Charleston Princess
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Awesome! I keep hitting DH in the arm to look at your pics -- I hope I don't leave a bruise.
Live from WDW, Nicki & Todd do the F&W and 10 days worth of food!!!
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Awesome! I keep hitting DH in the arm to look at your pics -- I hope I don't leave a bruise.
ChelleinNC
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iluvpluto27
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Really enjoying your report. Looking forward to the next update.
~Fisharefriends~
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really enjoying your live report. look forward to reading the rest of your trip.
MickeyNicki
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Awesome! I keep hitting DH in the arm to look at your pics -- I hope I don't leave a bruise.
LOL Dont maim the poor guy
GrossNot a good way to start the day!
At least now that we are CL they have a fantastic cappuccino machine!
Wonderful update! Thank you so much for taking the time to do this for us!!
Oh, there is something else ............
Have the most wonderful and magical birthday!!!
Greetings from far away Austria!
Karin
Thank you so much, thats awesome!
Thank you! I have to post Boma dinner from last night, the Sunrise Safari that we are doing this morning and tonight JIKO!
Thank you!
MickeyNicki
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We made it back to our resort and got our room assignment, but before we went to the room DH wanted to check out tea time at the lounge. There were a few cookies (these are the most amazing butter tea cookies I ever ate EVER and they are made downstairs in the Boma bakery), tea and coffee and the cold drinks are available all the time. Here are a few pics for you
DH loved the rice krispie squares and the brownies.
VIEW FROM THE LOUNGE 6th FLOOR
DH loved the rice krispie squares and the brownies.
VIEW FROM THE LOUNGE 6th FLOOR
trixiequilts
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I am so jealous of that lounge! It looks great! 
Pixiedust34
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Your reviews are so much fun to read! Thanks for sharing your trip with us!
Charleston Princess
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Such yummie treats at CL! Have you tried the African smoothie yet?
Looking forward to reading all about Boma (my favorite place to eat) and Jiko (hoping to eat there someday)!
Have a GREAT time on the Sunrise Safari!
Looking forward to reading all about Boma (my favorite place to eat) and Jiko (hoping to eat there someday)!
Have a GREAT time on the Sunrise Safari!
TammyLynn33
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Hi there Nicki..
Im new to the boards and to Disney..Taking my 6 yr old son and 3 year old Princess to Disney in April and am loving reading your reviews. Thank you so much.
Happy Birthday!
Waves from Way up North
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Im new to the boards and to Disney..Taking my 6 yr old son and 3 year old Princess to Disney in April and am loving reading your reviews. Thank you so much.
Happy Birthday!
Waves from Way up North
T
2xcited2sleep
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WOW! Everything looks amazing-- good food, good weather, and the AKL looks like 
. How are you finding the crowds? You mentioned Pepper Market being crowded your first night and wondering if that was a sign... Hope not! "See you" Thursday but in the mean time please keep the reviews coming as I find myself incapable of focusing on anything other than Disney and glued to the DIS. 
. How are you finding the crowds? You mentioned Pepper Market being crowded your first night and wondering if that was a sign... Hope not! "See you" Thursday but in the mean time please keep the reviews coming as I find myself incapable of focusing on anything other than Disney and glued to the DIS. Great reviews Nicki! I really want to take DD down and stay at CL... She'd LOVE it! Looks like I'm gonna have to scope out some decent coffee when we get there! I can not deal with "fake" coffee... eeeewww!
By the way... Happy Birthday!!!! I can't wait to hear more reviews!
By the way... Happy Birthday!!!! I can't wait to hear more reviews!
MickeyNicki
It is pretty darn sad when a valet picks you out a
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I am so jealous of that lounge! It looks great!
The lounge is amazing, I have never experienced anything like it before, and the special gold room keys they give you....so cool!
Thanks, glad you are enjoying it!
I tried the smoothie yesterday, it was not cold so I think that is why I didnt like it, too sweet for me but DH loved it though. Boma is coming up soon and the Sunrise Safari review.
Welcome to the DIS!! Thanks for reading and the b-day wishes!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NICKI
arty:
I just love your live reviews!! Thanks so much for taking us along!
Thank you! Tonight is the big b-day dinner, JIKO BABY!
WOW! Everything looks amazing-- good food, good weather, and the AKL looks like
The weather was cool here this morning, 59 degrees on our Safari tour which was great because the animals were everywhere but it was cold to us. When we left AK at 10am the place was a mob scene, people everywhere! Lets hope it thins out for tomorrow. Hope to see you this week!
Thank you! If you get the chance you should stay at AKL CL, it is just amazing! FYI the coffee at the Safari breakfast was fake too....gross!
Great update Nick! Hope y'all have a great day today.
Thank you! How are you feeling today? I hope much better!
