wdwrule
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 12, 2013
Welcome to another trip report! We stayed late Friday March 4- Tuesday March 8. It was myself, daughter, son (home on college spring break) and son’s girlfriend. Hubby arrived for one day to surprise the kids! We stayed at the wonderful Sapphire Falls which has become one of our favorites for sure.
We arrived at MCO from our cheap Spirit flights and whisked away by Tony Hinds. He always includes a grocery stop in his price which we usually never do. However this time around, I knew we’d be arriving late and didn’t know if the grab and go would be open to fill water in our bottles. We are all huge water drinkers. So I asked if we could stop somewhere convenient along the way to get some gallons of water or a case of bottles. He sweetly told us yes and that he would’ve even had picked some up for us. Love him! Anyways, we stopped at a 7-Eleven and grabbed a case of water bottles for a sweet price of $5.99. This case lasted us all four days and even had some to spare. We always bring our collapsible reusable bottles to fill using Freestyle machines but it was nice to have these extras to run through the coffee maker and other times when we conveniently needed one.
We then arrived at beautiful SF and the sweet smell of the lobby lovingly hit us in the face upon entering. It was late so no line to check in which is always nice. We got what we requested, Guest House 2 lobby level and towards the end of the building. We like this area because it’s convenient to the lobby and also easy to take the stairwell and out the door to the walking path. Only a ten minute walk to security .
This next hour was a bit of a downer but what the heck, we were at Universal so all was good. We were a bit hungry and we knew Jake’s from RPR would be open. It’s kind of become our tradition… late night arrival and burger at Jake’s. We walked to Jake’s with thoughts of that juicy fresh burger with excellent, fun service up at the bar. When we arrived, almost all seats at the bar were taken so we were about to sit at a table. I inquired about food and they told us they just stopped food a couple of minutes ago. What?!?! I asked about the late night menu that we’ve always used that went until 1 or 2am. (We most recently used it last month and several times before that.) They said they were just trying it out for a few months and have now discontinued it. Ugh!! So no food anywhere. It was a few minutes after midnight at this point. We went back to the room and reluctantly attempted room service for my son. He decided on a Turkey and Swiss sandwich with chips. I called and they warned us it would take about one hour and fifteen minutes. Haha son said he could make one in 5 minutes. Long story short we all went to bed a little hungry but all was good.
Up next, rides rides rides and the worry of: will we catch any beads??
We arrived at MCO from our cheap Spirit flights and whisked away by Tony Hinds. He always includes a grocery stop in his price which we usually never do. However this time around, I knew we’d be arriving late and didn’t know if the grab and go would be open to fill water in our bottles. We are all huge water drinkers. So I asked if we could stop somewhere convenient along the way to get some gallons of water or a case of bottles. He sweetly told us yes and that he would’ve even had picked some up for us. Love him! Anyways, we stopped at a 7-Eleven and grabbed a case of water bottles for a sweet price of $5.99. This case lasted us all four days and even had some to spare. We always bring our collapsible reusable bottles to fill using Freestyle machines but it was nice to have these extras to run through the coffee maker and other times when we conveniently needed one.
We then arrived at beautiful SF and the sweet smell of the lobby lovingly hit us in the face upon entering. It was late so no line to check in which is always nice. We got what we requested, Guest House 2 lobby level and towards the end of the building. We like this area because it’s convenient to the lobby and also easy to take the stairwell and out the door to the walking path. Only a ten minute walk to security .
This next hour was a bit of a downer but what the heck, we were at Universal so all was good. We were a bit hungry and we knew Jake’s from RPR would be open. It’s kind of become our tradition… late night arrival and burger at Jake’s. We walked to Jake’s with thoughts of that juicy fresh burger with excellent, fun service up at the bar. When we arrived, almost all seats at the bar were taken so we were about to sit at a table. I inquired about food and they told us they just stopped food a couple of minutes ago. What?!?! I asked about the late night menu that we’ve always used that went until 1 or 2am. (We most recently used it last month and several times before that.) They said they were just trying it out for a few months and have now discontinued it. Ugh!! So no food anywhere. It was a few minutes after midnight at this point. We went back to the room and reluctantly attempted room service for my son. He decided on a Turkey and Swiss sandwich with chips. I called and they warned us it would take about one hour and fifteen minutes. Haha son said he could make one in 5 minutes. Long story short we all went to bed a little hungry but all was good.
Up next, rides rides rides and the worry of: will we catch any beads??