ReneeQ
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 6, 2000
And I'm so depressed to be home. I just hate it when the trip is over! But we had a great trip!
We were last home in Oct. and that time we had a 1BR boardwalk view. I was prepared to be "let down" this time because we had a standard view studio. Well, it's true what everyone says, it's hard to go from a 1BR to a studio, but it can be done. The studio was beautiful! We were in room 4071, TWO DOORS from the elevator overlooking the front entrance. Great location and the room was in perfect condition. I had made this reservation 10 months in advance and had requested non-smoking, top floor, near elevator. I got all requests.
We used the walkway last night from MGM to the BW. I did not want to do it, my legs were killing me, but my husband was dying to see how long it really took. We had taken the boat to MGM that morning and the driver had said it was a 12 minute walk from the front gate of MGM to the main pool at the BW. Well, I was dragging and walking SLOW, and it took us about 17 minutes from the front gate to the pool. Not bad at all.
There were NO crowds. This is the emptiest I had EVER seen WDW and this was my 17th trip in 10 years. Even the MK was not crowded. Most everything was only a 10 minute wait. We walked right up to the loading area on Splash Mtn and Space Mtn. in the middle of the afternoon on Tuesday. The longest wait we had was Test Track in the middle of the day at 15 minutes. It was wonderful. Most things you just walked right on. We had one 10 minute wait for a bus, but most of the time a bus was waiting for us.
The strangest thing I noticed was the use of so many cell phones. A woman answered her ringing phone on the safari ride in the AK and said "oh, we're riding the safari, what are you doing?" As we were getting off of Test Track the guy behind us called someone on his cell phone and said, "there is no wait, get over to Test Track and quit being a wimp!" I guess they were using their phones instead of the two-way radios, but it still seemed strange!
We had a GREAT trip! I'd be happy to answer any questions, if I can.
We were last home in Oct. and that time we had a 1BR boardwalk view. I was prepared to be "let down" this time because we had a standard view studio. Well, it's true what everyone says, it's hard to go from a 1BR to a studio, but it can be done. The studio was beautiful! We were in room 4071, TWO DOORS from the elevator overlooking the front entrance. Great location and the room was in perfect condition. I had made this reservation 10 months in advance and had requested non-smoking, top floor, near elevator. I got all requests.
We used the walkway last night from MGM to the BW. I did not want to do it, my legs were killing me, but my husband was dying to see how long it really took. We had taken the boat to MGM that morning and the driver had said it was a 12 minute walk from the front gate of MGM to the main pool at the BW. Well, I was dragging and walking SLOW, and it took us about 17 minutes from the front gate to the pool. Not bad at all.
There were NO crowds. This is the emptiest I had EVER seen WDW and this was my 17th trip in 10 years. Even the MK was not crowded. Most everything was only a 10 minute wait. We walked right up to the loading area on Splash Mtn and Space Mtn. in the middle of the afternoon on Tuesday. The longest wait we had was Test Track in the middle of the day at 15 minutes. It was wonderful. Most things you just walked right on. We had one 10 minute wait for a bus, but most of the time a bus was waiting for us.
The strangest thing I noticed was the use of so many cell phones. A woman answered her ringing phone on the safari ride in the AK and said "oh, we're riding the safari, what are you doing?" As we were getting off of Test Track the guy behind us called someone on his cell phone and said, "there is no wait, get over to Test Track and quit being a wimp!" I guess they were using their phones instead of the two-way radios, but it still seemed strange!
We had a GREAT trip! I'd be happy to answer any questions, if I can.