Ok.......I'm sure this topic has been discussed over and over and over, but I cant find it lol
We bought our first RV in Oct of last year and packed it away for a blustery NY winter and took it to the Fort this past March for spring break and we loved it!!!!!!!!!!!! It was our first trip ever so I'm scared it's all downhill after the Fort but were going to keep an open mind. We had such an amazing time were planning on going twice a year now and are planning on next May and December so here's my question to the fiends. Have any of you actually spent Christmas there at the Fort and if so how far ahead did you have to book it to make sure you had a spot? Do they do any special dinners at the Fort on Christmas Eve or Christmas day? I know its going to be crazy busy but we want to do it at least once while the kids are still young enough. I also looked online to about booking it but only goes out to this December and when I called they don't even show anything available yet.
Any information or advice would be great and Thanks in advance =_)
So again, thanks to all who answered some of my pre-trip questions, I really appreciate it.
We had a preferred site reserved, and I sent in the fax 4 days before we checked in, asking for a site with some privacy on the outside middle part of the 200 loop. I mentioned that 219 was my first choice based on recommendations from here and from checking out the google earth links, and I was happy to find out that they gave us 219. What we liked about that site was that there was nobody behind us and it was very woodsy toward the back. The only negative about that particular site was that there was no shade in the morning/afternoon over our campsite and there wasn't a great option for setting up a tarp for shade. And as warned, we did end up with dogs to the left of us and to the right, but they were in really fancy RVs that were sealed up really well. You couldn't hardly hear the yapping, but the little dogs jumping all around the dash board were fun to watch.
We rented a popup camper from Fort Camper Rentals and I have nothing but great things to say about that experience. Everything was set up when we got there, they came out to check on us once, and they were so easy and accommodating to work with. We will definitely use their services again and I highly recommend them to anybody considering renting a pop up. Our two teenagers slept in a tent, it would have been possible, but pretty tight to put us all in the pop up camper. And we discovered that the AC on a popup cannot keep the camper cool when it's over 90 degrees and the sun is pounding directly on the camper.
We did not rent a golf cart, but brought bikes for everybody. The sidewalks were easy enough for my 5 year old daughter to get around with her training wheels and we were really happy that we brought the bikes. They were kind of an afterthought and we almost left them at home, but it turned out that our favorite part of the trip was riding bikes together. My oldest daughter and I went on a midnight bike ride one evening and my 6 year old son and I rode the trail to the Wilderness Lodge at sunrise the next morning. I highly recommend bringing bikes if you are questioning whether it would be worth the effort.
We really enjoyed swimming at the pool from 9 to 10 on a Sunday night; we had the place almost to ourselves. The kids enjoyed the water parade and fireworks the first night.
We used the boat o get to MK on a morning when they opened at 8. We rode directly to the MK and got there just as the train was pulling up with Mickey & Pals. Coming home that afternoon we had to wait almost 15 minutes for the boat back, but that wasn't a big deal. We drove ourselves to Hollywood Studios on a Sunday and avoided using a Disney bus the entire trip.
It was summertime hot the weekend we went, the highs were in the low 90s and the humidity was kicking. I was hoping for more late-spring like temperatures, but this April was brutal. Along with the early heat came the yellow deer flies, and they were really thick and got almost all of us. That was the only real negative part of the trip. Oh, and the horse poop that stayed in front of our site for two days from a carriage ride. We never complained or asked for it to be cleaned up, so I'm not really complaining about it now. I'm sure if I had called maintenance, they would've sent somebody out.
So all in all, we had a great time, one of our best family vacations ever and we will definitely be back, but we'll keep to the only 4 safe months for cool weather next time (Nov-Feb). It was really just too hot to enjoy sitting around outside.
We had a massive kitchen sink leak first thing when we got to the Fort this year...it was awesome btw. After teaching the girls a few new words and a split open finger, I decided to call someone who knew what they were doing. Long story short, Franks Mobile RV did a great job. Didn't overcharge and was at the site less than an hour after i called him.
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