Trip Report Villas @ The Grand Floridian(DVC)

**COMPLETED** 3/20-3/26/2016

This will be our 4th DVC stay since we purchased VGF during Spring Break of last year (March 2015).

Where: Villas @ The Grand Floridian 2- 2 bedroom villas for this trip 10 total people

(Traveling myself, my wife, our 3 children (8, 6, 1 1/2), my parents who have DVC as well, me nieces (17, 14), and nephew (12)

Disney Dining Plan set.

We booked this trip as soon as our 11 month window opened up for our DVC home resort opened up May 20, 2015.

2/29/16 Magic bands Arrived

Since we are local we will be leaving the house around 10am to arrive at the GF around 1030am local time.

(Other activities will be added as we get closer)

Day 1-
(Check into the Villas @ Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa around 10:30am)
-Fast passes for Animal Kingdom for the afternoon
-Swim @ the resort


Day 2-
-Character Dining @ 1900 Park Fare 8:05am
-Fast passes for Epcot (Mid Morning/Afternoon)
-Easter Egg hunt @ Epcot
-Swim @ the resort

Day 3-
-Fast passes for Magic Kingdom (AM)
-Swim at the resort


Day 4-
-Character Breakfast @ Hollywood and Vine @ DHS 9:00am,
-Fast passes for DHS mid morning/afternoon
-Swim at the resort

Day 5-
-AM fast passes for Magic Kingdom
-Swim at the resort


Day 6-
-Fast Passes for MK late afternoon and early evening.
-Swim at the resort


Day 7-
Departure day
-swim until noon-1pm then head home and get ready for Easter the next day.

Time to get excited for our July 4th trip, and October trip.

 

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Day 2 Continued (3/21/16)

 

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Day 2 Continued (3/31/16)

 

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Day 3 (3/22/16)

Tuesday-

We spent the majority of the day over at the Magic Kingdom left around 2pm to head back to the hotel to swim, the plan was to head back over around 6pm but we found out that the monorails were shut down (at the time we did not know why) and the line for the boat from the hotel to MK was packed with long lines so we called it a night and watched the fireworks from our balcony. We later found out someone jumped from the balcony at the Contemporary causing them to shut down the monorail lines for several hours.


Early morning photos with the fog/steam coming off the water on this cool crisp morning.

 

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Day 3 Continued (3/22/16)

 

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Day 3 Continued (3/22/16)

 

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Day 3 Continued (3/22/16) more of the Villas

 

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Day 3 Continued (3/22/16)

 

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Day 3 Continued (3/22/16)

 

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Day 3 Continued (3/22/16)

 

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Day 3 Continued (3/22/16)

 

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Day 3 Continued (3/22/16)

 

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Day 3 Continued (3/22/16)

 

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Day 3 Continued (3/22/16)

 

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Day 4 (3/23/16)

Wednesday-
We had 9:40am reservations for Hollywood & Vine for the girls (this is our second time to this Character breakfast) the girls enjoyed it but for a birthday celebration we prefer Chef Mickey’s it seems more personalized.

After breakfast we hit the park and used up our 3 fast passes and headed back to the hotel to relax for a few hours and then head to the Magic Kingdom for the evening to use our 3 DVC fast passes. My daughters had fun they road Big Thunder Mountain for the 1st time and they loved it.

 

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Day 4 Continued (3/23/16)

 

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Day 4 Continued (3/23/16)

 

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Day 4 Continued (3/23/16)

 

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Day 5 (3/24/16)
Thursday-

Early breakfast at the hotel before heading out to the Magic Kingdom to use our fast passes (Peter pan, 3 Dwarfs Mine Train, Big Thunder Mountain, and Splash Mountain) this was my daughters 1st time on Splash Mountain they loved this ride as well. Next trip we will try Space Mountain and maybe for our July or October trip we can try Tower of Terror and Aerosmith.

We headed over to the Poly for dinner we ate Captain Cooks not bad a nice variety of dinner options, we made it back to the GF to roast Marsh mellows (one of our favorite things to do at the resorts).

 

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Day 5 Continued (3/24/16)