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I want to live at Disney.
I spent most of the day at the Magic Kingdom after a VERY slow morning start. You see, one of my company's employees cashed a check that she wasn't supposed to cash. This meant that my boss' credit card was maxed out. This meant that we couldn't charge anything (food, rooms, incidentals, etc.) to my boss. This means that Missy has to cover the company charges. I'm getting a 10% lending fee, however, to make up for the extreme amount of stress that this causes me. Thank goodness my credit card just raised my credit limit (and I thought I'd never, ever charge that much). Additionally my boss managed to lose his sunglasses, then his cell phone--eating up a good hour of the morning.
The Magic Kingdom was pretty standard. It rained on-and-off all day, the wetness made every air-conditioned building WAY too cold...so it was generally uncomfortable. The best things about the Magic Kingdom are:
--The Main Street Shops (Ice Cream, mostly).
--The year-round Christmas Shoppe in Frontier Land.
--Philharmagic (seriously, we went to see this twice today, and it's really rather awesome).
--The character-kid interactions (okay, this doesn't happen with the "soft" characters as much as the "real" characters--like Aladdin/Jasmin/Cinderella/etc.--but I just sat and watched kids go batshit-crazy over the characters...and it was the best entertainment there).
The things that kinda suck in Magic Kingdom:
--Stitch's Escape
--Kid tantrums
--Country Bear's Jamboree
--Tom Sawyer's Island
There are the other standard things too: The Tiki Room, Pirates of the Caribbean, Transportation Administration, The Haunted Mansion, etc., that just kind of blended all in to the pleasant-but-not-extraordinary background.
Disney has this off-property planned community called "Celebration". It's the Walt Disney envisioned neighborhood prototype. It's very small-town-charming, with larger front lawns and porches to encourage social interaction. I seriously could live here. Our client has us staying at Celebration hotel (just a short walk away from the pier, lake, ice cream parlor, old fashioned barber shop, small movie theater, etc.). It's really, really quite charming. As big a step up as The Swan was from the Best Western, this is a leap-and-bound above them both. I have a handicapped room, which means a)I'm special, and b)I have an edgeless shower (very cool). The hotel itself is very charming, with rocking chairs in the lobby and old-tyme decor. The rooms are nice with actual wood furnishings, a neutral palette, and a four poster bed. Bathrobes, pillow chocolates, internet, shampoo and conditioner are all included--but apparently the internet cable is not.
I had to purchase one at the front desk for a pound-me-in-the-butt price of $14.95. Not applicable to this particular hotel, but why is it that hotels always put their internet cables in the closet instead of in the desk drawer/on the desk? I always thought that was strange.
Ahh, meetings tomorrow all day (I seriously have a meeting itinerary) and a script to write tonight along with a shirt to iron. I best be moving on then.
The Magic Kingdom was pretty standard. It rained on-and-off all day, the wetness made every air-conditioned building WAY too cold...so it was generally uncomfortable. The best things about the Magic Kingdom are:
--The Main Street Shops (Ice Cream, mostly).
--The year-round Christmas Shoppe in Frontier Land.
--Philharmagic (seriously, we went to see this twice today, and it's really rather awesome).
--The character-kid interactions (okay, this doesn't happen with the "soft" characters as much as the "real" characters--like Aladdin/Jasmin/Cinderella/etc.--but I just sat and watched kids go batshit-crazy over the characters...and it was the best entertainment there).
The things that kinda suck in Magic Kingdom:
--Stitch's Escape
--Kid tantrums
--Country Bear's Jamboree
--Tom Sawyer's Island
There are the other standard things too: The Tiki Room, Pirates of the Caribbean, Transportation Administration, The Haunted Mansion, etc., that just kind of blended all in to the pleasant-but-not-extraordinary background.
Disney has this off-property planned community called "Celebration". It's the Walt Disney envisioned neighborhood prototype. It's very small-town-charming, with larger front lawns and porches to encourage social interaction. I seriously could live here. Our client has us staying at Celebration hotel (just a short walk away from the pier, lake, ice cream parlor, old fashioned barber shop, small movie theater, etc.). It's really, really quite charming. As big a step up as The Swan was from the Best Western, this is a leap-and-bound above them both. I have a handicapped room, which means a)I'm special, and b)I have an edgeless shower (very cool). The hotel itself is very charming, with rocking chairs in the lobby and old-tyme decor. The rooms are nice with actual wood furnishings, a neutral palette, and a four poster bed. Bathrobes, pillow chocolates, internet, shampoo and conditioner are all included--but apparently the internet cable is not.
I had to purchase one at the front desk for a pound-me-in-the-butt price of $14.95. Not applicable to this particular hotel, but why is it that hotels always put their internet cables in the closet instead of in the desk drawer/on the desk? I always thought that was strange.
Ahh, meetings tomorrow all day (I seriously have a meeting itinerary) and a script to write tonight along with a shirt to iron. I best be moving on then.