Day 3 – Part One
So sorry for the delay…Life has been crazy. I know you all have been patiently waiting for our switch to GF club level so I’ll jump right into it. Since I wanted to have breakfast in the club lounge, we were up at 6:30 am. I was thankful we decided to come back to the room early last night cause I got a much more restful sleep. We quickly showered and were ready to go by 8:00. I called down to bell services for assistance as I had decided to just take a taxi over with our luggage. My excitement for my mom cannot be contained at this point. Bell services arrived and he asked if he was sending our bags to the new resort or just helping us to the front with them. I told him that we were going to take a taxi with our bags and where we were going was a surprise for mom. He was so awesome and had so much fun keeping it from my mom. When mom walked away from us, I was able to quickly tell him where we were going and he promised to keep it a secret. When we got down to valet, he whispered it to the valet and he in turn whispered to the taxi driver and told him not to blow the surprise. Perfect, mom would not know until we pulled into GF. Here is mom in the taxi so ready for the surprise!
Finally we pulled into the GF and mom said…I KNEW IT!
She was so giddy and beyond excited. Of course I still had the secret of club level so I couldn’t wait for that. I knew that the guard station had informed them of our arrival so knew someone would be along to find us soon. We paid for taxi – only $9 and headed over to bell services to store luggage. This only took 3 minutes and we were off. By the time I turned to head to the lobby doors, a cast member said, Candice? I replied yes and then he said to my mom, “you must be Magnolia?” mom was like,,huh?? Haha. It was priceless. She still didn’t get it.
We headed inside and the CM (sorry can’t remember his name now) showed us around. Finally, what I was waiting for, the walk to the side elevator. Mom was like, “where are we going?” He said oh you are staying in the main building club level so we don’t check in at the front desk. Mom’s jaw dropped and she started hugging me.
Okay so here is some major PIXIE DUST for me. We climbed in the elevator and the CM asked “what type of room category did you book?” I said just a standard room with whatever view that is. He said, “oh that’s our garden view, is that what you booked?” I said yes and he replied, “oh ok…yeah that’s not where you are staying!” mom and I looked at each other totally confused and was like then where are we staying? He said, “yeah well, you will be staying in our 2 bedroom suite on the 5th floor!” Enter knees buckling. Now my jaw dropped. I couldn’t believe it. A second room upgrade in the same trip and this upgrade was beyond belief. He said the room wasn’t ready yet (it was 9 am) so we would head to breakfast and check in.
He took us up to the 4th floor to get some coffee and breakfast while he got our packet from the 3rd floor. While he was gone, I googled the room layout for mom and I to drool over.
Mom was like no way that is our room. I told her that it was nice knowing her cause we each had our own room and bathroom and I wouldn’t see her again! LOL. CM returned and he checked us in over breakfast which was awesome. Then he explained the text service to us and we set that up. I love that service. They texted me when the room was ready, when it was time for my next fastpass and reminded me of where it was, when I had a dining reservation, and many times throughout our stay just to say hi or ask if we needed anything. It was awesome! Mom and I had a late lunch that day so I had planned for us to just hang at the resort for much of the morning. Here are the breakfast offerings.