AmyBWV99
It's a s'winter s'wonderland; you can freeze while
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OK well we made it to April 2nd as you may have read before the Campers had left a few days before and had beaten us down, and we were supposed to move every night of the trip.
We rose at the horrible hour of 3:30am in order to get to the airport and try to get on an earlier flight out of Atlanta, which we ended up getting and arrived at MCO at 11:10am. Luggage wait was 45 minutes and I am not sure if that was due to lack of employees or Spring Break crowds whatever the reason we have never waited so long.
As we drove to WLV we couldn't believe that MGM and MK were closed to capacity, welcome to Spring Break!
We proceeded to try to check in, this is were the real fun began (for 3 hours). We explain that we wanted to try and stay on 4/3 so we wouldn't have to move she asks for our last name and upon hearing it she says; well I have to get someone else, this didn't sound good. Out comes another woman and explains that she had tried to reach us at home earlier in the day, b/c she had good news we could stay at OKW for the entire stay and then we wouldn't have to move. I tell her but our party is at FW and we are within walking distance while at the WLV. Both women go to the back room............they come back and she tells us well we know you have a confirmed reservation for WLV for tonight but the room is really not available (in my wait I heard them offering other people rooms at OKW, I have no idea what caused this unless alot of people were in the moving sitituation we were in as well) 
After much back room debate she tried to get us a cabin at FW, a room at WL, a studio at BWV, no dice the resorts were jammed. So after much debating w/Memeber Services they offered us a 1 bedroom at BWV for the same points we already had used, yee haw! A 1 bedroom at BWV in Preimer Season for 34 points for the nights of 4/2 & 4/3 anf then made our arranagements for WLV for 4/4 & 4/5, one move worked out perfect.
So while we waited for the WLV to call our cell phone and tell us the room was ready and to give us a ride over we took the nature walk over to FW. We have no intention of camping ever but we were really impressed by how clean and pretty FW really is, the thing I do not understand however is that the pool at that resort was the most crowded pool we saw all stay in fact WL and BW only had about 2/3 the people they normally have and yet they do not offer a slide. Those campsites are not cheap and I would have thought they could justify the cost of one, MHO.
After we took Alozo's wild ride from WL to BWV we cleaned up and went to EPCOT for a much needed pint and walk around WS. It was crowded but not compared to the other parks while we were there. We first tried Alfredo's we hadn't made any PS's before we left and it was packed as to be expected, we made our way over to Canada and got into LeCellier in 15 minutes, we were very nicely surprised. We had dinner and called it a night since we had been up for about 20 hours.
More to follow with day 2........
We rose at the horrible hour of 3:30am in order to get to the airport and try to get on an earlier flight out of Atlanta, which we ended up getting and arrived at MCO at 11:10am. Luggage wait was 45 minutes and I am not sure if that was due to lack of employees or Spring Break crowds whatever the reason we have never waited so long.
As we drove to WLV we couldn't believe that MGM and MK were closed to capacity, welcome to Spring Break!
We proceeded to try to check in, this is were the real fun began (for 3 hours). We explain that we wanted to try and stay on 4/3 so we wouldn't have to move she asks for our last name and upon hearing it she says; well I have to get someone else, this didn't sound good. Out comes another woman and explains that she had tried to reach us at home earlier in the day, b/c she had good news we could stay at OKW for the entire stay and then we wouldn't have to move. I tell her but our party is at FW and we are within walking distance while at the WLV. Both women go to the back room............they come back and she tells us well we know you have a confirmed reservation for WLV for tonight but the room is really not available (in my wait I heard them offering other people rooms at OKW, I have no idea what caused this unless alot of people were in the moving sitituation we were in as well) After much back room debate she tried to get us a cabin at FW, a room at WL, a studio at BWV, no dice the resorts were jammed. So after much debating w/Memeber Services they offered us a 1 bedroom at BWV for the same points we already had used, yee haw! A 1 bedroom at BWV in Preimer Season for 34 points for the nights of 4/2 & 4/3 anf then made our arranagements for WLV for 4/4 & 4/5, one move worked out perfect. So while we waited for the WLV to call our cell phone and tell us the room was ready and to give us a ride over we took the nature walk over to FW. We have no intention of camping ever but we were really impressed by how clean and pretty FW really is, the thing I do not understand however is that the pool at that resort was the most crowded pool we saw all stay in fact WL and BW only had about 2/3 the people they normally have and yet they do not offer a slide. Those campsites are not cheap and I would have thought they could justify the cost of one, MHO.
After we took Alozo's wild ride from WL to BWV we cleaned up and went to EPCOT for a much needed pint and walk around WS. It was crowded but not compared to the other parks while we were there. We first tried Alfredo's we hadn't made any PS's before we left and it was packed as to be expected, we made our way over to Canada and got into LeCellier in 15 minutes, we were very nicely surprised. We had dinner and called it a night since we had been up for about 20 hours.
More to follow with day 2........
