When and Where:
Dates: September 23 - October 5
Where: Numerous Spots
First dates -- September 23 and 24: Animal Kingdom Lodge
Well, as my friends and long time followers know, Mark and I have stayed at the CSR nine out of our last ten stays at Disney World. It just fits our lifestyle, our pocketbook and we just love everything about it.
HOWEVER, ever since the Animal Kingdom Lodge opened, I have been wanting to stay there. I could never justify the cost though 1) because I would HAVE to have a savannah view so that I could watch the giraffes, etc., and 2) we don't spend that much time at the resort for me to swallow that much money.
So a gal I work with informed me that she owned DVC and had several hundred points in a bank that she hadn't used and she would be more than happy to let Mark and I have some of those points. I told her we couldn't just "take" the points, but that we would pay for them. She kept on insisting she didn't want to charge us. Now, I've known her for years, but we aren't close friends, we are just work associates and we have lunch in the cafeteria from time to time. So we agreed to an amount (a lot less than we would get if we tried to go to the DVC board and tried to rent points) and she booked us two nights at the AKL in Jambo with a savannah view.
Hence, we are CHEATING on the CSR...for a bit.
The schedule is this:
Friday, September 23 -- take the 7 a.m. flight to Orlando (or Ft. Myers...depending on who has the cheapest air fare); check into here (pictures from internet):
And spend a little time here while waiting for room to be ready if it isn't when we get there:
Hopefully, get a room like this:
And then sit on the balcony and be in heaven and see this:
We are going to drive to CityWalk at Universal on this night and have dinner at Emeril's (or perhaps Emeril's Tchoup Chop).
Saturday, September 24 we plan on just hanging at the resort all day. We want to check out all of the animal lookouts, explore the lobby more closely and the african artwork, spend some time in the gift shop, more swimming in the pool. The plan is to have breakfast here:
I will be drinking plenty of this:
We will go to an early dinner at Earl of Sandwich and look around the stores at Downtown Disney.
Being that this is our very first stay at the AKL, if anyone has any suggestions for things to do at the resort, please let us know. We would be most grateful.
Up next, check in at the next resort