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"But...I can't go to sleep until I write my trip notes!" (This was true BTW, even though I arrived back at our room exhausted EVERY night, I still made sure to take notes!)
Who: Rachael & Greg (DH), married 7 months. We spent the first half of our honeymoon in WDW back in early June. I had to get my Christmas time in WDW fill. (I fell in love back in 2006.) This was my 4th trip to WDW and Greg's 4th or 5th. I love Disney and DH won't admit it, but I believe he is almost hooked as well!
When: December 13-18,2009
Where: All Star Sports-Resort (We booked only 6 weeks before our trip, VERY last minute! But we got a great deal.
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Day One: DHS
Day Two: AK, DTD & MK
Day Two: Cont.
Day Three: EPCOT
Day Four: DTD & DHS
Day Five: MK (Including MVMCP)
Day Six: Departure & AKL
Day One:
We arrived right on time, grabbed our luggage and headed to locate the ME. We walked nearly the entire length of Terminal A, before I remembered that we did the same thing on our Honeymoon and quickly headed over to Terminal B. I wont forget that anymore! I joked with DH that the walking in Disney begins as soon as the plane lands.
We had to wait between 5-10 minutes for our ME bus (Thankfully, because it was so HUMID in the airport, almost as though they did not have the air-conditioning on!) and arrived at our resort, All Star Sports, in about 25-30 minutes. It seemed as though almost everyone on the bus was getting off here. Nonetheless, we waited for our luggage to be handed off to us and headed for the lobby.
As soon as I walked into the lobby, I immediately began looking for the Online Check-In desk. Um, it wasnt there. I felt like a fool having just told DH matter-of-factly that we did NOT have to wait in the long line to check-in as I did Online Check-In and it has a special desk. The line to check-in was LONG. I got a little red in the face at this point and let me tell you, it was unfortunately not from the Florida Sunshine. However, that frustration lasted only seconds because just as soon as I got frustrated there was a CM announcing that if anyone had done online check-in to come to the front of the line. I apparently was the only one in the entire lobby that had done online check-in. Amateurs. (Ha ha, just kidding, but it was nice!) We quickly received our packet and room number and were on our way to our
home for the next 5 days.
Now, on to the room. I am posting the pictures I have of the room on this post and I stupidly deleted the best one (that showed the beds and a better idea of the size of the room). For being just DH and I, it worked our great as we did not need much room and had an extra bed to place our suitcase on. It was clean and our towels were restocked each day. Mousekeeping did not come each day until between 1pm and 3pm, our room must have been at the end of their route. A few days, we were in our room at this time and put our Privacy Please card in the lock, but were never bothered and our room was always cleaned. It was smaller than our room at POFQ but I enjoyed the bathroom much more as it was an actual tub. Now that I think about it, I have a feeling our travel agent and a relative on DHs side booked us in an accessible room. Oh well, live and learn. Not forgetting to mention here, that we were booked in the Homerun section of the resort, which is one of the farther sets of buildings from the main lobby. I was not happy about this, but I let it go as we had a ground floor room that was facing the second, and smaller, pool.
In the first picture, if you look in the lower right hand corner you can see how close the beds were to the table. There was just enough space for a walkway, no more.
At this point in the day, we pretty much freshened up and headed straight to the food court to grab some dinner and then head out to DHS. SIDE NOTE: I am also completing a dining review, so I will not go into detail about what DH and I ate during this TR, please see the link in my signature for the dining review. For dinner, I had the Chicken Alfredo Pasta and DH had a Double Cheeseburger.
We then headed over to DHS, and JUST missed the bus! (This was to become a reoccurrence throughout the trip.) We arrived at DHS and boy, was it a lot MORE crowded than our trip in early June. The first thing we headed towards was the Spectacle of Lights, they directed us to walk around to enter from the back, in an attempt to keep the people traffic moving in somewhat of an organized direction. It was a sea of bodies at the Streets of America but the lights were spectacular! My DH was snapping many photos which made me smile, as he is not much of a photo taker so he must have been just as impressed as I was! He took some great photos this trip, I even will include some of them in my TR. (Thanks DH!) It was even SNOWING! (Soap Bubbles) I overheard many conversations of the amazed people, a family behind us even called home to tell their family it was snowing in Florida! (SIDE NOTE: I know this is completely OFF TOPIC and I apologize but I just need to say it, there were so people who bumped into us or rammed us with a stroller and didnt apologize this trip. This was my fourth time to WDW and I never remember people being, for lack of a better word, inconsiderate. I even heard a family on our last day say That was the first time someone has ran into me and apologized. I dont know what it was but it did, unfortunately, damper my spirit a little. We did, however, encounter some very friendly people as well, but it was few and far between. I also see in my notes that I wrote More rude people this time or just more people?)
