Friday, December 12, 2014

A Waldorf in Disney World?

Today is 12 on 12 day at Krispie Kreme, world wide at participating Krispie Kreme bakery stores. And we have one a ten minute walk from home down route 192 beside the Sherwood Forest RV Resort.



The KK baking system is open and available for anyone to see at any bakery outlet.  And the 12 0n 12 day deal is a dozen free glazed donuts with any other dozen purchased.  We bought twelve glazed, ate two donuts HOT from the oven, packed two with our picnic lunch and froze the remaining 20 for future enjoyment.  We had to squeeze them in around the two half gallons of ice cream and assorted leftovers but they fit.

Then it was back to Disney resort hopping!

Our first visit was to the WDW Caribbean Resort Complex.  Each section of buildings represents another island country of the Eastern Caribbean.  We started in Barbados and walked halfway around the lake that they all surrounded through Aruba.




 
The restaurant, shopping, and main pool area is called Old Port Royale, and features a Spanish Castle theme around the pool.







Six miles away in an area of WDW property reserved for outside resort hotels is a Wyndham, a Hilton, and a Waldorf Astoria.  The Waldorf Company is owned by Hilton and this one, the Waldorf in London, and its flagship in New York, are the three finest.




The valets left us park for a short period at the entrance and we were able to get pics of the lobby, the elegant cut glass ornaments on their Christmas Decorations, and their back yard.  No chicken wire fence here. 

Rooms start at only $365.00, buy an automatic resort fee is added to each night’s stay that was ‘unspecified’.

Our last resort visit of the day was the WDW  Old Key West.  As big as Caribbean but a little older, they are similar except that the checkin building had a nicely appointed, though small, lobby reading room with electric fireplace.



 
With temps at about 60 today and a pretty gray sky we enjoyed an hour or two reading here, even though the occasional family would get a bit loud as they waited to be assigned a room.

Back to the coach we came by 4:00 pm and a homemade Tortellini supper is on the stove as I type.  Yes, this is living!


-Ken

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