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Woke up at 8:30am this morning, got dressed and packed up the last of our things. Most of us were ready to check out by 9:30, we didn't however check out until 10:30 due to someone not being ready and faffing around 
We sent our bags over to the GFV with bell services and then loaded up the car with the rest of our things that we didn't want out of our sight. I loaded the car with my parents while Sy did a quick once over the room to check we didn't leave anything behind. He arrived down at the car with his parents shortly after.
Breakfast today was at Bob Evans, we had wanted to take our parents here but we hadn't been able to make it work so this was the last chance. We were seated right away and perused the menu. Our server was called Rita - I remember that as my parents have a cat called Rita! She was from Belgium, she did give us a bit of a sob story about her wages... I know how badly waiters are paid but I dunno, it just felt she was telling us cause we're British and don't usually have the best reputation for tipping, maybe I'm wrong, who knows?!
Breakfast came after a bit of a wait. I ordered eggs with hashbrowns and biscuits. It was yummy.
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Sy's breakfast...
Our parents had a few more things they wanted to buy to take home so we then went to Walmart along the H27 and then Cracker Barrel. I *love* CB, I bought some really cute Christmas decorations. Anne bought us a cute burlap roll that goes on the tree, its all embroidered with little birds, its super and looked perfect on our tree at Christmas.
My dad had been saying all trip he wanted to visit a golf shop so we then went in search of one and ended up all the way up International Drive. We dropped him off to get a few things and then took Anne and Cliff to a luggage shop so they could buy another hand luggage bag as they had been doing a bit of shopping and were worried they wouldn't be able to fit it in their bag to get it home.
We then made our way back to Disney and to check in at the Grand Floridian Villas. We were met at the front desk and as we were walked in we were told we have a ground floor room, Sy was a bit disappointed as that would mean no sitting about in his pants hahahaha. However as we reached the desk she said she was having trouble locating a room for us... She did get us one on a higher floor and said we were set, and with that we were off. I walked into the room and something seemed odd, I couldn't put my finger on it but it was definitely different to the room we had in June. The first thing I did was to call down to bell services for them to bring us our bags, there was something like 10 of them though there may have been more.
I had been telling our parents about the room and the stand alone shower, my mum went to use the bathroom and she was the one who brought it to my attention, there was no shower. Just a bath. Oh. We had the handicapped room. We weren't having much luck this trip were we?! Someone has to have the room if no one has booked it, I get that. I did kinda hope it wouldn't be on my 30th birthday trip that we would get it though
Plus the 2 showers were gonna be a huge bonus as our parents would be able to shower before their flights. I guess this is why our ground floor room went, someone else was given this room and refused it. I went down to the front desk to ask nicely if it might be possible to move to another room. I left our mums in the room as we'd called bell services (dads were somewhere else but I forget where). I talked with Christa who had been the girl who greeted us on the way in but wasn't the one who physically checked us in. I asked if there might be another room available, I did say I understood someone had to get the room but I was hoping to have the 2 showers for our parents to get freshened up before their flights. She made some calls and set someone on the case behind the scenes and was waiting for a call back. In the mean time our parents arrived in the lobby along with a poor bellman with a huge trolley full of cases. Sy found me too (I think he had been parking the car). While we were waiting for someone to find us a room we were chatting with Christa and the lady on the desk next to us, I told them that our trip was cursed lol I said about the fire alarm, the yachtsmans meal, the leak in the fridge ruining the mickey Sy had bought me, I said it was probably right that we would get the handicapped room the way the rest of the trip had been going lol. We chatted for a while, Christa kept apologising for it taking so long. She then went out the back to chase it up. She was gone for about 15 minutes before she came back. She said that she wasn't able to get us a room in the GFV tonight in a studio so instead she was moving us to the main GF building in a Club level room with a theme park view. WHAAAAAAAAT??????? I was NOT expecting that! I would have taken the room if they had nothing else, as I said someone has to have it, I was only asking on the off chance! I think my jaw hit the floor.
Before I could even think there was a man out front on a little buggy ready to take us over, she gave the bellman our room number and he said he would meet us there.
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Over at the Main Building we were met at the door and escorted up in the club level only elevator... Woooo! They had great trouble linking our magic bands to our stay so in the end they just gave us KTTW cards. We were shown around the club lounge and then taken all the way to our room. O.M.G! How the other half live...
The room was lovely, though I gotta say it... the room isn't as pretty as the villas :O even after the refurb. A few minutes later our bags arrived, though we quickly realised we were short a couple of bags so a frantic call to bell services later and they were looking for them. It was a bit of a panic as our parents needed to leave shortly but I told them not to panic as if need be, we would bring the cases back with us. While we waited our parents got changed ready for their flight and we then went down to the club lounge to get some nibbles and drinks.
