SSR Lovers and/or Owners Thread!

[PIERCEDRN]

BOB and Sheri
Thanks for the reply.
Yes looking at the map the two you suggested look the closest.
Is any building nicer than the others by way of view, etc
Thanks Mary Ellen

Congress park is also a compromise between distance to pools and view of downtown disney, but Grandstand's golf course view is pretty nice for a golfer like me!
BOB

 

[secretprincess]

Anyone hear from Mama princess ? I would love to hear about her Travel channel thing and her recent trip " home".

 

[mamaprincess]

Anyone hear from Mama princess ? I would love to hear about her Travel channel thing and her recent trip " home".

I'm so sorry this has taken this long. We really needed a vacation after the vacation LOL!!!

We got down on the 27th of May. The weather was beautiful. We were in a 2 bedroom on the top floor in the Grandstand in the 8800 building. Love this location, will definitely request it again as it was every bit as convenient to the pool and carriage house as some of the closest buildings in the Springs.

We got in about 1:00pm. Our room was not ready so we went on over to DTD to have a look around and took the boat back. Our room was fresh and gorgeous. We unpacked and headed over to AKL for dinner at our favorite location, Boma. The chef came over and chatted with us and a few minutes later came over with an over flowing plate of fried candy bars. These are very dangerous. We took most home to SSR and I couldn't stop eating them! The girls wanted to swim so I took them for a late night swim at high rock springs.

May 28th
The next day we slept in late which was awesome! We must do this more often. The girls wanted to pool hop and I wanted to see the poly so we pool hopped to the poly. First we had lunch at Captain Cook's which was really good and to filling. We took a lot of left overs back with us. We had the noodles and that gigantic delicious grilled cheese drinks and a variety of desserts. (forgot to do the dole whip but we remedied that later in the week).

After lunch we strolled down to the pool and the girls fell in love. This may be their favorite pool. The setting is brilliant. The beach is right behind the pool and the view is incredible from the beach. They also have wonderful hammocks.

After the swim we went over to the Boardwalk. Loved it! Love the lobby. It is sooooooooo magical. We tried to catch a member party but were late. We did get some cute little drawstring bags good for carrying our swimsuits and stuff. We used those the rest of the week. BTW the girls took one look at the Clown pool and fell in love. They made plans to come back.

We rented one of those surrey bikes and rode around to the beach club and back with our little one ringing the bell at every passer by. . We had some struggles making it up the hill but we will definitely be doing the surrey bikes again. We had a lot of fun.

After that, it was time to head over to the beach club for dinner at Cape May. We took the boat over (love the boats). Dinner at Cape May is more relaxing than most buffets. The food was fresh and hot. We ate a ton of mussels and clams. The girls drew lots of pictures on our table cloth. After dinner, we took the boat back to boardwalk and drove back home to SSR.

May 29th:

We slept in again (love it). The girls wanted to pool hop again so we decided on Coranado Springs since we wanted to have lunch at the Pepper market. This is yet another awesome counter service option. I had a fish taco. That thing is ridiculously huge and delicious! Hubby had bourbon chicken, the twins had wet burritos which were huge and they said "the best burritos ever". Needless to say, we had left overs to bring back to SSR. It was a little crowded to say the least because there was a huge convention there and they were going to lunch!

After lunch we walked over to the pool. First let me say that CSR is so beautiful. The surroundings and landscape are gorgeous. It's very scenic. We enjoyed the walk immensely.

The girls looooovvvvved the slide. They went on that thing about 50 times a piece. Needless to say, we will be visiting that pool again.

That night we had dinner at 1900 Parkfare. The Grand Floridian is my favorite WDW hotel. Maybe it's the old Victorian grandma in me trying to get out, but I just absolutely love everything about it. It is magical. Anyway this was the first time we had a chance to whip out our autograph books that I had labored over for months (thanks creative DISigns board)! They came out just gorgeous. The twins had on Cindy crowns and youngest dd had on a jasmine dress (which she would wear later on in the week). Anyway, the step mom and step sisters are uproarious, when I handed them the big fat ginormous Cinderella autograph pin to sign our books, they were none to pleased. Prince Charming was charming. Cinderella was lovely. Dinner was ok. Not a ton of choices but everything I had was fresh. I do prefer the buffet before the change but it wasn't awful as some say.

After dinner we headed over to Fort Wilderness for the Chip n Dale camp fire sing along. We picked up some over priced s'mores fixins and had so much fun roasting our marshmallows and making our smores. We met a really cute family from Tennessee. They saved our lives with mosquito repellent! Their accents were contagious! We tried to stay for the movie but we got tired so we left a little while into finding Nemo.

