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Exploring the Charms of Disney's Beach Club
On this week's episode, we share a unique personal experience and great stories from our recent staycation at Disney's Beach Club. Dive into our chat about amenities, age considerations, and the importance of magic bands at Disney's Beach Club.
We review a standard hotel room as well as a DVC 1-bedroom villa at Disney's Beach Club. We even give you a pro tip for viewing Epcot's night time show outside of the parks. If you're planning a trip to Disney World, don't miss our insights on the pool area, Beaches and Cream and other resort amenities. Join us, as we unwrap the treasures Disney's Beach Club Resort.
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Hey friends, what's up? I'm Elizabeth. I'm Sarah.
Speaker 2:Thank you for joining us on this week's episode of the TQ Room.
Speaker 1:We are sailing through some reviews. We are reviewing all of the things, all the things. Last couple of weeks, elizabeth reviewed contemporary Bomb.
Speaker 2:Boom. Also, I feel like review. I just gave Sarah a really funny look. I feel like reviewing something is just a very classy way of saying we're judging it.
Speaker 1:I know we're just going to judge it.
Speaker 2:Yes, this is our judgment Exactly what we're doing.
Speaker 1:Wow, I need to pray about this. I know we are very judgmental. But we are, I mean we're very judgmental about Disney.
Speaker 2:Yes, that is what we're judgmental about?
Speaker 1:Yes, well, because you know, I was thinking about it. I was like people are spending so much money to go to Walt Disney World Before I go and do anything that I don't really know about. You know as much about skiing or as much about Europe, you're going to review it. I have to look at all the reviews. I have to look it up because it's so much money to do all the things.
Speaker 2:Well, and there are so many. There's a girl that I follow. Her name is Megan Stokes. She's from Charleston, she lives in Charleston, she's two kids, pregnant with a third, and she obviously Instagram influencers. They pay you to go on all these trips and do all of these things, which is great. I'm here for it. But she, like she just took her daughter to New York City and did all of these things with her daughter and I'm like that's what I need, because I or they went to the Bahamas and this is I mean she lays it out for you.
Speaker 2:This is what we did, because, to your point, you're spending a lot of money and Disney can get really overwhelming, really fast.
Speaker 1:And let me say you'll hear this in my review make sure that you're getting multiple reviews.
Speaker 2:Multiple. Okay, specifically Sarah's and then mine. Yes, that's it.
Speaker 1:Like you need to go, just like you would get a second or third quote on something that you would purchase. You're gonna, you're gonna make sure that you do a couple of reviews. Don't do what I did, which I did one review for one and, you know, said we can do it. So for this week we're going to talk about the stay that I had at Disney's Beach Club. We did a staycation this year for our family at I mean, I say a staycation because we live in Florida. We went down to Disney and stayed at Disney's Beach Club. We did not do the parks. We decided.
Speaker 1:I've always said I don't really want to pay to stay at the Yatten Beach Club if we're doing parks, right, because you're at the parks for most of the day and then you miss out on all the amenities and what there is at the Yatten Beach Club. So I said, for the price, I want to make sure that we're not doing the parks if we ever stay here. Well, in the summer there's no way Lawton is going into the parks, Right? When did you go? Not a chance. We went July 6th through the 9th, okay.
Speaker 2:So after 4th of July, what is that a Thursday? Was that a Thursday? Yeah, Thursday through Sunday Okay.
Speaker 1:So that's planning-wise for after 4th of July, because I thought the crowds would be kind of lower and not that it would matter, because we're not going to the parks, but I just thought maybe the hotel, the pool, everything would be not as packed.
Speaker 2:So it was lovely, was it not, as packed.
Speaker 1:It was busy. It is a big pool. You've stayed there before? Yes, so you know, but you know there was not any. You could do a walk-up waitlist for beaches and cream, but it was, and you could get a last-minute reservation at Aylen Compass, which I really like. We've done lunch there before. There's not, like you know, there's not a character meal.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a nice. It's a nice, legit restaurant.
Speaker 1:But it was. It was. There was a good amount of people there, but it wasn't like. This is too overwhelming, there's too many people.
Speaker 2:So we went how old was the oldest? Held was the youngest because your sister was there.
Speaker 1:So my sister was just there for the day. So we my sister and her family were with us for a week and then they were flying out of Orlando. Okay, the day we checked in, so we All drove down there and then we just kind of did A good boardwalk stuff during the day and they drove over.
