I got back sunday night from a 4 day trip and this is my review of Disney while i was there. My fam ( 18 in total) and i left early thursday morning and i had to come back late sunday night because of college.
Hotel:
We stayed at the disney boardwalk inn and it was a wounderful place. it was right up there with the highest disney standards. Pool was oook, water slide was fun. The rooms were plenty big and the maid we had every day was the most pleasant person i had ever met. always did her best and left us little notes. we got breakfast roomservice one morn to save time and it was for 4 people. Now my fam is a big eater, especially me, but the meal def fed more than 4 HUNGRY people. we passed it to me grandparents and then to my aunts room. great food.
The big pros
was the service, boat was 5 seconds from epcot and we got in the back entrance (never knew one existed) where there was little crowds. Very clean and well kept up with.
Neutral
We have spent over 20,000 in just rooms for this fam trip, we asked for a room by the pool since we have more than a few little ones ( teller said it was doable), when we got there we were quite possibly the furthest from the kids pool as possible, they couldnt do any thing to help us.....We had the same problem at the Polynisian but they were more than happy to move us closer the next day.
Cons
Besides epcot, going to any of the other parks was a hit or miss. MGM was a bit of a ride with the boat since we made 3 stops along the way to get there but still easy and the boats came one after the other. MK was the easiest busses came alot. AK some times took 1/2 hour to get to.
The worst was we tried to go to down town disney more than once, i went with my dad and bro when i was there then when i left they went again. BOTH TIMES WAITING FOR THE BUS WAS A 50 MIN+ wait, when i was there it took about an hour, and its not like we got up to walk and missed a bus, we sat infront for a solid 50 minets and by that time the crowd waiting for it was so large not every one could get on. of course we asked each driver that came and went for other places and they all said one will be here shortly. One other thing i noticed was there was no real nice place to get a counter service witht he meal plan. the only place that had hot dogs, chicken tenders was a stand that took cash only. Restaraunts were a little to fancy to get a meal with the fam.
DONT get me wrong i loved the hotel but we are def going back to the poly next time
I would recomend this hotel to ANYONE but for the type of vacationer i am it wasnt a match.
PARKS
Well i have herd horror stories about this holiday week but im 20 and this was my 12th time to disney. The crowds were very heavy at time but we were able to manipulate our plans around them and we had no problem walking on to every ride at one time or another. We went early, stayed late no problem at all. One night we walked on to splash mt, thunder mt, haunted mansion, buzz lightyear, and pirates.....under 2 hours. That mite of been friday after turkey day night i think. We did EE in AK 4 times in a half hour another night. But during the day we saw line 100+ minuets on many e ticket attractions but we just went back and swam or rested.
Still kept up with all over. up to "disney standards"
pros:
pirates ride was done over awsome. the last time i was there it was under refurb. i loved it so much better and the Auto anamatronics seemed very life like. a+++++
neutral
Haunted mansion was ok. the sound and scenes were better i noticed alot of new things and some, where i was disapointed was the piano playing by itself you could still hear the click and hiss of the pneumatic soliniods, and the flying globe with the sorceror in it was a good touch but you can clearly see the strings holding it up with out even trying to look for them
cons
The yeti in EE was in "b" mode the whole time i was there, it just strobed and he never moved really so i guess that never got fixed.
I was so ready to ride the new spaceship earth bc it was suppost to open just 10 or so days before i got there but sadly it wasnt ready when i was there
MISC
All the little things were fine. the magical express was very reliable and our luggage magically apeared in out rooms just like they said.
meal plans are getting screwy over there and i know they are re-doing the meal plan thing but we had problems gettign things we wanted. For instance my grandpa wanted a steak one night at a restaraunt but we were informed that would require 2 sit down services on our plan...I got prime rib another night and it only cost one sit dow. no logic
Over all it was a great vaca. I did the things i wanted and had a great time. Weather was great. I only wish they played more of the disney background music in the parks rather than mostly christmas but o well. Cant wait to go back as soon as i can.. Im hoping for this spring break.
