We went for a quickie weekend...DH's birthday was June 7 and all he really wanted was a trip to Star Wars Weekends.
We checked in on Friday (6/8), around 1pm-ish. Room was not ready, but appeared to be pre-assigned. We hit the pool because it was HOT! (I'm from MN...anything over 80 is hot to me). About 2-2:30 room was ready. We had a 5th floor room facing the wetlands and BC. Not exactly my favorite view but it was only for the weekend.
Yeah, the 5th floor is not what it's cracked up to be. I hear everyone saying it's the best view...it's quiet because no one is above you...Didn't really think it was that great. I have stayed on the 1st and 3rd floors at BCV and this stay was the noisiest. Maybe I had rowdy neighbors or maybe people thought they were on the top floor and wouldn't bother anyone...I don't know. We had people running through the halls just about every day and the person next to us, I swear, kept opening their connecting door and closing it.
SAB was closed several times for lightning, much to my son's dismay. But hey, you come in the summer, you gotta expect storms.
We hit Star Wars Weekends on Saturday. Wow. Lots busier than I remember last time we were there. Star Tours immediately had a 20 minute posted wait. We didn't do a heckuva lot...say some characters, but didn't wait in line...bought out the store of SW stuff.
DH and kids went back with their FP for RnRC and we bailed. It was getting really hot and humid and I just don't do that well even drinking water non stop.
We did MK on Sunday...had CP for early breakfast...rode BTMRR twice in a row and upon exiting the 2nd time we were all awarded Dream Fastpasses for MK for the day. That was very fun to take our time and know we could use those whenever we wanted.
And by the way, saw Captain Jack Sparrow...CM did a great job...totally in character...my DD got picked to be a pirate apprentice...loved every minute of it!
Oh, I wanted to go see the AKV model and asked the DVC person at the BCV how early the preview center opens. He said that the models were under renovation this weekend and would open up again on Monday (6/11). So we drive over to SSR on Monday before we drive to the airport only to be told that it closed Monday morning and had been open all weekend! Argh!
So if you are going to WDW soon, the AKV model is being renovated and will be open again on Thursday (6/14). They didn't share with me what was new, but said if I watched the DVD that it would look like that. For me...not the same as seeing it in person.
We checked in on Friday (6/8), around 1pm-ish. Room was not ready, but appeared to be pre-assigned. We hit the pool because it was HOT! (I'm from MN...anything over 80 is hot to me). About 2-2:30 room was ready. We had a 5th floor room facing the wetlands and BC. Not exactly my favorite view but it was only for the weekend.
Yeah, the 5th floor is not what it's cracked up to be. I hear everyone saying it's the best view...it's quiet because no one is above you...Didn't really think it was that great. I have stayed on the 1st and 3rd floors at BCV and this stay was the noisiest. Maybe I had rowdy neighbors or maybe people thought they were on the top floor and wouldn't bother anyone...I don't know. We had people running through the halls just about every day and the person next to us, I swear, kept opening their connecting door and closing it.
SAB was closed several times for lightning, much to my son's dismay. But hey, you come in the summer, you gotta expect storms.
We hit Star Wars Weekends on Saturday. Wow. Lots busier than I remember last time we were there. Star Tours immediately had a 20 minute posted wait. We didn't do a heckuva lot...say some characters, but didn't wait in line...bought out the store of SW stuff.
DH and kids went back with their FP for RnRC and we bailed. It was getting really hot and humid and I just don't do that well even drinking water non stop.
We did MK on Sunday...had CP for early breakfast...rode BTMRR twice in a row and upon exiting the 2nd time we were all awarded Dream Fastpasses for MK for the day. That was very fun to take our time and know we could use those whenever we wanted.
And by the way, saw Captain Jack Sparrow...CM did a great job...totally in character...my DD got picked to be a pirate apprentice...loved every minute of it!
Oh, I wanted to go see the AKV model and asked the DVC person at the BCV how early the preview center opens. He said that the models were under renovation this weekend and would open up again on Monday (6/11). So we drive over to SSR on Monday before we drive to the airport only to be told that it closed Monday morning and had been open all weekend! Argh!
So if you are going to WDW soon, the AKV model is being renovated and will be open again on Thursday (6/14). They didn't share with me what was new, but said if I watched the DVD that it would look like that. For me...not the same as seeing it in person.
