VWL Groupies...yes, we love the Lodge, a lot!!

[Msmithmd]

Oh boy oh boy oh boy!!!

That fifth person sleeping accommodation announced for the one bedroom is the biggest news for VWL in a long, long time!

My family of five can finally plan on using our home resort more, with no one "sleeping bagging it".

Anyone else excited about this?!!

 

[jimmytammy]

Welcome to the groupies epcot1985, Airb330 and Msmithmd!!!!

 

[jimmytammy]

Best wishes to all going to to the meet at TOTWL tonight, hope yall have a great time!! So wishing we could be there with you

 

[Linda67]

Oh shame we can't make the meet, we have dinner reservations over at Epcot tonight.
We would have loved to say hello to everyone
Tonight is our last night at the Lodge before we fly back to the UK and as always, we have loved staying here
The best Christmas decorations of all the resorts in our opinion

 

[MiaSRN62]

Welcome to the groupies epcot1985, Airb330 and Msmithmd!!!!

Welcome all!!!!

 

[DiznyDi]

Good morning Groupies! It's a great way to start our day waking up at the Lodge. She is beautiful decked out in her holiday splendor. We are so happy to be here.
We met up with twokats (Kathy and Katie) at the TOWL last evening to watch the Holiday Wishes fireworks display - spectacular! Tea pot wasn't able to join us but we did meet her daughters who are just delightful! We ran into Mr tea pot and one daughter while walking into the Contemporary so spent a few moments in conversation. We are hopeful of spending some time together tomorrow. I do have a few pictures that I'll try to post later. Today is to be a beautiful day with temps in the low 80's. A cold front is coming that will drop temps and bring some rain so we're taking full advantage of the sun and will be headed to Epcot for the day.
Have a good week-end!

 

[jimmytammy]

Good morning Groupies! It's a great way to start our day waking up at the Lodge. She is beautiful decked out in her holiday splendor. We are so happy to be here.
We met up with twokats (Kathy and Katie) at the TOWL last evening to watch the Holiday Wishes fireworks display - spectacular! Tea pot wasn't able to join us but we did meet her daughters who are just delightful! We ran into Mr tea pot and one daughter while walking into the Contemporary so spent a few moments in conversation. We are hopeful of spending some time together tomorrow. I do have a few pictures that I'll try to post later. Today is to be a beautiful day with temps in the low 80's. A cold front is coming that will drop temps and bring some rain so we're taking full advantage of the sun and will be headed to Epcot for the day.
Have a good week-end!

Thanks for the report Diane! Yall have a great time!!

 

[jimmytammy]

Happy Birthday Mickeymorse!!!!
BTW, this is a special day for us as well, our DDs Bday is the 15th also

 

[MiaSRN62]

Good morning Groupies! It's a great way to start our day waking up at the Lodge. She is beautiful decked out in her holiday splendor. We are so happy to be here.
We met up with twokats (Kathy and Katie) at the TOWL last evening to watch the Holiday Wishes fireworks display - spectacular! Tea pot wasn't able to join us but we did meet her daughters who are just delightful! We ran into Mr tea pot and one daughter while walking into the Contemporary so spent a few moments in conversation. We are hopeful of spending some time together tomorrow. I do have a few pictures that I'll try to post later. Today is to be a beautiful day with temps in the low 80's. A cold front is coming that will drop temps and bring some rain so we're taking full advantage of the sun and will be headed to Epcot for the day.
Have a good week-end!

Thanks Diane. Hearing this helps put me in the holiday spirit because there is a snow/ice storm looming for today and I was getting a bit down. I am truly storm-weary. This is the 3 rd snow storm in under 7 days. I'm done!

 

[MiaSRN62]

Happy birthday to Mickeymorse!!!!


And Happy birthday to Jimmytammy's daughter (Kristian)!!!!!

 

[PoohsFan1]

I'm coming here to say that our family just booked 6 nights in a studio at VWL in May and we are very excited about it. We were originally booked at HHI for June but decided that we wanted to head back to the World instead. This will be our first stay at VWL but have stayed in the Lodge twice

 

[jimmytammy]

Welcome to the groupies Poohsfan1!!!!
PM me if you would like your dates added to the upcoming trips page

 

[Muushka]

Happy birthday to Mickeymorse!!!!


And Happy birthday to Jimmytammy's daughter (Kristian)!!!!!

Maria says it so well that I decided to capture it and pretend I posted it!
Oh, and I am still at sea, enjoying our cruise!
Okay, so I am a tad in denial, on both. BUT, I still wish you both a very happy birthday AND I wish we were still at sea!

We had a fabulous cruise. Met some great people, had our favorite acrivities person on this ship (this is his third different ship that we have sailed with him). Great food, great weather, all in all, wish we were still there!

I'm coming here to say that our family just booked 6 nights in a studio at VWL in May and we are very excited about it. We were originally booked at HHI for June but decided that we wanted to head back to the World instead. This will be our first stay at VWL but have stayed in the Lodge twice

Whoa! A potential new Groupie????????
Visit us often, we will be excited with you . Oh, and grab yourself our mascot Moosie.
He loves to be seen here on the dis.

 

[PoohsFan1]

Welcome to the groupies Poohsfan1!!!!
PM me if you would like your dates added to the upcoming trips page

Thank you, I have already PM'd you with our dates

Whoa! A potential new Groupie????????
Visit us often, we will be excited with you . Oh, and grab yourself our mascot Moosie.
He loves to be seen here on the dis.