Thanks again Disney
Hotel:
We stayed at the disney boardwalk inn and it was a wounderful place. it was right up there with the highest disney standards. Pool was oook, water slide was fun. The rooms were plenty big and the maid we had every day was the most pleasant person i had ever met. always did her best and left us little notes. we got breakfast roomservice one morn to save time and it was for 4 people. Now my fam is a big eater, especially me, but the meal def fed more than 4 HUNGRY people. we passed it to me grandparents and then to my aunts room. great food.
The big pros
was the service, boat was 5 seconds from epcot and we got in the back entrance (never knew one existed) where there was little crowds. Very clean and well kept up with.
Neutral
We have spent over 20,000 in just rooms for this fam trip, we asked for a room by the pool since we have more than a few little ones ( teller said it was doable), when we got there we were quite possibly the furthest from the kids pool as possible, they couldnt do any thing to help us.....We had the same problem at the Polynisian but they were more than happy to move us closer the next day.
Cons
Besides epcot, going to any of the other parks was a hit or miss. MGM was a bit of a ride with the boat since we made 3 stops along the way to get there but still easy and the boats came one after the other. MK was the easiest busses came alot. AK some times took 1/2 hour to get to.
The worst was we tried to go to down town disney more than once, i went with my dad and bro when i was there then when i left they went again. BOTH TIMES WAITING FOR THE BUS WAS A 50 MIN+ wait, when i was there it took about an hour, and its not like we got up to walk and missed a bus, we sat infront for a solid 50 minets and by that time the crowd waiting for it was so large not every one could get on. of course we asked each driver that came and went for other places and they all said one will be here shortly. One other thing i noticed was there was no real nice place to get a counter service witht he meal plan. the only place that had hot dogs, chicken tenders was a stand that took cash only. Restaraunts were a little to fancy to get a meal with the fam.
DONT get me wrong i loved the hotel but we are def going back to the poly next time
I would recomend this hotel to ANYONE but for the type of vacationer i am it wasnt a match.
PARKS
Well i have herd horror stories about this holiday week but im 20 and this was my 12th time to disney. The crowds were very heavy at time but we were able to manipulate our plans around them and we had no problem walking on to every ride at one time or another. We went early, stayed late no problem at all. One night we walked on to splash mt, thunder mt, haunted mansion, buzz lightyear, and pirates.....under 2 hours. That mite of been friday after turkey day night i think. We did EE in AK 4 times in a half hour another night. But during the day we saw line 100+ minuets on many e ticket attractions but we just went back and swam or rested.
Still kept up with all over. up to "disney standards"
pros:
pirates ride was done over awsome. the last time i was there it was under refurb. i loved it so much better and the Auto anamatronics seemed very life like. a+++++
neutral
Haunted mansion was ok. the sound and scenes were better i noticed alot of new things and some, where i was disapointed was the piano playing by itself you could still hear the click and hiss of the pneumatic soliniods, and the flying globe with the sorceror in it was a good touch but you can clearly see the strings holding it up with out even trying to look for them
cons
The yeti in EE was in "b" mode the whole time i was there, it just strobed and he never moved really so i guess that never got fixed.
I was so ready to ride the new spaceship earth bc it was suppost to open just 10 or so days before i got there but sadly it wasnt ready when i was there
MISC
All the little things were fine. the magical express was very reliable and our luggage magically apeared in out rooms just like they said.
meal plans are getting screwy over there and i know they are re-doing the meal plan thing but we had problems gettign things we wanted. For instance my grandpa wanted a steak one night at a restaraunt but we were informed that would require 2 sit down services on our plan...I got prime rib another night and it only cost one sit dow. no logic
Over all it was a great vaca. I did the things i wanted and had a great time. Weather was great. I only wish they played more of the disney background music in the parks rather than mostly christmas but o well. Cant wait to go back as soon as i can.. Im hoping for this spring break.
Thanks again Disney
my uncle almost took a swing. she spent the rest of vaca hopping around