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Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort Staycation With My Mom - Room & Property Tour / Eating At Turf Club

Date: October 13, 2022 Duration: 33m 15s
Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort Stay
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0:02 welcome everyone out of the woo here as
0:02 a recording of this Wednesday October
0:04 12th
0:06 2022 a little miniature waterfall right
0:09 here on the little Canal on Water Street
0:11 in celebration of Florida and getting on
0:14 my car I'm gonna go
0:15 pick up
0:16 my mom who is going to be tagging along
0:19 this evening for a DVC stay at Saratoga
0:23 Springs resort Disney Vacation Club I
0:28 have a room so I will be doing a tour
0:30 also be Meandering around the property
0:32 and just showing what it's all about
0:35 and then having a little staycation with
0:37 my mother which is always nice she
0:39 really
0:40 she enjoyed the ones I did last week
0:42 so I figured
0:44 she'd probably enjoy this one as well
0:46 join me and once I pick her up her as
0:48 well shall you still have plenty of time
0:51 normally checking is until four but I've
0:53 had pretty good luck lately with some
0:55 early check-in so we'll see what happens
0:56 this also has to take into account for
0:58 me driving over to my parents place
1:00 which takes a little while too so by
1:03 time I probably even get over
1:05 to the Disney Springs area which is
1:07 where Saratoga is on the other side of
1:10 Lake Buena Vista
1:12 kind of where the oh there goes the
1:13 little bike moving there it'll probably
1:15 be probably closer to one by the time I
1:17 even get go pick her up and then get
1:19 over there
1:19 but sometimes I'll let you do early
1:21 check-in even though technically it's
1:22 informed
1:31 and good news
1:31 at 12 30 p.m the room is already ready I
1:36 went ahead and did mobile check-in
1:37 online
1:38 and even though 4 pm is when you're
1:41 supposed to check in
1:43 12 30.
1:45 P.M
1:46 staying in mom's already ready over
1:48 there hello
1:51 we're staying here in an area called The
1:53 Springs it's like almost like a little
1:55 Lighthouse there
1:58 this is pretty close in proximity
2:01 to like one of the pool areas the bike
2:04 rentals places like that there's a
2:06 little chimney
2:07 up top there
2:21 pretty soon you're going to be an expert
2:21 at this whole Resort DVC thing
2:24 you can you can get used to it
2:26 this is the third one you stayed at so
2:29 this be this will be the third one
2:30 you've stayed at yeah go ahead and
2:32 taking the elevator up
2:39 artists never everybody eat
2:39 we are going to be eating later I booked
2:41 a reservation for the Turf Bar and Grill
2:44 but they also have the artist palette
2:47 The Paddock Grill in a place called
2:49 census but this is the one I booked the
2:51 reservation for a little bit later they
2:53 get like 650 tonight so I just realize I
2:57 have no clue where I'm going
2:59 so we're going to go to a different
3:01 level they also have a Community Hall
3:03 you can check out DVDs play video games
3:05 they have horsing around rentals movies
3:08 Under the Stars a campfire and High Rock
3:11 Springs and Paddock pool
3:22 and not a bad view this just shows how
3:22 close proximity to Springs it is
3:25 do you remember Downtown Disney
3:27 back in the day remember that
3:29 terminology
3:30 so Disney Springs is
3:33 pretty much what Downtown Disney used to
3:35 be that they just added to it you can
3:38 see the balloon over there kind of
3:39 peeking through the trees Cirque du
3:41 Soleil House of Blues
3:43 and there's an identical
3:46 the springs
3:48 building right over there so I guess
3:50 most of DVC stays are probably in the
3:53 springs
3:54 wings
3:57 and I always like to start off every
3:58 room tour by putting a little little
4:00 lock on there kind of showcase what
4:04 the entire room looks like mom's already
4:08 out on the balcony getting a view of the
4:11 of the Overlook that's out there so you
4:13 got a little coat rack here if you
4:14 wanted to like put your your coat and
