mkhurley
05-27-2008, 06:52 PM
We had a great trip, our 1BR at the AKV Concierge (6405) was nice, pool view and plenty of room for all. Concierge can't be beat, drinks almost always available, snack food spread thru the day, if you don't need eggs/bacon and such breakfast could be skipped and some of the snack setups for dinner were plentiful also, but we had ADR's for most of the trip so we only tasted, and everything was good. In the future, Concierge will be our first choice.
Ft Wilderness Segway Tour was a blast, we will be doing it again, a very well run and enjoyable tour. (see segway thread for pic)
We did La Nouba Tuesday night, great performance, well worth going to, now we'd like to see some of the other shows they do.
Sunrise Safari!!!! Outstanding......the ride from AKV to the Safari takes you thru the backlot of AK and some of the cages are a bit Jurassic Park in nature, but it was neat to see how it all works. We spent nearly an hour on the safari, they had to hold up the regular park guests from getting on we took so long out there. Wasn't all us asking questions, we had a White Rhino that decided he was more comfortable in the path of the bus.......took a while before he moved. We were close enough to reach out and touch him, this pic was taken from the bus, NO zoom and no cropping of the pic involved......
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeo1xmz/rhino.jpg
We headed off to Vero Beach on Friday and got a great room right out front, nothing blocking our view in either direction. First time at Vero and it was nice, when we finally get moved to FL this will make for a nice weekend retreat I'm sure.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeo1xmz/vero.jpg
Sunday we jumped onboard the Disney Wonder for 4 days of bliss....and it was. It was our 20yr old sons first cruise and I was a little worried about him being seasick, a little seasick the first day and he was fine after that, so it worked out. We had a great trip, it was a double dip for Castaway Cay, which means 2 days on Serenity Bay for us. We enjoyed em both..... Nassau we spent way to much money on jewelry (for her) and watches (for me). First Rolex I looked at was $77,000 so we found a different glass box to peer into....one with slightly lower price tags. My DW still spent 4 times what I did on a necklace and a pair of earrings, so we maintained the 4:1 spending ratio we've had for the past 22yrs. LOL
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeo1xmz/nassau.jpg
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeo1xmz/serenity.jpg
With the cruise over we headed home with a stopover at HH on the way, nice little resort, not sure it's somewhere we will visit unless we have a reason to be going there, but we brought home some magazines from the area so maybe we'll find something we'd like to do there. It did break up our return trip nicely though and gave us a chance to see what it was like.
Oh yeah, another almost forgot.....while we were on the cruise we added another 100 points to our SSR collection with our same UY (points back to last year), $10 off/point, $200 on-board credit and a $500 Gift Card. My DW wanted the Blue/White Beach Blanket they were giving away at the members meeting, and she didn't win it, so they were giving away 1 to the first 3 members to add-on, we were the first of those, she nearly tackled the guy getting an appointment set.
Ft Wilderness Segway Tour was a blast, we will be doing it again, a very well run and enjoyable tour. (see segway thread for pic)
We did La Nouba Tuesday night, great performance, well worth going to, now we'd like to see some of the other shows they do.
Sunrise Safari!!!! Outstanding......the ride from AKV to the Safari takes you thru the backlot of AK and some of the cages are a bit Jurassic Park in nature, but it was neat to see how it all works. We spent nearly an hour on the safari, they had to hold up the regular park guests from getting on we took so long out there. Wasn't all us asking questions, we had a White Rhino that decided he was more comfortable in the path of the bus.......took a while before he moved. We were close enough to reach out and touch him, this pic was taken from the bus, NO zoom and no cropping of the pic involved......
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeo1xmz/rhino.jpg
We headed off to Vero Beach on Friday and got a great room right out front, nothing blocking our view in either direction. First time at Vero and it was nice, when we finally get moved to FL this will make for a nice weekend retreat I'm sure.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeo1xmz/vero.jpg
Sunday we jumped onboard the Disney Wonder for 4 days of bliss....and it was. It was our 20yr old sons first cruise and I was a little worried about him being seasick, a little seasick the first day and he was fine after that, so it worked out. We had a great trip, it was a double dip for Castaway Cay, which means 2 days on Serenity Bay for us. We enjoyed em both..... Nassau we spent way to much money on jewelry (for her) and watches (for me). First Rolex I looked at was $77,000 so we found a different glass box to peer into....one with slightly lower price tags. My DW still spent 4 times what I did on a necklace and a pair of earrings, so we maintained the 4:1 spending ratio we've had for the past 22yrs. LOL
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeo1xmz/nassau.jpg
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeo1xmz/serenity.jpg
With the cruise over we headed home with a stopover at HH on the way, nice little resort, not sure it's somewhere we will visit unless we have a reason to be going there, but we brought home some magazines from the area so maybe we'll find something we'd like to do there. It did break up our return trip nicely though and gave us a chance to see what it was like.
Oh yeah, another almost forgot.....while we were on the cruise we added another 100 points to our SSR collection with our same UY (points back to last year), $10 off/point, $200 on-board credit and a $500 Gift Card. My DW wanted the Blue/White Beach Blanket they were giving away at the members meeting, and she didn't win it, so they were giving away 1 to the first 3 members to add-on, we were the first of those, she nearly tackled the guy getting an appointment set.