KenHutch
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jul 7, 2005
We just got back from our 5th trip to WDW and we stayed at the Animal Kingdom Lodge from 6/3 to 6/13. I just wanted to thank everyone who recommended this resort. I always book standard rooms but they gave us to 2 nice ones. My girls and I in 4343 and Gwens maternal family in 4345. They were right above one of the people corrals. We only saw a few animals until the evening of a heavy raid and then we go to see a young giraffe and its mother play tag with each other for about 15 minutes and later some zebras playing in the rain. Rooms at that point became totally worth it. All of the staff were highly professional and friendly (even the poor guy who interrupted my daughters nap on a room check) and the food and service at Jiko's and The Mara were perfect. We ate twice at Boma and enjoyed it but during the dinner the waiter seems to have gotten flustered and overcharged the number of credits for the number of people eating which took almost an hour to correct. The upside is the girls has a perfect time, the downside on the last day we were there I was talking to girls about our 2021 trip. At that time they informed me that they did not think they could go back to moderates they were now deluxe girls. I informed them that was OK because of parking costs we were probably be staying at the Swan & Dolphin next time. These 2 are relentless however. Since we got back they informed me that you don't pay parking if you fly and they are now willing to fly and would really appreciate the Polynesian next time. SIgh I may have created monsters.