Tinkerbella16
11-17-2008, 11:29 AM
Well we I just returned saturday from a wonderful week at wdw, stayed at POFQ and just wanted to share a few things with you all...
POFQ is my new fave resort!!!! This place is just beautiful, the size is just right, it is so quiet and relaxing. We were in building 1 with a ground room on the corner...which worked out perfect since my mom had knee surgery this year she was hoping for a ground room, and I was hoping for a corner room because I love the two windows. We didn't even request for that!
The busses could have been run a little better... on thursday we were leaving DHS to go back to FQ and it was just my mom and I on the bus and we told him we were going to FQ. Well, he turns into OKW (why, I do not know), and he circled around and went out the exit, then he passes FQ and goes into POR....stops at every stop in this order, West Depot, North Depot, East Depot, and South Depot and NO ONE was at the bus stops at all or even on the bus to get off!!! It took us over 45mins to finally get dropped off at POFQ. I just didn't understand this because when you make a right out of OKW, the French Quarter is the next right...and he just went right by it.
Anyways, overall the crowds were light but the weather was way off of what november is usually like. From sun-tues it was perfect fall weather, nice and cool. Weds-fri was just so hot! It reached record high temps for november and it felt like the summertime with the rain by the end of the week. Just weird when we go the same time every year and its never been that hot and rainy. We never let it damper our trips so we made the best of it and happened to be at Epcot (my favorite) both nights it rained!
The castle lights were even more amazing then last year!! This year was kind of odd for decorations... MK had the decor up, but not the xmas tree, Epcot started putting things up after the F&WF ended, animal kingdoms tree was up on Wednesday, and Hollywood Studios didn't have much up...and POFQ didn't have not one decoration up all week! Just a little surprised because we're used to seeing it all when we go, especially in the resorts.
We were able to watch the shuttle go off while we were at DTD friday night...coolest thing I've ever seen!!!! We were sitting at a table eating Ghiradellis sundaes...yummmm!!!
Epcot had evening EMH fri night 11/14 so we headed there after DTD. We went on SSE on our way out of the park and it was weirdest thing... NONE of the animatronics were working throughout the entire ride. There was still sound and their eyes would blink, but no movement and their heads were all in a downward position. It was really creepy!
I really do like the new SSE refurb. I was worried reading so many bad reviews on it. I do think they added the whole build your future at the backward descent to distract you from noticing that they did nothing with that part of the ride.
On tues 11/12 my mom and I took the Keys to the Kingdom Tour...and we were so happy that we did!!! This tour was amazing. We had the most amazing tourguide, Matthew. He really did a great job, and he even challenged me on my knowledge of the MK...I knew more than he thought! If you are thinking about doing something different on your trip to wdw, I'd highly recommend this tour...it was fabulous!
We also had dining reservations for a few places...we were not on the dining plan. Whispering Canyon on 11/10 was amazing...the servers are funny and the food was great. I had the ribs with mashed potatos and beans. Raglan Road on 11/11 was very impressive...I will def be coming back here! We did Kona for breakfast one morning and it was fabulous like always. And we decided to have dinner at Rainforest Cafe one night at DTD, and I am glad we did...the pot roast was awesome.
On thursday we went on POTC and the Davey Jones part was not working...the mist and voice were, but the image was not there. We went on this a few times earlier in the week and it was working fine.
I got so many pictures with so many characters this year and used my photopass the entire week. I still haven't uploaded them yet, so I will post some when I do.
Toy Story Mania was awesome!!!! We got to DHS on monday morning for opening. The CM's have to escort the crowd to TSM lol. We grabbed fastpasses, then jumped in line so both times we went on it we didn't have to wait at all. This ride is amazing and so much fun!! We tried going back on it on thursday afternoon, and the fastpasses were gone by 11am and the line had a wait time of 100 mins so we said forget it.
Oh and I wanna say.... I saw a whole lotta Phillies fans throughout the week. It was amazing. We would all high five and yell go phillies!!!! It made the trip even more fun.
