That IS another room with a view! - part1

Morning had broken and unfortunately it was to be our last morning at Bay Lake Tower. 

So after finishing off the leftovers in the fridge for breakfast we packed up the rest of our stuff and then called bell services to hand over our luggage to have it transported to our next residence of choice. 

And once we had gotten rid of most of our stuff we said goodbye to our wonderful and comfortable room and headed out to the car 

to store the last few things we would need right away in the boot. 

And with those chores done we were on our way to the Magic Kingdom. 

I had made a few more FastPasses and we were on the lookout for a pin for a cruise mate, who had helped me score a Cabana for the cruise, but that’s another long story. 

It is just a short walk and bag check is right on the way over and usually empty, so it just took us a few minutes and we found ourselves scanning our bands at the entrance to the Magic Kingdom. 

It was already lively in the park and the trolley was transporting guests 

so we took our sweet time to stroll through the shops as they are still a bit deserted in the morning hours and then headed to our first ride of the day, the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train. The standby line was already long, but we were lucky to head towards the FastPass Entrance and soon were seated and off we went. 

Once we got off we had a little time to kill, so we slowly wandered past It’s a Small World and the Haunted Mansion, popped into the shops for some air conditioning and then headed towards Big Thunder Mountain. 

And since there was one of the pin-shops on the way we had a look inside to find out if we could get that pin for our cruise mate. 

Well, we got lucky, as we had it in hand within seconds and soon we had purchased it and sent a text to him. And while we sat and waited the Country Bears came out to mingle with guests. 

We sat in our rocking chairs and watched for a while 

until it was time to march over to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and use our FastPass. 

Didn’t take long and we found ourselves on the Wildest Ride in the Wilderness 

and after riding the runaway mine train, we had one more FastPass to enjoy, but before it started we had some more time to kill. 

And since we were thirsty we headed to Starbucks and got 

Black Tea Lemonades which were nice and cold and hit the spot. 

And when we were done with it, we headed over to the Peoplemover and were soon gliding along in our little compartment. 

When we got off it was finally time to ride Peter Pan and we were happy we had FastPass as the standby line was pretty long. 

Didn’t take long and we were off the ride again and were slowly walking toward the exit and then over to Bay Lake Tower and got into our car and off we went to check in at the Boardwalk Villas. 

The drive was uneventful and we soon arrived at the gate, had our magicbands scanned and were advised as to where to park the car. When we had visited the Boardwalk in earlier years for dinner we used to park on the left side of the property, but it looked like that was roped off and we had to turn right and use that parking area. We were lucky as we quickly found a spot, even close to the walkway up to the resort. 

I checked my email and MDE and to our huge surprise we had already been assigned a room. 

So we grabbed our hand luggage and headed up to the front desk to pick up our new magicbands. 

There was no one else checking in, so it was our turn right away. The cast member checked our reservation, went to the back to get our magic bands, 

checked them again and sent us on our way. 

t was quite a walk to our room and when we arrived we held one of the new magic bands against the reader and it didn’t work. 

Used the second one to the same effect. 

Used my old one from Bay Lake Tower and it worked, but Tom’s didn’t. 

So we put our luggage in the room and took photos of the room 

and then went to check out the view and we were in awe. 

This room had an awesome view of Cresent Lake, the Yacht and Beach Club and even Epcot in the distance. And with that in mind we went back to the front desk. And now we had some guests already in line ahead of us. So, after some waiting we told the cast member who had checked us in that the magic bands didn’t work and she had to reset them a few times until the worked. We spent about half an hour at the front to get all three magic bands working. The third one was for our friend Pamela who would join us for the Vacation Club Moonlight Magic Event two days later.