right around lunch time. Thankfully, I remembered people on this board recommending Flippers, so we placed an order for two medium (8 sl) pizzas and an order of garlic bread (because I thought my daughter might eat that). They said it would take about 35 minutes, and that's when it arrived - good and hot! My dh had to go to the lobby to get it - I guess that is the norm? Total for 2 medium pizzas and four cans of pop (soda to some of you - LOL!) was $29.75.
After lunch, my husband took the two "well" kids to IOA, with the understanding that they were just "checking out" the rides and that we would all ride them again when their sister felt better. They rode a few rides and returned a few hours later. My husband said he thinks they were missing their sister!
By the time they returned, my youngest (by three minutes -
) was feeling MUCH better and we decided to head to the pool. We swam for a short while and then decided to eat at the Beach Club. All in all, it was a pretty good meal, but I was SHOCKED when dh later told me that the bill had come to $80!!! Dh and I had iced tea, one kid had juice and two had chocolate milk. Dh had a chicken sandwich, I had fish and chips that I shared with oldest (by three minutes) daughter, son had a cheeseburger, youngest had a hot dog, and we ordered nachos to share. Well, upon closer inspection of the receipt, they charged us for refills on our drinks. We never noticed it on the menu, but it's there...
Chips and Salsa (like you couldn't figure that out..)
Orange chicken sandwich:
Fish and Chips (served with tartar sauce and malt vinegar)
Kids hot dogs
Kids cheeseburger
While eating dinner, my cell phone rang and it was Andy from Gardengrocer with our delivery! Yippeee!! I went into the lobby to accept the order while dh and the kids swam some more. Andy brought groceries up to the room and had me "check off" items as he unloaded them. I really liked that, because you knew your order was complete (not quite, though, in this case) and you didn't feel like you were putting him on the spot or delaying him from getting to his next delivery. While checking off items, we realized that he had forgotten to bring the styrofoam cooler that I had ordered up from his car, and tha the "packers" had forgotten to include the butter I had ordered. He came back up with the cooler and said that he could either take the butter off the bill or deliver it first thing in the morning. I opted for having it delivered the next morning.
In addition to what's in the pic, we also had a 12 pack of Pepsi, 24 bottles of water, a tub of cream cheese, two half gallons of milk (I thought they'd stay fresher than a single gallon) and the styrofoam cooler. Cost with tax and $7 tip was $101.35.
The oranges were a little green, but the bananas were nice and ripe.
After we were all finished at the pool, I decided to stop at Emack and Bolio's to ask if I could have a couple little butters for the next morning because our grocery order had been missing it. The person was sooo nice and said take as much as I wanted and suggested I take some pb&j too (which I did not).
And, well, since I had the camera with me anyway...
There was another section with bagels and coffee, but I didn't get a pic of it.
This report is taking more time than I thought, so I'll have to ask you to wait until tomorrow for pics of food from The Kitchen and the "$7.00 cup of coffee."
