Thursday, September 14th continued
I forgot to add on the Cabana rentals. Have a look around at the Beach Pool and Villa Pool at Portofino and the pool at Sapphire Falls and decided which Cabana you are interested in renting and let them know. They will try and accommodate your request.
Also if it starts storming and raining and there is lightening with in a 3 mile radius of the resort you have to leave the pool deck. The life guards will let you know when to leave the area ahead of time.
As far as the Cabanas are concerned in the event of a storm if you have been at your Cabana enjoying the sun and fun before the storm starts. You can return to your Cabana if there is an all clear by the life guards later in the day.
If the day has been a wash out and you were only able to enjoy a couple of hours at your Cabana talk to the them and they will work with you on a solution.
If you have rented a Cabana for the day and it is storming in the morning and you are not able to check in and take possession of the Cabana you can talk to them about rescheduling your Cabana rental to another day if available or get a refund.
Portofino is wonderful at taking care of their guests. I have never had an issue when renting one of their Cabanas.
After getting back to the Villa Pool it was time for a drink. I had seen the larger drink containers last year when we were there. They are not on the menu, but we asked and they still had them.
It is 32 ounces of the cocktail and is $ 30.00. A regular size cocktail is 16 ounces and is $ 16.00 dollars. We both chose the RIvera-Bacardi Superior Rum, Mango, Pina Colada with Strawberry Lava Flow. It is frozen and it was very good.
We enjoyed the pool and talking away the afternoon.
The Villa Pool has mostly adults there lounging and reading books or just visiting with family. I do see children there occasionally, but not very often.
We stayed until about 2:00 pm and decided to head back to the room.
We took the back gate walkway. You come out of the back gate then turn right and go past the Laundry room then right and then left up the steps and it will bring you to the Courtyard with the fountain. This is located by the Guest Services and the Lobby.
This was a more direct route for us to where are room was located.
We took our turns getting a nice hot shower. We decided to go and see what was on offer for an afternoon snack at the Club Lounge.
There was a nice selection of fruit and veggies as well as chips and salsa and warm pretzels.
The Salsa was really good and the chips were crispy. It was a nice little snack.
After the snack we headed back up to the room. I took a nice nap because we were going to HHN this evening.
After a nice nap It was about 5:30 pm so we decided to go down and see what was for dinner in Club Lounge. The menu for the evening is actually up by the check in desk in the morning, but neither one of us looked at it.
There was a nice salad selection, cold meats and cheeses, rolls, Italian roast beef, Tortellini, mixed streamed veggies, soup and fruit.
The food was good. We did not need a lot as we were going to be doing a lot of walking this evening at HHN.
The lounge was not busy at all. We always enjoyed sitting by the window areas so we could see out on the Bay.
As we were having dinner it started to rain lightly.
By the time we were done with dinner I had heard thunder in the distance. We went up to the room to get ready to leave and I noticed the boat had returned, but was not leaving again. There must have been lightening in the area.
To be continued