SSR Lovers and/or Owners Thread!

[Lost boy]

We'll be booking our first trip soon and I have a question, in the vac planner book it assigns different point values for days of the week and "weekly", what days constitute the weekly stay. Mon. thru whatever or is it Sat. or Sun. thru whatever. Thanks for any help.

 

[loribell]

We'll be booking our first trip soon and I have a question, in the vac planner book it assigns different point values for days of the week and "weekly", what days constitute the weekly stay. Mon. thru whatever or is it Sat. or Sun. thru whatever. Thanks for any help.

It doesn't matter, just any 7 days in a row. Sun - Thur are one point value & Fri - Sat are more.

 

[tiggercrew]

We'll be booking our first trip soon and I have a question, in the vac planner book it assigns different point values for days of the week and "weekly", what days constitute the weekly stay. Mon. thru whatever or is it Sat. or Sun. thru whatever. Thanks for any help.

The weekly points amount listed is 7 nights no matter when your stay begins. If you add the 5 night Su-Th points needed to the Fri-Sat points you will total up to the weekly rate.

Have fun on your first trip home!

 

[Lost boy]

Ahh, I see. Thanks for the info.

 

[Lost boy]

My wife got home last night , looked at my posted question and said DUH!! when you ran out of fingers and toes you should have used a calculator. So now any future posts of mine have to be pre-approved. Go figure ?

 

[TisBit]

My wife got home last night , looked at my posted question and said DUH!! when you ran out of fingers and toes you should have used a calculator. So now any future posts of mine have to be pre-approved. Go figure ?

LOL.....(I've been there )

 

[loribell]

My wife got home last night , looked at my posted question and said DUH!! when you ran out of fingers and toes you should have used a calculator. So now any future posts of mine have to be pre-approved. Go figure ?

Hey sometimes the most obvious things aren't so obvious when the brain is overloaded.

 

[BroganMc]

the brian is overloaded.

"the brian"? Gee, I never heard of it referred to as that. What body organ would that be again?

 

[loribell]

"the brian"? Gee, I never heard of it referred to as that. What body organ would that be again?

Oh my. My fingers do that a lot! Guess the right side works faster than the left side.

 

[BCV2002]

Subscribing. We're staying there this NYE and I'm so excited to try this new resort!!!

 

[DisneyBride'03]

You will love it!

 

[monami7]

We just signed a contract and are waiting on ROFR from disney for a contract at SSR. I am so excited! We currently own at HHI and we go to WDW about twice a year but this is our first contract at WDW. This is finally owning at HOME TO ME!!!! I am so excited to finally be able to book our trip for next year.

I know I am a bit ahead of myself but I have been reading and we are planning a trip for January with our baby girls. By then they will be just 2 and 3. I am thinking that we want to be in Grandstand or the Springs. i want to be near everything. Could I do this and request a view of the pools or DTD? Is that possible? I tried looking at the map but it looks so jumbled to me!
Thanks so much. I am sure you will all get sick of me soon!
Heidi

 

[MAGICFOR2]

We just signed a contract and are waiting on ROFR from disney for a contract at SSR. I am so excited! We currently own at HHI and we go to WDW about twice a year but this is our first contract at WDW. This is finally owning at HOME TO ME!!!! I am so excited to finally be able to book our trip for next year.

I know I am a bit ahead of myself but I have been reading and we are planning a trip for January with our baby girls. By then they will be just 2 and 3. I am thinking that we want to be in Grandstand or the Springs. i want to be near everything. Could I do this and request a view of the pools or DTD? Is that possible? I tried looking at the map but it looks so jumbled to me!
Thanks so much. I am sure you will all get sick of me soon!
Heidi

Home! We made our first trip "home" last Summer and loved Grandstand! It is the first bus stop, has it's own pool and pool bar, and a really fun splash play area for the kiddies! There's a shortcut to the main building and AP - not far at all - This pool is smaller, but much quieter and less "craziness" when you have little ones. Also, it was brand new, so everything was still perfect in the rooms

 

[Jen Filling]

Welcome home!

