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Old 30 Oct 18, 05:45 PM  
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Hotel Reviews: 1
Restaurant Reviews: 3
Day 1

With body clocks all over the place we woke at 4am and pottered about until we got up around 6 before getting ready for checking out and heading to Disney!

Floridays was nice and the apartment was great but not as nice at the Sheraton Vistana where we have stayed previously.

We arrived at SSR after passing through those magical gates and quickly checked in and picked up our mugs. Our room wasn’t ready and so we dropped off the cases and got ready for our 1st ADR which was at The Wave at the Contemporary Resort for breakfast.



This was a new one for us but looked good on any Youtube videos or food reports we had seen.

After a short wait we were seated and our coffees/OJ’s were brought out and we tackled the buffet which is behind a hidden wall…





Our opinion was that the food was pretty good but Trails End was better and made us wish we had opted for there as a 1st day instead however you live and learn. The food to me wasn’t the hottest and maybe not as large a selection. It wasn’t in any way bad, just not outstanding. Pick of the options were the devilled eggs and the pancakes.

Today’s plan was to now head to MK for a couple of hours to savour the atmosphere. Still pretty stuffed from breakfast we just opted for coffees from Starbucks using snack credits which we drank in our wee hidey hole in the cul-de-sac half way down Main St.

We then nipped out of the park to drive to Publix for a few essentials, including some Reece’s chocolate ice cream sauces to take home!

We had held back our fast pass options for later in the day for HS and after checking in to our room at SSR we headed there.

HS in recent times has been a bit a ‘mare for quick service options and so we opted for the Backlot express where Chicken nuggets, hot dogs and burgers were polished off along with our 1st alcohol on the DDP.



Unfortunately the Angry Orchard was no longer on the menu much to DW’s dismay (she wasn’t having any luck!). Food was fine although nothing special.

We had decided this was to be our night for Fantasmic (using a FP) and discovered the FP was a bit of a waste (given we were miles off to the left) and took in some ice cream snacks from Hollywood Scoops. I had the Apple pie version. We were scoffing them as we walked to avoid them becoming soup...



They were pretty tasty though….
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