Checking in from the BC!! Been here since Thursday - loving it so far
Love love love being able to walk to Epcot. The few ADR's I made are in Epcot, so if we have left overs (which we generally do, since my husband had gastric bypass surgery last year), we just walk them back to the room and enjoy them later
Our room is great - paid for garden View, which we do have, but we also have a great view of the beach and lake ! We are near the volley ball court, 3rd floor. Pretty quiet - far from the main elevators, but we do have a single elevator just around the corner from us.
You'd have laughed at us once we checked in and were looking the room over - after getting excited over the view, and realizing where we were located, my son and I abandoned hubby and ran around trying to find the secret entrance/exit In our haste we almost forgot our room number, and only got slightly lost before finding the room again ! Whenever we go in or out the secret entrance, my husband insists on closing the gate behind us - I think he thinks it stops anyone else from finding the door
Glad to hear Teena is doing good - I looked for her on Sunday, and now I know why I didn't see her - we'll just have to stay here again sometime so we get to meet her !!
Well, breakfast just arrived, so better sign off for now !
I laughed so hard at this as it would be something I would do had I not known this resort like the back of my... head??
In any case I am famous for forgetting my room number anywhere I stay so I downloaded an APP for my phone called Color Notes. It's like a post it note for your phone as as soon as I get my room # I enter it into a Color Note so I am not breaking and entering into some poor random stranger's room.
While you have me on the line and vice versa how is the chair hogging/saving with resort towels only and nobody is using the chair situation?
I ask this question only to give a friendly reminder of
"Ninja Mom's Chair hoggers survival tactics" since the busy season is coming up. Chair hogging happens at EVERY Disney resort so there is no need for our faithful worry warts (not you Britgirlus) to get their panties in a bunch.
At Storm Along Bay during the busy pool season you will see chairs with towels on them and no other personal items. When the pool is crowded and seating is in demand there is no need for these EMPTY chairs to go unused while
the hog is not at the pool.
What has been happening in the past is that
before they go to the parks, packs of chair piggys will descend upon the pool, deposit resort towels on the chairs and then LEAVE FOR THE DAY!
It is against the rules of the pool to save chairs all day when the chair saver is NOT AT THE POOL.
To combat this insanity and avoid an unfortunate confrontation should piggy finally make their way to the pool, Ninja Mom recommends finding a chair with NO personal Items on it (it's ok to move it if it has just a RESORT towel on it and the people near the chair say they are not using it) and
MOVING it to a New Location. It doesn't have to go far... but by moving the chair Piggy will have no idea WHERE it WENT and thus will not have anybody to yell at.
Basically you can't yell at someone who isn't there... and besides, you have every right to an unattended chair and Piggy has NO right to save it.
So that's the best advice to combat the chair hogs
who will be popping up shortly during high pool season.
In my next post I will discuss the merits of
BRINGING YOUR REFILLABLE MUG TO THE PARKS TO KEEP THOSE PARK BOUGHT BEVERAGES COOL as well as having a convenient place to dump the left over portions of the
GIANT sodas that they sell you at the counter service places. This vessel also serves as a convenient way to split your bucket of soda with some one else (like cheepo Ninja Mom!!)
Our own "I'm going into the parks with no bags" bagless wonder Dee has been known to carabiner clip her refillable mug to her shorts to get through security as well as rock a stylish "Mom look" that is beyond imitation! I, who travels through the parks like a Sherpa, loaded down with all manner of detritus, can only look on in envy at her ingenuity!
So there are your tips for the day! Have a great trip and thanks for taking the time during your busy vacation to check in with us!
~NM
PS. When ordering a counter service meal you can go Alla Cart and just order SOME of the items they put together as a meal, for example: you don't want the fries so you order only the burger and soda and it's less $$. The only caveat is that IF you are ON the DINING PLAN you will get charged for the whole meal, so you might as well get the whole meal and then try to sell your fries in the arcade to the highest bidder from the pack of hungry teens that live there. Yes I know some of these tips are great and others will get you arrested but what do you want for free advice from the likes of Ninja Mom!
She made several calls and they were just about to get a cab for me to the Airport 
and the DME showed up and got me to the airport in plenty of time . One other thing when I asked how much it would cost me the CM told me not to worry about it . Enjoy sit back and relax they take great care of us all 
