Please say something nice about RP!

[Minnie's Guy]

Will be at Club Level on Aug. 12 and 13 -
wanna get excited about this hotel.
We cannot change hotels, due to great price
and never had Club Level before.
Good things, please?????:confused:

[rocketman23]

It has a cool water playground by the pool. :)

[h20jag]

Club level will (should) make a big difference for you. (Haven't been there but they tell me it's nice!)
The surroundings at RPR are wonderful (OK... ambience, makes it sound even better).
Here's a big positive: I've not seen as many coolers/icechests at Jaguar tailgate parties as I saw around RPR. Guests were rolling 'em & carrying 'em everywhere. Someone had a huge one down by the pool. Heck, I might wheel a fridge in on a handtruck next visit!
Another positive: You can traverse the hotel grounds, outside & under cover, during the P.M. rain showers. The rains actually add to the tropical setting. Nicer when it clears up of course!
Jim

[SnowWitch]

Minnie's Guy I'm with you. We have club level booked for Aug. 1-4 and the reports aren't exactly glowing. I will post as soon as we get home but we're not coming home until the 10th. I did read on the trip reports page to AVOID Brian at all costs at checkin! There are several people who remember him by name !!!!

[CPM]

Originally posted by SnowWitch
Minnie's Guy I'm with you. We have club level booked for Aug. 1-4 and the reports aren't exactly glowing. I will post as soon as we get home but we're not coming home until the 10th. I did read on the trip reports page to AVOID Brian at all costs at checkin! There are several people who remember him by name !!!!

Hmmm I read several great reports from RP. Maybe someone can pull some up, I don't know how to do it. But I also will be at Club level next week, so I'll give my report. But when we stayed in June we had a great time, no problems.

[JADEMM]

Stayed at RP last weekend, nice pool view (109 ent rate). Very beautiful hotel. Did not eat at any of its restaurants. The room was nice but not large-just a hotel room, unlike the one you must be getting. PARKING WAS HORRIBLE. Not nearly enough spaces and then they charged us $6 per day to hunt for a space. Boat to City walk worked very well and the walk was pretty short-app 8 minutes. Front of the line was awesome, at 4PM saturday the MIB wait was 60 to 90 minutes, we virtually walked on (less than 5 minutes). All the other rides saturday were 1 to 5 minutes, maybe a 10 to 15 once in a while. Just cant beat it. We went to HRH and swam during the outdoor movie-kids loved it. Overall a great experience but I would do HRH next time.

[Buschfan]

Here's a big positive: I've not seen as many coolers/icechests at Jaguar tailgate parties as I saw around RPR.

My kind of crowd! Sounds like the info about RPs high food prices is getting around.

[Minnie's Guy]

We are going to stay no matter what - I
know for sure we will not be eating at the
hotel (except club level) so that was not
an issue. PLEASE, respond on the club
level food/drinks (especially for our kids).

[gschmerl]

My nephew stayed at the RP while we were at the HRH. We went over and thought it was a beautiful hotel. Take time to look around and appreciate all the wood and the intricate carvings.
The only complaint my nephew had was check in took a LONG time. Other than that he loved it. They were in Tower 2 and had a great view of all the fireworks. He was told there was a charge for parking, but there was no charge for it on his bill. He enjoyed the walk from the hotel to the parks (even with two young children).
Go and ENJOY!!!!

[kellymonaghan]

Originally posted by Minnie's Guy
PLEASE, respond on the club
level food/drinks (especially for our kids).
I can only assume Club Level; at RPR works like Club Level at HRH where I stayed recently. The food and drinks perks is awesome. In fact, you could probably feed yourself on what they put out.

Very extensive continental breakfast with criossants, muffins, donuts, and, if you insist, fruit and cereal. Coffee, tea, and milk, of course.

Soft drinks are available all day.

In the late afternoon, they put out little snacks like chicken wings and mini hotdogs.

At bedtime, they have milk and cookies.

Your kids will love it!

[SnowWitch]

CPM I am referring to the trip reports on this board!!! There are quite a few from the RP!! If you go there you can read of 3 different encounters with the above mentioned BRIAN.

[CPM]

Originally posted by SnowWitch
CPM I am referring to the trip reports on this board!!! There are quite a few from the RP!! If you go there you can read of 3 different encounters with the above mentioned BRIAN.

Okay, but I didn't say anything about *Brian*. I just mentioned I read a lot of good reports also. I tried to do a search but couldn't find it, someone just came back from Club level & loved it. I hope one bad check in guy doesn't ruin club level for everyone.

