The 2009 Vero Beach Adoration and INFO thread

[MiaSRN62]

Does anyone know if VB is at a high capacity around Dec, 19-20. Just curious we were wanting to stay there a night or two between our WDW cruise and our stay at WDW.

Appreciate any info. Thanks.

Hi Elkhunter....
I believe spring (march/april) is the busiest....followed by Christmas week starting Dec 24. But you should be pretty good as far as the resort not being at capacity Dec 19-20. Book that room soon though just to be safe. Have a great cruise and stay at VB


Maria

 

[MiaSRN62]

Ursula, friskykitten, Locustpoint, okwmember92 and gamomof2....I have u all added on the 1st page. Enjoy your visits to VB and please try and report back to us how things went !

I thought VB was going to be a steady thing as far as convenienve to my dd's college over the next 3-4 years. However, she just got accepted as a sophmore transfer student at FSU in Tallahassee ! Yep....dd is officially a Nole girl ! So VB won't be able to be our convenient hang out anymore for move in and out....parent weekends etc. While we are all ecstatic she got into FSU, gonna miss the east coast in the coming years.

Maria

 

[MiaSRN62]

It's Important to note for new thread readers -- that THIS....IS NOT VB....

OMG ! Hysterical.....we all knew VB had the turtle walk.....now the newly added GATOR WALK too ! Too funny DVCconvert

Maria

 

[MiaSRN62]

kddlm : more times than not though, other people looking for chairs would return the card to Eb and Flo's and take the chairs (rightfully so in my opinion). Thanks to my pool view window, we were lucky enough to get chairs each day!

I agree with the removing of towels too. It's not fair, or polite to leave towels saving chairs while one is down on the beach for hours. I've had the same beef with people leaving clothes in washer and dryer for HOURS.

I posted last summer. A man was VERY irate with me when he discovered I had removed his clothes from the washer. There are only 3 washers and I think 6 or 8 dryers. I had a good amount of laundry to do as we were running out of clean clothes. I paced back and forth from my room on 2nd floor to the laundry room on 4th floor at least 6 times. After hours of him not returning to removed his wash, I put them on the folding table in the laundry room with a note (sorry...had to remove them as we have waited hours to use washer). He was drying his clothes when I came back in to remove my clothes out of the washer and got right in my face. I was on edge and reported this to CM. They said they would put a sign up, but never did before we left.

So I'm with you about the chairs and laundry room. People should be kind to other guests.

Maria

 

[KeepSwimmingDory]

I thought VB was going to be a steady thing as far as convenienve to my dd's college over the next 3-4 years. However, she just got accepted as a sophmore transfer student at FSU in Tallahassee ! Yep....dd is officially a Nole girl ! So VB won't be able to be our convenient hang out anymore for move in and out....parent weekends etc. While we are all ecstatic she got into FSU, gonna miss the east coast in the coming years.

Maria

Congrats to your daughter and too bad it's too far from VB. I hope you'll find a new place you enjoy when you are there.

Hi - we're about to visit VB for the first time 5/22-5/24. We own at SSR and AKV. We have a studio reserved for DH and myself only. Teenagers are staying at home.

We're actually booked into 3 reservations at all new places this year. We're at Villas at Wilderness Lodge in June and Boardwalk in September for the first time. Trying all new places this year. After that all we'll have left is HHI and California.

Actually made it through all 54 pages of the thread and had a question. Does anyone know a list of raw oyster places and also a decent happy hour price for oysters?

Looking forward to a nice relaxing getaway with hubby.

I just wanted to say as much as I love my teenagers I LOVE being at WDW without them with my hubby. I hope you have a great trip! Wow you have almost stayed everywhere! We need some more variety in where we stay. We have only stayed at VWL and OKW (other than pre-DVC) but I would like to try some other places.

 

[conny264]

Just found at the KSC Site,that there is a Shuttle launch scheduled for May 12,1.31 pm ET and a Delta Rocket for the same day.
We will be at Vero from the 11,does anybody know if you are able to see something from the beach?
Thanks in advance
Conny

 

[DVCconvert]

We will be at Vero from the 11,does anybody know if you are able to see something from the beach?
Thanks in advance

Absolutely you can. Just look towards the north. One point however, don't get your hearts set on this, as launch dates frequently get changed - 99.9% of the time. It's usual that the dates announced are that a craft will be launched "not sooner than xx/xx/xx". Should a launch proceed, it's well worth the time to head to the beach (or the outside seating area in the green cabin room) with your camera. It isn't like seeing it from cocoa or closer, but there's no mistaking it!

HTH

 

[DisDaydreamer]

Just found at the KSC Site,that there is a Shuttle launch scheduled for May 12,1.31 pm ET and a Delta Rocket for the same day.
We will be at Vero from the 11,does anybody know if you are able to see something from the beach?
Thanks in advance
Conny

Actually, they are launching TWO shuttles in THREE days (5/12 & 5/15) the week AFTER I will be there

DW said I could try changing ressies, but I'm too scared I'd end up losing what I already have. Early May is still peak for VB.

Yes, you can see it from VB. Not that I have any first hand experience though, just have seen some photos. I don't recall if either launch is a night launch. That would be really cool.

 

[mdurette]

Maria - thank for the pics of the Zoo!
That will be a definate for our trip - less than a month to go!!!!!

 

[twinklebug]

It's Important to note for new thread readers -- that THIS....IS NOT VB....

