This was our family's first cruise together and part of a "Super Vacation" package that I set up as a perfect send off to my oldest child that will be going off to college. Our family of 4 have traveled the world together and lived overseas in various locations for 14 years prior to my retirement and settling in Washington State. We are a very tight-knit family of 4 and sending one offspring into the world alone is both exciting and saddening at the same time.
In all of our family history, Disneyland and Disney World has always represented the pinnacle of vacation fun. After all, where does a family that has been almost everywhere in the world (literally not figuratively) find amusement, relaxation, and great entertainment? So as a finale to traveling across the US, we arrived at Disney World as part of a 7 day land and sea package.
The resort stay is not really the focus of this report and certainly not the purpose of this website but I must make just a few comments that might help someone. We stayed at Disney's Beach Club resort. It was a nice 4 day stay, but I don't think I would return there opting for a more exciting resort (like the Wilderness Resort). The Beach Club really didn't fit our family's idea of a fun place to stay and I wish we would have planned things differently. But it was still very nice and luckily close to an urgent care facility that accepted our ex-military medical insurance (my son developed tonsillitis just after arrival and needed urgent care on our second day). The hotel staff was very accommodating getting him and my wife to that treatment center. The rest of our resort stay could be characterized as wonderful as it could be, you know, it's Disney World - fun, exciting, and expensive!