[CPM]

Minnie's Guy, Debbie bumped up her report of RP Club level for you.
It's under a thread called "Anyone back from RP club level yet?"

[beattyfamily]

I'm not going to sweat all the mixed reviews as I remember the exact same thing happened when HRH first opened...lots of horror stories.

The hotel just opened so, of course, they'll be problems.

For the rate I got for Club level, I'm a happy clam. I can't wait to check it out.

Then, after I have, I'll decide which resort is the best for the buck although, I haven't tried Portifino (sp?)...just HRH so far.

I'm going to continue to think positive about RP.

Out of everything I've read, the only thing that I might be concerned with is being able to find a parking space and that some say the pathway to IOA is longer than necessary but their both not that big a deal in the long run; after all we're on vacation!!

I'll report back if I still feel this way AFTER my stay!;)

[Claire Chatts]

Hi guys! Can anyone tell me exactly what "club level"is? We don't have this term in England and we've just booked to go to RP for 2 weeks in Sept but wasn't offered any executive or upgraded rooms, can you upgrade at check-in and how much roughly is it?

Thanks,

Claire

[Megatoby]

I am not 100% percent sure if I got it right but I'll tell you what I know about it:

Club Level means your romm is on a special floor/level.
There is an buffet for "club-level-stayers" which features:
-Brekfast
-Lunch (??????? not sure)
-Dinner

as well as beverages throughout the day.
(In the evenings also wine, maybe beer etc...)

If I undestood the system right all this is free to you.

I am sure someone who knows more about it will answer soon.

[beattyfamily]

It's like Conceirge. You get added benefits staying at Club level. Snacks throughout the day and conceirge to book reservations and a lounge and other things. I've never been able to afford it but couldn't pass the RP's rate of $139 for "Club" level.

I'm not sure what your upgrade rate would be....can't help you there.

[WebmasterBarry]

Nice things:

1.) Clean
2.) Friendly staff
3.) Neat lobby
4.) Comfy beds
5.) Cool pool
6.) Rice is sticky :)
7.) Hotel is pretty quiet, even with the park and the street relatively close

The only bad part is parking. It's very limited. I had to drive around and around to find a space. I was tempted to put my car in valet parking.

[RobinLyn]

We also got the $139 Club level price for 3 nights the end of August. I received my confirmation letter back in January and called twice to verify. I plan to call again before leaving. It is unbeliveable that a hotel like Loews would try to change the price, just stinks! I won't be staying there if this happens to us. About parking, since we got such a great rate I was thinking of just spending the $12 per day plus tips for valet parking. Is it worth doing? After reading about all the parking problems I'm worried. Thanks for the warning about Brian, will try and keep away from him at all cost. But one bad apple will not spoil our time at RP, that's for sure. Any thoughts on parking and using valet?? Is there enough valet parking?

RobinLyn:)

[Debbie7452]

Hi to all,

In case you didn't see the other thread, I had to respond here. I don't want anyone to think Club level means 3 full meals a day, you would be dissapointed! You get a continental breakfast (pastries, bagels, muffins, cereal, fruit, and beverages), don't know if any snacks are available during the day, we were always at the parks, evening h'orderves (just a few selections of hot ones) and fruit, cheese, crackers and beer or wine, later there is a nice dessert buffet.

The staff in the lounge is great and very helpful with any questions. I have not read ANY bad reviews of club level on this board. Have a great time!

[SnowWitch]

Debbie7452 the selection sounds better than the HRH's club level last summer. We were pleased with it because we had been upgraded but I would have been dissappointed had I paid rack rate. From your description the RPR's sounds better, can you give examples of the evening h'orderves? Dessert buffet??? At the HRH they had cookies and milk, of the 4 nights there my kids got 1 choc. chip cookie to split and that was it!@! And they would wait for the cookies to come out.

[Debbie7452]

Hi, glad to help. I wish I had actually gone to the dessert buffet! My daughters ran over there and brought some plates back so I can tell you what they picked. There were cookies, little creme puff things, and a decadent chocolate cake. They told me there were also more choices. Everything was very gourmet tasting, yummm! I wonder if they had evening cordials out but I don't know. I can't believe I didn't step over there, I was just so TIRED!

I did visit the evening snack spread. The hot stuff was beautiful but the two nights we went it was very sea foody...not our thing. I believe there was some raw tuna thing (sashimi?) or sushi. Maybe some shrimp, too. Sorry, I can't remember because we just looked, saw it was sea food and walked away. It looked great for people who eat that stuff. A lot of it had an Asian influence.

