pattiken
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Oct 12, 2004
Hello Everyone and welcome to my first ever disney trip report.
I have been a lurker on the these boards for a long time and with our last trip I dont think it would have been as great if it wasnt for all of you here on the DIS boards...So thank you
Our trip was from sep 20-30 2012. We flew out of buffalo as we are from Canada and it is a cheaper way to go rather than toronto.
We stayed 3 nights at Hard Rock Hotel (dark side I know) and 7 at Saratoga Springs resort.
I made a Universal Studios trip report and I will continue here now....
A bit of background..
DD..wonderful, happy go with the flow child..10 years..
DS typical teenager who suprised us this trip..very happy and willing to go with flow
(not too many of just him)
and then there is DH..wonderful hard working man who puts up with his crazy obsessive planning wife
We travelled over to Disney after being at the Hard Rock for 3 days on the Sunday 23.. Arrived at Saratoga Springs around 1pm.
I was able to book this hotel through our time share that we own in Vermont for $260 for the entire week in a 1 bedroom villa. We used our points from this year and was well worth it....cheapest part of the vacation.
This was a beautiful resort...but HUGE!!! Wow
We checked in and had a wonderful castmember who said we had our request of the Congress Park area room 1325 ..3rd floor room with balcony facing DTD.
Great view to wake up to every morning..however if we stayed here again I might as to be closer to one of the big pools ..preferably Springs section.
i loved the fact that everything was on 1 little key for our room, dining plan and charging priviledges of course!! way to go Disney for being so organized!! At Universal it was annoying having to use seperate cards for tickets, express pass and room.
We drove over to our room after filling up our refillable cups at the pool area..You can only refill at the 2 big pools or restaurant near lobby..
Great room!!!
..only mickey towel of the trip as we didnt get mousekeeping ..
We relaxed for awhile unpacking and organizing...We had brought a blow up bed for DD as there was no way her and DS would sleep in same bed together. I loved the DH and I had our own room with king size bed..nice walk in closet too!
After a quick swim in the pool so kids could check out water slide..I will post video on the next post.. and a refill
After swimming we had to get ready for our first big reservation of the trip...
Up next...Crystal Palace...
I have been a lurker on the these boards for a long time and with our last trip I dont think it would have been as great if it wasnt for all of you here on the DIS boards...So thank you
Our trip was from sep 20-30 2012. We flew out of buffalo as we are from Canada and it is a cheaper way to go rather than toronto.
We stayed 3 nights at Hard Rock Hotel (dark side I know) and 7 at Saratoga Springs resort.
I made a Universal Studios trip report and I will continue here now....
A bit of background..
DD..wonderful, happy go with the flow child..10 years..
DS typical teenager who suprised us this trip..very happy and willing to go with flow
(not too many of just him)
and then there is DH..wonderful hard working man who puts up with his crazy obsessive planning wife
We travelled over to Disney after being at the Hard Rock for 3 days on the Sunday 23.. Arrived at Saratoga Springs around 1pm.
I was able to book this hotel through our time share that we own in Vermont for $260 for the entire week in a 1 bedroom villa. We used our points from this year and was well worth it....cheapest part of the vacation.
This was a beautiful resort...but HUGE!!! Wow
We checked in and had a wonderful castmember who said we had our request of the Congress Park area room 1325 ..3rd floor room with balcony facing DTD.
Great view to wake up to every morning..however if we stayed here again I might as to be closer to one of the big pools ..preferably Springs section.
i loved the fact that everything was on 1 little key for our room, dining plan and charging priviledges of course!! way to go Disney for being so organized!! At Universal it was annoying having to use seperate cards for tickets, express pass and room.
We drove over to our room after filling up our refillable cups at the pool area..You can only refill at the 2 big pools or restaurant near lobby..
Great room!!!
We relaxed for awhile unpacking and organizing...We had brought a blow up bed for DD as there was no way her and DS would sleep in same bed together. I loved the DH and I had our own room with king size bed..nice walk in closet too!
After a quick swim in the pool so kids could check out water slide..I will post video on the next post.. and a refill
After swimming we had to get ready for our first big reservation of the trip...
Up next...Crystal Palace...