Nick was kind enough to drive us to the airport late Saturday night. Our flight was an eye blistering 12:30am departure, and didn’t make it into Orlando until around 11am with a nice convenient stop in Houston at 8am. Needless to say, by the time we got to our hotel, I was beat. Although I slept for a majority of the flight, I didn’t sleep well. When we got in, we took a rather expensive cab ride from he airport to our hotel ($60), and bought our 6-day park hopper Disney pass.
The guy in the hotel who was “helping” us with our purchases also set up a car rental for us at what seamed like an awesome price. Turns out the guy was an idiot, or a sneak. The car rental was going to end up being twice what he told us (nearly $400 for the week) so we ended up passing on that (which meant we had no way to get to the park the first day, since we had missed the last shuttle). So we took the rest of the day to eat and catch up on sleep. We walked down to really the only place worth walking to, “Bob Evans” which was basically another Denny’s or IHOP. I had a really good (and huge) meal of biscuits and gravy, as well as an apple pie desert. After eating we all went back to the room and slept for a good four hours, and then it was time to get up and eat again. This time, we just went to the 7-11 across the street for some 2 for $2 hot dogs and other miscellaneous snacks and drinks.
In all it was a complete waste of the day, which none of us really wanted to do, but because the hotel wasn’t really what they claimed, it was what we were forced to do. We thought we would be able to get to the park, when in reality it was a good 15 min drive from the hotel, despite their claim of being “1-mile away”. But it did get all of us rested for the rest of our trip, and an early start the next day.