I believe my trip report posting style has become infamous.
Anyhow, finally...after how many years?! Finally spent 3 days 2 nights hardcore on property. No more mooching off of relatives' homes, or downtown sort-of-on-property disney. Nope...I took my AP discount and stayed at Disney's Collins Avenue Resort.
I mean Bay Lake Tower! Me and two relatives got a 1BR suite on the 14th floor that claimed to be a lake view but was more both lake view and contemporary tower view.
I got demoted to sleeper sofa, which was not bad at all. More comfortable than other sleeper sofas. Did not enjoy all the wall measurements still written on a few of the walls in the room by construction. Maybe it was to make me feel like I was in an abandoned Miami condo that was half finished?
The pool at BLT was really nice, funny thing is, I couldn't find any BLT's to eat at BLT!
One of the days in the afternoon we begged the front desk at BLT for us non DVCers to see top of the world lounge. They allowed us to, only if we sold our souls to the devil, which we all immediately did.
The view from up there is quite impressive, but damn is their lounge more of a closet space with seats, than a lounge.
One of the nights we had dinner at California Grill. 2 things I didn't like: I'm reliving the 90s decor wise, and they need to make a stronger dress code and enforce it. I dressed up, my party did as well, a few others did it looked like, but most people were dressed to go shopping at walmart on a saturday morning.
The food was great, the view was amazing, and we lucked out with no rain. Spent our time at the MK. Crowds were tolerable. It was the first time they saw the new HM queue and they too enjoyed it. The only other thing to note is while the new new mickey meet n greet looks nice on the inside, it is very bare and offers very little to entertain people. Cell phones and texting where out in full force.
One of our days, I did the Epcot unDiscovered future world tour. That was pretty fun. I think the guide got some facts wrong, but we did enter backstage at soarin and got to ride. Saw some lounges and a lot of backstage stuff. Three things to note: In the backstage area of Imagination, there is a set piece "fantasy" spelled out from the original ride in the room you used to enter where every word was some sort of action. Like "rumble" would rumble, etc.
Behind world showcase we saw costuming, and the Figment AA with the blocks that used to change to say "cat","rat", etc is there on a shelf, a long with some yellow jar of whatever from kitchen kabaret.
Also to note the old Epcot SSE geosphere that used to be in the planters in innoventions plaza...this goes way back....it's still there at the entrance to costuming now. You can find what I'm talking about on google images.
Our tour was small and we toured with a sweatshirt family from LA. The mom was decked out in her disneyland sweatshirt and pins and I'm sure she got felt up at LAX with all that metal.
The kids were typical "I'm from california, a teen, and I haven't hit puberty" and acted as lifeless as a broken animatronic.
Also, speaking of sweatshirters....fanbois.....we can talk about disney all day online, but please stop talking about every historical fact when you and your party are touring the parks.
I was blessed to sit near a fanboy with a thick Rochester accent on PoTC and next to two fandad's who wouldn't shut up at epcot.
Anyhow...enjoyed staying on property, california grill was great, the epcot tour was awesome, and yes I'll continue to play in the Hm graveyard.
Anyhow, finally...after how many years?! Finally spent 3 days 2 nights hardcore on property. No more mooching off of relatives' homes, or downtown sort-of-on-property disney. Nope...I took my AP discount and stayed at Disney's Collins Avenue Resort.
I mean Bay Lake Tower! Me and two relatives got a 1BR suite on the 14th floor that claimed to be a lake view but was more both lake view and contemporary tower view.
I got demoted to sleeper sofa, which was not bad at all. More comfortable than other sleeper sofas. Did not enjoy all the wall measurements still written on a few of the walls in the room by construction. Maybe it was to make me feel like I was in an abandoned Miami condo that was half finished?
The pool at BLT was really nice, funny thing is, I couldn't find any BLT's to eat at BLT!
One of the days in the afternoon we begged the front desk at BLT for us non DVCers to see top of the world lounge. They allowed us to, only if we sold our souls to the devil, which we all immediately did.
The view from up there is quite impressive, but damn is their lounge more of a closet space with seats, than a lounge.
One of the nights we had dinner at California Grill. 2 things I didn't like: I'm reliving the 90s decor wise, and they need to make a stronger dress code and enforce it. I dressed up, my party did as well, a few others did it looked like, but most people were dressed to go shopping at walmart on a saturday morning.
The food was great, the view was amazing, and we lucked out with no rain. Spent our time at the MK. Crowds were tolerable. It was the first time they saw the new HM queue and they too enjoyed it. The only other thing to note is while the new new mickey meet n greet looks nice on the inside, it is very bare and offers very little to entertain people. Cell phones and texting where out in full force.
One of our days, I did the Epcot unDiscovered future world tour. That was pretty fun. I think the guide got some facts wrong, but we did enter backstage at soarin and got to ride. Saw some lounges and a lot of backstage stuff. Three things to note: In the backstage area of Imagination, there is a set piece "fantasy" spelled out from the original ride in the room you used to enter where every word was some sort of action. Like "rumble" would rumble, etc.
Behind world showcase we saw costuming, and the Figment AA with the blocks that used to change to say "cat","rat", etc is there on a shelf, a long with some yellow jar of whatever from kitchen kabaret.
Also to note the old Epcot SSE geosphere that used to be in the planters in innoventions plaza...this goes way back....it's still there at the entrance to costuming now. You can find what I'm talking about on google images.
Our tour was small and we toured with a sweatshirt family from LA. The mom was decked out in her disneyland sweatshirt and pins and I'm sure she got felt up at LAX with all that metal.
The kids were typical "I'm from california, a teen, and I haven't hit puberty" and acted as lifeless as a broken animatronic.
Also, speaking of sweatshirters....fanbois.....we can talk about disney all day online, but please stop talking about every historical fact when you and your party are touring the parks.
I was blessed to sit near a fanboy with a thick Rochester accent on PoTC and next to two fandad's who wouldn't shut up at epcot.
Anyhow...enjoyed staying on property, california grill was great, the epcot tour was awesome, and yes I'll continue to play in the Hm graveyard.