MickeyNicki
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Ok we are back from our Sunrise Safari and DH is taking a nap so I will post our Boma dinner last night. I booked a 4:45 dinner in hopes of the place not being too busy so I could take alot of close up buffet shots for you guys...that was not going to happen because this place was packed to the gills. I also wanted to make it to Epcot for the final concert 7:45 Jon Secada, last night was the last night he was going to be there.
I started off with this yummy little cocktail:
I made sure to take a pic of the menu so you can see the ingredients. It was incredible, nice and cold and wonderful and oh so could I die a happy girl. Until I finished the drink...get this, the glass is broken from the rim straight down, nice big crack...thank god I did not drink off that side or cut my lip or something.....I was freaked that I drank broken glass chips but DH said there wasnt any chips out of the crack. I brought it to the attention of my server and he apologized profusely and even though I said no brought me out another drink, which of course I drained! I was feeling mighty good let me tell ya!
DH stuck with ice tea, he is on a lot of pain meds so he is not doing much drinking this trip.
So I have to tell ya, I love Boma breakfast, I mean to the point that if I could marry Boma breakfast I would, it is that good. I was so looking forward to Boma dinner, I wanted to love it, I ignored bad reviews, I went into it with an open mind....but I didnt like it. There were a few items I liked but the majority of them I did not...not even the desserts. DH did not care for it either. Let me explain.....
When we were promptly seated at 4:45 there wasnt a line for the meat section, that changed in 5 minutes. When we got our first plates and headed back to the table the line for the meat was 20 people or more deep....this is nuts. It was like that the entire time we were there.
The prime rib was to die for..DH had a well done piece that cut like budda (thats Butter to you non NYorkers) and I had medium rare that was just amazing, the ribs had fall off the bone meat but there were super duper spicy and had a heavy cinnamon/vanilla flavor too them that we did not care for. The bobutie (sp?) was gross. The potatoes with afritude was missing the 'tude and I had to salt and pepper them myself. The roasted chicken was very good.
The soup selection was a miss that night, carrot ginger BLECH, seafood something BLECH, Chicken pepper pot (was empty each time I went up to the buffet) and a lentil sausage BLECH. I went for the coconut curry chicken soup. This should be called the red pepper soup, the taste was way overpowering with a back taste of cocount, SUPER BLECH.
I had a greens salad with mango vinigrette otherwise known as sugar dressing, way too sweet and I could not eat it.
DH went for the regular balsamic and liked it.
Here is my second plate. The little brown balls are falafel balls with mustard yogurt sauce, these were to die for and I should have just ate a plate of these....just amazing! Below that is the curry macaroni salad that was very good, in the middle kool slai that was terrible, above the falafel balls is the coconut rice which is just weird, the three little blobs on the left are the sundried tomato hummus that tasted like pizza sauce, the middle one is the black bean hummus that tasted like (these are DH's words not mine) B.O. and the last one is the white bean hummus that had no taste at all. Up top is some square white thing that tasted like potato, couscous that was super spice and pita pieces.
This is DH's plate, pita pieces, couscous,coconut rice and watermelon tomato salad that he said was just weird.
DH was not feeling Boma so he had a big plate of fruit, it was fantastic.
Onto what should have been the saving grace of Boma, the desserts...well it wasnt....it was blah. We got a serving of everything except the fruit cobbler.
The first plate, start at the top and the best, the banana bread pudding with vanilla sauce and rum sauce. This was to die for and we inhaled it! To the right are 2 custard tarts but the flaky puff pastry was not good, it fell apart as you ate it. Below that is the cocomisu which DH liked but I didnt care for it, tasted like cool whip with coconut mixed in. To the left are 2 chocolate chip cookies that were ok, the famed zebra domes which neither of us care for (this was the second time we tried them and we just done like em). Above them is a small piece of flourless chocolate cake that was ok.
Second plate, at the top is a super thick chocolate mousse that is very rich, under that are two pieces of the chocolate cake again, a sugar cookie and oatmeal cookie that were both good, under that is a melk tart that had no taste at all, next to that is who knows what but it was hard and tasteless, above that is a pineapple upside down cheesecake that was good but very sweet.
The waiter then brought me out a birthday treat. The berries were sour, DH cut the chocolate off the little cakes and that was excellent but the little cakes were hard and gross.
I'm sorry guys, I really wanted to like or love Boma but it just isnt for us. At least we tried it!
I started off with this yummy little cocktail:
I made sure to take a pic of the menu so you can see the ingredients. It was incredible, nice and cold and wonderful and oh so could I die a happy girl. Until I finished the drink...get this, the glass is broken from the rim straight down, nice big crack...thank god I did not drink off that side or cut my lip or something.....I was freaked that I drank broken glass chips but DH said there wasnt any chips out of the crack. I brought it to the attention of my server and he apologized profusely and even though I said no brought me out another drink, which of course I drained! I was feeling mighty good let me tell ya!
DH stuck with ice tea, he is on a lot of pain meds so he is not doing much drinking this trip.
