We chose to stay here based upon VALUE. We certainly enjoyed the moderate and deluxe
hotels we visited in the past but we wanted to go cheap and save some money. When we visited this
resort it was Martin Luther King holiday weekend in 2012 and we knew it would be busy. However, we really wanted to stay
at a new resort and try something different.
I loved driving up the long driveway with the nostalgic type
signs. It was very reminiscent of times
gone by. However, I lost my enthusiasm as we parked our car and walked into the
lobby. Now, mind you we had just had our
first visit to Disney as a family by staying at Fort Wilderness Lodge. Oh my, what a difference. Customer service was good. We got our room
key and headed straight there. The lobby in the value resorts seem to just be an endless hallway with a long counter and many check-in spots. The walls were sparsely decorated and really lacked the details you find in the moderate and deluxe level resorts.
It was
neat to go by the pool and see people swimming. ( I think it was maybe 40
degrees) We stayed in the building that had Mowgli and Baloo outside. We had fun with our little guy standing next
to Mowgli and taking pictures. He was so
cute!
We went straight to our room and bedded down for the night.
The next morning we got up early to head into the
parks. We had some serious issues with
the lock on our door. When we closed the
door and thought that it locked we were able to just push it open from the
outside. Long story short we dealt with
this door issue all weekend. Maintenance
told us that the locks didn't work right in this hotel because of the high humidity levels. Even with it being on the colder side the room never seemed to be without high moisture content in the room, almost as if someone had left the hot shower on in the room all day. (He also mentioned that
Caribbean Beach also had similar issues) We dealt with this so much throughout
this weekend. We think maintenance came
to us at least 3 times this weekend. Even after changing out the entire lock-set the issue was still not resolved and continued to not lock. Most times we were either waiting to go to
bed or go into the parks. It was so frustrating!
We did not enjoy the Food Court as much as other
resorts. It was very busy and very
loud. Food was okay at best. Of course we mainly used the food court for
our refillable coffee mugs each morning.
Due to the size of the resort and the clientele of the
resort that look to utilize the bus transportation regularly we found that this
was not in our best interest. One evening
in EPCOT we waited through 3 bus pick up cycles only to think that we thought
we were ready to board only to have someone with a scooter come up (along with
his party of 12) and supersede our place in line.
More than likely we will never stay here again.
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