Florida hotel wakes up spring breakers with 'Lion King' song

Sleeping till 2 in the afternoon is a thing of the past for spring breakers coming to Florida.

The Holiday Inn in Panama City Beach started a tradition in 2012 to blast 'The Circle of Life' from the Disney film 'The Lion King' promptly at 11 a.m. each morning during spring break to wake up sleepy, hungover hotel guests so that they may begin another day of partying. The musical wake-up call gets people out of their beds and onto the balconies where they raise their hands and cheer.

"It's the best thing ever. Every morning when we wake up we look forward to it it's like an entire Panama City Beach Holiday Inn family just singing together," Holiday Inn guest Jessica Young told WJHG.

Other guests say the throwback gets them emotional.

"I think it's awesome I cried the first day because I was so happy I thought it was so cool," said spring breaker, Mary Waller.

The hotel says they've tried to switch up the songs in the past but didn't get as positive of a response as 'The Circle of Life' does. 

"None of the songs that we ever played really compared to the circle of life it actually invokes all sorts of emotions in these kids you'll see them they're up there waving flags," says Philip Corvin, director of marketing for the Holiday Inn."We actually had kids that after the first couple days they showed up and they had stuffed lion king dolls doing the whole pose at the top of the mountain with Simba."

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