4:16 accessories on then you walk in this is
4:18 called the deluxe Studio I believe
4:21 Deluxe studio and this is you know it
4:24 was a
4:26 wow I think it's the first time we've
4:27 ever stayed in one of these where there
4:28 is a vacuum here you have a mini fridge
4:33 here you have a coffee maker a toaster
4:35 no Keurig but you do have the 50th
4:38 Anniversary Joffrey's blend over here
4:40 small sink can opener paper towels
4:44 microwave up here uh let's see that's
4:47 not where the cups would be
4:50 I can't okay there's some stuff down
4:52 there ah the cups are right there if it
4:54 was a snake
4:55 it would have been made decent size
4:57 accommodations in here
4:59 as far as the facilities go no tub but
5:03 there is a walk-in shower in this
5:06 particular room anyway
5:07 there you go there's the the shower head
5:10 up there and the soon to be erased from
5:13 existence Disney H2O Plus
5:16 items also I didn't I didn't know this
5:18 all about a year ago but this is for
5:19 your swimsuit so my mom and I were gonna
5:22 go swimming a little bit later
5:23 we'll be utilizing that stretching it
5:26 over here and putting our swimsuits on
5:30 got the H2O plus there as well a little
5:33 makeup mirror here and one thing that's
5:35 really nice about this room is there is
5:37 a ceiling fan up top trying to get it to
5:40 turn on oh there it goes so there is a
5:42 ceiling fan which I now some of the
5:43 resorts do not have ceiling fans this
5:46 one does have
5:48 a ceiling fan this is very horse famous
5:50 based on Saratoga New York and this is
5:54 interesting there's no door here across
5:56 the closet got the drawers here got a TV
5:58 got the remote I got my DVC bag down
6:01 here
6:02 and stepping out how's the view
6:05 very nice man beautiful Fountain over
6:09 a little Lagoon
6:18 like a geyser almost of some sort right
6:18 in the middle
6:19 kind of soothing you can tell how long
6:21 this place has been around because these
6:24 trees were probably small and they
6:25 planted them look how big they are now
6:27 yeah they're grown
6:29 I'm not sure I know Old Key West that's
6:31 next to this I know that's one of the
6:32 oldest resorts on property
6:34 to be honest I probably should look up
6:36 to see when this Resort first open it
6:38 probably has been here a few years
6:39 usually you don't plan to treat it's
6:41 already big so usually you put a tree
6:44 that's pretty small and then it grows
6:47 because this has been around for a while
6:50 hello this section here you know all the
6:53 tall trees because look at that pine
6:54 tree over there yeah that's been around
6:56 a while also there's two seats you got a
6:58 seat here got a seat over here and you
7:01 got a place to put our coffee it's over
7:03 in the corner it's a double bed plenty
7:05 of outlets in here as well so the other
7:07 one we stayed at last week there were
7:10 well we stayed at two different ones one
7:11 of them had two queens but one of them
7:13 had a queen and had a pull out couch
7:18 is that a pull-out couch
7:33 how does it pull out
7:33 oh you know what it might be uh oh
7:35 what do they call these the uh the ones
7:37 that are inside the okay this pulls down
7:41 you can have the couch just sit on
7:43 during the day and then during the day
7:44 we got that and then
7:46 this comes down this way
7:52 so this pulls down
7:52 thank you
7:58 just like that
7:59 this will be my bad that'll be yours
8:01 it's a nice mattress too yeah this will
8:05 definitely sleep a lot more comfortable
8:06 than they pull out couch I was on last
8:08 week
8:09 The Stables
8:12 got the horses there and the Stables got
8:15 the Hidden Mickey over on the side
8:28 got lots of places to put your
8:28 but this does not have a kitchen oh yeah
8:31 here it is
8:35 this is very nice
8:38 got the microwave there
8:40 so we got our coffee
8:52 we got plenty of creamer I know how you
8:52 like your creamer yeah I do okay I just
8:55 looked it up this Resort opened in 2004
8:57 it's probably had some remodels so it
8:59 has been here a while so 2004 it's been
9:00 18 years