Speaker 2:I was thinking about the pool, because there was a big age Great and a big age gap.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. So we were thinking about doing trying to get them like a guest pass or something, but they said you know, there were too many people at the resort so they weren't doing guest passes that day. Okay, I think it really. It's probably very rare at that pool that they're going to do that because they do.
Speaker 2:You have to have a risk. I mean you have to go in, you have to show that you're staying at that resort. And then you have to have a wristband.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, they check you for your wristband every day and not a magic band.
Speaker 2:They give you like a paper wristband to put on to get to have access to the pool deck.
Speaker 1:Yes, yep so, and they have different colors for different days. So you do, you cannot just pool hop, like a lot of people do. They will go from pool to pool and I think that it's totally legit Till to Disney for people to do that. I know, I know a lot of people who do it and they even said, oh, you can go to the pool At the Riviera, yeah, the Caribbean Beach, but ours, you have to be a guest staying here. Okay, so they I mean even the Disney people told us that, yeah, sister and them, even though they were not staying at a resort, that we could take them to the pool somewhere else, but they just couldn't do storm along Bay, okay. So storm along Bay is, it's basically a mini water park. It is, you know, two, you know very large pools. One, they're both beach or sand bottom pools. One of them has sand like a beach area that the kids can play in the sand, and then they have a big water slide.
Speaker 2:It's a very fun place to be a lazy river. Have a lazy river which does it connect the pools connect.
Speaker 1:The pools do connect, like there's bridges. I think that I don't think that the Sand bottom with the sand like the beach area on top, I don't think that connect.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's a separate one. Yes, because that's like the kid area there's not a splash pad.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so the pools were Great. We really loved them. We spent not all day at the pool, you know every day that we were there, but we spent a good amount of time each day. Okay, we went with some friends who live in Orlando, our friends Matthew and Rachel right, two daughters and they had a so we both stayed at the beach club. The beach club was under renovation for some of the like in the lobby and stuff Okay, so it wasn't the best experience with the lobby and then also kind of like their marketplace area right the yacht clubs is much nicer and you know it's.
Speaker 1:It's bigger and it has more. You know for food options and everything, but the beach club was still great, it's it just was under construction and they are connected.
Speaker 2:These buildings are connected. You can walk from one, from the beach club to the yacht club, both on the inside and on the outside. Yes, so it's not that it was an inconvenience to go to the yacht club, it just was a longer walk, it's just a longer walk.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I originally had a room for the yacht club and I wanted to change it to the beach club just because I thought it was going to be.
Speaker 2:I mean, I've been to the yacht club so folks are graves. She is not bougie enough for the yacht club?
Speaker 1:I'm not, I just am not. And they sell a little pullitzer in the marketplace at the yacht club.
Speaker 2:I'm like this is not my vibe. This is where Elizabeth Brannock needs to be. Yes, this is where Scott Brannock needs to be. Is what she means by that?
Speaker 1:I mean I was bringing my kids. I was like I want to be at the beach club. It's just more of like a beachy. But you know Lawton, who you know, he went over the yacht club. He's like, oh, it's nice over here. I'm like I know you know you would like it over here more, but here I am at the beach club, you're welcome. I know we're at the beach club and this is where I wanted to stay. So our friends, matthew and Rachel and their girls they actually had they were at the DVC rooms at the beach club.
Speaker 1:Okay, so they had a one bedroom, so we had access to a kitchen, which was lovely, so nice. So Matthew is like he's like a chef and a baker, like he does all the things. Like he, yes, he did all the grocery shopping and he like makes pancakes and does all this stuff, and so we were fully stocked, not on a vacation.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh. Wait, did they do DVC through the rental points or did they do book it online? Do you know?
Speaker 1:they booked it online with with points.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Okay, so it was great to have access to a kitchen.
Speaker 2:So they had the one bedroom villa. What kind of a room did y'all have?
Speaker 1:We had just a regular hotel style room, so we had two queen beds and then a couch that converted into a twin. It wasn't a fold down, you know, like under the TV, like we've seen before. It was a couch that converted. Yeah, so it was great. Lawton loves to unpack clothes, so the you know, the thing under the TV was not a bed, it was actually drawers. So we unpacked all our stuff and it was. There was a bathroom with a water closet and a shower that had you know the sink was on the outside.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the sink was on the outside, so two doors, and then it was snug, though I was expecting contemporary room, size?
