We survived Hurricane Charley

[katter24]

Well our trip started on Aug 6...we drove from Ontario to Florida....arrived in St. Augustine's around 5:30 Aug 7.....spent a couple of days there...really nice place.....left on Mon the 9th and went to Orlando and spent the night at the Quality Suites Maingate East....not bad but its not Disney....lol.....We then arrived at the Hard Rock Hotel at Universal.....That was the best....beautiful hotel ....nice pool, room was spacious.....and we got upgraded to concierge for $50 more....well worth it......2 minute walk to US and FOTL express was AMAZING......at first I couldn't stop looking at all the people that we were bypassing.....and then when I got over the shock I couldn't even look at them....it was 93 degrees and the line ups were 60 min. long....Thanks for the tips on the boards about showing your room key to CM at the Shrek 4 D ride....that did work.....We did 8 rides in just a little over 2 hours.....Spent 2 days at US then we went to Disney's Beach Club Villas....We didn't experience that great disney feeling at the FD....no one smiled and no one was friendly at all......we had a studio and the room was nice and spacious.....the villas are only attached to the main building by an outdoor walkway and when the hurricane hit we were stranded in the villas and couldn't get to the main building....didn't like that and wouldn't stay there again......Went for a walk on the Boardwalk the morning after the hurricane and there were fallen and uprooted trees and bark everywhere, broken glass and I saw a few lamposts that were down....that was scarry to think of the power of the Hurricane....Downtown disney was closed and so was Animal Kingdom.....We went to a Character Breakfast at Norway and the carpets in the gift shop were still soaked and they had fans drying it....All of our moments at all the parks were magical ..... There were lots of people...I was suprised at how busy it was.....the wait for Splash Mountain was 95 min one night.....you couldn't even fastpass that.....at the 3 o'clock parade at MK they only had half the snowglobes...it was disapointing to say the least....the wishes fireworks were great....Epcot was also good...my kids 13 and 15 loved the movie at the China pavillion....they both want to go there for a holiday....Spent one night at the Swan...great hotel beautiful pool....would stay there again....got a great rate at $139 a night.....I will stop now because it's getting too long ....but you know when your talking about disney you can go on and on and on.......

 

[Minniespal]

Great report ~ Thanx for sharing.

 

[wishuponastarforever]

Teriffic report - Thank you.

 

[Lyn-CA]

Originally posted by katter24
All of our moments at all the parks were magical .....

Wow, not even a hurricane can stop the magic

Thanks for your report.