9:02 this Resort let's see if we can check
9:05 for The Gideons down here nope no
9:06 Gideon's there yeah there it is there's
9:08 The Gideons
9:10 so you got a decent size here we can put
9:12 our phones over here we can charge them
9:13 and that in that section so 2004
9:16 is when this resort was built this room
9:18 was 15 points if you're keeping up with
9:20 DVC Point Rentals for this time of year
9:23 and this night now one thing we did we
9:24 stopped at the store on the way in and
9:27 picked up a case of water which kind of
9:28 left a few of them in my car but
9:31 you got the one left over from last time
9:33 and then bought another case of 24 so
9:35 instead of buying a bunch of bottles of
9:37 water we just buy the bulk one and just
9:40 bring a few up at a time when we need
9:41 them and put them in there I generally
9:43 try to keep the average night points
9:46 that I use at 15 a night currently I
9:49 have 200 points a year now the way that
9:51 works is that is good for the entire
9:54 length of a contract so it's not just
9:56 200 points for one year but it over you
10:00 know 40 to 50 years based on will buy
10:02 home resorts my home Resort is not this
10:04 one my home Resort is Riviera I have 150
10:07 points there and then 50 points at Grand
10:09 Floridian
10:12 but even though your home Resort or the
10:14 other two you can book at any of the
10:16 other ones the only difference is the
10:18 timing window my home resorts those two
10:19 I mentioned I can book 11 months out
10:21 where something like this I can only
10:22 book seven months out but thankfully
10:24 this is a pretty expensive property and
10:26 there's plenty of room so 15 points per
10:28 night for these accommodations this time
10:31 of the year
10:32 as they're recording
10:44 got Woody and Buzz there
10:44 oh yeah plenty of bus transportation
10:46 coming through here
10:51 yeah if we had a group of four we could
10:51 get this one
10:52 he or the group of two so if we rented
10:54 one of these at some point during our
10:55 stay
10:56 we probably just need the two-seater
10:57 like this these are the prices
11:05 before maybe like a year ago pretty fun
11:05 also if we just wanted to have a regular
11:07 bike to have these little little Cruiser
11:09 taxis here as well and here's a general
11:12 layout of the land we are here
11:15 This Is Us you can just see how
11:18 expansive this whole
11:19 process is all those are tree houses you
11:22 can stay in treehouse Villas that's a
11:24 separate section but yeah there's tree
11:25 houses here
11:26 uh I think that's over yeah I guess that
11:29 would be offside to here walk walk away
11:31 to the tree houses there's the
11:33 grandstands there's the carriage house
11:35 we're gonna walk up and show that we're
11:36 staying in the Springs area there's also
11:39 the paddock Congress Park and the
11:42 carousel this place is huge you know
11:45 tomorrow we go see all these places in
11:46 our bedrooms we'll do the buggies
11:48 tomorrow
11:49 spoiler alert in the morning and then we
11:52 also walkway to Disney Springs we could
11:54 go over there tomorrow too
11:56 so then you got to walk away to Old so
11:58 Old Key West is co-joined
12:00 with Saratoga and again this is all
12:03 someone was yelling over there this is
12:04 all themed around horse racing and
12:07 horses you know just like Saratoga New
12:09 York so you got the horse here you got
12:10 the jockey on there and then you got the
12:13 performance hall over here and then the
12:14 carriage house right over here and it
12:16 just makes sense to be in front of the
12:18 carriage house would be a carriage
12:20 itself a horse-drawn carriage so you got
12:22 the carriage here and then you got the
12:24 horse and some artwork in there with
12:26 some of the different horses from some
12:27 of the animated features reminisces
12:29 reminisces of Saratoga lake and even
12:32 though my magic band is linked up to my
12:34 room went ahead and went into the guest
12:36 services front to get a card to give to
12:38 my mom so she can get in and out if she
12:40 wants to kind of roll off on her own