Speaker 2:Wait, did you have a porch?
Speaker 1:Do we have a porch?
Speaker 2:Like a balcony.
Speaker 1:Gosh, I can't remember, because we it was so hot we never went outside. We did have, we did. We did have a porch. We did go outside, like we did have a sliding glass door and we could go out there and everything. But it was yes, okay, now I'm remembering we did have a balcony. We were on the second or third floor and it looked over into this garden area that was in between our building and the DVC building. Okay, so we requested to be really close to DVC building, just because that's where Matthew and Rachel were staying, and so we stayed there and, close to them, had a balcony. We're able to I put some stuff out there to dry, remember. So there were a couple, but nobody was sitting out there for very long. It was so hot.
Speaker 1:But the room was snug. I did expect it to be the size of the contemporary and it wasn't. But it was fine. We can all sleep there. We didn't spend a lot of time in the room except for just resting in the, you know, early afternoon we'd rest and then we'd go back out.
Speaker 1:So the stay was great, the room was great. I would say we are only knock. My only knock was that our room was really close to the elevator so I could hear the elevator going up and down and then people coming off. But as soon as I got the sound machine going, everything it was fine and that's just what it is. You're staying at a hotel, you're not at your house. You're not gonna sleep as well at a hotel, but it was lovely. It was really pretty temperature-wise, everything you experienced in your room at the contemporary. It just made me so sad because it was like the opposite, like the temperature was great, it was not hard to adjust. I mean, the room was really nice. The building was great even though it was under construction. But we did really like it. We enjoyed being able to go and do a staycation, enjoy the boardwalk we would like walk over to. We walked over to the boardwalk area and did some snacks over there.
Speaker 2:Did you do jelly rolls?
Speaker 1:We did not do jelly rolls. We did not do jelly rolls, but we went to the restaurant that is right by the Abra Cadabra. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. What is that called Are?
Speaker 2:you talking about Flying Fish?
Speaker 1:No, it wasn't Flying Fish.
Speaker 2:It was connected, so oh yes, there's like a pizza place. It's like a pizza place.
Speaker 1:No, it's an Italian restaurant. I need you to look it up because it does connect to the Abra Cadabra. So it's the restaurant. We went to the Abra Cadabra and then Flying Fish. We went on a date, a double date. Westlin stayed in the hotel with the kids. They had like a living room style at their hotel, so the kids we did the pool all day and then got them set up for dinner. They watched a movie and had dinner, while we walked over to the boardwalk and had dinner at a restaurant over there. I think it's called Trattoria Al Forno, now that I'm remembering it Okay, like I could have pronounced that yeah it was Italian food.
Speaker 1:Yep, you're right. Okay, it used to be that they had a character meal for breakfast.
Speaker 2:They have it to go. They have it to go. Area there too.
Speaker 1:Yes, I have never really read reviews on that before, but we kind of had a last minute. We were waiting to see how the kids would do if we could leave them. And they did great. They were like, okay, we are happy to be here, Westlin babysat. So we were like we were just trying to figure out what could we get for a last minute reservation.
Speaker 2:We have made it to the other side. I know it was great Westlin actually has our kids at the park right now. I mean we've made it to the other side.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, it's great. So we went to Trattoria Al Forno. I had never been there before. I like Italian food, but it's not like my favorite, so I was willing to just kind of go and see how it was. It was so good, was it good? It was so good.
Speaker 2:Was it like Olive Garden good, or was it like really good?
Speaker 1:No, it was really good. Okay, it was, you know, it was not like.
Speaker 2:What did you get? Do you remember?
Speaker 1:I don't remember what I got. I think I got like a flatbread.
Speaker 2:Yes, so you did not get unlimited breadsticks, I didn't.
Speaker 1:I know, but they do bring out bread, which was delicious. Rachel got this, I think shrimp and scallop like linguine meal, oh yum it was so good we were all taking the bread and like dipping our bread and the sauce. It was so good. Hers was very good. Lawton and Matthew got lasagna. Okay, and it was lasagna that was like rolled up.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, it was really good.
Speaker 1:We got ice cream for dessert or gelato for dessert. They brought out the wrong kind of gelato for Matthew and Rachel, so they just brought out like the right kind. So we had three different kinds, I think. We had like a chocolate chip and then a chocolate, and then we wanted pistachio. The pistachio was not as good as we thought it was.
