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- Oct 20, 2011
So it's official, I can't for the life of me refrain from trip reporting no matter how annoying the typing is, and no matter how much I want to play Cookie Clicker. (Have you played this game? Bizarrely addicting, especially when you are competing against all your coworkers, including your boss.)
I guess I will start with the obligatory checkin experience and room report. We arrived right around 5:30 pm and I left Grizzly in the car with Tigger to go steal all the Welcome Homes for myself. The lobby was a ghost town except for about ten checker inner people and a concierge or two as well as three official looking people in ties. I went to the receptionist that said hi first. She checked me in, showed me my Paddock room on the map, and must of seen my face drop slightly as she showed me just about the farthest paddock room you could get from the pool. She immediately offered to change my room and I wasn't even going to ask. So I requested a room closer to the paddock pool since she offered. We then played a game of 20 questions and telephone all at once it was great. I thought it was very funny that the people at the SSR checkin desk have to call somebody offsite to see what rooms are available at SSR. Our three way conversation went something like this: "would you like building 55 or 56. First floor or second floor? Pool view or lake view?". I basically had my pick of the place. I chose 55, first floor, lake view, room 5541. It's the perfect location. We are about 50 ft from the Paddock pool, have a beautiful view of the lake, and can't hear any of the pool noise. It's also great to be on the first floor. I love love love this location.
Now the room...On first impression I loved the room. I love the decor. The entryway is humungous, plenty big enough to act as a second bedroom for a kid in a pack n play. Everything seemed to be in good condition and working order. It was only after living in the room for about 12 hours that I began to notice some oddities. For example, I swear the designers of the rooms sat around and said to themselves " now the design looks good, but I just don't think there are enough doors. Doors people, doors, it needs more doors". And then they went to town adding doors. Full size, heavy, wooden, brass hardwared doors. I swear half the cost of these units is in the doors alone. There are 7 full size doors in this 1 bedroom place. To put that in perspective, my four bedroom 3 bathroom house only has 11 doors, in the whole house. After a while it begins to feel like you are in a funhouse full of doors. It once took me three tries to find the toilet. I'm sure after a few days I will get used to it. Finding all the towels was fun too. With all the wall space taken up by doors the towel racks are in odd somewhat inconvenient places, like in the toilet cubby for example. Everything else is great.
I guess I will start with the obligatory checkin experience and room report. We arrived right around 5:30 pm and I left Grizzly in the car with Tigger to go steal all the Welcome Homes for myself. The lobby was a ghost town except for about ten checker inner people and a concierge or two as well as three official looking people in ties. I went to the receptionist that said hi first. She checked me in, showed me my Paddock room on the map, and must of seen my face drop slightly as she showed me just about the farthest paddock room you could get from the pool. She immediately offered to change my room and I wasn't even going to ask. So I requested a room closer to the paddock pool since she offered. We then played a game of 20 questions and telephone all at once it was great. I thought it was very funny that the people at the SSR checkin desk have to call somebody offsite to see what rooms are available at SSR. Our three way conversation went something like this: "would you like building 55 or 56. First floor or second floor? Pool view or lake view?". I basically had my pick of the place. I chose 55, first floor, lake view, room 5541. It's the perfect location. We are about 50 ft from the Paddock pool, have a beautiful view of the lake, and can't hear any of the pool noise. It's also great to be on the first floor. I love love love this location.
Now the room...On first impression I loved the room. I love the decor. The entryway is humungous, plenty big enough to act as a second bedroom for a kid in a pack n play. Everything seemed to be in good condition and working order. It was only after living in the room for about 12 hours that I began to notice some oddities. For example, I swear the designers of the rooms sat around and said to themselves " now the design looks good, but I just don't think there are enough doors. Doors people, doors, it needs more doors". And then they went to town adding doors. Full size, heavy, wooden, brass hardwared doors. I swear half the cost of these units is in the doors alone. There are 7 full size doors in this 1 bedroom place. To put that in perspective, my four bedroom 3 bathroom house only has 11 doors, in the whole house. After a while it begins to feel like you are in a funhouse full of doors. It once took me three tries to find the toilet. I'm sure after a few days I will get used to it. Finding all the towels was fun too. With all the wall space taken up by doors the towel racks are in odd somewhat inconvenient places, like in the toilet cubby for example. Everything else is great.