12:43 and in all his glory Maximus Tangled
12:46 right here
12:52 it was here they didn't have a lot of
12:54 this in here I think it's been remodeled
12:55 a little bit there's a store in here
12:57 called the artist palette which is like
12:59 Quick Service stuff they have some
13:01 fruits some veggies some beverages
13:02 things like that they got some snacks
13:04 some Bakery items some of those lemon
13:06 burst cookies I like so much they got
13:08 the bakery items down here then they
13:10 also have some quick service food up
13:12 here I think my mom's going to grab a
13:13 little bit of a sack I might wait till a
13:15 little bit later so I'm going to eat
13:16 quite a bit at the at the restaurant I
13:18 don't know maybe I'll get something from
13:19 here too but this is kind of the
13:20 opposite of Caesar salads and pizzas and
13:23 things like that now I ended up getting
13:24 a coffee here a 50th Anniversary coffee
13:26 inside the artist palette mom got a
13:28 little soda right there we also heard
13:30 that when we go over to the pool we'll
13:31 be able to get a there's like a soda
13:34 stand at the pool so if mom wanted to
13:36 refill for the next two hours as one of
13:38 these little chips on the bottom of the
13:40 on the bottom of us to let you know you
13:41 get refills up to up to two hours also
13:44 inside the gift shop they have a lot of
13:45 DVC stuff some of the stuff I haven't
13:47 even seen before specifically to you
13:50 know Destin Ford Saratoga Springs
13:52 foreign itself but then there's also
13:54 some new DVC items that I kind of
13:56 haven't seen at some of the other stores
13:57 some kind of you know hooded sweatshirts
13:59 and things like that as not only
14:01 Saratoga Springs proper but also Disney
14:03 Vacation Club which is kind of nice
14:06 they're starting to present more
14:07 merchandise you know for those who who
14:10 enjoy the DVC studies but kind of
14:12 tempted to get something but I don't
14:13 think I might get anything anything
14:15 today but good to know it's here and
14:18 and you ended up ordering you got a
14:19 pepperoni pizza mom yes I'm hungry
14:21 you're gonna get a little little snack
14:23 before the meal later on for the feast
14:25 tonight before the feast number 84. what
14:28 happens is called a little this is a
14:30 Tracker you put it on the table and they
14:31 know where we're sitting and they'll
14:32 bring the pizza over to you now this
14:34 place was called the artist palette and
14:36 it's very kind of artsy through here
14:38 even with the light the unique lights
14:40 and artwork through here and the
14:42 unveiling that's a pretty decent sized
14:44 personal pan and guess what what's
14:46 happening you're gonna put all of it
14:49 you're gonna eat all of it I think so
14:53 have a piece you have a piece I think I
14:55 don't know if Pizza goes well good with
14:57 coffee I'm saving my appetite for dinner
14:59 but we're doing it you're gonna okay
15:10 very hot you're so hungry you're not
15:10 even gonna wait for it to cool down
15:12 Grandma burn my tongue and I don't want
15:13 to be able to burn tongue all night all
15:15 right you talked me into it talk me into
15:17 it I'm gonna have a slice don't know if
15:20 a slice of pizza it is hot oh my
15:22 goodness it is very hot okay they just
15:24 cooked it I'm gonna let it cool down
15:25 right there all right now heading out
15:27 gonna walk over to the pool also known
15:30 as High Rock Spring up here there's a
15:34 lot of waterfall the pool down below and
15:37 here's some of the resort activity so at
15:38 8pm they do so what is today today is
15:42 Thursday today's Wednesday so to do an
15:44 Emperor's New Groove tonight right here
15:47 they also do Mickey tie-dye they do
15:48 Derby Splash you do a campfire things
15:51 like that so they do quite a bit
15:53 quite a bit of different things the the
15:55 bike rentals are open until 6 30 and
15:57 then everything else is open till 10 if
15:58 you wanted to rent a DVD and things like
16:00 that lots of poolside activities and
16:02 whatnot as well with the pool being