After seeing the Spectacle of Lights we headed over to the Great Movie Ride and waited about 20 minutes. This was only the second time I went on this attraction, but the CM was not as convincing of his role this time as the past CM on our previous trip. After riding this, I realized Starring Rolls was not that far, so we headed over only to find out that it was CLOSED. Which made sense, as it was shortly passed 8 at this time, and EMH had begun. I was bummed but shrugged my shoulders in hopes that we would make it here on our next trip to DHS this week. I still had a sweet tooth and I wanted a Mickey Bar so we walked down Sunset Blvd. toward ToT and RNRC, knowing we would pass an icecream cart along the way. We got to the end and didnt see one so we stopped for some hand-scooped ice cream. We should have walked 5 more steps because there was the cart. We then rode RNRC and ToT both with a 20-25 minute wait. I had not riden RNRC since my very first trip in 2004 and it was intense! Wow.
We then walked over to TSM and saw the wait said 45 but decided to wait because it was either to walk away and come back another day for rope drop (we are NOT morning people) or stand in line. I thought it was a lot of fun and way better than Buzz at MK, which we both experienced for the first time later in the trip. DH, of course, beat me. My arm hurt at the end from all of the pulling!
I was very excited to participate in the drawing class and hoped that it was available this evening. It was! We drew Scrooge McDuck, which I was a little disappointed about but nonetheless I really enjoyed the class. I wish I would have taken a picture of DH and Is drawings before I tossed them but I just didnt think of it at the right time. Oops! It was a little after 10 and we decided it was time to head back to get some sleep. We had a great bus driver on our way back, he even told a joke. So, I will leave you with this as I end Day One.
Peter Pan was flying around Magic Kingdom all day long and saw all of the people but he did not land to say Hello! Why not?
Who: Rachael & Greg (DH), married 7 months. We spent the first half of our honeymoon in WDW back in early June. I had to get my Christmas time in WDW fill. (I fell in love back in 2006.) This was my 4th trip to WDW and Greg's 4th or 5th. I love Disney and DH won't admit it, but I believe he is almost hooked as well!
When: December 13-18,2009
Where: All Star Sports-Resort (We booked only 6 weeks before our trip, VERY last minute! But we got a great deal.
)WHAT YOU ALL HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!
Day One: DHS
Day Two: AK, DTD & MK
Day Two: Cont.
Day Three: EPCOT
Day Four: DTD & DHS
Day Five: MK (Including MVMCP)
Day Six: Departure & AKL
Day One:
We arrived right on time, grabbed our luggage and headed to locate the ME. We walked nearly the entire length of Terminal A, before I remembered that we did the same thing on our Honeymoon and quickly headed over to Terminal B. I wont forget that anymore! I joked with DH that the walking in Disney begins as soon as the plane lands.
We had to wait between 5-10 minutes for our ME bus (Thankfully, because it was so HUMID in the airport, almost as though they did not have the air-conditioning on!) and arrived at our resort, All Star Sports, in about 25-30 minutes. It seemed as though almost everyone on the bus was getting off here. Nonetheless, we waited for our luggage to be handed off to us and headed for the lobby.
As soon as I walked into the lobby, I immediately began looking for the Online Check-In desk. Um, it wasnt there. I felt like a fool having just told DH matter-of-factly that we did NOT have to wait in the long line to check-in as I did Online Check-In and it has a special desk. The line to check-in was LONG. I got a little red in the face at this point and let me tell you, it was unfortunately not from the Florida Sunshine. However, that frustration lasted only seconds because just as soon as I got frustrated there was a CM announcing that if anyone had done online check-in to come to the front of the line. I apparently was the only one in the entire lobby that had done online check-in. Amateurs. (Ha ha, just kidding, but it was nice!) We quickly received our packet and room number and were on our way to our
home for the next 5 days.
