Trip Report An Anniversary/Birthday Trip to Remember, December 2024

We're back!! And there were many memorable things about our trip, some fantastic and some not so great things, but overall a wonderful trip!

Quick overview:
Who: me (Amy) and my husband, Brian
Why: we were celebrating our 25th anniversary and 50th birthdays, just 1 year late!
Where: Caribbean Beach Resort, Jamaica building 42
When: December 6-11, 2024

We had a later flight out of Columbus, so left our house about 3pm and made it in plenty of time for Brian to nap before we had to board!
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We were scheduled to depart at 5:45, so got to see the sunset from the ground and the air.
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I was unlucky enough to have a young child behind me that kicked my chair the entire 2 hour flight until about 10 minutes before we started our descent. We asked nicely and the flight attendant asked nicely and the mom continued to sleep with her earbuds in, so in addition to the kicking, we got to constantly hear "mom, mom"! Longest two hour flight ever!

I was worried about having to check a bag, but it made it MCO with us and in good condition, so that was a relief! Our driver met us and we were soon on our way and seeing these:
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We got our room ready text while on the way. We were booked into a water/pool view 5th sleeper since that was all that available using the Bounceback offer for our dates. I had requested Jamaica and that our water view be of Barefoot Bay and not a pool. I also requested to be near the Skyliner. Yay, all of my requests were granted!!
 

TheMouseFan

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Then we headed to our first LL of the day.
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We got stopped in a boat jam at the end of the ride, so I was able to get this:
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Not sure what I was looking at since I know where the camera is!
After tapping in, I got an evening LL for BTMR.

We had some time before our next LL, so we headed to BTMR for a daytime ride since the wait was still short.
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TheMouseFan

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Fun ride, as always! I have to tell you, when we got back and I was seeing all of the crane pics, I was afraid that I had been terribly unobservant because I did not remember seeing that crane! Thank goodness my pictures confirm that I was not unobservant, the crane just wasn't there!! Apparently, it went up on the 10th and we were there on the 7th.

It was a little too early for our next LL, but I didn't want to stray too far from the area, so we went over to check out the Critter Co-op. I was not terribly impressed!
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TheMouseFan

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I tried to go in with an open mind, and I thought it was a really cute ride! I think there is a lot of dead space that could have been filled in better like it was on Splash, but overall I was pleasantly surprised! We were given the back row without having to ask for it and I used a cheap poncho to cover my lap and bag, so we got minimally wet! Our boarding group was called as we were riding the first time, but we opted to not take any chances on getting wet and cancelled out.
 

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