Day 1, Part 2: The Most Awesome, Exciting, Fabulous Surprise

We last left off arriving at the Boardwalk. 

We headed in and went to the desk to check-in.  The cast member quickly saw that we were in club level so called another over to guide us over to bell services to drop off our bags then bring us up to the club level. 

Well, my mom decided this would not work out for her, she wanted to change outfits and put sunblock on before we got checked in upstairs, so the cast member told us to just come back to the front desk when were ready and someone would bring us upstairs. 

By the time my mom was done getting ready, there was a long line for the front desk.  So we got into the line, which fortunately moved quickly, and soon were chatting with the cast member Debbie!  She was awesome and once again noted we were club level so brought us upstairs to check in up there. 

We settled in at the club level desk to chat with one of my new favorite cast members, Stephanie.  We had a great conversation, and at one point she tells us she has a bit of bad news, the deluxe room that we booked wasn’t going to be available, so she asked us if it would be alright if she put us into a TWO BEDROOM SUITE!

My jaw hit the floor.  I seriously was sitting there mouth agape for like 2 minutes. 

Of course we told Stephanie that it was perfectly fine to put us in the suite! 

She then told us some other good news, apparently we had overpaid for the original deluxe room, so we were getting a refund on that too!  So not only did we get this massive upgrade, we were getting money back from Disney for the room too! 

Everything was going amazingly, until suddenly boom, we broke the computer system.  We tried to add a credit card to the room, and it just wouldn’t let us.  We kept trying over and over, but nothing would work, we even tried multiple cards. 

Turns out this was a property wide problem, another cast member came in while we were trying to get our card added and let us know that there were issues at the parks as well, apparently Magic Kingdom was cash only at that point and a lot of Epcot was as well. 

So we finished what we could with the check-in process, and just as we were wrapping up Stephanie gave us even more good news, the room just became available! 

Of course we had to go check it out right away!

The living room

Main bedroom

Bath #1

Kitchenette and dining room

Second bedroom

Second bath

Half bath

There was even a Christmas tree in the room!

It was an accessible room, so one of the bedrooms had a fully accessible bathroom and that bedroom had a lower bed. 

Here’s a quick video tour I put together of the room:

This was the most amazing start to the trip!  We ended up hanging out for a while in the room just taking it all in.  We were just in complete shock that this upgrade happened to us.  

Finally, after exploring and taking 1000 pictures of the room, we decided to head out, we were getting hungry!  Our first stop was the lounge to check out the offerings.  It was lunch so there wasn’t much, but we did grab some apples to hold us over, and of course a glass of wine. (in my excitement I seem to have forgotten to take pictures, oops!)

After enjoying a quick snack, we headed downstairs to see more of the decorations.  I also wanted to swing by the store to see if they had the Abracadabar shirt in stock in my size I had seen the previous trip.  Stephanie did call down to the store while we were checking in, and the confirmed they had the shirt, but they didn’t know what sizes were still in stock. 

So we headed downstairs and of course took pictures of all the decorations!

We then swung by the store to see if they had the shirt in my size, but sadly they only had smalls and extra smalls. 

Oh well, maybe they’ll be back in stock for our next trip!

Next up:  First Taste of Festival of the Holidays!