VWL Lovers & Groupies Thread: Meese-ka, Mice-ka MOOSE-kateers

[edk35]

Our first VWL stay is in 6 days!!!

 

[jimmytammy]

Our first VWL stay is in 6 days!!!

Excited for you. Do you need a guide by chance? You know, you could get lost around that place

 

[stopher1]

Our first VWL stay is in 6 days!!!

That's so cool! I hope you have a wonderful stay.

 

[DizGirl20]

Hi Guys - Staying for the first time at VWL in April. What is the quickest way to get to Boma for dinner? Trying to decide it it's worth it to get a car for the week or change a few dinner reservations around (Boma, Yachtsman, etc)... Thanks!

 

[stopher1]

Hi Guys - Staying for the first time at VWL in April. What is the quickest way to get to Boma for dinner? Trying to decide it it's worth it to get a car for the week or change a few dinner reservations around (Boma, Yachtsman, etc)... Thanks!

The quickest way is to drive yourself.

Another quick way is to go from Animal Kingdom, if you're planning an Animal Kingdom day. That has only a 5 minute bus ride, if that.

But from the Lodge... it will take getting to Animal Kingdom, then transferring to an AKL bus. And AK buses from the Lodge will stop first at the Poly, then the GF, then head to AK. So expect a 15-20 min ride to AK, then waiting to transfer, and then the bus ride over to AKL.

 

[dbprimeaux]

The countdown has really began!!

We will be staying at VWL in a one bedroom for the first time!!!

 

[DizGirl20]

The quickest way is to drive yourself.

Yeah, that's what I pretty much concluded... THANKS!

We always rent a car. But for once I would like to try getting around via Disney Transportation. I think it might mean giving up a few of our favorite restaurants. To be honest the thought of giving up Boma makes me

What are some favorites on the monorail loop? So far we have reservations at Cali Grill, Narcoosee's and Artist Point.

 

[stopher1]

Yeah, that's what I pretty much concluded... THANKS!

We always rent a car. But for once I would like to try getting around via Disney Transportation. I think it might mean giving up a few of our favorite restaurants. To be honest the thought of giving up Boma makes me

What are some favorites on the monorail loop? So far we have reservations at Cali Grill, Narcoosee's and Artist Point.

Ohana is excellent. Whispering Canyon Cafe is excellent. I'm sure other Groupies have something to add as well.

 

[Dizny Dad]

DizGirl20 - never give up "a few of our favorite restaurants" due to transportation. We have found it part of the adventure!

Let's see - DiznyDi and I would hop a boat to MK and take a bus to AKL for Boma, or take the Monorail to the Poly for Kona Cafe (or Ohana if you choose).

Just had to get that in - we love the boats from The Lodge. If fact, during our last stay we were on the parking lot side and found that part of the ambiance of our stay was missing by not being able to hear the boat whistles in the morning while drinking our coffee.

Take a boat and go from there!

 

[jimmytammy]

The countdown has really began!!

We will be staying at VWL in a one bedroom for the first time!!!

Great news! You will love the 1 beds there. We do

 

[jimmytammy]

Yeah, that's what I pretty much concluded... THANKS!

We always rent a car. But for once I would like to try getting around via Disney Transportation. I think it might mean giving up a few of our favorite restaurants. To be honest the thought of giving up Boma makes me

What are some favorites on the monorail loop? So far we have reservations at Cali Grill, Narcoosee's and Artist Point.

Ohana and Kona at the Poly are among our faves.

 

[eliza61]

Hi Guys - Staying for the first time at VWL in April. What is the quickest way to get to Boma for dinner? Trying to decide it it's worth it to get a car for the week or change a few dinner reservations around (Boma, Yachtsman, etc)... Thanks!

Stopher has it right, the quickest way resort to resort is usually a car.
Now we always have a car simply because we enjoy the flexibility it gives us, that and the fact that I have the patience of a knat!
We love Narcosse's and Artist point. Unforunately our Ohana meal was a complete disaster to the point that it was the first time I asked to speak to a manager and requested a refund.
One of our best kept secrets is Trails end over at Ft. Wilderness. not on the monorail but very easy to get to from the lodge.
We generally don't do breakfast at Diseny restaurants but Tails end has one of the best and freshest breakfast buffets on site.

 

[stopher1]

Let's see - DiznyDi and I would hop a boat to MK and take a bus to AKL for Boma, or take the Monorail to the Poly for Kona Cafe (or Ohana if you choose).

That route works well too, but I've found it to actually take the same or a little longer, depending wait times. Don't know why I didn't think to write it, but thanks for adding it in Dad! Perhaps subliminally it had something to do with the bad experience I had in Dec. 2010 staying at AKV and trying to get to the Lodge to meet my Groupie friends for breakfast. Different time of day than going to Boma for dinner, but it was bad, bad, bad. So perhaps I chose not to talk about it, even though I should have to help a person out. Normally I love using the boats whenever possible myself.

 

[DVC Jen]

Hey fellow VWL lovers!

I am in the midst of booking our first ever Christmas trip to WDW - staying.. well where else would someone who claims VWL to be home stay over Christmas???

Super excited about it. It will be Me, DH and our two DDs 24 and 19 then. I would love to hear anything and everything about Christmas at the lodge.

Special events? Ideas on dining over Christmas. Just fill me in on EVERYTHING! I would go back through this thread but it would take me until Christmas just go get through it! LOL

We will be doing the parks and know to get there early - emh - all that stuff. However this trip isn't so much about DOING the parks as it is about enjoying the lodge and the entire Christmas atmosphere of WDW. What are things you have done to make the holiday away from home special and memorable? What have you learned to NOT do?

So give it to me straight.. the good, the bad, the beautiful and even some of the ugly.

 

[Dizny Dad]

. . . . . . . Normally I love using the boats whenever possible myself.

But it is the low sound of the far off horns across the water that top off the Lodge experience for us! Just sitting on the balcony in the morning with a good cup of coffee (Kuerig in the OL!) after a good soak in the Hot tub and brisk shower, waiting for DiznyDi or guests to get ready (that may take two cups) is a wonderful time for me.

 

[jimmytammy]

But it is the low sound of the far off horns across the water that top off the Lodge experience for us! Just sitting on the balcony in the morning with a good cup of coffee (Kuerig in the OL!) after a good soak in the Hot tub and brisk shower, waiting for DiznyDi or guests to get ready (that may take two cups) is a wonderful time for me.

That is a wonderful sound indeed

 

[blossomz]

That is my kind of morning!!!

 

[stopher1]

Wow, nothing in here for more than 24 hours!

I hope you all are doing well.

 

[Dizny Dad]

Stoph - Not to worry - we are all here, just busy building the empire . . . .

 

[stopher1]

Stoph - Not to worry - we are all here, just busy building the empire . . . .

Not worried, just don't like our thread falling too low on the totem pole.