We love the grandstand area of SSR. Yes, you can request a certain building or area but they can't promise you that at the time of your ressie. January will be a little cold for swimming I think....so the pool might not be a big thing for your girls. If you want a view of DTD I would suggest Congress Park. That area looks at Pleasure Island and is also easy walking distance to DTD. I love both areas.... But, if you want to be close to the main building then go with the grandstand. I'm thinking if you go in January you will most likely get the area you want....since it is not that busy in January.

Hope this helps.

 

[boettj]

Add us to the list of members who own and love SSR. We bought in 06 from TSS. We are currently looking at adding on another 50 points. Wish we live closer to enjoy SSR and Disney more frequently.

We are coming down in November for 5 days. A 1 bedroom this time. The Studio is a little cramped for the 5 of us. Though we are not room dwellers. We only spend the time required in the room. That would change as we get more points and stay in 1 bedroom/2 bedroom units. The goal would be to gather enough points for a stay in the grand villas.

 

[monami7]

Welcome home!

We love the grandstand area of SSR. Yes, you can request a certain building or area but they can't promise you that at the time of your ressie. January will be a little cold for swimming I think....so the pool might not be a big thing for your girls. If you want a view of DTD I would suggest Congress Park. That area looks at Pleasure Island and is also easy walking distance to DTD. I love both areas.... But, if you want to be close to the main building then go with the grandstand. I'm thinking if you go in January you will most likely get the area you want....since it is not that busy in January.

Hope this helps.

Thanks I have thought about the weather. However we are hoping to at least use the hot tubs a bit! We were st the world in Dec last year and used the pool quite a bit so it seems like it can be unpredictable. I want to be prepared! I would like a view but I would also like to be close to the main areas. So many decisions!
Heidi

 

[mamaprincess]

We will be going home at the end of May. The girls always mention how they want to try BCV whenever we go to Cape May so I booked it for our trip secretly. The hubby and I however were feeling serious pangs for SSR. Recently to cheer the girls up, I asked them to help me plan our vacation in detail, pick the resort, places to eat, free day activities, restaraunts, schedule etc. They picked SSR all by themselves. They really miss it and want to go back! I asked them if they still wanted to try BCV, they said yes but they would rather go back to SSR. I decided this morning to make it a split stay. We will be doing our first 4 days at BCV and our last 6 days at SSR!!! I think they will love getting to try out BCV while still going back "home" to our beloved SSR.

 

[DisneyBride'03]

have fun, sounds like a great trip!

 

[BCV2002]

So who's gone down to SSR at NYE time? What's it like and can you give me any advice for things to do when staying there?

We've been to WDW over 20 times, including 2 NYE trips, and have yet to stay at SSR. Just want some advice for a pretty laid back trip.

 

[BroganMc]

So who's gone down to SSR at NYE time? What's it like and can you give me any advice for things to do when staying there?

We've been to WDW over 20 times, including 2 NYE trips, and have yet to stay at SSR. Just want some advice for a pretty laid back trip.

Several of us have. We did our first NYE this past year and going again in December.

I travelled with adults who are nightowls. YMMV if you're traveling with early birds. What we did was sleep late, get up in the afternoon and hit the parks in the early evening then stayed late for EMH. We avoided most of the crowds that way and yet got to see and do pretty much everything we wanted. We did not do a sit-down restaurant meal because we wanted to be flexible with our time.

SSR has a pool party on NYE at the Congress Park pool. It's fairly lowkey with Community Hall staff arranging games and activities starting at 9pm. At midnight everyone has a front seat view of the fireworks PI sets off in the lake. This year some of us who are returning are planning to organize a DISmeet.

It is very crowded, as you know, that time of year. So the usual caveats about using EMH, using fastpasses, and preparing yourself for crowds exist. One thing people noticed this year is that the parks were busy well all week after New Year's.

Oh, one other thing we encountered, after the NYE PI fireworks we tried hopping to MGM/DHS for the EMH. But traffic was so snarled it took us 90 minutes to actually get there (40 minutes on the bus and 50 minutes waiting for one to get to us).