So it’s official – our honeymoon suite has finally been booked!
Ok, so it’s not technically a suite, at least not by Disney’s $1000+ / night standards, but I think it’ll still do us just fine. We were holding out for Disney’s Beach Club Resort and availability was looking pretty slim, but somehow a miracle happened when they finally got around to posting the passholder rates for October – December and I was able to secure two nights in a Garden View, Club-Level room for the weekend after our wedding!
Note #1: We’re still technically not in the clear yet, as the plan was to be able to stay Friday – Monday and so far I was only able to book two of the three nights that we need, but it’s a start and hopefully as we get closer to the actual date, somebody will end up canceling and we’ll be able to scoop up that extra night. Who knew Columbus Day, of all holidays, would be booked up?!
Note #2: I didn’t necessarily intend to book a club-level room, as all of the talk I’ve heard is that they’re not really worth the extra money, but it was literally the only thing they had left at Beach Club, so I bit the bullet and decided that if ever there was a time for us to splurge, this was it! Plus we have to try it at least once just so we know for ourselves…
So needless to say, we’re definitely looking forward to spending plenty of time in and around Stormalong Bay, seeing what club-level (concierge) is all about, and of course, being within stumbling distance of Epcot during the Food & Wine Festival! We’ve also got a huge group dinner booked at Cape May Café for a bunch of friends and family who are sticking around after the wedding, so that should be good times, too.
Of course, while I was hunting around for our reservations, I also happened to come across these photos showing pretty much the most beautiful, amazing, and god-awful expensive rooms you’ll ever find on Disney property!
http://www.suitedisney.com/wdwphotos/suites/
Believe it or not, I even got offered the one at the Contemporary both online and when I called via phone to make our reservations, but at $2190 per night, they just weren’t able to give us the two grand per night discount/wedding gift that would’ve been necessary to make that purchase a reality!
It’s definitely easy to get a little dazed after looking through some of those photos – keep in mind that these are the Presidential and Vice Presidential Suites that Disney rents out at anywhere between $1600 and $2000+ a night when they’re not being used by executives and others that have earned themselves a good wooing by the Mouse! I’d love to spend a few nights in one, especially the Royal Asante Suite at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge (the last photo shows its awesome balcony looking over one of the savannahs), but other than by winning the lotto or figuring out how to get Disney to comp such a room, I can’t ever imagine spending two grand a night for a hotel room.
Of course, if a certain Mouse wanted to upgrade a certain couple coming over to celebrate their honeymoon in October, I don’t think either of us would complain…