Oops... my bad! I read the first part and the thought of local pizza delivery to a resort room went into my head and my brain de-focused for the second part of the sentence where you described your friend's husband waiting in a line at the resort itself.
Even though the on-site quick serves at all the resorts are normally great, it's got to be near impossible to run when EVERYONE is hunkered down in their rooms all day (or more) for an event like this. I honestly didn't know any of them were even open. I didn't stay around since I had my off-site hotel, but thought most restaurants were going to be closed, but I guess I was mistaken.
-Dave
At this point the forecasts are starting to firm up. Putting yourself in the path so you can have a vacation is being foolish. And a couple of bottles of water is not going to cut it. You need one gallon per person, per day with at least a 3 day supply for drinking and sanitation. You should have at least a 3 day supply of non perishable food. You should be as prepared to provide for yourself as anyone who is preparing to shelter in place. https://www.ready.gov/build-a-kit
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We moved our reservations, flights, car, FP et al to after the weekend.
MCO is now reporting closure at 5 pm Saturday (just like before).
Overall, pretty painless. Airfare was $224 less and we got points back from our timeshare. Oddly, the rental car was about $75 more.
Bonus: we got dinner res for BOG, and dinner with an Imagineer at Brown Derby. The backstage train tour was re-booked without issue. On-hold now for nearly 2 hours to re-book MNSSHP.
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Rental cars will be in high demand. I live just north of Houston. There were no rental cars available in any of the nearby cities after Harvey. Houston, Dallas, Austin, etc, were all out of rental cars for a few days. We had people at work who were out of the state when Harvey came through. They couldn't get a flight into Houston, so they flew into other cities in Texas and tried to drive in. They couldn't get rental cars and had to stay in those towns until the rental car place called them and said there was a car available.
Hopefully, they will honor my reservation.
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2nd Place Advanced: Sugar Rush, Fall 2014
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Be prepared for anything. My boss flew into Austin from California. He had a rental car reservation. When they got to the rental car counter they told him that they had no cars available. So they had to hang out in Austin a couple of extra days until his name came up on the list of people waiting for a car.
I was just saying that to Whistler this morning. We have been pricing a rental for our DL trip in December and he checked yesterday, it had doubled here in California. When Colorado flooded, my mom and I flew to Denver, a week or so later and had a hard time getting a car. Everyone's cars were under water so the rentals were mostly gone. Same situation going in in Houston and Florida.
Hmm, I wonder if a call to Avis might be worthwhile.
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2nd Place Advanced: Sugar Rush, Fall 2014
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So far, so good.
Have more than enough weather/ snacks, etc.
Parks are closed Sunday/Monday-Hotels will stay open
So today, we'll blow it out @ Epcot/ narcosee's and next two days shelter in place and hope for the best
The Epcot parking lot is full of utility trucks staged to get ready for restoration after Irma
May not even be necessary if she keeps going west...
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2nd Place Advanced: Sugar Rush, Fall 2014
1st Place Basic: Deuces Wild, Spring 2014
1st Place Basic: Mouseadventure 365, Fall 2013
Best of luck and stay safe! Let us know how it goes tomorrow.
So far at 10:15am steady rain, no wind yet, they brought us a care package for the room with a flash
Light, extra toiletries ,and we moved the patio furniture into the room just in case.
No we'll be rolling out for breakfast, wander around the hotel and wait for Irma....
Irma still pending
We had brekfast at Mara, wandered the whole hotel, emptied out the gift shop since we had time to kill.
It's been raining no -stop, but no winds yet....
The lobby is jam packed full of families /kids playing games, we have Goofy, Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, and Rafiki making appearances through out the day.
Table games, corn hole, coloring and crafts table, stories all through out the Lobby.
And still waiting for Irma
Stand by
ooops double post-stupid hotel wifi(1st world problems)
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Irma still pending
We had brekfast at Mara, wandered the whole hotel, emptied out the gift shop since we had time to kill.
It's been raining no -stop, but no winds yet....
The lobby is jam packed full of families /kids playing games, we have Goofy, Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, and Rafiki making appearances through out the day.
Table games, corn hole, coloring and crafts table, stories all through out the Lobby.
And still waiting for Irma
Stand by
1:00pm update
Slight increase I wind and rain but nothing over a regular breeze here at AKL.
The resort will be following the local counties curfew and we have to be in place by 7:00pm.
3:00PM update from AKL.
Light rain, light breeze, overcast, still waiting, coming up on Naples shortly coupled with a high tide, possible bad storm surge down there.
3:30pm in the lobby
Might as well start drinking...?
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