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From what you have shown, I believe that a trip to Disneyland requires a stay at the official Disney hotels and NOT one the others (especially the ones several blocks away.)
From what you have shown, I believe that a trip to Disneyland requires a stay at the official Disney hotels and NOT one the others (especially the ones several blocks away.)
The ones across the street are very close, but there are only so many of those to choose from. I would want to be close!
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WOW that is far, was there a reason these hotels were chosen? While the tiny room seems weird my kids would've gone nuts!
I think they were just chosen because they are good neighbor hotels....and maybe because they had time to do it? Yeah I think Claire would like that too.
I don't have an update written yet for today, so I thought I would post a little news instead.
I will go off on as tanget first and confuse the heck out of all of you!
As you know, this current TR is about DL, but that I was only there due to a conference. Since then I have found some local conferences as well and attended. Just a few weeks ago I found one in Toledo and it was nice, but surely not as exciting.
I am currently working on a certification for my job. It's not required, but it is helpful to have. I started this process in Jan of 2013. You have 2 years to complete the requirements, when includes selling so much of a certain product, taking classes online and/or live seminars, which all give you so many points to use towards your certification. On top of that, you have to do 5 tours and 2 travel experiences (very specific requirements for that). It's very confusing, I know, but only certain things count for these requirements.
So far I have 1 travel and 1 tour under my belt, but have sold enough of the product(cruises). I found a seminar in the Detroit area and debated on going. It would be over an hour away, but in the end I signed up and attended it. It gave me the points I needed and it also covered 2 more of my tour credits.
So that still leaves me with 2 more tours to complete and 1 more travel experience. I had noticed when I signed up for the Detroit one, that they also were offering one in Orlando at the Dolphin in Aug. That got me thinking realy hard! While at the seminar I asked if the courses would be the same in Orlando, or if they would be different and count towards this certification. SCORE! Everything is different!
I threw this around in my head for the last week and a half. I had enough air points to fly down for free, I would just get a hotel, stay the night before and leave the day after. It shouldn't be too hard. Then something happened. The Villains Unleashed party was announced...and the date is Aug 23. Guess what day that seminar is? You guess it, Aug. 23. The Seminar is 7:30 AM till 5 PM. The party starts at 8 (though I hear you may be able to get in as early as 5). I do believe karma was in my favor.
I asked Skip about it on Monday and he was not thrilled (like I did't know that before asking), but he said I had to do what I have to do. ....so I signed up for the conference first, then I got my party ticket....and then I looked at a hotel stay. I was thinking I should try another place to check off my list. I thought about AS Sports. It is my least desirable place to every stay, but I could check it off and the price was decent. ....But you know how when you quote, it shows you the price of other resorts in the boxes next to it? Yeah, it was showing me CBR. And it wasn't that much more. I haven't stayed there yet, and so far I have only stayed at one moderate, .....so maybe I should get another one under my belt. LOL Yep, I booked CBR for the 2 nights!
I then booked my air, which was pretty high out of Detroit, but not too bad out of Columbus, so I will drive the 2 1/2 hours there in the morning and take an afternoon flight out. I don't arrive till 5:50 and my flight on Sunday leaves at 4:55, so not a lot of time there, but at least I get to go to the party and I already know a co-worker is going to it too, so I'll get to see her.
So I am now one step closer to getting this certification done! Now for the travel experience part....will I be able to get that in too before Jan!
You certainly hit that trip to Orlando just right. Sorry it is so short. Now hope you have the same kind of luck as you search for the "travel experience."
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You certainly hit that trip to Orlando just right. Sorry it is so short. Now hope you have the same kind of luck as you search for the "travel experience."
I was so happy they worked out to be the same day. I never have that kind of luck.
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Congrats on the upcoming Disney trip!
Thanks
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Congrats on the new quick trip! I have been trying to figure a way to get there for that myself!
I think by now, many of us were getting tired and acting a little silly while we waited.
Once everyone was on the right floor, we headed off to see some rooms.
I was obsessed with these pictures over the bed.
I just thought they were so pretty….and then I had a thought….I took similar pictures to these on my day at Venice Beach, so I decided I would see what I had and possibly make some for my home. And a few weeks ago I did just that.
This first one is blurry, but you get the idea…(that picture above them is the bridge at Pop Century ..now leading to AoA…that I took several years ago.)
And while I am on the topic of pictures, I also had this one made into canvas print as well.
Back to more room pictures.
This room had the pictures too, but just put up differently.
I believe this is another hallway picture….probably while I was waiting for another elevator.
As our tour was coming to an end we went by the arcade.
And took a peek at the 2 work out rooms.
And the arcade area once again…out that window you could see the pool.
Some of us wanted to see the pool; we could either go down the stairs or take an elevator down.
By this time most of us were feeling done for the day. But we still had one more place to go. I think when they make the schedule for these things they estimate how long people can handle it and then add an hour. LOL!
So the next stop is the Sheraton Anaheim.
I have it circled on the map, up towards the top.
As you can see, this one is fairly close, but still borderline walkable.
We had a few minutes to wait so we explored the area and used the restrooms.
They also had drinks and snacks waiting for us as well. I just never took a picture…
We started our tour and I believe our guide was the manager.
This guy was telling us all about the hotel and it was very nice, but there were some drawbacks for me, and Cass agreed too. They charge for wifi….and not just a flat rate, it’s per device…and I think it was like $9 or 10 per device per day. That just seemed outrageous to me and it would be a reason for me not to stay. They also had a parking fee, but most off site hotels in this are do, so that wasn’t a shocker.
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The Seminar is 7:30 AM till 5 PM. The party starts at 8 (though I hear you may be able to get in as early as 5). I do believe karma was in my favor. 
....so I signed up for the conference first, then I got my party ticket....and then I looked at a hotel stay. I was thinking I should try another place to check off my list. I thought about AS Sports. It is my least desirable place to every stay, but I could check it off and the price was decent. ....But you know how when you quote, it shows you the price of other resorts in the boxes next to it? Yeah, it was showing me CBR. And it wasn't that much more. I haven't stayed there yet, and so far I have only stayed at one moderate, .....so maybe I should get another one under my belt. LOL
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