May 30th


On to Epcot and my very favorite ride Soarin!!!!

We did get a couple of lovely things for being picked to be on the special. One was park hopper passes for our family and the second was a Disney gift card. We had no idea we had them until the 30th when we got a message from our travel channel contact saying we could pick them up at Guest Services. We had initially planned on just visiting MK for P and P party and doing a relaxing pool and other activities trip. As you can tell, we were doing just that until we got that call and after that it was back to the usual grind.

We went straight to Soarin and measured our youngest. She was just at 40 inches!!! We got our fp's and went on the Land. Hubby and I were doing a little kissing (just cheeks) and hugging in the dark parts. My oldest twin happenned to look back and got really mad at us. She was really bitter and clinging to guns and religion for about an hour, so I left her with hubby and took the youngest and other twin to get autographs.

I met a really adorable fam in line. We yakked the time away but right as it was our turn, I remembered our ressies at aukershus! My phone was out of battery, so cute fam let us use theirs to call hubby so he could high tail it over there to hold our ressie. We had to get out of the line and run, me carrying the youngest all the way from Character Connection to Norway because hubby took the stroller with him for some unknown reason. Sweaty but victorious, we arrived at Aukershus and had a most awesome lunch with the princesses the youngest was of course rocking her Jasmine dress the twins had on Belle crowns and princess tshirts. The place completely emptied out and we literally had it all to our selves before everyone came in for the first dinner ressies. Our server was gorgeous btw. Are all Norwegians gorgeous? Everytime we eat there, we have a gorgeous server.


After lunch, we saw there was no wait for Maelstrom so we went on. It is awesomely corny and dated which translates to, LOVE IT!!! We then went to the updated but still fabulously corny fiesta del something or other, you know, the Mexico boat ride.

Youngest dd still didn't get her Princess fix fully so we hunted down Mulan in China which was really like tracking a rare exotic animal in a dense jungle because noooooooooooo oooooooooooooone would tell us where she would be and what time she would be there. Those CM's were clueless. We finally saw a little group of families sitting around with autograph books and expectant looks. We knew we had her in our sites. Snow White wasn't as hard. She was like a sitting duck.

We took the boat back across to WS. We hit Nemo which had very little wait but got stuck at that song at the end where that pink star fish does his monolouge. That monologue was driving me crazy after about the seventh time around and the song could give small world a run for it's money if you heard it as much as we did!!! After that, we went to TT with Crush. That is one flirtatious turtle ladies so watch out. My hubby almost had to get in that tank with him!

After that, the twins and dad headed over to MS and TT and the little one and I headed off to finish our unfinished business at the Character Connection. This time we got all of our autographs.

Our last ride was Spaceship Earth, a family fave due to it's corny nature. Any hoo because I might have had a little bit of an attitude as I was sleepy and may have been behaving less that magically, The good Lord saw fit to punish me with a spanish speaking narrator. Words (at least english ones) cannot explain the aggravation of that ride. I'll give it 3 headache smilies: Next time, I'll check my little stank attitude at the gate.


I'll write more later, including our day of filming the Travel Channel special. It was sizzling hot and I was 2 different colors.

 

[toocherie]

I'll write more later, including our day of filming the Travel Channel special. It was sizzling hot and I was 2 different colors.

Loved the report--question: have the girls ever met a pool they didn't like? (LOL)

Anxious to hear about the filming too . . . .

 

[mamaprincess]

Loved the report--question: have the girls ever met a pool they didn't like? (LOL)

Come to think of it, I don't think they ever have. I do believe they'd swim in a swamp.

 

[TheGeddings]

We are new SSR DVC'ers. Our first trip to SSR is in October. We have already been to Disney twice this year, and have 3 other trips planned for the year. Welcome to our own Disney Marathon! lol

Glad to be a part of the discussions.....

 

[punkin413]

i just updated my TR with the installment where i took a morning stroll around SSR with my camera........LOTS of pictures! the link is below. just FYI - we were in congress park and our dates were april 27 - may 3.

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=25682835&postcount=600

 

[Ronald Duck]

i just updated my TR with the installment where i took a morning stroll around SSR with my camera........LOTS of pictures! the link is below. just FYI - we were in congress park and our dates were april 27 - may 3.

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=25682835&postcount=600

Thanks for the very nice pics...I absolutely morning strolls with my camera at any Disney resort

 

[TenThousandVolts]

Great pics punkin- thanks!

 

[djmeen]

Mamaprincess - great to read your trip recap!

Thanks for sharing. Always amazed at how much one can see and do on these trips, especially with the right attitude!