16:04 right down there and another you are
16:05 here so basically where we're staying at
16:08 the Springs really the closest pool is
16:10 going to be this one there are a lot of
16:11 different pools over the different areas
16:14 so you got a pool here
16:17 over at The Paddock I think there's
16:18 another couple pools over here but the
16:20 closest one the one we're going to be
16:21 frequenting is this one here next to the
16:24 springs next to the carriage house all
16:25 right ready for the pool
16:27 it's pool time
16:33 got the Disney transport Cinderella bus
16:33 here the castle the carriage and then
16:36 another one approaching over here this
16:38 one goes over to the front of Disney
16:40 Springs obviously if we were to walk
16:42 over to Disney Springs
16:44 really need to take the take the bus
16:52 lots of us I got the logo and everything
16:52 up there
16:53 as well
16:55 what would this be called it's not a y
16:57 it's not like a water tower but
16:59 just the design of the building I guess
17:04 I don't really know what that's supposed
17:04 to be I guess it's just the design of
17:06 the side of the building I'm gonna go
17:07 head back to the room now change into
17:09 our bathing suits I want to definitely
17:12 want to check and see if they have a DVD
17:13 player all right get a DVD
17:16 later and this just shows the proximity
17:19 to the balloon over at Disney Springs
17:26 that's a big stable over there that
17:26 orange building yeah
17:30 all right just check there is no DVD
17:32 player in the room it must be one of
17:34 those things if you need one you can
17:36 request one they'll come install one for
17:38 you it's not that big of a deal I mean I
17:40 would have rented a DVD as a novelty I
17:42 mean I have Disney plus I can watch
17:43 stuff on my phone and probably projected
17:45 up on the TV but
17:47 yeah sometimes they'll have DVD players
17:49 and I believe this one does too but I
17:51 think you have to probably go to the
17:52 front desk and request one and they come
17:55 plug it in for you all right it's not
17:57 that big of a deal all right in the pool
17:58 now there is a really triumphant looking
18:01 waterfall right here interactive water
18:03 feature they call them read the signage
18:05 off to the side over there I'm noticing
18:07 not only they have the pool but they
18:09 also have a hot tub it appears that the
18:10 hot tub is under I don't know if it's
18:12 under maintenance not under construction
18:14 because I don't have anything like
18:15 blocking it off but it just says that
18:17 the pool is closed the hot tub is closed
18:20 for now maybe
18:21 maybe a little bit later it'll be open
18:23 but right now cannot get in the hot tub
18:25 I love all the water features that are
18:27 through here and they kind of like do
18:28 some games or do some trivia and whatnot
18:30 while in the pool pretty nice pool I've
18:34 never been in this pool before I did
18:35 stay here a while back but it did not go
18:37 in the pool but today I'm in the pool
18:39 mom and I are enjoying some pool time as
18:43 she states she's a fish
18:45 actually just she just she wants to go
18:47 right to the pool so I'm getting a
18:49 little more for more pool time than I
18:51 normally get in at some of my resources
18:53 thanks to her and we have found an
18:56 active hot tub there was two over here
18:58 in the pool there so the other one over
18:59 there was close it says no diving
19:00 obviously
19:02 we have the hot tub here and also the
19:05 magic band is waterproof just to confirm
19:08 you enjoy it you're enjoying the bubbles
19:17 and this is considerably warmer than the
19:17 pool and the bubbles are fully on at
19:20 operation let the bubbles do their job
19:24 warmth and Bubbles combined
19:27 for a very enjoyable experience what'd
19:31 you say last time you're here your weary
19:34 bones this is good for my weary bones
19:36 all my aches and pains
19:52 lots of water this hat is not shielding
19:52 myself from the water elements
19:55 but it kind of feels good the water's
19:56 splashing on my big brimmed hat as I sit
