Originally Posted By seafairy1622 Day1 Who went,myself, daughter, 23,son14 and grandson 3. After 4 hours of sleep we headed for the airport. We got there checked our bags in, went through security and then had 10 min. Till it was time to board. We had a direct flight with 1 stop but we stayed on the plane. Our flight was 25 min early! We got to AoA. Wow how cute is this resort! I got building 7 as requested. We have a view of the lake and it is quiet where we are. The walk to the food court is not bad at all from the little mermaid room. So far I am not impressed with the food court. Snacks and drinks are fine but the chicken I had for dinner was terrible and waffles and fruit tasted funny in the morning. Day 2 I only slept 2 hours so I was feeling pretty crapy . We were going to go to HS but my chest was hurting from not enough sleep for too many days. I knew that was it because it happened to me before. So we hung out at the resort. The kids 14 and 3 loved the memo pool. They played name that tune at the pool and we won! I knew every song as soon as it started. We got a snack after swimming and my grandson fell asleep in my arms and slept till the next day. My daughter and grandson had a different flight than us and did not get in till late so he was wiped out. We had pizza at the food court it was okay. Then we stayed in our room. I went to bed early and finally got some sleep and felt much better!
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin Sleep is important. The Nemo pool? Good job with the song game. We wouldn't expect any less from an LPer. Hope the food gets better.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Do you only have trouble sleeping on vacations, or do you always have trouble sleeping?? I always have trouble sleeping on vacations too.
Originally Posted By LuvsDsnyTrips I almost always do not sleep well while on vacation and awake to still being tired....however, on my last 2 vacations ....I have taken a sleep aid from Walmart (equilavent) to benedryl ....and voila.....I feel much better
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Part of my sleep problem on vacation has to do with being in a different bed, part of it has to do with sharing bed with one of the kids, and part of it has to do with my excitement of wanting to get up and do fun things the next day.
Originally Posted By seafairy1622 Yes I do have trouble sleeping occasionally. The week before we left for DW I didn't sleep very well. Luckily it was only the night at my brother's house (before the airport) and our first night at AOA. The rest of the trip I was able to sleep! We rented a car this time and I was supposed to pick it up at 3pm but after 2 hours sleep I thought I would want to take a nap. So I called dollar rental and changed the pick up tome to 5:30pm. They did not tell me that after 4:30 there was no more free pick up so it cost us $20 for a cab to go to the car rental place. At least the cab driver was really nice and funny. He asked if my daughter and I were related and when I told him she was my daughter he said no way! I never get tired of hearing that! Then when we got there they said they no longer had a car but an suv. I did not want an suv since we were planning a 2 hour drive to Weeki Wachee. (4 hours total) Plus I didn't really feel comfortable driving an suv. Then when the agent tried to tell me my disney visa would not cover the insurance on the car and wanted to charge me $100 more plus charge me $40 for toll fees I said forget it. (the tolls cost me $3 there and back.) I then called disney visa and made sure it did cover insurance. Yes it did. I had called them a few months before we left about that so I thought so. So we went through EZ rental car. I had never heard of them but they picked us up as we we stuck there and we got a small car for $20 cheaper than dollar rental. Having the car for Weeki Wachee was nice and when we had a dinner or breakfast at a resort but other wise it was a pain at MK with the tram and then the monorail. the stroller was so hard to get on the tram!
