Well I am back from a wonderful time in the world and loved our first ever stay at the AKL.
Sorry for the delay in telling everyone about my trip but I tend to go into a post Disney depression and avoid the dis boards for a week or two after coming back.
Anyways not big into writing trip reports but will give you the low downs. Booked a standard room and during check in we were happy to hear we were upgraded to a savannah view room. CM asked if we would mind because it is the furthest room from the lobby. We were in 3595 which was at the very end and I mean very end of the trail. We were excited for the pixie dust and then it got even better. The kids really wanted bunk beds we did not even think about them again but as soon as we open the door to our room the first 2 things we see are a giraffe out our window and bunk beds.... What a great start.
We spent the first day hanging around the resort we went over to kadani and enjoyed the great pool area they have over there. Awesome water slide!
Next day things did not go so well. We got the kids all dressed and were heading to MK for rope drop. Got all the way to the lobby with my DS 4 on my shoulders and then "daddy I do not feel well" BARF!!! all over me. So we found a CM and apologized for the mess on the floor and then made the trek back to the room. Man it seemed like a long walk then and I almost wished we had gotten our standard room.
Got the youngest changed and he insisted he was feeling fine and wanted to go to the park. He looked fine had no fever so we assumed he most of gotten sick from me bouncing him around on my shoulders. So we make the trek back to the lobby and on to MK. Get thru bag check at MK and then my oldest son DS9 says he is not feeling well!!! My youngest is fine now it is the oldest
. We turn around and head back to the AKL wow what a start for our park days.
Get back to the hotel kids go to sleep for a couple of hours everyone wakes up feeling great and decide they want to go to the pool for a swim. Oldest son is in the pool for a couple of hours when all of a sudden it happens..... He vomits right in the pool and on the pool deck. I felt so bad for him and then after I tell the life guard I feel so bad for everyone else as he closes the pool and asks everyone to get out. My son was so embarrassed but to the credit of the life guard he waited until my son was out of the pool and away from the scene so no one was looking at him and making him feel bad about it. They handled it very well. Sorry if you were at the pool on Monday the November 29th. It was our fault you had to leave the pool.
Anyways DW decided she would stay back in the room so that I could take my youngest to the park for the evening as it was the only time we were going to be able to see MSEP and she was wonderful for insisting I go knowing it was the one thing on my to do list for our trip and the only night we would have been able to see it.
Rest of the trip was magical really enjoyed all of the CM's we interacted with at AKL and almost bought DVC. Surprisingly it was my wife that was pushing me to buy it!! Big change as normally she is the one talking me out of big purchases. Too bad I had a rational moment and thought it thru determining that it was not right for us at this time.
Did encounter a few problems with confusion because of the system changes that effected our
DDP but nothing serious. In fact I think we ended up with some extra credits some how.
Anyways this has been long winded so I will stop typing but if you have any questions let me know.
Just lucky like you. 
Great feeling!
