Hello all! First I would like to thank everyone for advice and planning assistance. There were so many things that I learned on this forum that ultimately made a big impact on our vacation!
Background: This vacation consisted of me and my boyfriend T! This was about my 13th or so trip and his 4th. I grew up with a lot of Disney and my parents are DVC members. He had not been since high school and really had no idea what he was getting into. Normally, my family prefers to go in December but T and I just took the bar exam. My parents were kind enough to offer some points so that we could have a vacation after the exam. The trip consisted of 7 days at the Beach Club Villas.
Day 1- Arrival: Flight left from Cincinnati at 4:30pm. We had an Olympics celebration the night before and we wanted to get a good night of sleep so we took out a late flight and decided not to do a park day. Our flight arrived about 6:15 with no major issues. I was very nervous because we were scheduled to take the magical express, which I had never done before. We walked right to the bus area (it is true that it is a hike, but with no luggage it is not that bad) and got right on a partially filled bus. We waited less then 5 minutes until we were on the road for Disney! The ride was very nice and time efficient. My only complaint was that the video did not work. But the Disney music on the bus was enough to get into the spirit!
We arrived at Beach Club by 7:30. We had no problems at all checking in and getting our park tickets. We headed over to the villas and, as always, it was amazing to be greeted by the "Welcome Home" sign! Our room was quite interesting. We had the deluxe studio room on the second floor with a garden view. I had stayed in a studio before at Wilderness Lodge, so I thought I knew what to expect. However, we got an ADA compliant room. It was very nice that it was bigger. However, our bathroom had an awkward layout with everything in one room and no real counter space. We ended up having to put all of our bathroom things on the floor, which I really did not care to do. We also did not have a closet. Instead we had a large bureau that functioned like a closet. All in all the room was fine and these were very minor complaints. In the future I will just remember to ask not to have this room.
After checking out our room, we decided to go in search of food! I loved T's reaction when we walked out of the BC for the first time and he could look across the lagoon and see the Boardwalk area. He loved it! It really felt like coming home to me and I was very excited too! We headed to the left and eventually came up to ESPN. Given the late hour and Olympics starting, I did not think we would be able to get in quickly. Fortunately, the seater took pity on us and directed us to the no wait area in the bar. We were very hungry at this point! I had the cheeseburger. I am pretty sure it was very good but I was so hungry that I'm not certain I would have known if it was bad, haha. T had a philly cheese steak that he liked. We also got our first experience of the price of Disney alcohol with a few beers. We also were able to watch beach volleyball that night at ESPN. It was really fun to be able to cheer along with other people!
Next we took a stroll along the Boardwalk. The magician that night was especially funny and we stopped to watch for quite a while. Then I took T around the yacht and beach areas. Finally, we headed back to the room to pass out! Our luggage arrived about 5 minutes after we did. We unpacked and fell immediately asleep!
!! Anyways, sounds like you two had fun. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if you were at Disney some of the same days we were. When we were at HS, it poured basically all day, so maybe we were there on the same days? I'm not sure, but if so - Cool! Lol.