VWL Groupies & Lovers Thread (Special Collectors Edition 2.5) updated 2 February 2025

[jimmytammy]

Happy Birthday luvvwl!!!!

 

[Dizny Dad]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUVVWL!

 

[MiaSRN62]

April
Granny 22 - May 4 VGF

Hey Granny! Have a great trip. Looking forward to hearing about and seeing pics from the VGF. I did the DVC tour in Feb at SSR. They had Aulani, Poly and VGF models. And I liked VGF hands-down the best! Have fun!

 

[Granny]

April
Granny 22 - May 4 VGF

Hey Granny! Have a great trip. Looking forward to hearing about and seeing pics from the VGF. I did the DVC tour in Feb at SSR. They had Aulani, Poly and VGF models. And I liked VGF hands-down the best! Have fun!

Maria...thanks so much for the kind words. Yep, we are about 24 hours from takeoff to that magical place. Very much looking forward to trying out VGF...I agree that in touring the models it looked like they did try to keep the DVC villas in keeping with the flagship standard of Grand Floridian. We will be sure to provide an update (and pictures of course ).

 

[Granny]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUVVWL!

Here's hoping that you are made to feel like a princess tomorrow!!! Somehow we think that you will.

 

[sleepydog25]

Maria...thanks so much for the kind words. Yep, we are about 24 hours from takeoff to that magical place. Very much looking forward to trying out VGF...I agree that in touring the models it looked like they did try to keep the DVC villas in keeping with the flagship standard of Grand Floridian. We will be sure to provide an update (and pictures of course ).

Have a great trip! We loved the VGF studio last year, even though the floor plan/layout leaves little room for storage. Still, the furnishings were excellent, our view (lagoon) was exceptional, and we loved the convenience of the monorail. Say "hi" to the World for us!

 

[Granny]

Have a great trip! We loved the VGF studio last year, even though the floor plan/layout leaves little room for storage. Still, the furnishings were excellent, our view (lagoon) was exceptional, and we loved the convenience of the monorail. Say "hi" to the World for us!

Thanks Patrick. We will have a 1BR so we should be good on storage for just the two of us. I will say this is a bit of a splurge as the point schedule is pretty brutal at VGF and we are staying for 12 nights, which is a little longer than usual. What the heck...that's why we bought the points, right?

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Thanks Patrick. We will have a 1BR so we should be good on storage for just the two of us. I will say this is a bit of a splurge as the point schedule is pretty brutal at VGF and we are staying for 12 nights, which is a little longer than usual. What the heck...that's why we bought the points, right?

Have a great time Granny! I thoroughly enjoyed time at VGF with my nieces in Dec 2013. Had a 2 bedroom.....I think you'll find the closet in the master quite spacious. I've had it booked a couple of times since then but either plans changed or I wanted to save points for other stays! We'll get back there again though.

 

[jimmytammy]

Have a great trip Granny! You know we need pics here, so do what you can for us groupies
We will soon be on the other end of the monorail line at BLT, around 20 days

 

[Granny]

Jimmy & Kathy...thanks for the good trip wishes!


Well, I've managed to mess up already on this trip....I seem to have lost the luggage tags for DME. What a dummy!

Argghhh! Maybe that last birthday put me over the edge.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Jimmy & Kathy...thanks for the good trip wishes!


Well, I've managed to mess up already on this trip....I seem to have lost the luggage tags for DME. What a dummy!

Argghhh! Maybe that last birthday put me over the edge.

I believe that you can take your airline tags from checking your luggage and give them to someone at the DME counter and they will collect your bags and still deliver them - at least that's what I've read but we haven't tried it ourselves.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Happy Birthday Luvvwl!!!

 

[sleepydog25]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the most wonderful woman I've ever known. Intelligent, funny, possessing infinite patience (she did marry me, after all!), and beautiful to boot, I simply don't know what I'd do without her. She is mo anam cara every single day. . .

 

[jimmytammy]

Granny
Dont beat yourself up too bad, sounds like KAT has your back. Go and have fun, and let it ride

Has anyone seen where WDW transportation is testing a direct bus route from MK to WL and FW? Looks like it will take place over the next 4 weeks from 4-11:30pm. Just curious about this.

 

[Dizny Dad]

.............I seem to have lost the luggage tags for DME. What a dummy! . . . . . . . .

WOW - Say it ain't so! I agree tho', check in at that BIG desk before arranging yourself in the correct queue for the bus ride.

We have never lost our tags, but have gotten multiple sets for a single trip - not really sure how that happens, but make one little change in your reservations, and the system adds tags but never removes the original dates, etc. so the tags just keep coming!

 

[MiaSRN62]

Happy Birthday LUVVWL!!!!

 

[Granny]

Kathy...thanks for the tip on luggage process. I had resigned myself to doing just that until I looked in a folder this morning in the kitchen and amazingly there was the DME mailing including the luggage tags. DW and I had a discussion about who would have stuck them into that folder (that had nothing to do with our trip) but in the end it doesn't matter. We'll just count that as our first bit of magic on the trip!

Doesn't make me any less Dopey...but it does help the kick off of the trip on a better note.

Heading out in a little over an hour. It's cool here in St. Louis so I have the usual decision about apparel...do I freeze wearing shorts up here or do I wear jeans and end up really hot in Orlando? Geez, I guess life is really tough when that's the big dilemma.

 

[Granny]

Has anyone seen where WDW transportation is testing a direct bus route from MK to WL and FW? Looks like it will take place over the next 4 weeks from 4-11:30pm. Just curious about this.

We aren't staying at VWL this trip, but I'll take a look when I visit. I've never taken the bus from VWL to MK. Where has it been stopping in the past?

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Granny
Dont beat yourself up too bad, sounds like KAT has your back. Go and have fun, and let it ride

Has anyone seen where WDW transportation is testing a direct bus route from MK to WL and FW? Looks like it will take place over the next 4 weeks from 4-11:30pm. Just curious about this.

I'm a little confused Jimmy? It's something different than the direct bus they've had from WL/VWL to and from MK? We have frequently used that and considered it the best bus ride at Disney! Or does it mean they are the adding FW to that route? If so the that wonderful 3 minute ride to MK would become 15 minutes. That wouldn't make me so happy.

 

[Granny]

Here at WDW, first day has had a number of glitches but we're ready to settle down to a nice stay. In general, we aren't in much of a hurry to go anywhere but it took 1 hour and 15 minutes to travel the 500 yards from the GF boat dock to MK boat dock. While we love the boat transportation from WL we were disappointed to find the long wait for a boat at GF and then find out it shares with the Poly....really??? Now the GF is the first stop departing from MK so that boat ride should be a better option. Overall, I think it's monorail all the way for the rest of the trip.

I will say that the VGF 1BR is a beautiful villa. Sounds like the studio is low on storage but the 1BR has tons of it both in the bedroom and the living room. We like the layout which made the kitchen a little smaller but overall has a real nice flow to it. I took some pictures before we messed up the place so I can share some of those later.

Crowds at MK were very low...we walked on to Buzz Lightyear's Ranger Spin and most rides had pretty short waits.

Hope all the Groupies are doing well!