tweetylori
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Oh my goodness, what an adventure! Happy Belated Birthday! I loved reading your report.
Yes it was quite the adventure. Thanks for coming along. And thank you for your kind words!
Oh my goodness, what an adventure! Happy Belated Birthday! I loved reading your report.
Yikes, what a mess at the airport! Sounds like you guys rolled with it very well. Glad you made it home the next day without any further issues. Sounds like it was overall a fantastic birthday celebration!
I rarely post but love to read all of the reviews. I really enjoyed yours! You have inspired me to plan a trip with my husband for our 25th! It will be hard to leave the kiddos at home (we still have 12 year old twins) but i think I’d get over it real quick!
Great report! I enjoyed your descriptions and the final ratings.
It seems like there was an incident at security—did you ever find out what the jam up was?
Yikes. My husband laughs at me, but i have to go through security almost as soon as we get to the airport. I can't relax till I get to our gate.
We do the same thing. Get through security then secure food/drinks. You just never know!Yikes. My husband laughs at me, but i have to go through security almost as soon as we get to the airport. I can't relax till I get to our gate.
We do the same thing. Get through security then secure food/drinks. You just never know!
Thanks for the great reviews OP! Glad it all worked out
I'm so sorry I never commented but I enjoyed your report! We love our adults only trips I believe your MCO security story because we saw the same line when we were there a few days earlier on January 22nd! Our flight was crazy delayed though so we didn't have to go through the line and we also have TSA pre-check but as we ate at the Italian restaurant there we watched as the line did NOT move. It was so long, people near the end couldn't even see the start of TSA. And then all of a sudden after like 2 hours - no line! So weird. Glad you rolled with it because I almost had a hemorrhage when our flight kept getting delayed. It was supposed to leave 5:30pm, got to 11:30pm and we were about to get a hotel for the night when they bumped it back up to 9. I rather be delayed going home than coming but so stressful! Thank you for your report!
That is literally the craziest thing I've ever heard! I fly quite a bit and I've never heard of the security line just grinding to a halt. I wonder if their scanners went down??
You're right in that keeping your cool at the airport is the only thing that helps you to get through. So many people yell and cry and throw fits and it's very unhelpful for everyone.
When we were traveling through all the airports looking for places to eat I was like "Man...I wish someone would create a list of decent restaurants in the airports" and am SO happy to have your reviews for the next time we're in MCO!
I told Husband that Todd English had a restaurant at either the Dolphin or the Swan that looked expensive restaurant-wise, but I thought the lounge might have some not-too-crazy options. So we walked on in search of Bluezoo. And by golly it didn't take much walking before we spotted it at the nearby Dolphin. We could see it, but it looked like we were coming in the back of the place, so we went up first and figured it out. We were greeted and said we would like to go to the bar and were told we could sit anywhere we liked in the bar area. We found a couple comfy-looking stools and were given these menus with the good news that it was HAPPY HOUR!
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Oh boy!! That security line was INTENSE! I am well aware Orlando always takes forever so we are typically prepared for a 40-60 min line. Yours sounded horrific though.
Something must be up - for my Feb 9th flight even Frontier"s CHECK IN LINE took an hour. Add another 40-60 min security line and it was chaos. I said never again. Then I booked a March Break trip and again, we fly out at 5pm I much prefer late night flights but DH detests traveling home after midnight.
THANK YOU for the Happy Hour menu! I love Happy Hours in fancy restaurants and this will get added to my bucket list Food looks great and so do the prices! And DH and I adore calamari.