, I will definitely be on this thread a lot and get to know all of you wonderful DISers. The lodge is one of our favorite onsite resorts and we have been wanting to try out VWL for a long time, however every time I would check for availability, it would be all booked up. I was very excited to see our week opened when I checked yesterday. We originally had HHI booked for the first week of June, but we all decided that we wanted to head back to WDW again .

Just for curiosity sake, I know the resort is small, but is there a view that is better then the other? I think I had read it is either a woods or a pool view that you would get. What do you all prefer?

 

[jimmytammy]

PoohsFan
Most views are of trees. That sounds bad but it goes with the theming. If you ask for a a room near elevator, may afford you a better view of pool.

 

[cahedberg]

Hi Groupies! We're 19 days out from our trip and I just realized I haven't been on here since before thanksgiving!? Oh my! We got our Magic Bands last week and I've been on the My Disney Experience app a lot trying to get it to work. Not going so well. Anyone else tried it out? It seems to think I have two accounts and my lodge reservations are in one and our dining in another. Lol. Oh well, I'll be planning the old fashion way, my passporters guide, and an excel file.

Hope those of you traveling are enjoying WDW. One question, Osborne Festival of Lights thumbs up or skip it? Thoughts? I've never seen it and it will still be going on when we arrive for one more night.

Merry Christmas all! Safe travels, and holidays.

 

[sleepydog25]

A huge welcome and howdy-do to our new Groupies: epcot1985, Airb330 and Msmithmd, and PoohsFan1! It's always great to have new fans of the Lodge to join our friendly group. Each of you exhibit a love of the Lodge, and that's all you need to be a Groupie (well, there is the $50 initiation fee, check made payable to moi--PM me for details ).

I've been busy the past week with rehearsals for our annual "Nutcracker" performance. No, I am not a qualified dancer, but I can move spryly enough to be Drosselmeyer as I have been the past eight years. The ballet and the role certainly help put me in the Christmas spirit.

Save travels and warm wishes to all this holiday season!

 

[bluecastle]

This time of year I always wish I could be at the lodge. It was a dream of mine that finally came true in 2009 and I will always be thankful for that trip.
I was wondering if any of you heard about the refurb of the villas that is scheduled in 2014. Does anyone know the dates? I have been trying to get there for 2 years now and do not even want to consider changing my resort because of construction and the disruption of the peacefulness of the villas. I actually was reading about other villas (mostly Boardwalk) and then one of my Disney Internet radio stations started playing the WL music and I took it as a sign! I really don't want to stay anywhere else. Please post if anyone hears any details. TIA!

 

[dsneygirl]

Just got back from a quick 2 night stay after our cruise. The lodge was stunning in all its holiday splendor. I am so glad they haven't cut back on it.

We were in a 2B 428, it's a corner so a little different layout but seemed huge and we had windows on 2 sides looking towards woods/bust stop.

have to give a huge shout out to Peter at the Recreation/Boat/Bike rental. The chain fell off my son's bike we were later for HDDR, he picked up the bikes and made 2 trips by golf cart to get us all there on time.

 

[Granny]

Hope those of you traveling are enjoying WDW. One question, Osborne Festival of Lights thumbs up or skip it? Thoughts? I've never seen it and it will still be going on when we arrive for one more night.

I'd have to give it an enthusiastic thumbs up. It is a spectacular and something you won't see at any other time of the year. And there's even a nasty rumor that this attraction may not come back to WDW in the future. We find it to be exhilarating and enjoy walking the streets drinking hot chocolate while it "snows". Enjoy!

I've been busy the past week with rehearsals for our annual "Nutcracker" performance. No, I am not a qualified dancer, but I can move spryly enough to be Drosselmeyer as I have been the past eight years. The ballet and the role certainly help put me in the Christmas spirit.

Hey, that's a cool part to play...eight years worth, huh? Sounds like a great tradition you've built there. Enjoy your performances...what amazing music that is.

I was wondering if any of you heard about the refurb of the villas that is scheduled in 2014. Does anyone know the dates? I have been trying to get there for 2 years now and do not even want to consider changing my resort because of construction and the disruption of the peacefulness of the villas. I actually was reading about other villas (mostly Boardwalk) and then one of my Disney Internet radio stations started playing the WL music and I took it as a sign! I really don't want to stay anywhere else. Please post if anyone hears any details. TIA!

Haven't heard any dates yet. I don't know how noisy these refurbs are so I can't provide input on that. It wouldn't bother me, but if you are worried about it, you may want to put off that trip to VWL one more year or until after the dates are firmed up. Good luck!

Just got back from a quick 2 night stay after our cruise. The lodge was stunning in all its holiday splendor. I am so glad they haven't cut back on it.

We were in a 2B 428, it's a corner so a little different layout but seemed huge and we had windows on 2 sides looking towards woods/bust stop.

have to give a huge shout out to Peter at the Recreation/Boat/Bike rental. The chain fell off my son's bike we were later for HDDR, he picked up the bikes and made 2 trips by golf cart to get us all there on time.

Sounds like a wonderful trip. We are familiar with those corner 2BR layouts with the large living room and galley kitchen...most seem to like it a lot.

And great to hear another CM making another magical moment for you and your family. All in all, they really do a great job, don't they?