We finally arrived at our resort, Wilderness Lodge, around 5:00 or so yesterday evening. Check-in went relatively smoothly and we had very nice, personable cast member to assist us. We're not quite crazy about the location of our room (basically out the middle of nowhere facing outwards toward the villas, but it'll do......we won't spend much time there anyway. After getting ourselves settled in, we took the launch over to the Magic Kingdom which we stayed at up until closing time. For a very busy weekend, which it was, we still managed to get on the majority of things we wanted to: Buzz, Space Mtn, Haunted Mansion, PoTc (although the first time we went to it, it was down for "technical difficulties"), TTA (although it too had some kind of outage for roughly an hour before we got to ride it), Mickey's Philharmagic, and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Since this was our first trip to WDW since all the New Fantasyland construction was announced, I have to say so far I'm very impresssed with what I was able to see. I don't know why I was surprised, but seeing the 7 Dwarves Mine Train so close to Pooh and so forth made me realize how little room they actually have for the project. I guess looking at the project site from Google Maps made it look a little more spaced out. We did have a quick-service dinner at Cosmic Ray's - as seems to be our usual custom on our day of arrival visit to the parks, and I was glad to see another dessert offering besides the carrot cake and fudge cake. Several of us got the mango gelato, which was actually very good. I think word needs to get out to do an updating on Sonny Eclipse's programming. Right now we're all getting ourselves ready to start our first full day, beginning with a trip over to Animal Kingdom and a lunch later on at T-Rex.
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DisneyDebNJ
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Awesome!!!! Have a GREAT time!!! Wishing you great weather and lots of pixie dust!!!
ShookieJones
We need time for things to happen.
Congrats on a safe touch down in the World.
Your first half day there and you're already tearing up the parks. LOVE it.
Sounds like you have a great first full day planned as well.
Do me a favor please inform MK, EP, DHS and AK that I'll be there in 3 short days.
And yes...I'm kicking all their a$$es and no...there will be no mercy.
Your first half day there and you're already tearing up the parks. LOVE it.
Sounds like you have a great first full day planned as well.
Do me a favor please inform MK, EP, DHS and AK that I'll be there in 3 short days.
And yes...I'm kicking all their a$$es and no...there will be no mercy.
myhappyplace
Crazy Cat Lady
Awesome! Great start to what will be a great stay, I am sure. I am so jealous of you for staying at WL-it's my dream deluxe to try sometime, no matter the room location. But I never have for exactly the reason you said-I don't spend much time there. Enjoy the rest of your stay and I can't wait to read more!
Thanks guys. I was sure that for being the weekend, we'd hardly get on anything, but so far we've gone to MK, AK, and DHS and have gone on the main attractions in each one, with minimal wait on standby and also with use of fastpass. Today being Monday, hopefully we'll start finding the parks a little emptier.
The crowds really started thinning out as of Tuesday. That's for most of the attractions, some though still have a good 15-20 minute wait (like Maelstrom, for example....which is odd). This evening, we went over to MK again and it appeared to be packed, yet we rode Space Mtn and Buzz Lightyear over and over and over again with no wait longer than 5 minutes.