Jeff and I went to WDW (Walt Disney World), for our honeymoon on Nov 9th to Nov 16th. And we had a blast. It was our best vacation together...ever!
It all started on Nov 9th (Sunday) to Orlando, FL. We woke up at 4am to leave to the airport around 5am. When we arrived at the airport there was a thunder storm, but when our flight left early around 6:30am and the thunder storm passed by than. We were wearing our Bride and Groom shirts on the plane, and the flight attendant gave us free booze for being a newlywed couple. Jeff and a Miller and I had white wine. That helped us sleep on the plane. Our drop off point was at Houston, TX. The airport there is big and very nice...plenty of food to eat at the airport...and they even had a Disney Store. We grabbed some sunglasses at the airport (forgot ours at home), grabbed some food to eat, and headed to the plane to get to our destination...Orlando, FL. By the time we arrived at Orlando, it was around 5pm.
When we arrived at Orlando airport when you first step off the plane, you will notice the humidity!!! That will always be the first thing you notice. We had to take a shuttle to get our luggage. Once we got our luggage we went over to Mears to get our roundtrip tickets to head over to our hotel: Disney's All-Star Music Resort. We waited for about fifteen minutes and our bus arrived. There were less than ten people on the bus. So we arrived at our hotel in about thirty to forty minutes.
When we arrived at Disney's All-Star Music Resort, it was all ready filled with Christmas decorations, which made Jeff and I forget that we were so exhausted for less than a minute. We checked in--though we asked the front desk if we could upgrade to a one bedroom instead of a two bed (there will be no use for us to have two beds...since we're there's only the two of us). The front clerk told us that the rooms are pretty much booked up and there are no one beds available...which was fine...we could probably break in two beds. Though, when we tried to get bell boy to help us with our baggage, the clerk told us that they close in five minutes and we had to go all the way outside...and almost around the hotel to get service...at this point...running around to find a bell boy was not worth it. For those who are not familiar with the All-Star Music Resort...each hotel building is decorated in festive music themes (mostly very cheesy). We had the Broadway resort. The Broadway section was nice. There are positive and negative points of staying at the Broadway section. Good point: Privacy and Quiet area. It was wonderful to not be wakening up in five in the morning by screaming kids and parents trying to get their kids out of bed. It was so peaceful in that area...we did not hear one peep from screaming kids, or any noise disturbance at all. Bad point: the hotel was located all the way in the back of the resort...so you had to walk 1/3 of a mile to get to your hotel room!!! This is a big pain in the butt if you are carrying luggage after being up since 4am. And it was a huge pain in the butt after being exhausted from visiting one of the parks. What was also nice at the park was that they had some critters running around at the resort. We saw some bunnies hopping along. One positive thing was that we had the first floor, which was good. But we had a smoking room, when I asked for a non-smoking room. And the room for the entire time smelled like cigarettes. Even the sheets stunk of smoke. After we unpacked, we relaxed for a bit, took a shower, and went over to the food court in the hotel. We stuffed ourselves stupid, and got ourselves the refillable cups (that cost $12 each--but the great thing about it, it is free refills whenever at the hotel). That saved us so much money. Every day we at least used our cups twice! We're not going to pay $2.50 per drink every day. That would have made us broke a long time ago!
After we ate at the food court we hopped onto the bus to Downtown Disney. It was very nice at night...though it did start to shower. We bought our Bride and Groom mouse ears, got some ice cream at Ghiradelli. (Tip: Save your receipt at Ghiradelli...if you hand your receipt to them for your next purchased you'll save 10%. That saved us some dough...we went there several times on our trip.) And one of the few times we went to Ghiradelli...the staff messed up on an order of hot coco and gave it to us for free! We looked at some Disney shops to find myself a Donald Duck shirt (Donald Duck is my favorite Disney Character), and they only had one tee-shirt, one sweat shirt, and one hat of him...and they were all ugly. I was disappointed...because he is one of the main characters and he only has very few items to pick from. Anyhow, Jeff was getting tired and didn't want to be in the rain so we went back to our hotel and slept for our big day at Epcot.