Also visited the Brevard Zoo, about 40 minutes north. A nice day for the
kids, be sure to check out the petting zoo if you have little ones.

Is that the petting zoo to which you refer?

 

[starbox]

However, she just got accepted as a sophmore transfer student at FSU in Tallahassee ! Yep....dd is officially a Nole girl ! So VB won't be able to be our convenient hang out anymore for move in and out....parent weekends etc. While we are all ecstatic she got into FSU, gonna miss the east coast in the coming years.

Maria

Congrats to your DD. I was born and grew up in Tallahassee (was a Nole my freshman and sophmore years of college). It's a great town to visit and you've got sugar-sand beaches about an hour-two hours away. St. George Island is really close and is more "wild" like VB - and for a neat place to stay close by try the hotel at Wakulla Springs state park - it was amazing.

 

[MiaSRN62]

Thanks so much Dory and starbox for the congrats on my dd's acceptance into FSU. Appreciate it. She liked alot about FL Tech except for the part that it was too small and the campus could be a little too quiet and boring. She would tell me on weekends, sometimes she was the only one walking across campus to the dining halls for meals. She got lonely at times (weekends mostly). When you come from PA and attend school in FL, I think you depend even more so on a fullfilling campus life and she is hoping to get this at FSU. She told me she'd attend FL Tech basketball games and the team spirit at the school was very lacking. She'd tell me there was maybe 20 people in the stands cheering on the players. She came from a large high school, so she is more accustomed to hustle and bustle. FL Tech just had such a good Marine Bio program & that is why she wanted to go there---also so close to the ocean which she loves. But we toured the facilities at FSU and we were all impressed with their program as well.


And I will look up the hotel at Wakulla Springs. For now, I need one close to campus for 3 night stay in June for orientation. We stayed at a Comfort Suites nearby in March when we did the tour. May stay there again, but looking for one a little cheaper (they want $130/night and I'm on a tight budget as a parent of two college kids !). I would need to be close by because I have to attend informational sessions on campus for two days. But for more casual visits, I'll check out St George and Wakulla Springs---thanks starbox.


Maria

 

[friskykitten]

Just found at the KSC Site,that there is a Shuttle launch scheduled for May 12,1.31 pm ET and a Delta Rocket for the same day.
We will be at Vero from the 11,does anybody know if you are able to see something from the beach?

We live on the southwest coast of Florida and we are able to watch the launches (daytime or night) from our front yard. So unless there is major cloud cover that could impede your line of sight you should have no problem seeing the launch from VB. But as DVCconvert pointed out the launches have a track record of changing dates. We are going the end of May so I will be excited to hear your May trip report!

 

[ELKHUNTER]

Hi Elkhunter....
I believe spring (march/april) is the busiest....followed by Christmas week starting Dec 24. But you should be pretty good as far as the resort not being at capacity Dec 19-20. Book that room soon though just to be safe. Have a great cruise and stay at VB


Maria

Thank you for the info.

 

[maureenann]

In June we will be making our first trip to VB..we couldn't get a 1BR, so took an OVIR. My question..how big is the small fridge? Big enough to store insulin vials? Or should we request another?

 

[milesjacki]

yes, the brevard zoo has the petting zoo
as you enter go to your right
They have the usual crazy goats but they also had 2 small deer.
coming from pa where deer are all over the place, it was nice to
pet one of these loving gentle creatures.
They also had aardvarks for petting as long as it is not too
cold for them to be out.
jacki

 

[SC Minnie]

In June we will be making our first trip to VB..we couldn't get a 1BR, so took an OVIR. My question..how big is the small fridge? Big enough to store insulin vials? Or should we request another?

The fridges aren't full size but are larger than a small dorm size. Roughly 3 ft high and ~2 ft deep.

 

[keliblue]

Ursula, friskykitten, Locustpoint, okwmember92 and gamomof2....I have u all added on the 1st page. Enjoy your visits to VB and please try and report back to us how things went !

I thought VB was going to be a steady thing as far as convenienve to my dd's college over the next 3-4 years. However, she just got accepted as a sophmore transfer student at FSU in Tallahassee ! Yep....dd is officially a Nole girl ! So VB won't be able to be our convenient hang out anymore for move in and out....parent weekends etc. While we are all ecstatic she got into FSU, gonna miss the east coast in the coming years.

Maria

Don't forget us Maria

Oct 16-19

 

[SC Minnie]

Got back Fri from a week at Vero- then ended up with a dreaded cold.

Anyway, the resort was fantastic. Thanks again Maria for the chair swap. We didn't use them too much because to was very windy on the beach but they were great when we did.

We were in the Inn, 2nd floor near the Green Cabin. Wifi was great there. No problems at all.

Pool chairs were at a premium. We went out at 8 and stayed with our chairs all day. Others didn't and there were many that I didn't see any CM removing items left unattended for long periods of time eventhough there was a sign stating that would be done.

My only issue with the resort is Shutters. Wish they would expand that menu a little. They are now offering Shutters menu outside during lunch just off Sonya's. The CM said they had been doing it for a couple of weeks.

 

[MiaSRN62]

In June we will be making our first trip to VB..we couldn't get a 1BR, so took an OVIR. My question..how big is the small fridge? Big enough to store insulin vials? Or should we request another?

Hi Maureenann.....here's a pic of the frig in the Inn rooms :

Maria