Okay, we just arrived home from our trip. We stayed at Jambo House in room 4543 on Zebra Trail. It was categorized as a standard view, and it was somewhat obstructed, but we saw a ton of animals every single day. I think it was near a staging area because they would line up along the fence and wait for the hay tractors to go by every day. A little giraffe baby was always out with who I assume are its parents. It was so neat! We also had some little antelope/deer things ( I forget the name) that would hop the hotwire all of the time to come eat the bushes under our room. We heard one of the tour guides for the safari saying the like those bushes more, even though they have the same ones on their side.
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The lodge itself was beautiful! I will admit that in pictures the lobby looks much larger than it is... Not saying it's small. At check in they gave up buttons for our anniversary and those make a good keepsake. On our second day we also came home to this:
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It was a delicious and thoughtful surprise!
We only used a pool a few times just because we'd rather nap than swim, but we did spend some time at the pool bar. I have fallen in love with Coco-Jitos and my husband drank his share of the Banana Cabana drinks (big, tatted up, tough looking guy drinking fruity pool drinks... LOVE IT). The Coco-Jitos will be my signature drink this summer. I have a huge mint plant in my garden this year. Now I've found it's purpose
The security checks weren't intrusive IMO. If we left the do-not-disturb sign on the door all day housekeeping would call and ask when they could come by. They never just barged in on us and we were there at various times throughout our trip.
Overall it was such a fantastic trip and we really feel as though it was worth every penny. My husband, the man with the biggest case of resting jerk face just lights up at Disney. We really had the time of our lives and now he is refusing to stay anywhere else
I've created a monster.
Thank you all for the advice! I'll continue to follow this thread for our 2020 trip we've started planning for our twins' 13th bday bash!