We are back and wanted to give a full report on our adventures!!
We left for the airport early wednesday morning 5-4, everything went really smooth, no problems with our flights or connecting flights! My dd 7 did throw up on the first flight and our ds 10 (maw child) threw up on the second flight!! That happened b/c we had no time to eat at all!! We had some left overs from the limo ride to the hotel but it wasn't a meal that they needed! We did have one small problem: We were told from our wish cordinators that a shuttle would pick us up in the morning to take us to the airport, but when we asked the front desk about it, there was no shuttle! So we took a cab to the airport which was only about 5 min. away. We got to GKTW around 2:00, so we had alot of time to check out the village, it is fantastic!! For those of you that will be going soon you are in for a wonderful treat!! My kids wanted to stay at this place more than the parks and we did! They have so much to do there, and then they give you so many places you could go to besides the parks! The villas are great also we were in #108 it was right across a pond and it was beautiful!! J-me another disboard member was in the villa about 4 doors down from us, so we did get to meet! IT WAS NICE MEETING YOU J-ME! We did go to MK and it rained of course but just off and on, we only had to wait 10 min. at the most for a ride so that was nice, and when we got in line for a character meet and great they came and pulled us aside and the characters came to us, the cm told us to always go to a cm with the characters b/c you get to be first! We also did SW and dining with shamu that was nice but it was very crowed there and it was hard to get to one show to another, and we didn't get to see everything ther. ANd at the pets ahoy show we started to walk in (10 min until show time) and a cm stopped us and said that the handicapped viewing area was full so we didn't get to see that one and was kinda of surprised that it could be full, b/c all the other shows had plenty of seating for w/c. Oh well! We also went to Animal kingdom I loved this place! If anyone is going do the lion king show it is awesome!! We wanted to do the safari ride, so when we came to the entrance the cm pointed me into the regular line, I didn't much about it b/c we saw other w/c ahead and thought ok, BIG mistake, we were in that line over a half an hour! I think he should have put us in the fast pass line , that's what they did everywhere else we went, he must not have seen our button. Then we went to the river rapids line, and the cm there told us to go in a regular line and I questioned him about it and showed him our button and then he let us go in the fast pass line! So word to the wise question the cm if they try to put you in a regular line!! This only happened at AK. Animal kingom closes at 5:00 so again we didn't get to see everything so we went back the next day for a few hours and then hopped over to epcot, the only trouble we had at epcot was when we went to get a stroller for our dd they tried to charge us for it we keeped telling him that we get a free one with the GKTW button, but he said he knew nothing about it, so we showed him the reciept for the one from AK and got one that way! We didn't enjoy epcot very much, not a whole lot of rides for my kids, we did eat at the coral reef restraunt- did not like this place, the food was too fancy for us common people and it just didn't tast very good and it was expensive! Most of our time was spent at the village we played putt-putt golf over 7 times, watched a movie, one day we swam at the pool, played games, etc, we always ate breakfast and dinner there- the food is great by the way! DS fished about three times and the kids just loved playing in the castle and at the train place, it was alot of fun there!!! One night they had christmas with snow, another night was Mayor Clayton's b-day party, that bunny cracks me up!! Every day and night there is some kind of activity and they have characters come to get your pictures taken with: AND they are not kidding when they say bring empty luggage with you b/c they send you home with so much you will need the extra room!! We packed light but we still could have left some of the kids' t-shirts at home they get two t-shirts when you check in!! And they gave us plenty of laundry soap to do laundry!! There is so much more I could tell but that will take awhile to type, if anyone has any ? I can probably answer them!
We left for the airport early wednesday morning 5-4, everything went really smooth, no problems with our flights or connecting flights! My dd 7 did throw up on the first flight and our ds 10 (maw child) threw up on the second flight!! That happened b/c we had no time to eat at all!! We had some left overs from the limo ride to the hotel but it wasn't a meal that they needed! We did have one small problem: We were told from our wish cordinators that a shuttle would pick us up in the morning to take us to the airport, but when we asked the front desk about it, there was no shuttle! So we took a cab to the airport which was only about 5 min. away. We got to GKTW around 2:00, so we had alot of time to check out the village, it is fantastic!! For those of you that will be going soon you are in for a wonderful treat!! My kids wanted to stay at this place more than the parks and we did! They have so much to do there, and then they give you so many places you could go to besides the parks! The villas are great also we were in #108 it was right across a pond and it was beautiful!! J-me another disboard member was in the villa about 4 doors down from us, so we did get to meet! IT WAS NICE MEETING YOU J-ME! We did go to MK and it rained of course but just off and on, we only had to wait 10 min. at the most for a ride so that was nice, and when we got in line for a character meet and great they came and pulled us aside and the characters came to us, the cm told us to always go to a cm with the characters b/c you get to be first! We also did SW and dining with shamu that was nice but it was very crowed there and it was hard to get to one show to another, and we didn't get to see everything ther. ANd at the pets ahoy show we started to walk in (10 min until show time) and a cm stopped us and said that the handicapped viewing area was full so we didn't get to see that one and was kinda of surprised that it could be full, b/c all the other shows had plenty of seating for w/c. Oh well! We also went to Animal kingdom I loved this place! If anyone is going do the lion king show it is awesome!! We wanted to do the safari ride, so when we came to the entrance the cm pointed me into the regular line, I didn't much about it b/c we saw other w/c ahead and thought ok, BIG mistake, we were in that line over a half an hour! I think he should have put us in the fast pass line , that's what they did everywhere else we went, he must not have seen our button. Then we went to the river rapids line, and the cm there told us to go in a regular line and I questioned him about it and showed him our button and then he let us go in the fast pass line! So word to the wise question the cm if they try to put you in a regular line!! This only happened at AK. Animal kingom closes at 5:00 so again we didn't get to see everything so we went back the next day for a few hours and then hopped over to epcot, the only trouble we had at epcot was when we went to get a stroller for our dd they tried to charge us for it we keeped telling him that we get a free one with the GKTW button, but he said he knew nothing about it, so we showed him the reciept for the one from AK and got one that way! We didn't enjoy epcot very much, not a whole lot of rides for my kids, we did eat at the coral reef restraunt- did not like this place, the food was too fancy for us common people and it just didn't tast very good and it was expensive! Most of our time was spent at the village we played putt-putt golf over 7 times, watched a movie, one day we swam at the pool, played games, etc, we always ate breakfast and dinner there- the food is great by the way! DS fished about three times and the kids just loved playing in the castle and at the train place, it was alot of fun there!!! One night they had christmas with snow, another night was Mayor Clayton's b-day party, that bunny cracks me up!! Every day and night there is some kind of activity and they have characters come to get your pictures taken with: AND they are not kidding when they say bring empty luggage with you b/c they send you home with so much you will need the extra room!! We packed light but we still could have left some of the kids' t-shirts at home they get two t-shirts when you check in!! And they gave us plenty of laundry soap to do laundry!! There is so much more I could tell but that will take awhile to type, if anyone has any ? I can probably answer them!