Trip Report Semi-live, Visiting w/ a Brazilian Tour Group of Cheerleaders celebrating Jersey Spring Break

Ok, hopefully the title of this report got your attention. Technically none of it is accurate. It was just shameless Disney TR click bait. But since you're here, you might as well follow along. Plus, I have embedded a computer code so if you try and leave it will instantly direct you to a non stop loop of the JG Wentworth theme song which will play in the background whenever your computer is on. If you leave, I hope you have a structured settlement but you need cash now.


Ok then, For those of you still here, allow me to present the details of this PTR.

Who: My wife and I

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Where: AKL

When: July

Why?: Basically, I want my wife to win the Tuvalu 500 (which is the race for most visits to WDW in 2018). @blgauger , you are excluded from this competition since you live like 2 minutes away from WDW and plus, you need to focus on riding BTMRR as many times as possible!! My wife has some stiff competition between @Tuvalu , @TrolleyFollower91 , @sheriffwoody , @lostpro9het , @imahistorygeek and several others. We are almost half way through 2018 and its a close race!

I encourage anybody reading this report to please post how many visits you have so far this year. Even if its just one or two, feel free to compete. And FYI, this a friendly competition and there is really no win or loose. But lets face it, we are all losers here, considering we spend so much time on an unofficial fan forum of WDW:D:cool::cool:. But we are the COOLEST losers ever!!!

Aside from it being my wifes 5th trip this year, I am very much looking forward to returning to AKL. Even though I stayed there last summer for a few nights with my family, its been a few years since C and I have stayed there together. And now that we are official DVC Members, I constantly check availability and the other day I saw a few days open at AKL (Jambo) so I snagged it. It just so happened to be the morning that C and her mom were heading home from their recent Disney trip (this past Friday), so when I called to let her know, it definitely perked her up. She is not a fan of the Fla humidity in Summer but she is willing to deal with it for me. We will just try and avoid the extreme heat in the afternoons. No ADR's planned yet but Ill keep this updated as we get closer.

Have a great day everybody!
 

MinnieM123

Premium Member
Just arrived at AK. Here is the line for FoP. The blue arrow is showing where the sign for Tiffin's is (as a point of reference). And the line snakes all the way to to the bridge to Africa and then back around. 3 hour wait by 9:15, which is 15 minutes after rope drop.

The ONLY way I could deal with the expected crowds (this was back in late May) was to go on an EMH morning--got on a bus at 7 AM and arrived through security prior to 7:30.

They let in the park resort people (which included Swan & Dolphin) even prior to the "early" opening time; and I flew over to Pandora. At that point, FOP was maybe a 20-25 minute wait, but I was also lucky because I was a single. So they put me in one of those "filler" type lines when there is one opening and I got on very quickly. (And no, there is no single rider line up to the attraction--once inside, they may put singles in a different queue, but essentially, everyone waits in the queue for the most part.)
 

wdisney9000

Truindenashendubapreser
Premium Member
Original Poster
Good afternoon from Stormalong Bay!
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Stiltsville Pilsner (very good) for C and a Reef pilsner for yours truly.

You may be wondering How did we aquire access to Stormalong Bay since we are staying at BW? Did we sneak in? Absolutely not. We were over this way earlier in the morning and were talking to a CM at one of the entrances of the pool and we had a very pleasant conversation about DVC and Disney in general. The CM was telling us how people get really upset about not being able to use the pool here if they are not staying at YC/BC. We told the CM how we see so many guests being rude to CM's about rules that the CM's did not even make and how silly people can be. We said we are staying at BW and enjoy the pool there when we are not staying at YC/BC but we love Stormalong. Then, the CM paused for a moment, reached for the wristbands that allow access to SB, peeled off three, and put them on our wrists. No words were needed after that but we thanked her for giving us one of those magical Disney moments that the CM's can create. C and C Minor went into SB and I went back to fetch our swimming gear and now we are here having a great time!

Apologies for using "CM" a lot in that story, but I know they are not allowed to Grant access to guests who aren't at YC/BC and I debated even posting this to prevent any issues (even tho it's an unofficial fan site) and I did not even want to identify the gender of the CM. But this is why we LOVE Disney and will gladly spend our money here. Those moments that can happen out the of nowhere from the kindness of a CM and even tho C Minor has been to SB before, it made her day to be able to swim here and seeing the HUGE smile on her and C's face is worth every penny!
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Have a magical day everybody!
 

wdisney9000

Truindenashendubapreser
Premium Member
Original Poster
WHAT!!! We need details!! You left us hangin'.

And tell C Minor I love her sunglasses that she was wearing at Stormalong Bay! I need a pair of those.
My phone has been extremely low on memory and has not been functioning well so I've been Limited in what I'm posting without wanting to throw my phone in to Crescent Lake LOL. But we had a great time at Stormalong Bay and stayed for a better part of the afternoon. That definitely made us more tired for the after hours event but we made it through and had an awesome experience. There were definitely pros and cons to the after-hours party which I'll explain more in the final report.

And yes c-minor absolutely loves her new sunglasses! I will pass along your compliment to her. She has been having a great time making fun of me for eating and drinking way too much LOL
 

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