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We left home around 4 pm (Friday 12/19/08) and arrived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at 12:30am. We stayed the night at a Courtyard Marriott and got up the next morning at 8:00am for breakfast. We wanted to be back on the road by 9:00am because we had reservations Saturday night in Orlando. After another 11 hours in the car we were driving under the Walt Disney World sign!! We were all SO excited as we drove onto Disney property….the kids were ohhhhhing and ahhhing at the sights of Spaceship Earth and Tower of Terror from the main drive. Then back off property again as we were staying at Buena Vista Suites for our lead night to our DVC stay. Buena Vista Suites was awesome!!! The full service (free) breakfast was top notch and the hotel was VERY close to Disney. The rooms were HUGE and were so clean and nice. We got a great rate of $88/night. We will definitely stay there again and I highly recommend it! The rest of our group (7 of them) flew in on Saturday and took the ME bus and stayed at Pop Century (80’s) that night.