Our Wonderful 11 Trip to the World - Day 1
Cast of Characters:
Me - Disney planner
DH - Disney fanatic
DD - Celebrating 16th birthday
DDF - First time visit to Disney (first time flying too)
Day 1 - left home for airport at 4:15 a.m. for our 1 hour drive to Logan Airport in Boston, 6:35 a.m. flight to Orlando on JetBlue. Girls didn't sleep at all and I was working on 2 hours. DH got about 3 hours of sleep - needless to say, we were all exhausted but excited. Our flight down was wonderful - this was our first time flying JetBlue and I can't say enough about it. Comfortable, roomy seats, t.v. screens on the seats, nice staff. We've flown using American, Delta, AirTran, Southwest, and some now defunct airlines and I don't think I've had a more pleasant flight.
Anyways, arrived in Orlando about 9:30 and there was our Tiffany Town Car driver waiting for us. Collected the luggage and off to Publix to pick up some groceries. Then off to POFQ (our 5th visit to the resort). Arrived at 10:30 and went to the on-line check in desk. Everything was ready for us, including the room - yeah!!! But wait, we had requested building 2 or 5 and they stuck us way in the back in building 3. DH not happy at all. We ask the cast member (who was not nice at all but she was the only cast member for the rest of our stay who was a problem) if they had anything available in 2 or 5, she made a quick (less than 20 seconds) call and said no. We headed for our room and when we went in my DH immediately called the manager and asked about a room in 2 or 5 (you have to understand, we are not complainers at all, but DH figured we were repeat visiters, staying for 10 nights, we should at least get some consideration for our request). The manager said she would call us back and she did with a room in building 5. Yahooooo!!!! So back to the front desk we went to turn in our keys to the World and obtain the new ones. Of course, our room wasn't ready which was fine. We changed into our suits and headed for the food court for lunch. After lunch, we swam for a couple of hours until our room was ready at 3:00 p.m. We called for our luggage while the girls crashed. I unpacked for all of us and then crashed as well. We all slept a couple of hours and when we woke didn't feel like doing too much as we were still tired so we took the boat over to Riverside to explore and then back to FQ to sit by the pool and relax. Went to bed early - next up - early morning entry to Hollywood Studios.