Now, on to the room. I am posting the pictures I have of the room on this post and I stupidly deleted the best one (that showed the beds and a better idea of the size of the room). For being just DH and I, it worked our great as we did not need much room and had an extra bed to place our suitcase on. It was clean and our towels were restocked each day. Mousekeeping did not come each day until between 1pm and 3pm, our room must have been at the end of their route. A few days, we were in our room at this time and put our Privacy Please card in the lock, but were never bothered and our room was always cleaned. It was smaller than our room at POFQ but I enjoyed the bathroom much more as it was an actual tub. Now that I think about it, I have a feeling our travel agent and a relative on DHs side booked us in an accessible room. Oh well, live and learn. Not forgetting to mention here, that we were booked in the Homerun section of the resort, which is one of the farther sets of buildings from the main lobby. I was not happy about this, but I let it go as we had a ground floor room that was facing the second, and smaller, pool.
In the first picture, if you look in the lower right hand corner you can see how close the beds were to the table. There was just enough space for a walkway, no more.
At this point in the day, we pretty much freshened up and headed straight to the food court to grab some dinner and then head out to DHS. SIDE NOTE: I am also completing a dining review, so I will not go into detail about what DH and I ate during this TR, please see the link in my signature for the dining review. For dinner, I had the Chicken Alfredo Pasta and DH had a Double Cheeseburger.
We then headed over to DHS, and JUST missed the bus! (This was to become a reoccurrence throughout the trip.) We arrived at DHS and boy, was it a lot MORE crowded than our trip in early June. The first thing we headed towards was the Spectacle of Lights, they directed us to walk around to enter from the back, in an attempt to keep the people traffic moving in somewhat of an organized direction. It was a sea of bodies at the Streets of America but the lights were spectacular! My DH was snapping many photos which made me smile, as he is not much of a photo taker so he must have been just as impressed as I was! He took some great photos this trip, I even will include some of them in my TR. (Thanks DH!) It was even SNOWING! (Soap Bubbles) I overheard many conversations of the amazed people, a family behind us even called home to tell their family it was snowing in Florida! (SIDE NOTE: I know this is completely OFF TOPIC and I apologize but I just need to say it, there were so people who bumped into us or rammed us with a stroller and didnt apologize this trip. This was my fourth time to WDW and I never remember people being, for lack of a better word, inconsiderate. I even heard a family on our last day say That was the first time someone has ran into me and apologized. I dont know what it was but it did, unfortunately, damper my spirit a little. We did, however, encounter some very friendly people as well, but it was few and far between. I also see in my notes that I wrote More rude people this time or just more people?)
After seeing the Spectacle of Lights we headed over to the Great Movie Ride and waited about 20 minutes. This was only the second time I went on this attraction, but the CM was not as convincing of his role this time as the past CM on our previous trip. After riding this, I realized Starring Rolls was not that far, so we headed over only to find out that it was CLOSED. Which made sense, as it was shortly passed 8 at this time, and EMH had begun. I was bummed but shrugged my shoulders in hopes that we would make it here on our next trip to DHS this week. I still had a sweet tooth and I wanted a Mickey Bar so we walked down Sunset Blvd. toward ToT and RNRC, knowing we would pass an icecream cart along the way. We got to the end and didnt see one so we stopped for some hand-scooped ice cream. We should have walked 5 more steps because there was the cart. We then rode RNRC and ToT both with a 20-25 minute wait. I had not riden RNRC since my very first trip in 2004 and it was intense! Wow.
We then walked over to TSM and saw the wait said 45 but decided to wait because it was either to walk away and come back another day for rope drop (we are NOT morning people) or stand in line. I thought it was a lot of fun and way better than Buzz at MK, which we both experienced for the first time later in the trip. DH, of course, beat me. My arm hurt at the end from all of the pulling!
I was very excited to participate in the drawing class and hoped that it was available this evening. It was! We drew Scrooge McDuck, which I was a little disappointed about but nonetheless I really enjoyed the class. I wish I would have taken a picture of DH and Is drawings before I tossed them but I just didnt think of it at the right time. Oops! It was a little after 10 and we decided it was time to head back to get some sleep. We had a great bus driver on our way back, he even told a joke. So, I will leave you with this as I end Day One.
Peter Pan was flying around Magic Kingdom all day long and saw all of the people but he did not land to say Hello! Why not?
Can't wait to hear the answer to the joke! 
WELCOME! About the joke-I didn't say it wasn't corny! 
I'm so glad you are going to read my review! Hope you enjoy! 
WELCOME! Enjoy. 
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Otherwise it is Splash. 
