Kids Suites

Emma loved our room at the Holiday Inn . . . once Daddy shifted us to a kid friendly locale. His recently acquired platinum status at HI gets us free room upgrades, which is generally fabulous. And for a business traveler this would have been ideal. We had reserved a Family Room which is a circus-themed room with a queen-size bed and a single bed. However, upon check-in we were upgraded to an executive Tower suite, which included two queen sized beds in separate rooms, a nice sized bathroom and two leather swivel chairs. Although the room was extremely nice, Wade and Diana knew most other rooms were circus themed and decided we’d rather go down a notch and provide Emma with the atmosphere. When he went to ask at the front desk, they told him he was entitled to a free upgrade to a Kids Suite. This room was fantastic! Emma had her own room (no door – circus curtain instead) with a bunk bed, even the bathroom had a circus theme. The mirror wore shoes, and several circus stools were placed around the room. Initially not thrilled about changing locations, Emma squealed with delight when she saw the bunk bed.

We spent our second day in Europe lounging around the hotel, playing Uno, watching Tom and Jerry in the hotel’s kid-friendly lounge area, playing outside at the park, swimming, and reading. After our swim, we headed in to Disney Village for dinner at the Rain Forest Café and a little shopping so we wouldn’t have to carry purchases around Disneyland the next day. Jet-lag attacked Emma later that night. Although she’d gone to bed by 8:00pm, she was up again by 9:45pm and didn’t hit dreamland again until well after 1:00am. While this was extremely frustrating to Mom, who had sung all of our standard bedtime songs and a conglomeration of Yo-Yo Collins tunes before beginning to make her way through the Baptist hymnal, it turned out to be a good thing because Emma slept past Disney’s opening and we could not possibly have lasted any longer at Disneyland that day.