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I'm going to try and stay caught up with this!
Nice drive down and glad you made it safely. Crazy about your room.
Looking forward to hearing about the Nautilus tour on Grand Cayman as that's on the list for our October cruise.
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I don't know how the text system for room readiness works, but it's a mess! Most often I get no text at all, and if I do get a text it's often way past 4pm. I usually just call at 4pm and it's always been ready when I call.
Your room looks nice, though. You didn't buy tickets for the new party?
Hope you found the drive to be worth repeating. Being able to stop when we need/want to has always been a big selling point for us. Knees and backs aren't hurting when we arrive and we meet some interesting people along the way.
A nice start at OKW and Epcot to your cruise! I didn't realize there were so many bus stops at OKW as I've never stayed there! But should know that as how expansive the resort is and with the many golf rounds (certainly at least 10), I've played at Lake Buena Vista, which surrounds OKW and others here! A lot of LBV golf course occupies OKW and all on the first nine holes. There are other Disney resorts surrounding the LBV course, with them being POR, POFQ, SSR and THV. Quite a lot over a golf course. I think that is all of them. Let me know, if I forgot a resort!
The latter four resorts are on the back nine and just love the views of them, while playing here! . Especially, seeing the boats from the PO resorts going to and fro' to DTD!
When we stayed at SSR in October of 2013 our back patio looked on to the golf course.
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I'm going to try and stay caught up with this!
Nice drive down and glad you made it safely. Crazy about your room.
Looking forward to hearing about the Nautilus tour on Grand Cayman as that's on the list for our October cruise.
I'm afraid I won't have too much to say about the Nautilus tour, but that will be explained later.
I don't know how the text system for room readiness works, but it's a mess! Most often I get no text at all, and if I do get a text it's often way past 4pm. I usually just call at 4pm and it's always been ready when I call.
Your room looks nice, though. You didn't buy tickets for the new party?
I'm with you on not having much confidence in the texting for room readiness, but we were right at the door at 3:58 and the bands couldn't open it. We kept trying every 5 minutes with the same result. The door didn't open until the text arrived.
No tickets, but lots of laughing over it whenever one of us thought about it.
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Love the room at OKW!! That was the first Disney Resort I ever stayed in and it always just looks like "Home" to me!
We really like OKW, especially the size of the rooms.
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I think I'd check out that new party. If anyone can pull that off Disney can!
I don't know where my road weary mind came up with all that, but it was funny!
Hope you found the drive to be worth repeating. Being able to stop when we need/want to has always been a big selling point for us. Knees and backs aren't hurting when we arrive and we meet some interesting people along the way.
We really enjoyed our road trip down.
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Oh how I love OKW, but agree that the bus hitting all the stops does seem endless especially when you wanna get to a park
The bus ride didn't take that long, but as you said wanting to get to a park made it seem that way.
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What a bummer that you could see that your room was ready but couldn't get in It does seem that the text feature does not work very well.
I love the new party name
If we'd have known it would be after 4:00, we might have just headed on to Epcot.
We love OKW!!! It is big - but we always try to get near the Hospitality House and then we get off at the first bus stop and walk. It was always faster than riding through.
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I didn't realize there were so many bus stops at OKW as I've never stayed there! 
But should know that as how expansive the resort is and with the many golf rounds (certainly at least 10), I've played at Lake Buena Vista, which surrounds OKW and others here! 
A lot of LBV golf course occupies OKW and all on the first nine holes. There are other Disney resorts surrounding the LBV course, with them being POR, POFQ, SSR and THV. Quite a lot over a golf course. 
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