I’d like to do a little trip report on a recent WDW trip we just completed. We stayed at POFQ from March 26th through April 5th, 2013, for a total of nine days and 10 nights.
We are a family of four, our two 11 year old boys and Mom and Me, late fortyish parents from St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
We have been fortunate to have had seven previous Disney trips from our first stay during Easter week at POFQ in 2007, (hence the TR title), to an interesting 16 day trip last June/July, where we combined six days at POR, took a seven night Carnival cruise, and three nights which were supposed to be at CBR, but ended up at POFQ.
After we booked our 2012 trip, we found very rare Easter frequent flyer tickets for this Easter, and jumped at the opportunity. This gave us two trips in a 365 day period, so AP’s and the TiW card were purchased last summer.
Day 0 March 26th.
We got up at 3am Eastern to catch a 4:30 am flight. The weather had been forecast to be very foggy for several days to come, which happens a lot here, but we were lucky to get out on schedule. Our flight stopped in Halifax long enough to change planes for a flight to Montreal. Both flights were about 2 hours allowing me to watch Jack Reacher which was a pretty good movie.
Unfortunately we had an 8.5 hour layover in Montreal, which passed ever so slowly, before we caught the 3 hour flight to MCO. The boys handled it well, playing games on their iPad Minis, Mom napped a bit, I watched Top Gear on my new iPhone.
The flight to MCO was good and got there on time. DME was slower to load and leave than usual, and we rolled in to POFQ at about 11pm. The front desk was unable to meet our room request, but gave us a room in bldg 4 overlooking the parking lot on the third floor, telling us they would have the requested room the next day.
We took the room keys and hit the hay, as 21 hour days are hard indeed. We careful not to unpack too much, as we were moving the next day. We did note the newer lighter blue room keys and the new slotless door locks on the room doors.
It was good to be back at POFQ, which after visiting several resorts is our favorite choice of all the Disney resorts.
We are a family of four, our two 11 year old boys and Mom and Me, late fortyish parents from St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
We have been fortunate to have had seven previous Disney trips from our first stay during Easter week at POFQ in 2007, (hence the TR title), to an interesting 16 day trip last June/July, where we combined six days at POR, took a seven night Carnival cruise, and three nights which were supposed to be at CBR, but ended up at POFQ.
After we booked our 2012 trip, we found very rare Easter frequent flyer tickets for this Easter, and jumped at the opportunity. This gave us two trips in a 365 day period, so AP’s and the TiW card were purchased last summer.
Day 0 March 26th.
We got up at 3am Eastern to catch a 4:30 am flight. The weather had been forecast to be very foggy for several days to come, which happens a lot here, but we were lucky to get out on schedule. Our flight stopped in Halifax long enough to change planes for a flight to Montreal. Both flights were about 2 hours allowing me to watch Jack Reacher which was a pretty good movie.
Unfortunately we had an 8.5 hour layover in Montreal, which passed ever so slowly, before we caught the 3 hour flight to MCO. The boys handled it well, playing games on their iPad Minis, Mom napped a bit, I watched Top Gear on my new iPhone.
The flight to MCO was good and got there on time. DME was slower to load and leave than usual, and we rolled in to POFQ at about 11pm. The front desk was unable to meet our room request, but gave us a room in bldg 4 overlooking the parking lot on the third floor, telling us they would have the requested room the next day.
We took the room keys and hit the hay, as 21 hour days are hard indeed. We careful not to unpack too much, as we were moving the next day. We did note the newer lighter blue room keys and the new slotless door locks on the room doors.
It was good to be back at POFQ, which after visiting several resorts is our favorite choice of all the Disney resorts.
