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- From: prw@apple.com (Paul Wenker)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney
- Subject: Re: WDW resort impressions and questions
- Message-ID: <prw-010193175722@kip2-45.apple.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 02:04:10 GMT
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- In article <ljhq13INN5ui@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, brenda@bookhouse.Eng.Sun.COM
- (Brenda Bowden) wrote:
- >
- ...stuff deleted...
- >
- > While the pools at the Yacht and Beach club can't be beat, and this may be
- > reason enough in itself to stay there, I was a little put off by the
- > atmosphere there. It was kind of, how should I put it, too pristine and
- > sterile.... It's a beautiful resort, but I don't remember seeing much
- > greenery (I loved all the plants and trees at the Poly). Also, I noticed
- > several people who were very well-dressed in the middle of the day who just
- > didn't look very *happy* -- frankly, several seemed rather uptight. Perhaps I
- > just encountered an unusual number of exhausted people, or people there on
- > business. When we got back to the Poly for lunch I felt so much more
- > *relaxed* again.
- >
- > So this brings me to my first question: What do people who have stayed there
- > think of the atmosphere? It seemed too formal and uptight to me, but did we
- > just have an unusual experience? The book "Walt Disney World With Kids" rates
- > the Yacht and Beach Club an A+, and claims it is "not one iota fancy." Since
- > this wasn't our impression (the part about it not being fancy), I'm curious
- > to hear others reactions. If it's normally a relaxed and casual place, I'd
- > like to stay there some day for the pools and convenience to Epcot. I wish
- > we'd asked to see a room while we were there.
-
- We stayed at the Yacht Club last August and loved it. We liked it better
- than either the Contemporary or the Villas. It didn't strike me as being
- more formal than the other resorts, but it seemed to me that the average
- age of the guests was higher. It may not be true, but it seemed to me that
- the Magic Kingdom resorts have a higher percentage of small children.
-
- -Paul Wenker
- -Apple Computer, Inc.
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