 

[TenThousandVolts]

We are new SSR DVC'ers. Our first trip to SSR is in October. We have already been to Disney twice this year, and have 3 other trips planned for the year. Welcome to our own Disney Marathon! lol

Glad to be a part of the discussions.....

Wow- you are busy this year!

 

[bpmorley]

We are new SSR DVC'ers. Our first trip to SSR is in October. We have already been to Disney twice this year, and have 3 other trips planned for the year. Welcome to our own Disney Marathon! lol

Glad to be a part of the discussions.....

Welcome Home

 

[NikiM20]

Its official!!! We passed ROFR!!!! They sent to Disney on Mon 11, and we recieved notice we passed today on the 16!! I was not expecting to know this soon........now I have to wait until closing

 

[allaboutmm]

Its official!!! We passed ROFR!!!! They sent to Disney on Mon 11, and we recieved notice we passed today on the 16!! I was not expecting to know this soon........now I have to wait until closing

Yippy!!!! You'll love it! We bought last September sight unseen (resale) at SSR. Then in October one of my friends who has been a DVC member at OKW since the begining of vacation club put together a "Chicks Only " trip. We ended up staying the majority of our trip at SSR. The smile on my face when I saw it for the first time. This October, my DH will see SSR(not staying there, but will pop over) for the first time and I can't wait to see his reaction-hoping he'll want to buy more points !!!!!Congrats ,and WELCOME HOME !!

 

[ont/ohana]

Congrats!! We love our SSR! I am so glad there are more of us in the community!

 

[ont/ohana]

Please please Princess Mama keep it coming!! You are my comic relief between Online courses!! Thank you so much!!

 

[secretprincess]

Congratulations to our new fellow neighbors !!

Thanks for the posts Punkin- love the pics, can't wait till we see all that in August.

Thanks for the post Mamaprincess, glad you had such a good time. Are you a go with the flow kind of person ? It seems like everything was great ! Good to hear. Can't wait to hear more about your Travel channel exp.
If your youngest is 40in, how old is she ? Was she scared of anything or any of the characters ? My son will be 4 1/2 when we go in August.
Thanks

 

[DisneyBride'03]

Havent been visiting my SSR neighbors lately... ANyway, jsut got back from OKW....they have nothing on our SSR CM's!!! Gosh I missed them and I am excited to be going back in Dec again

My almsot 2 yr old just loves the characters! It took her a bit...cause all of a sudden they are larger than life...but I think AK Camp Minnie and Mickey has the best character meets. Its out of the way past the Festival of the Lion King show.....waits are not that long...we just Saw Daisy Duck there.....

 

[mamaprincess]

Thanks for the post Mamaprincess, glad you had such a good time. Are you a go with the flow kind of person ?

If your youngest is 40in, how old is she ? Was she scared of anything or any of the characters ? My son will be 4 1/2 when we go in August.

Thanks

I am pretty much a go with the flow kind of person but I do plan obsessively. Does this make any sense to you?

My youngest is 4 1/2 years old and she is psycho as you will soon find out so you might not want to judge yours by mine. Characters should and have been scared of her! She is also a thrill junky.

Please please Princess Mama keep it coming!! You are my comic relief between Online courses!! Thank you so much!!

I am so lazy about trip reports but for you, I will finish this one.

Soooooooooooooooooo, where were we:

May 31st

We went to Magic Kingdom. We were suppose to get in at opening but didn't. Anyhoo we lived the cliche and headed straight for fantasyland. Mickey's Phil is one of our very favorites and had no line so we did that first. As always, I tried to eat the apple pie but with no success. After that, we fast passed Peter Pan which had an unexceptable wait time of 30 minutes and went on your favorite ride Small World. We got stuck at the part where everyone is all together, you know the part where you try to guess what country has African, Chinese and Polynesian, Indian, Swedish and Mexican children, then you figure out what's happening. I was like, this is Iceland, no wait...

We then headed off to the Carousel with our souvenir ear worms. After the Carousel we rode Snow White's then considered doing Pooh but at 30 minutes , the wait was unacceptable. We kept going toward the Tea Cups and had a hurlicious ride. After that we went on into Toon Town and got on that ridiculous Barnstormer. I think the jerkiness of that ride knocked our ear worms out of our ears, so if you can't get the Small World song out of your head, ride Barnstormer and it will knock that puppy loose along with a few vital things you might have wanted to keep but if you're desperate... Put your lanyards in your purse. Our oldest twin (and isn't it always her), was very bitter about losing a few precious pins on that ride. She went to extremes and vowed never to trade or buy pins again. I perked up inwardly at the thought of the money we would save. That lasted.

