godalejunior
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We were in DL from 12/10-12/14 and just got back today.
The Good: We were the "Magical Moment Family" of the day and got upgraded to a 15th floor view room at PP with balloons and Mickey rice krispie treats. We also got turn down service each night as well.
I requested the honeymoon turndown service as it was our 10th anniversary and housekeeping really did an excellent job. Also had a cake delivered and it was good but very rich and we ended up throwing it out after the first night as it was a little over the top. The bakery did a beautiful job decorating.
Crowds were great Wed. and Thurs. Fri. morning and the first two hours of Sat. were okay........after that well........that is where ugly comes in.
Got in line for candy canes on Sat. a little late as we decided to enjoy MM. Well, I did not count and I was #16 in line and #15 is the cut off. Well when they started handing out the tickets and they got to me and said, "sorry" DH was about to have a cow
.......and well let's just say I almost started crying as I was frustrated with myself for not being smarter and getting in line when I had the opportunity. Well just about the time I was beating myself up, the sweet teenager in front of me handed me her ticket and told me to get my candy canes. 
I hugged her and I think I scared the crap out of her but...........I got my two candy canes. Well, all I can say is the line behind me and later on in the day was......well ugly .
We got dreamed with ears in DC at the Redwood Creek Challenge on Fri. and fastpasses by the castle on Sat. We used the new fastpasses as well as our old ones from past trips yesterday.
Bad:
Vons grocery delivery..........we will NEVER use them again. After 7 calls on Wed. night we never did receive our groceries and we requested that the order be cancelled because noone could tell us a darn thing about our order. It was not until 5 hours after the order was to be delivered and the seventh call that we were informed the order never even was put on the truck. Nice, real nice.
Vons did deliver our order, after we cancelled it, on Thursday. We called and they would not come pick it up and even with that, the order was missing some items. This was our first time using Vons, we used Albertsons before, but got sucked in with free delivery. Never again.
Disneyland Resort Express bus broke down today on the side of PP as we were heading to DLH to make the transfer. Got freaked out for a minute that we were going to miss our flight but made it just fine.
We ate at NR at the chef's counter on Thurs. at the 8:30 seating. Never in a million years did I think they would run out of food and be unable to offer the Vintner's menu. This was our first time there and I was very disappointed to say the least. We also never once talked to the chef, noone besides our server talked to us and I had a whole different picture about this experience. Our food was good but I was disappointed in not being able to at least watch our food prepared.
Ugly:
The crowds on Fri. and Sat. We always go during off season so I knew it was going to be crazy but experiencing it was different.
Holiday Tour: We did not have audio on Fri. night and being able to keep up with our tour guide and hear her was a challenge.
Small World: The boats still bottom out and I mean big time. During the holiday tour we saw 5 boats bottom out, including ours.
Overall we had a great trip and would go back during the holidays again.
The Good: We were the "Magical Moment Family" of the day and got upgraded to a 15th floor view room at PP with balloons and Mickey rice krispie treats. We also got turn down service each night as well.
I requested the honeymoon turndown service as it was our 10th anniversary and housekeeping really did an excellent job. Also had a cake delivered and it was good but very rich and we ended up throwing it out after the first night as it was a little over the top. The bakery did a beautiful job decorating.
Crowds were great Wed. and Thurs. Fri. morning and the first two hours of Sat. were okay........after that well........that is where ugly comes in.
Got in line for candy canes on Sat. a little late as we decided to enjoy MM. Well, I did not count and I was #16 in line and #15 is the cut off. Well when they started handing out the tickets and they got to me and said, "sorry" DH was about to have a cow
.......and well let's just say I almost started crying as I was frustrated with myself for not being smarter and getting in line when I had the opportunity. Well just about the time I was beating myself up, the sweet teenager in front of me handed me her ticket and told me to get my candy canes. I hugged her and I think I scared the crap out of her but...........I got my two candy canes. Well, all I can say is the line behind me and later on in the day was......well ugly .We got dreamed with ears in DC at the Redwood Creek Challenge on Fri. and fastpasses by the castle on Sat. We used the new fastpasses as well as our old ones from past trips yesterday.
Bad:
Vons grocery delivery..........we will NEVER use them again. After 7 calls on Wed. night we never did receive our groceries and we requested that the order be cancelled because noone could tell us a darn thing about our order. It was not until 5 hours after the order was to be delivered and the seventh call that we were informed the order never even was put on the truck. Nice, real nice.
Vons did deliver our order, after we cancelled it, on Thursday. We called and they would not come pick it up and even with that, the order was missing some items. This was our first time using Vons, we used Albertsons before, but got sucked in with free delivery. Never again.
Disneyland Resort Express bus broke down today on the side of PP as we were heading to DLH to make the transfer. Got freaked out for a minute that we were going to miss our flight but made it just fine.
We ate at NR at the chef's counter on Thurs. at the 8:30 seating. Never in a million years did I think they would run out of food and be unable to offer the Vintner's menu. This was our first time there and I was very disappointed to say the least. We also never once talked to the chef, noone besides our server talked to us and I had a whole different picture about this experience. Our food was good but I was disappointed in not being able to at least watch our food prepared.
Ugly:
The crowds on Fri. and Sat. We always go during off season so I knew it was going to be crazy but experiencing it was different.
Holiday Tour: We did not have audio on Fri. night and being able to keep up with our tour guide and hear her was a challenge.
Small World: The boats still bottom out and I mean big time. During the holiday tour we saw 5 boats bottom out, including ours.
Overall we had a great trip and would go back during the holidays again.
thanks for shareing!
Thanks for any info.
