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- After a 3:00am alarm and drive to the ariport, at 4:22am - Arrived at LAX and found a parking spot to start this trip to Orlando.
- 4:46am - Checking in at Delta (there was a line and a lot of people off to the right).
- 5:00am - Arrived at the Delta Sky Club
- Nice and quiet inside at this hour.
- A look at some of the food offerings this morning.
- 5:52am - A look outside
- The bar had the roof closed and heaters on and it was still quite cool this morning outside.
- 6:09am - Walked down to our gate. Interesting the next gate had a Tokyo Flight for later this morning.
- My plane was there and ready to go.
- 6:22am - Onboard and waiting to go.
- A check of the menu this morning in First Class.
- 6:53am - The jetway has moved and we are ready to go.
- 7:16am - Takeoff!
- The French Toast Bread Pudding - I would have much preferred regular french toast
- The Ham and Cheese Quiche dish
- Thought this was an interesting push notification to get.. still celebrating the 50th?
- 2:14pm - Arriving in the Orlando area. On the horizon I can spot some familiar locations.
- A closer look, to the right of center is Epcot and in the distance to the left of center is the Magic Kingdom area.
- Epcot just to the left of center
- The Magic Kingdom area in the distance
- 2:21pm - Touchdown (oops on the focus)
- 2:38pm - Off the plane and at the Main terminal heading to baggage claim.
- Picked up the suitcases and doubled back upstairs to the food court for a bite to eat.
- 3:21pm - On my way to the bus.
- No waits this afternoon.
- 3:28pm - Onboard and ready to go.
- 3:47pm - On our way to Walt Disney World.
- Airport gas at $3.75... that is almost $2 a gallon less than near LAX.
- 4:12pm - Arriving at Walt Disney World
- A new digital road sign.
- 4:19pm - Arriving at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort
- 4:26pm - Off the bus and walking to the lobby.
- We opted to stop at the front desk and pick up room keys since there was no wait.
- 4:30pm - Made it to our room. It was a Deluxe Suite on the 8th floor. The room had a living room, bedroom, full bath and half bath.
- The bedroom.
- One of only a few Disney references in the room.. notice the wallpaper.
- The closet area was relatively small.
- H2O products in the shower
- The work area where I set up camp for the week.
- Looking outside, the bus stop was down and to the right.
- Off to the far right was Blizzard Beach
- Panning to the left Disney's Hollywood Studios
- The far left had the Epcot Resort area
- A look around the living room
- A fridge and coffee pot. No microwave.
- A small bathroom near the door.
- The view from the door.
- Made our way upstairs to the Chronos Club on the 15th floor.
- There were a number of people at all the food locations and around and I did not have patience to wait for them to move.. so only one shot of one small section of the club this visit (more on subsequent ones but I wanted to get to a park at this point)
- From the Chronos Club the view is slightly different as you can see over the trees more and are shifted to a little more toward Epcot than our room.
- 5:37pm - On our way to the bus station.
- 5:43pm - Our Bus to Epcot arriving.