Another great HHI visit!

Connears

Connears
Joined
Mar 14, 2003
We just returned from 8/12-8/15 in one bedroom 3012. Checked in at 2:30pm on sunday and room was ready. Great CM at check-in! We love the area for building 29 and 30 is all the way at the end of resort, but a short walk to pool, great view of tuesday fireworks and great parking. Everything was great in the unit-we were missing a dish towel but got one 15 minutes after we called. We arrived to great weather, high 80's but very comfortable with less humidity than previous week which had heat index of over 100! All three days were beautiful..we even enjoyed sitting on the porch in morning and throughout the day/night. Had no problem with getting chairs at the pools and we brought our own for the beach. Water at the beach was comfortable, but we did hear 2 people getting stung by jellyfish, but we had no problem. Very relaxing time over the 3 days. We ate at KIngfisher(with dvc discount and it was very good; tried Vassili's in Coligny area and it was very good mediterrenean, seafood, pasta, steak. Made breakfast each morning and got great bagels(near the resort across from Hilton Head Diner), decided to get take our delivered on Tuesday to enjoy resort and wait for fireworks..Wild wing take-out was fine with appetizers and wings-nothing extraordinary. Had great view of fireworks. Its so nice not having to hassle with a car as all the masses left Shelter Cove! We did not do the Star-Spangled BBQ but have done it in the past. We did watch some of the games and did swim later. Overall, great CM(really-everyone we encountered was friendly, enthusiastic and helpful). Did some dvc shopping at the merchantile and they even had bathing suit on sale! We were really worried about the hot humid stuff killing us in August, but it worked out perfectly! We just love this relaxing vacation-we read lots of books and hit the beach and pools! Now for xmas at OKW!
Connears
 
We just returned from 8/12-8/15 in one bedroom 3012. Checked in at 2:30pm on sunday and room was ready. Great CM at check-in! We love the area for building 29 and 30 is all the way at the end of resort, but a short walk to pool, great view of tuesday fireworks and great parking. Everything was great in the unit-we were missing a dish towel but got one 15 minutes after we called. We arrived to great weather, high 80's but very comfortable with less humidity than previous week which had heat index of over 100! All three days were beautiful..we even enjoyed sitting on the porch in morning and throughout the day/night. Had no problem with getting chairs at the pools and we brought our own for the beach. Water at the beach was comfortable, but we did hear 2 people getting stung by jellyfish, but we had no problem. Very relaxing time over the 3 days. We ate at KIngfisher(with dvc discount and it was very good; tried Vassili's in Coligny area and it was very good mediterrenean, seafood, pasta, steak. Made breakfast each morning and got great bagels(near the resort across from Hilton Head Diner), decided to get take our delivered on Tuesday to enjoy resort and wait for fireworks..Wild wing take-out was fine with appetizers and wings-nothing extraordinary. Had great view of fireworks. Its so nice not having to hassle with a car as all the masses left Shelter Cove! We did not do the Star-Spangled BBQ but have done it in the past. We did watch some of the games and did swim later. Overall, great CM(really-everyone we encountered was friendly, enthusiastic and helpful). Did some dvc shopping at the merchantile and they even had bathing suit on sale! We were really worried about the hot humid stuff killing us in August, but it worked out perfectly! We just love this relaxing vacation-we read lots of books and hit the beach and pools! Now for xmas at OKW!
Connears



I love HHI. We have been going there for years way before DVC. We did not have a good experience at Kingfisher. The food was lousy. I am happy your experience was good!
 
We can't wait to get back to HHI . We Just made ressies for the first week of June 2008. Great to hear you had agreat trip.
 
Glad you had such a good trip-Hilton Head looks like such a beautiful resort-we hope to get a two bedroom booked for a week next summer-our daughter and her husband would like to come with us-they are school teachers and it's either late June or sometime in August-I'll have to try at the 7 month window-did you make your reservation at 11 or 7 months?
 


Wow... sounds a lot like our experience in June... just bliss...... excluding the actual beach... we found it to be too crowded. Thanks for the great report.
 
Wow... sounds a lot like our experience in June... just bliss...... excluding the actual beach... we found it to be too crowded. Thanks for the great report.

Hmm..just wondering what week you went in June. We were there just a few weeks ago and found plenty of room on the beach. But next year we have reservations for third week in June and certainly would hate to run into an influx of beachgoers as we go every morning.
 
So glad Connears you had a great HHI visit! We loved our stay too several weeks ago and are looking forward to returning next June. We found it so relaxing but still with a little Disney fun thrown in from the pool party, activities to all the cm's just being very friendly.
 


This trip we did not plan ahead and tried for the summer in January so, we were really lucky. We have been there once in last week of June and once the second week of July(July was crazy humid and the pool didn't even cool you off-they dumped a cart of ice into it a couple of times!). Preferred June for the weather and both times the beach was not over crowded. This August trip the beach was very open..lots of space to plant yourself and to walk. Loved the fireworks on Tuesdays in the summer-great view from the resort. Haven't decided about next summer yet...we are staying OKW for the third xmas at WDW in a row and haven't thought about HHI return, yet..but love to return!
Connear
 
We go every year the first week of June and love, love, love it! Can't wait for June 2008!
 
Glad to hear good things about HHI. We plan to book at our 7month window for late May 2008. It will be our first trip to HHI.
Carla
 

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