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Moving on with the current of the years.
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Again, Tommy pointed out different things and explained about the theming of the resort.
We then walked over to the awesome pool area.
As you can see it was still really sunny and playing tricks on my lens.
And look how cool this pirate play area is…..I want to play here!
We now headed off to tour a room. I had been pretty impressed with Caribbean Beach Resort at this point. It was very pretty, but again big too. I can see why some people complain about the walking to Old Port Royale.
I can’t remember if we walked over here or bussed here. It was so hot out, that they did have us do a lot more bussing around places rather than walking….but we soon arrived…and a little bit of disappointment set in.
I “think” we toured Trinidad North, but I could be wrong.
Take note of the landscaping
Or should I say…lack of.
Tommy told us that they were redoing the landscaping in the area. We found this strange though. Disney is famous for redoing stuff like that overnight. This was not being worked on at all, just left out for guests to see….it was very unDisney like. I didn’t take a lot of pictures of it, but parts of it looked really bad.
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We were really impressed with the CBR food court when we stayed there a few years ago, but unfortunately, we never got to use the pool, though we did walk around it.
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What a cool play area! That's odd about the landscaping.
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Great resort tour--I love CBR!
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We were really impressed with the CBR food court when we stayed there a few years ago, but unfortunately, we never got to use the pool, though we did walk around it.
Thanks. I loved how colorful it was. The pool was awesome...I know Claire would want to spend most of her time there. I am actually considering staying a few days after our cruise in Nov in WDW. I am thinking I want to do the Christmas party and Osborne lights, and maybe just hang out at the resort...so someplace like this would be great. If course it's a year away, so I could change my mind 500 times before then.
I think this was the start of a Bamboo…..I know there was a reason I took it, and that is what I am thinking Tommy told us.
I believe we ran into the other group of agents and that is when we found out that the key to the room didn’t work. They went on and Tommy went to find a Mousekeeper to see if he would let us in. A few random shots of us waiting around.
It looks like Tommy’s shadow is in this picture, so I assume he was telling us something. Brook, on the other hand was dreaming of corndog nuggets! LOL!
We ended up finding out that the room we were to tour had a bad key thing. The battery was out and it needed repairs……which is why the room wasn’t given to anyone yet. We did find a room near by that had the curtains open and we all peeked in really quick (it was unoccupied) and took a look. I had seen many pictures of the rooms before, it looked just like what I had seen. A nice enough room, but not my favorite of the resorts.
I took a few more shots in the area and then we headed off to the bus to ride over to tour the pirate rooms.
Our bus ride was very short, but in this heat, was welcomed.
The room was really neat. But it was crowded because we all were touring at the same time.
The carpeting is made to look like a wooden floor.
The headboards looked like ships.
The table has a compass on it.
The tv stand looks like crates.
The mini fridge is in this barrel.
Does this look familiar?
The curtain that divides the bedroom from the vanity area.
And one more bed shot. I think the bedspreads were really neat too.
I guess I didn’t take any of the bathroom. I did however get this shot of Brook, enjoying a quick sitdown.
The pirate rooms were impressive, but they really were extremely far out. I don’t know if I would book one if I knew I would be walking up to Port Royale regularly. Also with the cost higher than the other rooms, it makes it less enticing for me. But I can see why they made them in that building…to entice people to stay that far out. I won’t rule it completely out though. Maybe someday we’ll spend a night there.
We loaded back onto the bus…next stop…..Epcot…via the back door!
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We now headed off to tour a room. I had been pretty impressed with Caribbean Beach Resort at this point. It was very pretty, but again big too. I can see why some people complain about the walking to Old Port Royale.
We stayed here for 2 nights on the trip we just returned from. The resort was beautiful and I really liked the theme, but I did NOT like that walk to Old Port Royale. There is a bus that will take you but it's just as long waiting on it as it is to walk.
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