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sounds like great timing through out the day. My dream is to one day stay at the beach club. I fell in love with it WAY back in the day when I just walked around the resort. sorry your room was noisy.
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Great start! A few little hiccups with your villa (like the 2 am garbage truck wake up call), but overall it looks really great. It sounded like a wonderful first day!
Getting in at the start of your report - awesome to know it was a great vacation. Nice pics of the Beach Club! Looking forward to hearing about the rest of the trip, and hope you all recovered from the post vacation illness quickly.
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Great start! Your villa looks gorgeous! Sounds like a nice, relaxing day to me. Someday I will stay at the Beach Club and get to swim in Stormalong Bay.
Sorry your room location was so loud. We typically stay in a boardwalk view over at BWV and the horn from the Friendship boats usually wake us up in the morning, luckily not at 2 or 3 am though.
Yeah, it would have been annoying, but we laughed it off and went back to sleep
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Your villa looks wonderful! Sounds like a perfect day to me. A little pool time, ice cream, a little shopping. I like this use of the DVC properties. When you don't go to the parks it's more like a "regular" vacation home. Your new sig pic is glorious. The best thing about cruising is these views of sea and sky.
I can totally see why the Beach Club is the favorite for so many people - like you said, it's just like a vacation home!
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Great first day. What a lovely room.
Thanks - it was massive!
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Off to a great start! Isaiah was excited about getting a queen bed to himself during our trip, too! Funny!
Their beds were so big, but they still slept in the same spot as at home
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Great Start!!! The villa is really beautiful!!
It IS very nice!
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What a great first day, love the room - sorry for the location, and the garbage pick-up at 3 AM but I am glad the boys liked having their own "apartment". Sounds like a fun day at the pool and DTD, glad you were able to miss the rain.
It was a good first day Missing the rain in Florida is like an art form!
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sounds like great timing through out the day. My dream is to one day stay at the beach club. I fell in love with it WAY back in the day when I just walked around the resort. sorry your room was noisy.
It's so nice! I thought we would hear noise from other people, but not outside
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Off to a great start! Sounds like a pretty good day to me!
Each day got better and better
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The villa looks amazing!
Sounded like a great first day!
I couldn't have planned it better!
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Great start! A few little hiccups with your villa (like the 2 am garbage truck wake up call), but overall it looks really great. It sounded like a wonderful first day!
Thanks, we could definitely stay there again
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Getting in at the start of your report - awesome to know it was a great vacation. Nice pics of the Beach Club! Looking forward to hearing about the rest of the trip, and hope you all recovered from the post vacation illness quickly.
It took about a week, but then they wanted to go back!
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Great start. I really like the summary of the day's highlights.
Thanks! I think the PassPorter pockets do a great job of prompting you to remember the days. I totally forget when I dont' jot stuff down on them!
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Great start! Your villa looks gorgeous! Sounds like a nice, relaxing day to me. Someday I will stay at the Beach Club and get to swim in Stormalong Bay.
You will it!
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can't wait to read more
coming soon!
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Wow! Your villa is huge! Great pictures! I can't wait to hear more!
It surprised us with how big it was. The photos don't do it justice.
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I'm so sorry folks for the lack of updates - I went to Las Vegas with Dh last week during his conference I didn't bring my camera because I was just tired of carrying it around on my neck. But of course when I got there I immediately regretted not bringing it
Here are some of the few pictures I took on my iPad:
The view from our room at The Venetian. 32nd floor, room 330
This is a standard room, which has a step-down living room. 3 TVs, including one in the bathroom It is humongous! I could not get all of it in the iPad camera.
The view looking "up" into the bed area. Plush velour L-shaped sofa. You can't see the office area (with fax machine)
Inside the Venetian - it is so pretty! Dh has much more and better pictures.
"St. Mark's" Square inside next to the canal. The lighting changes during the day, this was about 10am.
Coming home. I'm ashamed to say I don't know the name of this river. Maybe the Colorado, but not sure.
Working on the next update for the Disney trip, coming soon!
That's a STANDARD room? WOW. I've never been to Vegas, but they say you don't spend much time in your room. I think I'd make an exception for that space!
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I didn't bring my camera because I was just tired of carrying it around on my neck. But of course when I got there I immediately regretted not bringing it 
It is humongous! I could not get all of it in the iPad camera.
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