Well here is my long and detailed trip report, yes I did take notes.
Cast of characters Me, the ultimate type a mom, trip planner extrodinare, DH - o.k. he only puts up with Disney to placate me and is looking forward to riding mission space and the swan heavenly beds. The 3 ds's
DS 15 - Happy - the class clown
DS 13 - Doc - never wanted to get up early
DS 11 - Bashful - shy and a picky eater
Day 1 Sunday August 10
Picked up by Amin of Tiffany Towncar. Good Service and was at the Polynesian in about 30 minutes.
I timed the check in at 20 minutes. Juan was our castmember and he was great. We arrived at noon and had requested Samoa. I asked for a ground floor room by the pool as I explained that DS with asthma might not be breathing good after swimming and wanted him back to a room ASAP. He said there was a room on 2nd floor, (I politely said no thank you, knowing there was no balconies. He said there was a 3rd floor room today and we could get a 1st floor room starting Mon. I said o.k. But Juan worked the magic and his keyboard and he came up with room 1602 overlooking the pool. It would be ready later. Fine with us. We went to the MK and took the train to frontierland. We went into pecos bills while happy got fp for splash. The lines at each que for Pecos were 20 people long, Switch to plan b, the turkey leg stand. Guess what line count of 25 people. We go into country bears, finally get a quick bite at Pecos. Happy goes and gets us a parade spot for 3 p.m. A few rude people were trying to cram by me. I did my usual elbow out to the side dont invade my space parade stance. Kid kicks me that mom is holding, never apologizes etc. I just ignore them. Happy moves to let bashful sit on the front row by rope. It was good to be at this location as we immediately went to FP splash when parade was over. We decide to buy the splash picture because all the ds's like the look of abject fear on my face. I guess they will never let me live this down.Then we went back to room. Happy plays a joke on Doc and Bashful and says our room view is cruddy. He then opens the curtain while screaming VOLCANO! Of course they are so happy. We go to PS Chef Mickey. Michelle was our server. Very nice. The food was good and it was completely booked every table. I got a little annoyed as our table was right by the kitchen we had the same table 1 over last time. Mickey kept passing our table. Finally the 3rd time he stopped. I said a little hint to the server like we have been waiting for mickey a long time. The ds's like the chocolate mickey I had on my chocolate mouse cake. Happy decided to take like 4 pieces of fruit and says heah, we are paying for this. o.k. I know he is a growing teenager, almost 6 foot etc. But I tell him to remember his manners. We look at the picture and ask if we can just buy the magnet. He says no, only the package, I said well then no thank you. You would think they would want to make a sale. Oh well. Also Ds's got to ride up front in the monorail and another time DH and 2 DS's did. Wow alot of magic for the 1st day.
Day 2 Monday Aug 11
Early Entry Day at Animal Kingdom. We are greated by Floyd our bus driver who blows bubbles at us. He is fun. We arrive at AK at 8:50 am. CM reminds us that we need to have our resort cards for early entry, yes I flash her my plastic tinker bell card. I felt sorry for all the people being held at the rope. We see the standby for the safari is 30 minutes so we go on in 25. CP is our driver and he is great. We had to stop for a girraffe in the road and we saw the cute baby elephant. Next we went on the Pagnani Trail. The CM at the Animal Learning Center wins the award for the most friendly greeter. But guess what, I never stayed there. There was some terrible smell that was making me nauseous so I high tailed it out of there. DH and Doc caught up later and said something about naked mole rats. I enjoyed the meerkats with Bashful as we had did a project for school about them. We also enjoyed watching the colobus monkeys hunt for food. They were very intricately searching as were the meerkats that were standing guard. I also liked the blue fish and the gorilla was so funny. I saw one who just kept laying down with his butt to the big glass viewing window. It was hot for them too. Onto our lunch PS at Rainforest Cafe. It was crowded. Bashful requested this. They were really trying to push buying that card. Happy had a nice talk with our server and found out they go to school just to learn how to sell these. Gee. Happy must also sell things at his job. They joke. We ordered a hot wing appetizer. DH had some expensive shrimp thing. Bashful wanted the souvenier slushee mug with plastic figure., like $6.00. He gets chimp and wants the frog. Server gets it. Magic. We get wraps, burgers etc. No dessert and the bill was like $100.00 Glad there is no Rainforest Cafe by us! DH and I chill out on bench and have a frozen bannana and strawberry bar and the DS's go on dinosaur and play the dinosaur games, Of course they all win something. DS's do TTBAB while DH and I go to bus stop. I do have some problems walking sometimes. Some lady tells my DH get her a wheelchair. LOL. At the bus stop we talk to CM custodial Lisa. Heah, she is from the Bronx and whips out her necklace. Its the Yankees! We have a nice chat. Family comes up by us and I say, I am sorry this is the front of the bus line, you must go all the way over there to the back. I apologize to family behind me for the up frontness but say we are from NY. He says, no its o.k. that is the way it should be. At night we go to Disney Quest. We are there before 8 and the line is like over 50 people to get in. We stay till 11. We ate dinner at the cheesecake factory. DH is upset as there is no smoothie machine there anymore and we were looking forward to it while the DS's get video fryed and overloaded.
