Tuesday, January 27, 2009

To Clarify a bit.....



I sell merchandise at Disney's Boardwalk Resort. The resort is considered on of the Epcot Resorts, meaning it is relatively close to Epcot, along with Disney's Yacht and the Beach Club Resorts as well as the Swan and Dolphin hotels which are not Disney's. The 5 resorts all back up to the lake you see in many of the pictures and from that lake you can take a 3 minute boat ride into the back of Epcot. You can also take a 8ish minute boat ride to Disney's Hollywood Studios from the resorts. The Boardwalk resort is one of the Disney Vacation Club resorts; the Vacation Club is like a time share, but better. You can use your points you collect at any of the vacation clubs on property as well as one on the beach that Disney owns, and numerous hotels around the world. Disney's Boardwalk opened July 1, 1996 and has 378 regular rooms and 532 vacation club villas. The whole resort is themed late 19th and early 20th century Atlantic City. 

I work in 3 different stores on the Boardwalk; On The Boardwalk, Sea Shore Sweets, and ESPN Club. The On The Boardwalk store carries drinks, snacks, frozen pizzas, kitchen supplies, toys, clothes, jewelry, snow-globes, mugs, tea and coffee just to name a few. It's like part souvenir shop half supply store for Vacation Club users that have full kitchen in their rooms. The Sea Shore Sweets is a candy store, we have soft serve ice cream, jelly beans in every color known to man, and pretty much everything you could imagine covered in chocolate. The ESPN Club is connected to a ESPN restaurant; we sell sport hats and shirts with teams names and/or ESPN logo on it. We also operate a small arcade in the store. All in all it's pretty much the same job and duties in all the stores, the merchandise just changes. I stock the shelves, ring up guests, help them find stuff, scoop ice cream and most of all, make sure the guest are happy. Disney is in the entertainment business, obviously, so I'm not someone that sells merchandise, rather I perform Merchantainment

Enjoy the pics, Miss you all!

P.S. I changed clothes before I remembered that I was going to take a picture of my costume for you all, so i'll have it tomorrow, I promise.

I'm pretty sure you all know what shop this is. I watch ESPN and bounce basketballs all day.
The Boardwalk gets lively at night, good times
The yellow awning is the candy store and in front are some of the entertainers.
The pink building down to the arches is the store that has almost everything in it.
The Boardwalk with a boat that travels to and from Epcot and Hollywood Studios.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your life right now doesn't even seem real! I should post some pictures of where I work. ENJOY EVERY MINUTE!

Anonymous said...

great pics! Looks like you're having a great time! -Kelsey

Anonymous said...

The pictures look fake like they were painted or something I can't believe you get to see all that everyday. Hope your getting me some good stuff lol just kidding.

Emmy

Anonymous said...

John's Dad!
Sounds like everything is terrible there, what with the 54 degree weather and terrible views and no entertainment...
but really, im glad to hear you're doing well. We just got out of school all tuesday and wednesday morning because of the lamest "snow" ever...i mean i guess people were freaking out about the ice, not really the snow, but it still wasnt too bad...i drove my mustang around in it just fine, and you know the kind of traction mustangs get in the snow...speaking of which, did you bring your stang with you? We had interviews tonight, they were funny. I really enjoy reading these, thanks for posting them!
Miss you big bro,
Blake