Hello, I'm a new member. My name is Alan. I've been reading these boards for tips the past few months. My family (wife, 2 children ages 1 and 3 1/2. And Parents.
I wanted to write how good our trip was to WDW during the last week of May. We had 2 connecting rooms at the Caribbean Beach Resort. Everyone in the family loved the resort. We had a good location in Jamaica Bldg 44 right neat the quiet pool and a walk across the Island to the food court. Let me start by saying that WDW is just a fantastic place to visit. The high quality of all the attractions and the friendliness of the all the employees is just amazing. My parents came along to enjoy a relaxing vacation and to help us watch my 1 year old daughter while my wife and I spent much of the time going to the parks with my 3 1/2 year old daughter. My wife and I made a few trips during the 90's before we had children and they were great trips. But finally having our own daughter and watching her really enjoy everything just really made the trip something spectacular. Her favorite things were meeting the characters and driving the cars at the Magic Kingdom.
Here's the not so good part about our vacation: My dad became ill at the resort late in the week around 9pm. We had to call 911 from the resort and the paramedics were there within 5 min. They took him to Celebration Hospital where he spent 3 nights(I'm not going to go into detail about what happend but he's fine and back home). The Caribbean Beach resort manager also stopped by while the paramedics were there. He introduced himself and told me quote "whatever I needed he would help me and my family and hoped my dad was going to be ok" He also paid for my cab back to the resort at 2am. 20.00 dollars. The resort also wiped my phone bill clean since I was making lots of calls. Since this happened at the end of our vacation I statyed in Orlando for 3 extra nights with my dad and the rest of my family flew home (didnn't want to pay 100 change fee per ticket for the entire family). Went to the Caribbean guest services and explained that I needed 3 more nights and asked if I could have my discounted rate of 89.00 per night and they said no problem. All of this good service really impressed and I can say that Disney really came thru and made a very stressful situation less stressful. Hats off to Disney!! part 2 coming up.
I wanted to write how good our trip was to WDW during the last week of May. We had 2 connecting rooms at the Caribbean Beach Resort. Everyone in the family loved the resort. We had a good location in Jamaica Bldg 44 right neat the quiet pool and a walk across the Island to the food court. Let me start by saying that WDW is just a fantastic place to visit. The high quality of all the attractions and the friendliness of the all the employees is just amazing. My parents came along to enjoy a relaxing vacation and to help us watch my 1 year old daughter while my wife and I spent much of the time going to the parks with my 3 1/2 year old daughter. My wife and I made a few trips during the 90's before we had children and they were great trips. But finally having our own daughter and watching her really enjoy everything just really made the trip something spectacular. Her favorite things were meeting the characters and driving the cars at the Magic Kingdom.
Here's the not so good part about our vacation: My dad became ill at the resort late in the week around 9pm. We had to call 911 from the resort and the paramedics were there within 5 min. They took him to Celebration Hospital where he spent 3 nights(I'm not going to go into detail about what happend but he's fine and back home). The Caribbean Beach resort manager also stopped by while the paramedics were there. He introduced himself and told me quote "whatever I needed he would help me and my family and hoped my dad was going to be ok" He also paid for my cab back to the resort at 2am. 20.00 dollars. The resort also wiped my phone bill clean since I was making lots of calls. Since this happened at the end of our vacation I statyed in Orlando for 3 extra nights with my dad and the rest of my family flew home (didnn't want to pay 100 change fee per ticket for the entire family). Went to the Caribbean guest services and explained that I needed 3 more nights and asked if I could have my discounted rate of 89.00 per night and they said no problem. All of this good service really impressed and I can say that Disney really came thru and made a very stressful situation less stressful. Hats off to Disney!! part 2 coming up.