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As we were waiting for the bags some of us had to stay in the room, so I went first with my parents followed by Sy and his parents. While it was just me and my parents in the room we facetimed my nan at home (yes my nan is 84, yes she has and iPad and yes knows how to facetime! She also texts, uses fb and skypes), it was her 84th birthday today which was the reason for us calling
annoyingly though we found out that the delivery we had arranged for her hadn't arrived, and I'd paid for guaranteed day delivery. Marks and Spencers got a rather annoyed email from me later that day
Shortly after, the same bellman arrived again with the remaining cases - yay! And he arrived with 1 extra bag we hadn't realised was missing, oops. I didn't catch the CM's name but he had a blue badge He was brilliant, we chatted to him when we saw him the rest of our trip.
It was then time for our parents to leave. We helped them down with their bags and loaded the car up before saying goodbye, I'd sneakily bought my mum a present which I'd hidden in her hand luggage which I told her about it once she was already in the car, so she could have a look on the plane (was a little book about a daughter who loves her mummy that I'd seen in Cracker Barrel). This is usually the sad part where we spend the rest of the day feeling glum but for some reason we weren't like that this time... LOL
We had to head to the Alamo car centre to pick up our new hire car. I knew from reading online that Alamo would pick us up from our hotel for free and then take us to the centre but I didn't know how to arrange it. We tried at the front desk but they had no idea so we ended up just getting a taxi there, only cost $6. We asked when we were there for future reference and they said just call the centre and they send someone straight out. We had an intermediate SUV booked so once the paperwork was signed we headed outside to pick it up. We had a red Ford Explorer - it was very swish!!
We then drove back to the Grand and valet parked, they just we just need to call them from our room and they would have the car out front and waiting for us when we wanted it :O This is definitely posh. We're not in Kansas anymore Dorothy...
We headed up to the room and sat and smelled the roses for a short time, before deciding we were hungry. Our room was right over the counter service and there was a lift right by us so we headed down and were ordering food within about 60 seconds from leaving the room.
One of the CM's in there looked just like our friend Ben at home... and he was also called Ben! And he was from the UK. We totally told our friend he has a doppelganger in Disney
I ordered a cheese flatbread and Sy got the chef's special which was a BBQ chicken burger with coleslaw and pineapple in it. We took them back to the room to eat. They were both really good. We watched Dancing with the Stars while eating. We then went to get desserts from the Club Lounge, we ran down there in ad breaks of the show haha.
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I wasn't a fan of most of the desserts we had, Sy liked everything though - especially the oatmeal cookies.
It was then time to watch Wishes. I was totally bummed out to find out that there was no music piped in! They are missing a trick there. Definitely spoiled by BLT lol. While we were watching the fireworks mousekeeping arrived to turn down our beds.
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Bedtime was 11pm
We sent our bags over to the GFV with bell services and then loaded up the car with the rest of our things that we didn't want out of our sight. I loaded the car with my parents while Sy did a quick once over the room to check we didn't leave anything behind. He arrived down at the car with his parents shortly after.Breakfast today was at Bob Evans, we had wanted to take our parents here but we hadn't been able to make it work so this was the last chance. We were seated right away and perused the menu. Our server was called Rita - I remember that as my parents have a cat called Rita! She was from Belgium, she did give us a bit of a sob story about her wages... I know how badly waiters are paid but I dunno, it just felt she was telling us cause we're British and don't usually have the best reputation for tipping, maybe I'm wrong, who knows?!
Breakfast came after a bit of a wait. I ordered eggs with hashbrowns and biscuits. It was yummy.
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Our parents had a few more things they wanted to buy to take home so we then went to Walmart along the H27 and then Cracker Barrel. I *love* CB, I bought some really cute Christmas decorations. Anne bought us a cute burlap roll that goes on the tree, its all embroidered with little birds, its super and looked perfect on our tree at Christmas.
My dad had been saying all trip he wanted to visit a golf shop so we then went in search of one and ended up all the way up International Drive. We dropped him off to get a few things and then took Anne and Cliff to a luggage shop so they could buy another hand luggage bag as they had been doing a bit of shopping and were worried they wouldn't be able to fit it in their bag to get it home.
We then made our way back to Disney and to check in at the Grand Floridian Villas. We were met at the front desk and as we were walked in we were told we have a ground floor room, Sy was a bit disappointed as that would mean no sitting about in his pants hahahaha. However as we reached the desk she said she was having trouble locating a room for us... She did get us one on a higher floor and said we were set, and with that we were off. I walked into the room and something seemed odd, I couldn't put my finger on it but it was definitely different to the room we had in June. The first thing I did was to call down to bell services for them to bring us our bags, there was something like 10 of them though there may have been more.
