December 13-17, 2009. Days 147-151 Disney World.

Wow! Who knew it would so much better to go to Disney World during Christmas. We just finished 5 wonderful days at the Fort Wilderness Campgrounds on Disney World property and we loved it. For those of us with RVs it’s really the best way to do Disney. You get a great site with level concrete pads and all the hookups. You have access to all the Disney transportation via numerous buses that serve the campground or you can take a boat ride right from the CG to several other places like the Contemporary Hotel or even go straight to The Magic Kingdom. Once you are there to those places you can get right on the Monorail system and to many other places too. On two days that’s all we did was take the Disney transportation around to see the hotels all beautifully decorated for Christmas and for the kids to ride the Monorail and boats. Of course they loved that. We also went one day to The Polynesian Hotel in our bathing suits and had a fun, relaxing day at the pool. You aren’t supposed to do that because each hotel has signs that say the pool is for the guests of that particular hotel but because we did this on December 12th the pool was more than half empty and we don’t think they really cared because there was plenty of space available.

One day we left the park and went to a place called The Fun Spot. It’s a small carnival type amusement park with several rides but best of all it has 4 different go-cart tracks. For one price you can ride everything all day as much as you want. We had asked the kids if they wanted a day at The Magic Kingdom or a day riding go-carts and they instantly yelled “Go-carts!” Kevin and Jim were very glad they did because they seemed to have the most fun of all although once Kathleen got started driving we couldn’t get her off the tracks. We ended up spending 8 hours there, from 12 noon to 8 PM. When we left we were all exhausted.

Each night there was plenty to see. The CG had a Character Review and sing along near the pool and then you could walk a short distance to the lake to see the fire-works from The Magic Kingdom. Speaking of the CG pool it was great too. It had a nice big slide and a great water play area for the little kids.

The best part of this whole stay is why the beginning of this blog entry says Christmas is a great time to come to Disney. You should have seen the many RV sites decorated for Christmas. Some RVs were as decorated as any house we’ve ever seen and probably more decorated based on the size of the campsite they were parked at. We went out each night to the different CG areas to see new and better sites than we had seen the night before. It was truly amazing and really brought us The Christmas spirit we had not felt yet. We loved it all and were sad to leave on Friday the 18th but we were still happy too because we were heading to Pensacola to see our son Thomas.