In 2012, we were staying at beach club. I was working half a day and meeting my group at the hotel. They had told me they arrived, I was prolly 10 minutes out. I had never mentioned to anyone in the group that upgrades were a thing or that club level even existed, because WHY raise unrealistic expectations.
I get to the resort, I see the other car in the portico, go inside, cannot find them in the lobby. Look ALL over, they are nowhere to be found. I start calling mobile phones, no one is answering. I FINALLY get my SIL on the phone, she says in a very confused tone “we don’t know why, but they sent us to check in up at a different desk upstairs. We had to have an escort to get up here. They said we aren’t in trouble.”
Me- “OMG! OMG! We got upgraded to club level????”
Her- “yeah I think we get free soda now. But I’m not sure”
Now I am almost blacking out from excitement, and the rest of my group is just confused as can be.
I had to find a lobby CM to take me upstairs to meet them. Our rooms were not just club level, they were pool/Boardwalk view rooms. It was pretty much the most magical trip ever.