Trip Log:

Started the morning off later than usual, with a 7:30 wakeup time. Went to the resort’s fast food for breakfast then wandered around taking some pictures before we checked out. Took the DD bus out to DD by way of Typhoon lagoon, then hopped on a bus for the Beach Club (its scheduled stop was the AKL, but the driver was friendly and said after a quick stop at Typhoon he would take us directly to the Beach Club. Checked into the Beach Club then hiked over to EPCOT. Through England, then into Future World. Through Innovations West and then road Journey into Imagination. Next up the Land and the Circle of life movie. Grabbed a Fastpass for Living with the Land and ate lunch at the Food Court. After eating it was time to ride Living with the Land. Next up the Living Seas, then a stroll out of the park via the Rose Trail and International Gateway. Back to the Beach Club. Checked out the Concierge Lounge and then finished the checkin process and went to our room. Unpacked and caught our breath before heading down to the bus stop and over to DD. Walked through the Marketplace and then made it to our 5:20 reservation at Fultons for dinner. Afterwards, finished up going through the Marketplace then bussed back to the Beach Club. Grabbed a snack in the Lounge then walked over to EPCOT and found a spot for Illuminations. Then back to the resort, grabbed some water then called it a night.

Thoughts & Observations:

• This was really my first time to walk the Pop Century Resort during the daytime to get a feel for its size and scope. After spending an hour walking around and not doubling up on my path I can fairly say its a large, spread out resort. Once the second phase is completed and opened this will be a mega resort complex. There is a walking/jogging trail that will go around the lake as well as a bridge connecting the two halves.
  
  
• The transfer from Pop Century to the Beach Club went well. We were a bit worried since the luggage services at Pop Century said to just leave the bags in the room and they would pick them up and move them (at other resorts they do this with you in the room, here they did not), so we had no receipt or anything... We took our carryons (laptop, camera, etc) over ourselves. We took the bus out to Downtown Disney then transfered to the Beach Club bus to head there. If was a long bus ride with stops at Typhoon Lagoon both ways. (The transfer from the AKL to the Yacht Club last trip was much nicer in terms of the bus ride). Our luggage showed up in our room later in the day as planned and there were no problems with the transfer at all. Our room was not ready upon arrival, so we headed to EPCOT.
  
  
• Journey Into Imagination used to be one of our favorite attractions. The ride itself was entertaining and the upstairs of the imageworks offered a great view. The original attraction always seemed to have a line or at least guests around. The current version of the attraction always seems to be a walkon when we stop by, as it was this time.
  
  
• The Living Seas has started to have a Finding Nemo overlay applied to it. Outside there is a fairly large display for pictures. Inside Nemo signs are starting to show up. Overall it seems to be wokring. This was the busiest we have seen it in years. With actual crowds inside. Its still sad that the seacabs are down... wonder if they will ever come back. At the least I think it would be nice to walk through the tunnels...
  
  
• We had heard on the Internet about the extreme size of the Soarin' show building and how it towers over that part of the park. Since this day consisted of the West half of Future World only brief glimpses of the building were visible and it looked large, but not dominating. (NOTE: On later days we go to World Showcase and other areas of the park and it is really big.. especially from across the lagoon towering over Canada).
  
  
• The Soarin’ queue has no visible signs of progress due to the solid wall and coverings. Seems to me they should complete the area inside the Land done as quickly as possible to get the walls down and to help traffic flow.
  
  
• Upon returning to the Beach club we visited the Concierge lounge and checked into our room. Our first impression of the lounge is that it was smaller than Yacht Clubs with slightly less food. The biggest change was if you wanted a Soda you had to ask someone behind the counter. This would be fine, expect getting the CMs attention was usually a challenge and it frustrated many guests, including us. Also they did not have regular size bottled water, only a large (I think it was 2 liter) size.
  
  
• We had reserved a "deluxe" room on the conceirge floor which is the 5th. Upon checking in they told us our room was on the 4th... red flags went up in all our minds... the CM assured us it was a great room and to check it out before complaining... so we did. We went down to the 4th floor and started to walk and locate our room. We headed down a long hallway, made a left down another hallway, then another left and we were at the end of this hallway, it was quite a hike and we were all thinking to ourselves this ought to be good or else we are really going to be aggravated if were stuck with this 1/4" hike to the elevators and lounge. We opened the door and a marble floor was before us and a hallway about 10 feet look that led to a window straigh ahead with a painting on our left. We walked in and down the hall. Looked to the right and saw a long (probably 40 foot) walkway with window and a sliding door on our left, a doorway straight ahead to a small patio, and as we walked forwward the bathroom followed by two queen beds on the right and then a day bed on the left with a table and in its own little out cove with a window behind it. We were really amazed and pleased with size of the room. It was much larger than the standard size room and all the windows and two small patios were great. We had a combination of a pool view, garden view, courtyard view, and in the distance lake/boardwalk view upon combining all the windows. We were more than pleased with the room, but the hike to the elevators and lounge was long, but worth it. Also there was a stairwell straight out from our room that would let out right by the Cape May Cafe's back side(near Arial's). Which was great, almost our own private staircase.
  
  
• We had dinner at Fulton's which was great as usual. Only complaint was the slow service, which seems to be a common occurance there. The food more than makes up for it though.

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