Disney Trip: Shades Of Green Resort

We are staying at the Shades of Green resort on Disney World. It is only for the military (my mom has an id card.) It looks nice from the outside with fountains and golf courses. The inside is nice too with very large rooms. The only complaints I have are that the two heated, outside pools are not heated (and it was in the 50s during the day and 30s at night for most of the time we were here.) Also the Housekeeping starts at the same end everyday to clean and doesn't get to our room until around 4-5 pm when we are already coming back from the Parks. I had an issue with one of the shuttle drivers going to Epcot (but will talk about that later.) Lastly, the food here isn't all that good. They say they have 4 restaurants when in reality they have 1 buffet restaurant, 1 Italian restaurant, 1 ice cream shop, 1 Express Cafe and 1 Starbucks cart. We ate at the Italian restaurant and didn't care for the slow service or the food. Then we ate at the dinner buffet once which was alright. We ate at the breakfast buffet once and it was good. We also ate at the sit-down part of the breakfast buffet once and the service was very slow and the food so-so. We ordered Room Service twice and it was both very slow and not that good and had hot dogs and ice cream one night at the Ice Cream Shop - that was good.

There is also a AFFES store, a place to buy discounted Disney tickets and Guest Relations.

The Resort is very spread out and it is a long way to walk with a wheelchair from our room to the lobby, the shuttle buses and the food. Like I said above the Resort looks nice, but there are things that need to be worked on. I would like to see the place broken up into different sections. A section for families with kids, a section for singles and a section for the retired. That way not everyone is just randomly put together.

We still have one more day here so we will see how that goes.

The first day we took a taxi (that the Guest Relations lady booked for us) to another resort and ate at Shula's Steakhouse. The steak was really good, but the atmosphere was odd - it was trying to be a very fancy place with NFL stuff on the walls. Coming back we took a regular taxi and the taxi woman did nothing to help with the wheelchair (unlike the taxi guy did going to dinner.) The she looked at the tip I gave her and wasn't pleased. I only believe in giving good tips for good service.