It all started on Nov 9th (Sunday) to Orlando, FL. We woke up at 4am to leave to the airport around 5am. When we arrived at the airport there was a thunder storm, but when our flight left early around 6:30am and the thunder storm passed by than. We were wearing our Bride and Groom shirts on the plane, and the flight attendant gave us free booze for being a newlywed couple. Jeff and a Miller and I had white wine. That helped us sleep on the plane. Our drop off point was at Houston, TX. The airport there is big and very nice...plenty of food to eat at the airport...and they even had a Disney Store. We grabbed some sunglasses at the airport (forgot ours at home), grabbed some food to eat, and headed to the plane to get to our destination...Orlando, FL. By the time we arrived at Orlando, it was around 5pm.
When we arrived at Orlando airport when you first step off the plane, you will notice the humidity!!! That will always be the first thing you notice. We had to take a shuttle to get our luggage. Once we got our luggage we went over to Mears to get our roundtrip tickets to head over to our hotel: Disney's All-Star Music Resort. We waited for about fifteen minutes and our bus arrived. There were less than ten people on the bus. So we arrived at our hotel in about thirty to forty minutes.
When we arrived at Disney's All-Star Music Resort, it was all ready filled with Christmas decorations, which made Jeff and I forget that we were so exhausted for less than a minute. We checked in--though we asked the front desk if we could upgrade to a one bedroom instead of a two bed (there will be no use for us to have two beds...since we're there's only the two of us). The front clerk told us that the rooms are pretty much booked up and there are no one beds available...which was fine...we could probably break in two beds. Though, when we tried to get bell boy to help us with our baggage, the clerk told us that they close in five minutes and we had to go all the way outside...and almost around the hotel to get service...at this point...running around to find a bell boy was not worth it. For those who are not familiar with the All-Star Music Resort...each hotel building is decorated in festive music themes (mostly very cheesy). We had the Broadway resort. The Broadway section was nice. There are positive and negative points of staying at the Broadway section. Good point: Privacy and Quiet area. It was wonderful to not be wakening up in five in the morning by screaming kids and parents trying to get their kids out of bed. It was so peaceful in that area...we did not hear one peep from screaming kids, or any noise disturbance at all. Bad point: the hotel was located all the way in the back of the resort...so you had to walk 1/3 of a mile to get to your hotel room!!! This is a big pain in the butt if you are carrying luggage after being up since 4am. And it was a huge pain in the butt after being exhausted from visiting one of the parks. What was also nice at the park was that they had some critters running around at the resort. We saw some bunnies hopping along. One positive thing was that we had the first floor, which was good. But we had a smoking room, when I asked for a non-smoking room. And the room for the entire time smelled like cigarettes. Even the sheets stunk of smoke. After we unpacked, we relaxed for a bit, took a shower, and went over to the food court in the hotel. We stuffed ourselves stupid, and got ourselves the refillable cups (that cost $12 each--but the great thing about it, it is free refills whenever at the hotel). That saved us so much money. Every day we at least used our cups twice! We're not going to pay $2.50 per drink every day. That would have made us broke a long time ago!
After we ate at the food court we hopped onto the bus to Downtown Disney. It was very nice at night...though it did start to shower. We bought our Bride and Groom mouse ears, got some ice cream at Ghiradelli. (Tip: Save your receipt at Ghiradelli...if you hand your receipt to them for your next purchased you'll save 10%. That saved us some dough...we went there several times on our trip.) And one of the few times we went to Ghiradelli...the staff messed up on an order of hot coco and gave it to us for free! We looked at some Disney shops to find myself a Donald Duck shirt (Donald Duck is my favorite Disney Character), and they only had one tee-shirt, one sweat shirt, and one hat of him...and they were all ugly. I was disappointed...because he is one of the main characters and he only has very few items to pick from. Anyhow, Jeff was getting tired and didn't want to be in the rain so we went back to our hotel and slept for our big day at Epcot.