Tuesday August 12 Blizzard Beach
We arrive at 10 a.m. and there were no chairs anywhere. We finally find a chair by the Cafe Pub? We only wanted 1 chair to lay our stuff on. I stay in Cross Country Creek. There are some really rude teenagers pushing behind. I could have been hurt and I turned around and told them if they did not stop I would report them to the Cm and have them kicked out of the park. On the next turn around they went ahead and were never seen again. Sorry I guess I will not stay silent about rude guests anymore. There were lots around this trip.I decide where I will draw the line. Then I heard the dreaded announcement for a family to come to the front of the park. How sad. DSS go on slides, summit plummet for brave Doc with the asthma and wave pool etc. There is no time for lunch. At night we head to MGM. Boy is it hot. The character lines are like 20 each. We check in for our fantasmic PS at Hollywood and Vine. Server tells all those coming up. Sorry we are sold out tonight, No walk ups accepted. I later find out there are 2 showings of fantasmic. But we want to eat there anyway and my plan is only 1 good meal a day, preferably a buffet. Also it should be $150 a day budget for food, no breakfast, granola bars etc. 1 refillable mug and lots of gatorade made in the room. The meal is very crowded. The food is good and acceptable. Happy looks like he has atkins on the plate - all meat. Bashful finds what else, chicken nuggets, he says they are not in dinosaur shapes like the rainforest, oh well. We decided to do 2 slow, quiet rides, no TOT or RNR after that meal. We walk onto the great movie ride. DSS like the cowboy and fire more than the old gangster. Do sounds dangerous. Then go to Fantasmic. You show them your blue card given to you by your server. You can enter anytime between 7 - 8:30 p.m. It is a long walk for me. CM sees I am out of breath and dont do stairs well. We are there early enough to get any seat we want in the witch section. DSS go down more and CM lets me sit in handicapped section. DH and I listen to some conversations around us and look at each other. They would not want to hear our opinions. LOL. Fantasmic was great. I enjoyed the big snake. DSS said it was the best even though we have seen it before.
Will do more later, I am tired of typing now.
Cast of characters Me, the ultimate type a mom, trip planner extrodinare, DH - o.k. he only puts up with Disney to placate me and is looking forward to riding mission space and the swan heavenly beds. The 3 ds's
DS 15 - Happy - the class clown
DS 13 - Doc - never wanted to get up early
DS 11 - Bashful - shy and a picky eater
Day 1 Sunday August 10
Picked up by Amin of Tiffany Towncar. Good Service and was at the Polynesian in about 30 minutes.
I timed the check in at 20 minutes. Juan was our castmember and he was great. We arrived at noon and had requested Samoa. I asked for a ground floor room by the pool as I explained that DS with asthma might not be breathing good after swimming and wanted him back to a room ASAP. He said there was a room on 2nd floor, (I politely said no thank you, knowing there was no balconies. He said there was a 3rd floor room today and we could get a 1st floor room starting Mon. I said o.k. But Juan worked the magic and his keyboard and he came up with room 1602 overlooking the pool. It would be ready later. Fine with us. We went to the MK and took the train to frontierland. We went into pecos bills while happy got fp for splash. The lines at each que for Pecos were 20 people long, Switch to plan b, the turkey leg stand. Guess what line count of 25 people. We go into country bears, finally get a quick bite at Pecos. Happy goes and gets us a parade spot for 3 p.m. A few rude people were trying to cram by me. I did my usual elbow out to the side dont invade my space parade stance. Kid kicks me that mom is holding, never apologizes etc. I just ignore them. Happy moves to let bashful sit on the front row by rope. It was good to be at this location as we immediately went to FP splash when parade was over. We decide to buy the splash picture because all the ds's like the look of abject fear on my face. I guess they will never let me live this down.Then we went back to room. Happy plays a joke on Doc and Bashful and says our room view is cruddy. He then opens the curtain while screaming VOLCANO! Of course they are so happy. We go to PS Chef Mickey. Michelle was our server. Very nice. The food was good and it was completely booked every table. I got a little annoyed as our table was right by the kitchen we had the same table 1 over last time. Mickey kept passing our table. Finally the 3rd time he stopped. I said a little hint to the server like we have been waiting for mickey a long time. The ds's like the chocolate mickey I had on my chocolate mouse cake. Happy decided to take like 4 pieces of fruit and says heah, we are paying for this. o.k. I know he is a growing teenager, almost 6 foot etc. But I tell him to remember his manners. We look at the picture and ask if we can just buy the magnet. He says no, only the package, I said well then no thank you. You would think they would want to make a sale. Oh well. Also Ds's got to ride up front in the monorail and another time DH and 2 DS's did. Wow alot of magic for the 1st day.
