Hello. I'm new to this forum and this is my first post. I've read many reports on here prior to our recent trip and I thought it'd be fun to write one myself. I've learned a lot on this forum and would like to share my own experience.
We are a family of 4. My husband and I have 2 little princesses: Riley(4) and Avery(2). Riley just went on her third trip and Avery was on her second. My husband and I lived in Florida most of our lives and have been to Disney as children, teens, and adults. I've always liked Disney, but never really been crazy about it. As I entered my adult years and developed a fear for roller coasters my interest to go diminished...until I had a child. I could not wait to take Riley to go and finally did it when she turned 3, and regretted not doing it sooner. This was less than a year ago and we just came back from our third trip. They all keep getting and better and the girls enjoy it more each visit. Riley is probably as big as a fanatic as I am now. Avery is not as addicted as we are yet but she does enjoy it enough to be excited to go. Since we live in Florida, we take shorter trips than most people and usually only stay 2-3 nights can try to go a few times a year. Hopefully I can keep documenting these trips so I can remember them better.
The Trip - 4/1 - 4/4
We stayed 3 nights this time at POR at their Royal rooms. Did I mentioned Riley is currently at a princess obsessed stage where she literally thinks she is a princess
? Who am I to correct her?
For this trip, we were really "home".
I wanted to try to spend more time at the resort this trip since I feel like we never do. I wanted to use the pool more than once and be able to use more of their facilities. Here's what we did on arrival day:
We (I) woke up around 6 to get myself ready first before waking the crew. Riley woke up shortly after. Since she knew we were going to Disney she was too excited to sleep. Everyone was ready a little after 7 and we loaded the car and was on our way around 7:20. I had made some chocolate muffins for the trip the night before so we don't have to stop to buy breakfast. We only made a short potty stop and was at the resort around 10:40 am. I did not rush this time since we won't be hitting parks today. POR was packed. Since I haven't gotten any text about the room yet we parked the car and was off to our first adventure (no park doesn't mean no fun). We were going to take the girls on their first monorail ride!
I guess resort hopping isn't appealing to kids since my girls weren't all that interested
. I was probably the only one who wanted to explore the resorts so we cut our resort hopping itinerary short and went to lunch. By then, everyone was starving. I should mention that my girls LOVE food and would eat anything under the sun. I think they're probably just as excited about food and rides (don't tell them about Food and Wine or I'd go broke). Anyway, we stopped at Capt. Cooks for lunch and we all had a great meal. In contrast, my husband and I are not big eaters so we usually share 3 adult sized meals since the kids menu usually only offer limited choices. We had Pulled-Pork Nachos, Thai Coconut Meatballs, and Seafood Curry Stew and cleared everything in no time. Riley suggested (asking about 58 times) to go swimming after lunch and since we have not received our room-ready text, I agreed (It was in the plans anyway ). They fell asleep on our way back to POR (which was great because I know once we get there, they would refuse to).
Once we were back the lines were gone so I figured I would check to see if the room was ready, and it was (it was almost 3PM)! When I made the reservation, I made 3 requests: 1) Oak Manor 2) Corner Room, and 3) Ground Floor. We did not get one of them. I didn't want to waste time waiting for another room since I wanted to go change and get in the pool so I didn't say anything. Now that I think back I probably should have because a ground floor room would have helped A LOT. The location of the room was great as it was near the bridge to the bus stop/lobby/pool. However, the elevator was NOT. It would not have been a problem if we didn't have a double stroller, but we had to go thru a maze to and from the elevator when our room was literally right there by the bridge in Parterre Place. We ended up asking the girls to get up from the stroller and folded the stroller and go up the stairs many times during the trip (if they weren't sleeping). We have a very lightweight stroller (16 lbs) so we preferred that than walking the maze.
I will post some pictures later! Thanks for reading!
We are a family of 4. My husband and I have 2 little princesses: Riley(4) and Avery(2). Riley just went on her third trip and Avery was on her second. My husband and I lived in Florida most of our lives and have been to Disney as children, teens, and adults. I've always liked Disney, but never really been crazy about it. As I entered my adult years and developed a fear for roller coasters my interest to go diminished...until I had a child. I could not wait to take Riley to go and finally did it when she turned 3, and regretted not doing it sooner. This was less than a year ago and we just came back from our third trip. They all keep getting and better and the girls enjoy it more each visit. Riley is probably as big as a fanatic as I am now. Avery is not as addicted as we are yet but she does enjoy it enough to be excited to go. Since we live in Florida, we take shorter trips than most people and usually only stay 2-3 nights can try to go a few times a year. Hopefully I can keep documenting these trips so I can remember them better.
The Trip - 4/1 - 4/4
We stayed 3 nights this time at POR at their Royal rooms. Did I mentioned Riley is currently at a princess obsessed stage where she literally thinks she is a princess
? Who am I to correct her?For this trip, we were really "home".
I wanted to try to spend more time at the resort this trip since I feel like we never do. I wanted to use the pool more than once and be able to use more of their facilities. Here's what we did on arrival day:
We (I) woke up around 6 to get myself ready first before waking the crew. Riley woke up shortly after. Since she knew we were going to Disney she was too excited to sleep. Everyone was ready a little after 7 and we loaded the car and was on our way around 7:20. I had made some chocolate muffins for the trip the night before so we don't have to stop to buy breakfast. We only made a short potty stop and was at the resort around 10:40 am. I did not rush this time since we won't be hitting parks today. POR was packed. Since I haven't gotten any text about the room yet we parked the car and was off to our first adventure (no park doesn't mean no fun). We were going to take the girls on their first monorail ride!
I guess resort hopping isn't appealing to kids since my girls weren't all that interested
. I was probably the only one who wanted to explore the resorts so we cut our resort hopping itinerary short and went to lunch. By then, everyone was starving. I should mention that my girls LOVE food and would eat anything under the sun. I think they're probably just as excited about food and rides (don't tell them about Food and Wine or I'd go broke). Anyway, we stopped at Capt. Cooks for lunch and we all had a great meal. In contrast, my husband and I are not big eaters so we usually share 3 adult sized meals since the kids menu usually only offer limited choices. We had Pulled-Pork Nachos, Thai Coconut Meatballs, and Seafood Curry Stew and cleared everything in no time. Riley suggested (asking about 58 times) to go swimming after lunch and since we have not received our room-ready text, I agreed (It was in the plans anyway ). They fell asleep on our way back to POR (which was great because I know once we get there, they would refuse to). Once we were back the lines were gone so I figured I would check to see if the room was ready, and it was (it was almost 3PM)! When I made the reservation, I made 3 requests: 1) Oak Manor 2) Corner Room, and 3) Ground Floor. We did not get one of them
. I didn't want to waste time waiting for another room since I wanted to go change and get in the pool so I didn't say anything. Now that I think back I probably should have because a ground floor room would have helped A LOT. The location of the room was great as it was near the bridge to the bus stop/lobby/pool. However, the elevator was NOT. It would not have been a problem if we didn't have a double stroller, but we had to go thru a maze to and from the elevator when our room was literally right there by the bridge in Parterre Place. We ended up asking the girls to get up from the stroller and folded the stroller and go up the stairs many times during the trip (if they weren't sleeping). We have a very lightweight stroller (16 lbs) so we preferred that than walking the maze. I will post some pictures later! Thanks for reading!
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. I imagined the worst and thought what am I suppose to tell Riley if the ride is down the entire day?
