Countdown to WDW

Hi Tuggers
Well in 3 more weeks we will be at All Star Movie for the one night before checking into HGVC Seaworld on Sunday.

I requested a room at HGVC nearer the main pool. I don't know if these are the newly refurbished units or non-smoking. Doesn't matter. I don't think we can go wrong at this resort.

So excited............. Never exchanged into a resort sooooooo nice !!!

Hope it's not extremely hot for the parks. I know May can get hot

We have our Universal tickets, car from Alamo (trailblazer for 192.00), getting our WDW tickets (5 day hopper) from AAA with the diamond parking pass. We may just use 4 days at Disney or see and maybe upgrade to a 8 day no expiration. (Money?)

planning on eating at Rain Forest Cafe and Sea Breeze for sure. The rest of the week , play it by hear. Hope to grab something in the condo and also enjoy the resort

Any thing else?

Enjoy!

We could scarcely believe our good fortune in getting a 3BR RCI exchange into HGVC Sea World for the standard-grade 2BR timeshare week we deposited. We made the exchange reservation in January 2005 for mid-September 2005 check-in. (Details of our fantastic week at HGVC Sea World are in the TUG Resort Reviews section.)

We signed up the 13-year-old who was with us for a private tennis lesson with the resort pro.

We bought the CD-ROM of photos of our group & of the resort that was offered by the photographer who does the free portrait offered to each family checking in. (But we put off making our photo appointment till our last day there & thus came close to missing out. So if you want professional pictures, or even just your 1 free professional family portrait, you might want to take care of that earlier in the week than we did.)

While we were in Orlando, we went to the Arabian Nights & Dixie Stampede dinner shows. Plus, we went to Sea World 4 times, Discovery Cove 1 time, & Animal Kingdom 1 time. (When we bought the Discovery Cove swim with dolphins package, a bunch of free admissions to Sea World Orlando & Busch Gardens Tampa came with it. We didn't go to Busch Gardens -- maybe some other time.)

September in Orlando is still plenty hot, but not too hot to have a wonderful week of vacation. No doubt May will turn out to be something similar.

Can't wait for our next Orlando vacation.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virgnia, USA.

Alan
I also could not believe we were able to pull this resort with our ok 2 br timeshare. Can't remember when I deposited (maybe early 2005) I looked every day from Thanksgiving to 1st of DEC and on Dec 2, I confirmed the 3br at HGVC for May.
Was your 3br a 3br unit or lock-out. Ours is a real 3br. Wondering if the 2nd br with the sofa and balcony has a mini kitchen. Just curious. Going with DH, DD and GrD and one DD for 4 days.

Thanks for the info about the portrait We will have to get that done soon before our one d. lvs. I believe the CD costs about 20.00? I read your review earlier, but have to re-read.

Don't know if we will do Sea World unless my d and gr d want to go there for a day and me and hubby can be on our own. Will be pushing as is 4 to 5 WDW and 2 or.....US and IOA. Have to see if we can do US and IOA in 2 days. Gr. d only close to 5, so we will miss some of the bigger rides.

Want to spend at least one day at the resort. And with some parks closing at 7pm we can come back and relax. Also plan on hanging out at the pool on Sunday before we have to lv for the airport for our later 6pm flight home.

Early there 10 am (MCO)Sat at All Star Movie and late to lv

Re-read your review 35.00 for the cd and you had a lock out unit with the mini kitchen.