After Brain Bruiser, we visited Mickey's house which I must say is mighty lame in comparison to Minnie's (tsk tsk tsk). Isn't Mickey the king of Disney? He deserves better. We took a ton of pics in Minnies house, for it is awesome. We then left Toon Town and headed over to use our fast passes for Peter Pan's Flight. Awesomely dated, slightly corny dark ride. It's a recipe for love.

After PPF, we headed over to Haunted Mansion. The wait was an acceptable 15 minutes. Some new stuff happened on it, but I'd be hard pressed to tell you what it was. There is just so much detail in HM. We love it and would never miss it.

After HM, we headed toward Pirates, another fave and even more so with the addition of Captain Jack!!! I'm no purist. Any way the wait time was a superb 5 minutes. It was blazingly, burning hot by then (about 1:00pm) and Pirates is such a great way to cool off. We have a new tradition of trying to slap Davy Jones but alas, he is made of mist.

For some reason hubby was really fiending to ride Jungle Cruise but we just kept doing other stuff. After the 5 minute wait I had for pirates, I was far to spoiled to wait 20 minutes for Jungle Cruise It is out dated and corny though, so I was thinking hard about it. Anyhoo, we got autographs from Hook and Smee. The girls were ready for thrills so we fast passed Splash Mountain and then rode Big Thunder. It was soooooooooooooo awesome!!! We usually think it is really lame and many times, we skip it, but this time it seemed longer and faster and more exciting. We all had a new respect for it and the youngest was absolutely bonkers over it. I guess you could say this was the start of her new found thrill junky status. They grow up too fast.

We checked back with Jungle Cruise which was still 20 minutes, so we went on Aladdin's (anything but magic) Carpets. After that, it was time to refresh our selves with food and beverage. Despite having ressies at Crystal Palace, we waited and waited and waited which did bite ever so hard. Any way lunch was good. Eeyore knocked a kid flat on the tush. That wasn't cool. They then hussled Eeyore away. Perhaps he was drunk and they had to call in a replacement.

After lunch we used our fast passes for Splash Mountain . It was awesome as always and the youngest reaaallllllly loved the drop!

Youngest had been bugging us about Peter and Wendy and I was a little hot at my hubby because when we were in line for Hook and Smee, Peter and Wendy passed by and I wanted to follow them but nooooooooooooooooooooooooo, we were already in this line and why should we get out blah blah blah. Needless to say, we saw Hook and Smee about a million more times and never saw Peter and Wendy so I was extra sizzling with each successive Hook and Smee sighting. Peter and Wendy did eventually end up saving our marriage toward the end of the day.

We went over to Tomorrowland and saw a small wait for Laugh Floor and no wait for that bastion of suckage, Stitch's (not any where close to) Great Escape. Need you ask what we did. In Laugh Floor, they pick people out of the audience to make part of the joke. Hubby got picked as one of the characters which was so funny. Everyone who is picked looks so shocked like they were caught doing something wrong. After that, there wasn't much time left so we went to see about Space Mountain. The wait time did bite extra hard so we decided on Indy Speedway instead, which the girls love and I hate.

I remembered that we did not have our traditional dole whips so we high tailed it back over to Adventureland. I think I created another addict. The lady behind me was so curious. We got pineapple vanilla float swirls. She was going to get a chocolate vanilla swirl but after I extolled the virtues of the Pineapple, I saw her walking away with the beginnings of a new addiction.

We sat down and relished our dole whips. Afterward, we were thirsty so we got some sodas from a popcorn cart that was being high jacked by a family of ducks. It was then time to go.

We were so crazy trying to figure out what counter service we were going to get. We went to Port Orleans, but didn't want anything there so we braved DTD on a Friday night. There was no parking, it was a zoo. After a tense, turse and hushed "conversation", honey wound up driving around in circles while I went to Cooke's of Dublin and ordered that fish, deserts and five drinks. I carried all of that back to the car in one trip by myself. (yes I am self-worshiping). Moms are awesome. That fish is huuuuggge!!! It is triple breaded! The fries are gigantic and potatoey. I wasn't in love, so don't know if I will do it again. The fish wasn't to flavorful but it wasn't nasty.

The kids are insisting that I do some parenting so I'll have to end here and write more later.

 

[toocherie]

I am pretty much a go with the flow kind of person but I do plan obsessively. Does this make any sense to you?

My youngest is 4 1/2 years old and she is psycho as you will soon find out so you might not want to judge yours by mine. Characters should and have been scared of her! She is also a thrill junky.




I am so lazy about trip reports but for you, I will finish this one.

Soooooooooooooooooo, where were we:

LOL--I always try to "slap" Davey Jones too!