20:00 underneath the water effects of the
20:02 water fountains here at Saratoga Springs
20:05 Resort
20:12 and I am washing the Rays lean
20:12 this hat
20:14 s team
20:15 is clear
20:17 I don't know just like still thinking
20:19 about the first season
20:21 big brimmed hat
20:28 and add some more buses pull into the
20:28 station over there I'm noticing over
20:30 here at this window not only is there
20:31 many with a rubber ducky there take a
20:34 look up here five-legged Marigold Mary
20:36 Blair goat from the Contemporary mural
20:39 this must be like some sort of like a
20:40 scavenger hunt that they do heading back
20:42 to the room now looking at all these
20:44 birds up here
20:49 all those crows looks like something out
20:49 of the
20:51 something out of the Hitchcock The
20:52 Hitchcock
20:55 proud
21:19 now we're making our way over for our
21:19 dinner reservation but noticing that
21:21 there is basketball courts back here and
21:22 I saw something that you could just go
21:24 up to the center over there and sign out
21:27 basketball so if you want to play
21:29 so I'm gonna shoot some hoops or you
21:32 wanted to play some tennis over here
21:34 got some tennis courts
21:36 and then over here in this building is a
21:39 DVC preview Center and on the other side
21:41 the previous Center as we're gonna be
21:43 walking over to the restaurant
21:44 we have the resi for they are from six
21:48 to seven they do
21:50 some s'mores some little campfire s'more
21:53 cooking as well which is kind of pretty
21:55 neat but we don't want to spoil our
21:56 appetite because we're gonna go get some
21:58 food
21:58 for dinner
22:06 we are now heading over to the Turf Club
22:06 Bar and Grill which we made a
22:09 reservation for and so yeah you saw some
22:11 of the the clothing the jockeys wear and
22:14 walking up down this little little
22:16 carpet down below here there's a couple
22:18 of jockeys over there this says
22:22 they're weighing in back in 1929.
22:38 you got the mobile menu and then you've
22:38 also got the the regular menu it was
22:41 quite an assortment of things french
22:42 onion soup chopped salad for the
22:43 appetizer artichokes
22:45 Frito misto New York cider brace mussels
22:48 a little cheese and meats prime rib for
22:51 the entree salmon filet mignon carrots
22:55 carrot filled oh this is interesting
22:59 does that go over to Springs
23:02 Disney Springs
23:07 there's a golf course over there
23:09 and this has a very Caddyshack type of
23:12 vibe
23:13 a place you could
23:15 definitely see Rodney Dangerfield
23:17 walking in talking about a hat going
23:20 with a free bowl of soup and we're set
23:22 pretty quickly after getting here and
23:24 getting the notification
23:26 Frito Mista which I didn't really know
23:28 what that was but looking at it has
23:29 quite an assortment of good things
23:30 including calamari shrimp broccolini
23:33 green beans
23:39 served with marinara sauce that's an
23:39 appetizer french onion soup looks pretty
23:41 good too and I like artichokes also
23:45 see anything on there that's like
23:47 popping out at you Mama for the entrees
24:00 I don't know about art show because I've
24:00 never had them before we could try some
24:04 because I don't like it I'll eat them
24:07 there's probably not a whole lot just
24:09 being an appetizer so I was like I'll
24:11 eat them definitely get some artichokes
24:14 I think I might get this Frito misto
24:16 stuff they have brought out the bread
24:18 and the butter here and we ordered a
24:20 couple appetizers got French onion soup
24:22 artichokes and the Frito meat stuff
24:24 coming up mom got some sweet tea
24:28 the French onion soup has arrived
24:32 what do you think that is
24:35 what is this is that the onion I think
24:38 you think that's actually an onion
24:44 Mrs french onion soup but I'm not sure
24:44 what this is it's floating around in
24:46 here so the same bread cheese on top
24:56 and what is it what did we order here
24:56 this is the Grilled artichoke this is
24:58 the grill large okay so it has a Grilled
25:01 artichoke and a
25:04 kind of like a