Speaker 2:First, of all that's because that's a weird flavor, but we like it Lawton really likes it oh Lawton that is gross.
Speaker 1:But they were both like this isn't good. Why are you guys eating that? If I was there, I would have said, yeah, duh. But the other ones were really, really good and we were going to go over to Aber Cadabre and have a drink afterwards but we were so full we were like let's just skip it and we'll just kind of walk around. Yeah, but Trattoria for now. I think I thought it was great.
Speaker 2:So, looking at here, they have a walk up, they have a walk up waitlist Area thing too, so that's nice. If you're staying in that area, you could get it to go and then you could just go eat it. I mean, they have like, don't they have like picnic tables and stuff all out there, or you can take it back to your hotel room.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they have some some tables outside that you can go to. Yeah the thing that we did the first day that we were there, when my sister was still there we walked over there on the boardwalk and got to go lunch. There's a deli right next door, okay, and but they don't really have a lot of seating. Okay, it was very hot outside.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you did not rent the bikes is what you're telling me. I did not rent the bikes.
Speaker 1:There were people that had the Surrey bikes. People are crazy. It was crazy Pro tip. Aber Cadabar is not open during the day. Okay, it opens up for maybe even later than that, but it's a bar, so it's not open during the day.
Speaker 1:I saw someone I was trying to scout out seats for us to eat our lunch that was in the shade because we were just getting counter service you know deli sandwiches and I was like, okay, I'm going to run out, I'm going to see where we can sit, because I knew everybody was going to break down. It was so hot I needed to find it in the shade. I found us some tables right outside of Aber Cadabar and I had looked because I thought maybe it was open during the day and I was like, maybe we can just get a drink and eat our lunch in here, I'll see, because I didn't think that they served food during the day. So I go I, you know, try to open it some. And I see that it's not open. I was like, go up, bummer, sit down outside. And then I see this guy walk in to the Aber Cadabar. I was like what in the world? And I go in there just to kind of like you know. Look around, he is eating lunch with his family in there, Wait.
Speaker 2:how come you couldn't open the door?
Speaker 1:I think that you have to kind of pull on it a little bit more. And it was, but I just I wasn't trying to, like, you know, because I didn't know if they were open. So I just, you know, tried a little bit and it wouldn't. I just didn't pull hard enough. Anyway, I walk in there. He's eating lunch with his family and I was like, oh, this is a good idea. He's like we have done this every day. We go and get our lunch from somewhere on the boardwalk and then we chill out in here. It was cold. Nobody was in there. They were like we just clean up after ourselves. I am obsessed. Do you know the place where we sat to get drinks? That's where they were sitting and they ate their lunch there. Nobody was in there, it was cold, it was restful, so amazing. So I was like, okay.
Speaker 2:And this the vibe in there is. It's like think like dark, maroons, plum purples, like deep colors, and I know that sounds. The windows are all tinted, there's a film on them, so it's a little bit darker in there. So all I can think is like coming in there, sitting in there, and it's not like bright in area, it's kind of like I mean not dark, like it's just like the mood changes.
Speaker 1:So you like immediately.
Speaker 2:Like your kids are like coming down.
Speaker 1:Yes, it was great. So we had six kids with us and four adults and they had left. You know they were, they were. My family was still in line getting their food. They had left and then, once they were done, I sat down and my family started just like coming in and we just sat there for like 30 minutes and eight inside it was Was there were there?
Speaker 2:Disney employees.
Speaker 1:They were kind of coming in and out, yeah but they didn't.
Speaker 1:They didn't bother you and we were. I think the general kind of notion was clean up after yourself yeah, and we did. We were like we're going to clean up after ourselves, but it was so hot outside they're not turning people away to not sit inside, like they weren't open. You know, we did buy something from somewhere else and bring it over, but Tratoria Alforno right next door. You could walk through over there and they were open, but you know we couldn't. Someone could have gotten to go from Tratoria Alforno and then brought it over and ate in the Abercadabra. But it was great, it was, it was a lifesaver. I love that, yeah. So we did that that first day. The next day we went to Tratoria Alforno, had a great dinner and you did a pool during the day while you were there pool during the day while we were there.
Speaker 1:It was great. You know the it was not a much of as much of a pain as I thought it would be with the wristbands, because I thought like, okay, everybody has to have their magic band, everybody has to be ready. Like, you really just have to have the adults magic bands and they can see, on the reservation that you know you have how many people.
