Trip Report Bay Lake Tower...Feb 2014...1 week, 2 park days, More Photos than Words....Done, Finally!

I always enjoy hearing about others trips I thought it was time I do my share so here is my first trip report. Hope you enjoy!

In August 2013 we confirmed a timeshare exchange for a 1 bedroom, lakeview room at Bay Lake Tower for February 23-March 2, 2014. So excited as BLT was our number one choice of where we wanted to stay. Once that was confirmed all the planning began, which I will skip, and get to the trip, and photos (we took 2985 photos during the week).

We decided to do a more relaxing trip this time and only go to the parks a couple days. We always plan to do all the "other Disney stuff" but never get around to it. This trip we planned on doing lots of things we never had done before.


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Sunday Feb 23 we flew from Northeast Ohio to Orlando. What a great winter to do a Disney vacation in late February! We took the first flight out of town and landed in Orlando by 9:15am! We let Mickey do all the driving, for the first time didn't rent a car and wasn't sure how it was going to work out. (Ended up working out very well!)

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It didn't take long and we were on our way! This was our bus driver's first day on his own and you could tell he was nervous and drove a bit slow. We got a "cruise" bus so our video was all cruise related.



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The monorail! We stopped at the Poly and Wilderness Lodge before our stop, the Contemporary!

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We knew we were there way before check in, it was before noon. We figured we would drop our stuff at Bell Services but first went to the desk at the Contemporary to check in and let them know we were there. The young lady at the desk took the time to call and see if they could find us a room that was ready, and we got lucky, they had one, so off to the room we went! Room 8411, 14th floor (of 16 floors!) I wanted a high floor so I was happy and of course a bit disappointed as I knew the odd numbered rooms had no chance of seeing the Kingdom, oh well, it is a Lakeview room.

Getting off the elevator we were treated to quite the view.....
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Elevator doors, I see Mickey!

After taking in the view for a couple minutes we were off to see what our room had in store for us....more tomorrow, tired from first day back at work!
 
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mrsmtc

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We had a very similar location and view at BLT during our Sept. trip. We requested outside the semi circle, but got inside and wound up loving the lake view and Epcot and DTD balloon in the background. We had 9th floor and just loved it. We too did resort hopping then went to MK on Tuesday. Loved the walk over to and back from MK. The BLT location is wonderful and the second bathroom in the 1-bedroom was nice. Enjoying your trip report.


We so loved the view! And you can look at the MK from plenty of other places. The second bathroom is great, and it is only my husband and I. We each get one and can get ready at the same time and make whatever mess we want! The location was so much better than we imagined, not sure we can go back to riding packed buses back to the resort at the end of the day. It made not having a car much easier!
 

mrsmtc

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I agree, very good photos.


Thanks all. I wanted to get some pix of Disney that weren't the typical pix. I still have so many to post. We were without power yesterday for 13+ hours so I am behind in the report and all the other things I wanted to get done this weekend. Oh well!
 

mrsmtc

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Cut through Fantasyland to get to Space Mountain, the first ride we actually waited for, about 15 minutes. After that it was time to head to Be Our Guest for our FastPass lunch. I couldn't believe the long line people were waiting to eat!


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mrsmtc

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As we had a FastPass and preordered our meals we checked in and walked right in. I was concerned that we were missing the "experience" as we didn't wait anywhere till we had to pay. It all came to a stop when we got to the kiosk to pay. The cashier has a line on each side and she alternates back and forth, the family on the other side didn't speak English well and had no idea what they wanted. Eventually it was our turn and the cashier wanted to know who got the email for the invite for BOG. I had no idea what she was talking about as I found a link on this forum I used to make the FP ressie, I guess you are supposed to get an official email invite. Oh well, it worked, we confirmed our meals, paid and sat down.

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mrsmtc

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We had the Roast Beef Sandwiches and hubby had the Lemon Meringue Cupcake and I had the Master's Cupcake. YUM! Drinks are self serve just help yourself no need to wait for your food to be served.



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mrsmtc

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Anyone know why I keep getting this error when I try to upload some pictures:
.Security error occurred. Please press back, refresh the page, and try again.

Getting a bit frustrating as there are so many pix I would like to add that I can't. :confused:
 

wishing_upon_a_dstar

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Loving your TR so far, weare staying at BLT in August for our first DVC hiday, we requested a theme park view so fingers crossed. Thank you for sharing all your pictures, it looked like you had an amazing time ☺️
 

mrsmtc

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Loving your TR so far, weare staying at BLT in August for our first DVC hiday, we requested a theme park view so fingers crossed. Thank you for sharing all your pictures, it looked like you had an amazing time ☺️


Hope you have a great trip and get the view you want....BLT is great and the convenience to the park and transportation is incredible! We did have a great time!
 

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After a long day at the Magic Kingdom we were back in our room to catch the Electric Water Pageant! The view from our room! And the music is loud enough ya gotta go out and dance on your balcony!

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mrsmtc

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Wednesday morning was very foggy over Bay Lake....


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Too bad the elevators came so quickly as ya just don't get enough of this view!

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Headed to DTD again......
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Breakfast at Earl's
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