Well after researching suites for our trip in 2009 we decided to try our first Christmas at Disney with a stay at the RPC this december!
There was only supposed to be one trip this year but I just couldn't stop planning and we will now be there 4 times!!
1 stay at the GF in a garden view, 1 at the Poly and 2 at the RPC including the Christmas one. The price is crazy but we are so excited to finally see the Christmas decorations at the GF. I was actually looking for an outer lodge one bedroom but none were available.
Anyone stayed RPC at Christmas?
Does the lounge get very crowded?
I imagine the lobby will be. I can't wait for the kids to be able to open gifts on Christmas morning at Disney!!! They better be as excited as my wife and I are!!
We stayed in RPC the Christmas before this past one. While I really enjoyed it all 3 of my kids didn't want to do it at Christmas again.

I enjoyed it mostly because I love the GF and becuase at home I AM CHRISTMAS

!!! So that year was a nice break from the usual. Gave me a break and a year to recharge. The lounge was crowded and honestly THAT trip and this past Thanksgiving trip were the odd ones where we ran into the snotty entitled people. The lounge wasn't uncomfortably crowded - I don't remember not finding tables etc, but it was often full mostly at breakfast.....it was also full of the type of people that were different - the WAIT ON ME type. They didn't pick up after themselves and the staff couldn't keep up with them or cleaining the tables. Also, there were people dumping their gifts at the desk concierge CMs telilng them to WRAP THEM. Not nicely, just WRAP THESE I"LL BE BACK IN A BIT. Also wanting their shoes polished.

Then there was a family staying in the Walt Suite that had little kids....on Christmas morning they rode their NEW Xmas bicycles up and down the hallways making tons of racket with their horns and bells...we knew it was them later on when we left to go out and saw their new little bikes parked outside the doors to the suite. Just a very different & inconsiderate crowd of people. We had fun, but decided for us it would be Thanksgiving stays during the holidays vs. Xmas stays. Despite all the beautiful decorations and the fun, the pissy people just killed my Christmas spirit. We did 9 nights RPC and it was great - wonderful service as always....they delivered gorgeous platters of Xmas cookies, treats, and truffles with Xmas card on Xmas Eve. We could run down to the gingerbread house and buy cookies whenever.

I ordered a gorgeous Xmas tree from Disney florist & ordered a cute gingerbread house from the GF for our room. They had Santa, Mickey and Minnie in the lobby on Xmas Eve and diffrent performers in the lobby nightly. My girls and I were at the concierge desk on Xmas Eve visiting and Mickey and Minnie got off the elevator. The CMs asked if they would stop and take some pics so we got a private photo session.

They stayed in character and danced and played around. Very cool. I have a lot of mixed feelings about that trip....some really magical parts and some kind of WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO memories.

Hmm.....if you have any specific questions ask away....You know I LOVE GF and RPC, but that was a funky stay. The good thing about the GF is that it is such a nice reprieve from the crowds. It was always peaceful. The evenings in the lobby were crazy, but we were up above all that.

We spent A LOT of resort time that trip.
Happy planning!!!!
MsStinkerBelle - I will let ya know how it goes!! We always have spring break the last week of March and I am kind of dreading the crowds because last time we were there this time was a zoo and it wasn't even Easter. We shall see.......
Channing