Speaker 2:So can I ask you this question and this is something, if you're listening to this and you have a variety of ages. That's why I asked that question to Sarah at the beginning of this Because the pool is huge, yes, Um in like. I mean you can stand on one side of the pool and you cannot see the other side of the pool, and so they I mean. Correct me if I'm wrong, but when you come in and they get you wristband, they find you a seat. They did not for us.
Speaker 1:They didn't Okay, it was just, you walk in and you find your own, okay, so?
Speaker 2:I don't know if that was a COVID thing or if they do it only on certain times depending on the crowd level, but I have been. Both times when I have been, they found us a seat.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So if you have a 10 year old and a two year old, you just need to be aware that If you're gonna be the splash paddy, that's not the right word. The smaller pool with the beach. The smaller pool area and you wanna be able to watch your 10 year old go down the slide, you're gonna be on totally opposite ends of the pool, totally opposite ends.
Speaker 2:So if you are a person who likes to sit out of the pool and let your kids play in the pool, but you want eyes on your kids be, know that you're gonna be wanting to get into the pool.
Speaker 1:Yes, so we had. Our ages were 11, nine and nine, seven and seven. Basically, like their two girls are basically the same age as our two girls, okay, and so everybody can swim really well. Matthew and Rachel have a pool at their house so their kids can swim really well. But to do the slide you do have to walk out.
Speaker 2:That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1:And it's in the common public area of where you would walk, you know, to Epcot. And so you have to cross the little cross, you know, boardwalk or the sidewalk on the boardwalk. Yes.
Speaker 2:And Disney does, and they have cast members, cause there's a smaller slide over there too. There's a big slide and there's a smaller slide. Disney has cast members over there.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And so keep that in mind. But to Sarah's point you, if I would not let my kids just walk across without me, Even Wesleyan, I walked with her, you know she's 11.
Speaker 1:Now if her older cousin Ethan, if he was there, he's 13. Or if the drapers were there and the draper. You know like I would let the three of them go and walk across, but I wasn't gonna let her go by herself Well, and I would not let, like a Lorianne and a Reed, go by themselves, so keep that in mind.
Speaker 2:Also, disney, all Disney resorts have life vests. So if your child is not comfortable swimming and they need a flotation device, disney has those and there's no charge for them. You can just use them, but at Storm Along Bay they have the tubes for the Lazy River.
Speaker 1:Yes, now those are hot commodity. You've got to kind of wait it out or swim. We would swim around the Lazy River and then just grab one and grab one when people got out. The life vests are available for anyone. Even if you're like Sydney and you don't want to get your hair and face wet and you just kind of want to float along in the pool, you can also use vest.
Speaker 2:Could you wear it, Because that's what she did. I like to put like whenever we go and we're like in whenever we take the boat and we like sandbar hop, if you will. I like to wear it like a diaper, so it like floats you up.
Speaker 1:That's what she wanted. We went for a night swim and she didn't really want to get like all the way in and she's like, can I just have a life vest? I was like that's a great idea. I wish they had my size too. It's like it just floats. I love that idea.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:So she just kind of enjoyed floating around during that time. I love that, yeah. So we did get to pick our seat every day. We chose to have a seat next to when we were with our friends. We chose to have seats next to the beach area.
Speaker 1:Cause that's where the younger girls wanted to play the most, so we could kind of watch them or, like you know, get in if we wanted to. And then, when it was just our family, we had one day with just our family there and we did the pool and we did more of the activities that were going on when they had some lifeguards.
Speaker 2:I was going to say they didn't like games with the kids and it is. That's the thing about Disney pools, the contemporary. I don't think that they had it. I didn't even see an area. You know that normally they like store all their stuff in one area, the Disney pools, they do that, they do games and then they have prizes and it's super cute and super fun.
Speaker 1:So yeah, it was great. They had like a little volleyball kind of net that you could play volleyball with some beach volleyball. Our family did that for a while and then they did some of the games. We did the pool, the slide, so we did that a lot and then we came back, like in the evening, and did a night swim after having a rest. One of the most fun things we did that I really liked was so two things that Disney just gets so overwhelming. Even if you're on a staycation, you need some just downtime. Right, you know, doing the pool all day, you just need some downtime. Maybe you don't want it necessarily in your room, but we did take some downtime in our room. One of the places that we like to go were this living room style area where they had some games. They had a TV. Yes, we were playing, like you know, we had checkers and we had a couple other games. We just like chilled out in there.