I had been telling our parents about the room and the stand alone shower, my mum went to use the bathroom and she was the one who brought it to my attention, there was no shower. Just a bath. Oh. We had the handicapped room. We weren't having much luck this trip were we?! Someone has to have the room if no one has booked it, I get that. I did kinda hope it wouldn't be on my 30th birthday trip that we would get it though
Plus the 2 showers were gonna be a huge bonus as our parents would be able to shower before their flights. I guess this is why our ground floor room went, someone else was given this room and refused it. I went down to the front desk to ask nicely if it might be possible to move to another room. I left our mums in the room as we'd called bell services (dads were somewhere else but I forget where). I talked with Christa who had been the girl who greeted us on the way in but wasn't the one who physically checked us in. I asked if there might be another room available, I did say I understood someone had to get the room but I was hoping to have the 2 showers for our parents to get freshened up before their flights. She made some calls and set someone on the case behind the scenes and was waiting for a call back. In the mean time our parents arrived in the lobby along with a poor bellman with a huge trolley full of cases. Sy found me too (I think he had been parking the car). While we were waiting for someone to find us a room we were chatting with Christa and the lady on the desk next to us, I told them that our trip was cursed lol I said about the fire alarm, the yachtsmans meal, the leak in the fridge ruining the mickey Sy had bought me, I said it was probably right that we would get the handicapped room the way the rest of the trip had been going lol. We chatted for a while, Christa kept apologising for it taking so long. She then went out the back to chase it up. She was gone for about 15 minutes before she came back. She said that she wasn't able to get us a room in the GFV tonight in a studio so instead she was moving us to the main GF building in a Club level room with a theme park view. WHAAAAAAAAT??????? I was NOT expecting that! I would have taken the room if they had nothing else, as I said someone has to have it, I was only asking on the off chance! I think my jaw hit the floor.Before I could even think there was a man out front on a little buggy ready to take us over, she gave the bellman our room number and he said he would meet us there.
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Over at the Main Building we were met at the door and escorted up in the club level only elevator... Woooo! They had great trouble linking our magic bands to our stay so in the end they just gave us KTTW cards. We were shown around the club lounge and then taken all the way to our room. O.M.G! How the other half live...
The room was lovely, though I gotta say it... the room isn't as pretty as the villas :O even after the refurb. A few minutes later our bags arrived, though we quickly realised we were short a couple of bags so a frantic call to bell services later and they were looking for them. It was a bit of a panic as our parents needed to leave shortly but I told them not to panic as if need be, we would bring the cases back with us. While we waited our parents got changed ready for their flight and we then went down to the club lounge to get some nibbles and drinks.
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[/URL]As we were waiting for the bags some of us had to stay in the room, so I went first with my parents followed by Sy and his parents. While it was just me and my parents in the room we facetimed my nan at home (yes my nan is 84, yes she has and iPad and yes knows how to facetime! She also texts, uses fb and skypes), it was her 84th birthday today which was the reason for us calling
annoyingly though we found out that the delivery we had arranged for her hadn't arrived, and I'd paid for guaranteed day delivery. Marks and Spencers got a rather annoyed email from me later that day Shortly after, the same bellman arrived again with the remaining cases - yay! And he arrived with 1 extra bag we hadn't realised was missing, oops. I didn't catch the CM's name but he had a blue badge
He was brilliant, we chatted to him when we saw him the rest of our trip.It was then time for our parents to leave. We helped them down with their bags and loaded the car up before saying goodbye, I'd sneakily bought my mum a present which I'd hidden in her hand luggage which I told her about it once she was already in the car, so she could have a look on the plane (was a little book about a daughter who loves her mummy that I'd seen in Cracker Barrel). This is usually the sad part where we spend the rest of the day feeling glum but for some reason we weren't like that this time... LOL
We had to head to the Alamo car centre to pick up our new hire car. I knew from reading online that Alamo would pick us up from our hotel for free and then take us to the centre but I didn't know how to arrange it. We tried at the front desk but they had no idea so we ended up just getting a taxi there, only cost $6. We asked when we were there for future reference and they said just call the centre and they send someone straight out. We had an intermediate SUV booked so once the paperwork was signed we headed outside to pick it up. We had a red Ford Explorer - it was very swish!!
We then drove back to the Grand and valet parked, they just we just need to call them from our room and they would have the car out front and waiting for us when we wanted it :O This is definitely posh. We're not in Kansas anymore Dorothy...
We headed up to the room and sat and smelled the roses for a short time, before deciding we were hungry. Our room was right over the counter service and there was a lift right by us so we headed down and were ordering food within about 60 seconds from leaving the room.
One of the CM's in there looked just like our friend Ben at home... and he was also called Ben! And he was from the UK. We totally told our friend he has a doppelganger in Disney
I ordered a cheese flatbread and Sy got the chef's special which was a BBQ chicken burger with coleslaw and pineapple in it. We took them back to the room to eat. They were both really good. We watched Dancing with the Stars while eating. We then went to get desserts from the Club Lounge, we ran down there in ad breaks of the show haha.
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I wasn't a fan of most of the desserts we had, Sy liked everything though - especially the oatmeal cookies.
It was then time to watch Wishes. I was totally bummed out to find out that there was no music piped in! They are missing a trick there. Definitely spoiled by BLT lol. While we were watching the fireworks mousekeeping arrived to turn down our beds.
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Bedtime was 11pm