So I have to tell ya, I love Boma breakfast, I mean to the point that if I could marry Boma breakfast I would, it is that good. I was so looking forward to Boma dinner, I wanted to love it, I ignored bad reviews, I went into it with an open mind....but I didnt like it. There were a few items I liked but the majority of them I did not...not even the desserts. DH did not care for it either. Let me explain.....
When we were promptly seated at 4:45 there wasnt a line for the meat section, that changed in 5 minutes. When we got our first plates and headed back to the table the line for the meat was 20 people or more deep....this is nuts. It was like that the entire time we were there.
The prime rib was to die for..DH had a well done piece that cut like budda (thats Butter to you non NYorkers) and I had medium rare that was just amazing, the ribs had fall off the bone meat but there were super duper spicy and had a heavy cinnamon/vanilla flavor too them that we did not care for. The bobutie (sp?) was gross. The potatoes with afritude was missing the 'tude and I had to salt and pepper them myself. The roasted chicken was very good.
The soup selection was a miss that night, carrot ginger BLECH, seafood something BLECH, Chicken pepper pot (was empty each time I went up to the buffet) and a lentil sausage BLECH. I went for the coconut curry chicken soup. This should be called the red pepper soup, the taste was way overpowering with a back taste of cocount, SUPER BLECH.
I had a greens salad with mango vinigrette otherwise known as sugar dressing, way too sweet and I could not eat it.
DH went for the regular balsamic and liked it.
Here is my second plate. The little brown balls are falafel balls with mustard yogurt sauce, these were to die for and I should have just ate a plate of these....just amazing! Below that is the curry macaroni salad that was very good, in the middle kool slai that was terrible, above the falafel balls is the coconut rice which is just weird, the three little blobs on the left are the sundried tomato hummus that tasted like pizza sauce, the middle one is the black bean hummus that tasted like (these are DH's words not mine) B.O. and the last one is the white bean hummus that had no taste at all. Up top is some square white thing that tasted like potato, couscous that was super spice and pita pieces.
This is DH's plate, pita pieces, couscous,coconut rice and watermelon tomato salad that he said was just weird.
DH was not feeling Boma so he had a big plate of fruit, it was fantastic.
Onto what should have been the saving grace of Boma, the desserts...well it wasnt....it was blah. We got a serving of everything except the fruit cobbler.
The first plate, start at the top and the best, the banana bread pudding with vanilla sauce and rum sauce. This was to die for and we inhaled it! To the right are 2 custard tarts but the flaky puff pastry was not good, it fell apart as you ate it. Below that is the cocomisu which DH liked but I didnt care for it, tasted like cool whip with coconut mixed in. To the left are 2 chocolate chip cookies that were ok, the famed zebra domes which neither of us care for (this was the second time we tried them and we just done like em). Above them is a small piece of flourless chocolate cake that was ok.
Second plate, at the top is a super thick chocolate mousse that is very rich, under that are two pieces of the chocolate cake again, a sugar cookie and oatmeal cookie that were both good, under that is a melk tart that had no taste at all, next to that is who knows what but it was hard and tasteless, above that is a pineapple upside down cheesecake that was good but very sweet.
The waiter then brought me out a birthday treat. The berries were sour, DH cut the chocolate off the little cakes and that was excellent but the little cakes were hard and gross.
I'm sorry guys, I really wanted to like or love Boma but it just isnt for us. At least we tried it!
ChelleinNC
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The CL pics look great! Isn't it nice to have that lounge available 
Can't wait for the Boma dinner review and the Sunrise Safari. Really really looking forward to the Jiko review
since we'll be trying it for the first time in December 
Can't wait for the Boma dinner review and the Sunrise Safari. Really really looking forward to the Jiko review
since we'll be trying it for the first time in December
MickeyNicki
It is pretty darn sad when a valet picks you out a
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After the amazing concert we arrived back at the lounge for cocoa, it was 9:30 and there was only one other couple up there.
Here are a few pics of the cordials (I had the African fruit cream and it was wonderful) and some snacks.
Here are a few pics of the cordials (I had the African fruit cream and it was wonderful) and some snacks.
MickeyNicki
It is pretty darn sad when a valet picks you out a
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So today is my birthday, Happy Birthday to ME! And today it is all about me, isnt it always? Hey if it is all about me why is DH sleeping our day away? We were supposed to have a pool day but it is 68 outside and that is too cool for me.
We were up at the lounge at 6:30 and had coffee and juice. At 7am this is what they put out:
FRUIT LOOPS, RICE KRISPIES, FROSTED FLAKES, RAISIN BRAN
OATMEAL AND QUINOA
FRUITS
PASTRIES
We were up at the lounge at 6:30 and had coffee and juice. At 7am this is what they put out:
FRUIT LOOPS, RICE KRISPIES, FROSTED FLAKES, RAISIN BRAN
OATMEAL AND QUINOA
FRUITS
PASTRIES
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