Speaker 2:You know I love a lobby card game.
Speaker 1:I know, it was just great. We just sat there and chilled out for a while and then after that we went over to Beaches and Cream and did to go ice cream and the serving size for those are really big, they're massive. So we were able to just get like two ice creams and share amongst five of us in our family.
Speaker 2:Also, what I forget about Disney properties is they have arcades at pretty much every single Disney property Everywhere.
Speaker 2:Yes, which is my kids love an arcade. Yes, they. When we were at Beaches and Cream. It's like Beaches and Cream the arcade and then the bathroom, yes. So we obviously walked by it and Laura Ann was like, ooh, this is a good arcade. Yes, I'm like this is my kids. Yeah, yeah, scott Brannock is so proud. Yes, yes, but yeah, I love that. So what I appreciate about this journey that you went on is you got to enjoy the resort as the resort. Yes, which I feel like is something that is hard. Like my kids, I wish that I could convince my kids to do that. I wish I could convince my husband to do that.
Speaker 2:I know he probably would If I told him we were staying at the beach club.
Speaker 1:He'd be like done yeah, because it really is very nice and you can just treat it like it is going to a resort, just to enjoy the pool.
Speaker 2:Don't you wish that they had that, like in St Augustine? I know, I know it would be nice If you could do that.
Speaker 1:I mean, they have it at Hilton Head and they have it at, but that's not helping me.
Speaker 2:It's not in St Augustine, I know, I know.
Speaker 1:The Euro Beach. The thing we did after that I loved after we did like our little lobby games. So at every deluxe resort you're going to have like a lobby area with like just like a quiet space where you can just chill out. There was a lady there who, like had her laptop open and, you know, was doing work and everything. We chilled there. We got ice cream and then we did it in time for the fireworks, for the nighttime show for Epcot.
Speaker 2:I didn't know, you liked fireworks.
Speaker 1:Obviously, I, you know, made sure to schedule everything around, trying to make sure people were on board with seeing the nighttime show at the end of the day. So we got ice cream. We walked over to the bridge that connects the Yacht and Beach Club area to the boardwalk area Okay. And there were a handful of people there. That bridge was so good.
Speaker 2:For the fireworks.
Speaker 1:For the fireworks. We went up there five minutes, 10 minutes before it started, and sat there ate our ice cream. We were just like kind of on the ground sitting down and then, once it started, we stood up and it was a great place. We could hear the music.
Speaker 2:You have good pictures of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it was great because we just walked right over. So much of Disney is just the walking, the transportation, all that stuff. Everything we did was right there. We walked over to the bridge you know it was a five minute walk to see the nighttime show and then we just walked right back to our room to like go to bed. When we went on a date, you know, with our friends, we just walked right over to the boardwalk it was like a seven minute walk over to where Trattoria O'Farno was, had a date and then walked back. It was lovely. It was lovely.
Speaker 2:Love that. I do love the beach, the yacht, I love the boardwalk area. I just love the. It's convenient, it's great, I love it, it's my favorite.
Speaker 1:So I would say 10 out of 10, if you're looking to go to Disney but maybe not to the parks, or if you're just looking at a nice hotel to go to and enjoy a resort experience.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and you're within two hours of it. I think it's great, yes.
Speaker 1:And I would say, kind of like you said last week how you loved enjoying the parks in the afternoon evening, I, if our, you know, vacation budget would allow it for some time, and it was a good deal we would totally stay at the Yachton Beach Club doing parks just in the afternoon, enjoying the pool in the morning, eating lunch, resting for a little bit at our hotel room and then going into the parks afterwards, or vice versa. If it's not like blazing hot outside, it's it was. It was really great, we really liked it.
Speaker 2:I love that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that. So Yachton Beach Club highly recommend, highly recommend. Next week I do want to give our review on two restaurants that we went to. Oh okay and um, trattoria Florida was great, but we went to the character meal for Cape May Cafe at Beach Club.
Speaker 2:I've never been.
Speaker 1:And then we got um Ayl and Compass to go, so I want to go over that next week, but that was Yachton Beach Club for us.
Speaker 2:All right, yay, thanks, friends. All right, we'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 1:Bye, bye. It was such a great day today.