25:06 crispy artichoke on top smells good and
25:09 then it has a tahini sauce okay all
25:12 right so that is really good and then I
25:13 have on top of that some spices okay
25:18 all right all right thank you and this
25:21 is for Frito miso it is time for our
25:23 stuff oh I love that so they it's very
25:26 light okay all right excellent thank you
25:28 so much all right this looks all so good
25:32 all right help yourself Mama
25:40 you're still checking what is this this
25:40 is tempura it's like a seafood and this
25:43 is broccoli
25:47 it's a shrimp right here this is shrimp
25:47 I think
25:56 this is really a fancy looking plate
25:56 full of pork chops here the biggest Pork
25:58 Chop look at this thing
26:00 now she did describe everything that was
26:03 on there and to be honest I don't even
26:05 remember everything that she stated
26:07 about this being on this but that is a
26:10 decent size piece of pork chop here
26:13 you need some kind of beans right there
26:17 go over here looks like something those
26:20 kind of look like navy beans I think it
26:22 is
26:23 and you went with like an au gratin
26:25 potatoes and
26:27 a sirloin steak sirloin no what was it I
26:32 don't remember what it was you want the
26:33 filet mignon yeah yeah
26:36 and then broccoli and carrots yeah and
26:39 this is just basically like they're
26:40 they're this is a new item if they just
26:42 started putting on the menu it's like an
26:44 au gratin potato it's like mashed
26:45 potatoes with whatever on top of it
26:48 there you go a little filet mignon plus
26:51 some more biscuits and I went with a
26:53 pork chop
26:55 a lot of food
26:58 that's a little later in the evening so
27:00 this isn't open but this is Disney's
27:02 Lake Buena Vista currently closed at the
27:06 at the moment but this has this is run
27:09 by or operated by Arnold Palmer golf
27:12 management right over in here take a
27:15 look in there you can see some of the
27:16 stuff on the greens all Hidden Mickey
27:17 and from here
27:19 one of the boats going by kind of
27:21 looking across the parking lot across
27:23 Lake Buena Vista at the balloon and
27:27 is over there take a look there's The
27:31 Nightlife
27:32 of Disney Springs with the boats going
27:34 by I don't call them friendship boats
27:36 they
27:36 are there well maybe they might be a
27:38 friendship boats but the boat's going by
27:40 across Lake Buena Vista so you basically
27:42 have House of Blues
27:44 over on this end
27:46 and then you got
27:48 former
27:50 virgin mega store AMC Theaters all that
27:52 over there you got Planet Hollywood over
27:55 here followed by the other sphere the
27:57 balloon the boat's going by the boat
28:00 house off in the distance
28:06 Disney Springs and correlation right
28:08 next to where we're staying at Saratoga
28:10 Springs there's a lot of Springs a
28:12 little earlier we were talking to a cast
28:13 member
28:15 and asked what they use these Vans for
28:18 and he was saying he had worked
28:20 out at the parks for over 30 years and
28:22 he's been with DVC it says 91 when it
28:24 started
28:25 he was saying basically these will take
28:27 you around to different properties and
28:29 show you some of the rooms you want to
28:30 look at certain rooms if you're
28:31 inquiring about Disney Vacation Club and
28:34 he also said sometimes they use these as
28:35 like magic moments if you see someone
28:37 walking around the resort or waiting at
28:39 the bus stop
28:41 sometimes they'll just pick up random
28:42 guests and say hey where you headed next
28:44 to Magic Kingdom and they'll just give
28:45 them a Magic Moment
28:47 let him ride in in the van there's
28:48 passenger seats in the back of these
28:50 vans as well
28:52 and here is the pool lit up at night
28:56 we'll still open till 10. it's uh about
28:59 10 minutes till 8 right now this is the
29:01 back but I guess this would be the back
29:03 side of water
29:05 with the waterfall flowing down there
29:12 oh the arcade sign over there is lit up
29:12 too forgot to check out the arcade the
29:14 weather is so nice out here
29:16 it's like one of those