All in all I had an amazing trip. It was just me and my mom and I am glad I got to spend this vacation with her. I miss it already, and now I am going to have the WDW Blues until next time!
POFQ is my new fave resort!!!! This place is just beautiful, the size is just right, it is so quiet and relaxing. We were in building 1 with a ground room on the corner...which worked out perfect since my mom had knee surgery this year she was hoping for a ground room, and I was hoping for a corner room because I love the two windows. We didn't even request for that!
The busses could have been run a little better... on thursday we were leaving DHS to go back to FQ and it was just my mom and I on the bus and we told him we were going to FQ. Well, he turns into OKW (why, I do not know), and he circled around and went out the exit, then he passes FQ and goes into POR....stops at every stop in this order, West Depot, North Depot, East Depot, and South Depot and NO ONE was at the bus stops at all or even on the bus to get off!!! It took us over 45mins to finally get dropped off at POFQ. I just didn't understand this because when you make a right out of OKW, the French Quarter is the next right...and he just went right by it.
Anyways, overall the crowds were light but the weather was way off of what november is usually like. From sun-tues it was perfect fall weather, nice and cool. Weds-fri was just so hot! It reached record high temps for november and it felt like the summertime with the rain by the end of the week. Just weird when we go the same time every year and its never been that hot and rainy. We never let it damper our trips so we made the best of it and happened to be at Epcot (my favorite) both nights it rained!
The castle lights were even more amazing then last year!! This year was kind of odd for decorations... MK had the decor up, but not the xmas tree, Epcot started putting things up after the F&WF ended, animal kingdoms tree was up on Wednesday, and Hollywood Studios didn't have much up...and POFQ didn't have not one decoration up all week! Just a little surprised because we're used to seeing it all when we go, especially in the resorts.
We were able to watch the shuttle go off while we were at DTD friday night...coolest thing I've ever seen!!!! We were sitting at a table eating Ghiradellis sundaes...yummmm!!!
Epcot had evening EMH fri night 11/14 so we headed there after DTD. We went on SSE on our way out of the park and it was weirdest thing... NONE of the animatronics were working throughout the entire ride. There was still sound and their eyes would blink, but no movement and their heads were all in a downward position. It was really creepy!
I really do like the new SSE refurb. I was worried reading so many bad reviews on it. I do think they added the whole build your future at the backward descent to distract you from noticing that they did nothing with that part of the ride.
On tues 11/12 my mom and I took the Keys to the Kingdom Tour...and we were so happy that we did!!! This tour was amazing. We had the most amazing tourguide, Matthew. He really did a great job, and he even challenged me on my knowledge of the MK...I knew more than he thought! If you are thinking about doing something different on your trip to wdw, I'd highly recommend this tour...it was fabulous!
We also had dining reservations for a few places...we were not on the dining plan. Whispering Canyon on 11/10 was amazing...the servers are funny and the food was great. I had the ribs with mashed potatos and beans. Raglan Road on 11/11 was very impressive...I will def be coming back here! We did Kona for breakfast one morning and it was fabulous like always. And we decided to have dinner at Rainforest Cafe one night at DTD, and I am glad we did...the pot roast was awesome.
On thursday we went on POTC and the Davey Jones part was not working...the mist and voice were, but the image was not there. We went on this a few times earlier in the week and it was working fine.
I got so many pictures with so many characters this year and used my photopass the entire week. I still haven't uploaded them yet, so I will post some when I do.
Toy Story Mania was awesome!!!! We got to DHS on monday morning for opening. The CM's have to escort the crowd to TSM lol. We grabbed fastpasses, then jumped in line so both times we went on it we didn't have to wait at all. This ride is amazing and so much fun!! We tried going back on it on thursday afternoon, and the fastpasses were gone by 11am and the line had a wait time of 100 mins so we said forget it.
Oh and I wanna say.... I saw a whole lotta Phillies fans throughout the week. It was amazing. We would all high five and yell go phillies!!!! It made the trip even more fun.
All in all I had an amazing trip. It was just me and my mom and I am glad I got to spend this vacation with her. I miss it already, and now I am going to have the WDW Blues until next time!