Day 2 Monday Aug 11
Early Entry Day at Animal Kingdom. We are greated by Floyd our bus driver who blows bubbles at us. He is fun. We arrive at AK at 8:50 am. CM reminds us that we need to have our resort cards for early entry, yes I flash her my plastic tinker bell card. I felt sorry for all the people being held at the rope. We see the standby for the safari is 30 minutes so we go on in 25. CP is our driver and he is great. We had to stop for a girraffe in the road and we saw the cute baby elephant. Next we went on the Pagnani Trail. The CM at the Animal Learning Center wins the award for the most friendly greeter. But guess what, I never stayed there. There was some terrible smell that was making me nauseous so I high tailed it out of there. DH and Doc caught up later and said something about naked mole rats. I enjoyed the meerkats with Bashful as we had did a project for school about them. We also enjoyed watching the colobus monkeys hunt for food. They were very intricately searching as were the meerkats that were standing guard. I also liked the blue fish and the gorilla was so funny. I saw one who just kept laying down with his butt to the big glass viewing window. It was hot for them too. Onto our lunch PS at Rainforest Cafe. It was crowded. Bashful requested this. They were really trying to push buying that card. Happy had a nice talk with our server and found out they go to school just to learn how to sell these. Gee. Happy must also sell things at his job. They joke. We ordered a hot wing appetizer. DH had some expensive shrimp thing. Bashful wanted the souvenier slushee mug with plastic figure., like $6.00. He gets chimp and wants the frog. Server gets it. Magic. We get wraps, burgers etc. No dessert and the bill was like $100.00 Glad there is no Rainforest Cafe by us! DH and I chill out on bench and have a frozen bannana and strawberry bar and the DS's go on dinosaur and play the dinosaur games, Of course they all win something. DS's do TTBAB while DH and I go to bus stop. I do have some problems walking sometimes. Some lady tells my DH get her a wheelchair. LOL. At the bus stop we talk to CM custodial Lisa. Heah, she is from the Bronx and whips out her necklace. Its the Yankees! We have a nice chat. Family comes up by us and I say, I am sorry this is the front of the bus line, you must go all the way over there to the back. I apologize to family behind me for the up frontness but say we are from NY. He says, no its o.k. that is the way it should be. At night we go to Disney Quest. We are there before 8 and the line is like over 50 people to get in. We stay till 11. We ate dinner at the cheesecake factory. DH is upset as there is no smoothie machine there anymore and we were looking forward to it while the DS's get video fryed and overloaded.
Tuesday August 12 Blizzard Beach
We arrive at 10 a.m. and there were no chairs anywhere. We finally find a chair by the Cafe Pub? We only wanted 1 chair to lay our stuff on. I stay in Cross Country Creek. There are some really rude teenagers pushing behind. I could have been hurt and I turned around and told them if they did not stop I would report them to the Cm and have them kicked out of the park. On the next turn around they went ahead and were never seen again. Sorry I guess I will not stay silent about rude guests anymore. There were lots around this trip.I decide where I will draw the line. Then I heard the dreaded announcement for a family to come to the front of the park. How sad. DSS go on slides, summit plummet for brave Doc with the asthma and wave pool etc. There is no time for lunch. At night we head to MGM. Boy is it hot. The character lines are like 20 each. We check in for our fantasmic PS at Hollywood and Vine. Server tells all those coming up. Sorry we are sold out tonight, No walk ups accepted. I later find out there are 2 showings of fantasmic. But we want to eat there anyway and my plan is only 1 good meal a day, preferably a buffet. Also it should be $150 a day budget for food, no breakfast, granola bars etc. 1 refillable mug and lots of gatorade made in the room. The meal is very crowded. The food is good and acceptable. Happy looks like he has atkins on the plate - all meat. Bashful finds what else, chicken nuggets, he says they are not in dinosaur shapes like the rainforest, oh well. We decided to do 2 slow, quiet rides, no TOT or RNR after that meal. We walk onto the great movie ride. DSS like the cowboy and fire more than the old gangster. Do sounds dangerous. Then go to Fantasmic. You show them your blue card given to you by your server. You can enter anytime between 7 - 8:30 p.m. It is a long walk for me. CM sees I am out of breath and dont do stairs well. We are there early enough to get any seat we want in the witch section. DSS go down more and CM lets me sit in handicapped section. DH and I listen to some conversations around us and look at each other. They would not want to hear our opinions. LOL. Fantasmic was great. I enjoyed the big snake. DSS said it was the best even though we have seen it before.
Will do more later, I am tired of typing now.