29:21 I'll say rare ties but one of those
29:21 times in Florida the weather is actually
29:23 really nice and one thing I really like
29:25 about this pool they also turned off the
29:27 fountains over here even though the
29:29 pool's still open a little like almost
29:31 looks like Chip and Dale type of they're
29:33 not but it looks like kind of how Chip
29:34 and Dale like kind of spitting out right
29:37 here but I like how this is almost like
29:39 a beach-like beach style where it just
29:42 starts off shallow and then makes its
29:44 way down and goes into one foot to you
29:47 know one foot three meters and then over
29:49 across
29:58 now I see the neon for the arcade
29:58 but where is the Arcade
30:01 see the signage win play or Show arcade
30:05 maybe it's just theming
30:13 it's right there this door is closed off
30:13 all these doors are closed off
30:16 maybe it's just a maybe it's just a
30:18 theming thing it's around the side over
30:20 here I'll walk over there and look I was
30:22 just informed that there really is an
30:25 arcade
30:27 just got to enter in from a different
30:28 area
30:29 also this is the hot tub that's not
30:32 operational but we use the other one
30:33 we're told to go around this way and get
30:35 into the arcade okay found the arcade
30:37 the arcade has another little smaller
30:39 signage over here right underneath where
30:42 this mat is but going in the arcade yeah
30:45 the only a few people in there there's
30:47 maybe like two or three people total in
30:48 there but a lot of arcade games a lot of
30:50 the newer versions of arcade but I did
30:52 find two kind of retro retro games as
30:56 well they were kind of like combo retro
30:58 games but at least there's some sort of
30:59 rep retro represented inside the wind
31:02 place or Show arcade and inside the
31:04 community room take a look at all the
31:05 movies here so here's all the DVDs you
31:07 basically just choose what you want
31:09 whether it be G PG pg-13r or they also
31:12 have board games and then you just tell
31:14 them which one it is out of the book
31:15 here and they will get your DVD for you
31:18 and I also asked them they said that you
31:21 have to call the front desk and it takes
31:22 about 30 minutes for them to break it
31:23 and install the DVD player so we're not
31:26 going to do that because I do have
31:27 Disney plus but this is kind of like a
31:28 pretty neat novelty to see all the
31:32 different ones that they have in here so
31:34 if you're staying for a while if you're
31:35 taking for staying for definitely a
31:36 series of days it's kind of worth
31:37 calling the front desk getting the DVD
31:39 player and kind of making
31:40 making the thing out of it check out the
31:42 pictures over here we got Walt over here
31:44 doing his little Mickey animations and
31:46 whatnot now here are some very unique
31:48 kind of squiggly looking plants a little
31:50 almost like a corkscrew up type plants
31:53 here I don't think they grow that way
31:55 they probably designed
31:57 to be done that way
31:58 like fashioned into that
32:00 design maybe they're just trimmed that
32:03 way I'll probably just trim that way
32:05 I don't think there's any wire in there
32:06 oh there's no maybe wire
32:09 so you think they're just trimmed that
32:10 way
32:12 you remember Cypress Gardens Cypress
32:15 Gardens yeah we have all kinds of stuff
32:17 to sculpture
32:18 they sculpture those like that okay all
32:21 kinds of designs out of trees and stuff
32:23 it's pretty neat
32:25 and that's gonna do it for today from
32:27 Saratoga Springs had an enjoyable day a
32:30 lot of pool time a lot of Hot Tub Time a
32:32 lot of food time
32:34 a lot of walking around time
32:40 it was fun
32:40 time to turn in
32:42 go back to the room
32:45 see in the next video the Vlog is over
32:47 I'm also noticing on the lights here in
32:49 the hallways
32:51 take a look there's horses there
32:54 the Riders on top of them as well
32:57 right here on the on the legs of the
32:58 hallway
33:00 perfect timing because I think it is now
33:03 starting
33:05 to rain