We definitely need another (educated gourmand) opinion from someone!! Please report back everbody!

[Lizal]

We just returned from a 5 night stay on the club floor of the RPH - Here is the typical schedule for the club lounge:

7-10:30 am - pastries, fruit, coffee, teas, juice, cereal, muffins, bagels and assorted toast. Selection was big enough for everyone to find something they liked, but don't expect bacon and eggs. This is a continental breakfast.

5-7:30? - Appetizers - they would have ONE hot appetizer each evening such as tuna (rare w/ sesame seeds), chicken pasta salad, chicken dim sum (similar to chinese dumplins) and beef reuomolade(sp.). They also offered chips with salsa and guacamole (sp.), assorted cheese and crackers and fruit.
They also offered complimentary beer and wine - mixed drinks were $5.00.

8-9:30? - Dessert. Again, they would offer one larger dessert such as fudge browines or lemon bars but it was mainly just assorted cookies - nothing great in my opinion but enough to satisfy your sweet tooth.

After the dessert bar closed the club would stay open for beverages until 10:00.

They always had bottled water available and usually bottled juices and soft drinks.

Please let me know if you need more information and I will try to provide it.

[Lizal]

Just a couple other things you might want to know...

The club lounge is on the 7th floor of Tower 3 - you must have a special room key to activate the elevator to the 7th floor.

The rooms are the same size as regular rooms. Our rooms had one king and pull out sofa.

The lounge is open all day for beverages (not alcoholic) but serves food only during specified times.

The concierge will make reservations and such and handle other requests as needed.

[RobinLyn]

Hi Liz,

We will be staying at RP Club floor the end of this month for 3 nights. My question is did you have any problems with the air conditioning keeping the room cool at night? Others have said the thermostats are motion activated at all the hotels at Universal and the rooms tend to get very warm at night. Thanks for your post above with great details about the Club lounge food offerings. All in all, did you enjoy your stay at RP?

RobinLyn:D

[Debbie7452]

You didn't ask me but...we had no problems whatsoever with room temperature. We were always comfortable in our room and never needed to adjust the thermometer. Thanks to Lizal for the more detailed food report.

[Minnie's Guy]

everyone for the wonderful responses to my
question - and especially the Club Level
information. YES, we are now looking forward
to our stay at RP. Anyway, who in the world
can beat FOTL access to rides. I'm considered
the "wimp" of the family but do love
Spiderman and King Kong (which I better
ride many times!). THANKS AGAIN DISers!

[Lizal]

RobinLyn,
We did not notice an increase in temperature during the night, however, we did notice that the thermostat was turned up after we returned from the parks but we thought that the maids had done that. Don't know if this is any relation, but the rooms across the hall had a small box with an annoying green light above the bed - don' know if this was the motion sensor for the temp? We did not have this in our rooms.

We really enjoyed our stay! Our 9 yo son liked the play area at the pool better than our trip to Blizzard Beach!!

Haven't been on the boards much since I got home so i don't know if anyone posted about the fire alarm problem. Some kids set it off in all 3 towers on 8/1 and it took them 1hour and 20 minutes to get it turned off! This was from 1-2:20 am. The sound was deafening and we had to sit out in the hall. Needless to say, there were some pretty angry guests the next morn. They compensated everyone by giving them 50% of the nights stay. Great for us since we had 2 rooms!

I will be happy to answer any other questions about the club floor. These boards were a big help in planning our trip!

[Phil hetherington]

We were at the RPR on the 11,12,13 July for 3 nights.
Entertainment rate $109 for pool view. Loews first member(free) upgraded to suite.
The suite was great really nice, staff very helpful better than disney. We ate there one night Ok had a meal at hard rock hotel very good.
Short walk to the parks and city walk. FOTL best thing ever invented.
No problems with parking and no charge.
My daughter presented her report card and got Loews Grade A student privl. ie free drinks with meals for her and free desert plus free coffee for us.
DD 9 loved the pool and water squirt area, also tried pool at HH.
We really enjoyed our room, and our stay in general would definitely go back especially if I can get the rate and the suite.

If any more info required let me know

Regards

Phil

[lorilori]

Hi Phil, Sounds like you had a great time. I'm going in October and have the Loew's First card but how did you go about getting the suite upgrade? Did you just ask? Thanks!

[Phil hetherington]

I had already given my Lowes first number prior to arrival.

On arrival asked if upgrade was possible and it was.

Suite was really nice. Also gave details of choice of Newspaper and free gift. Chose wine and a recieved a good Chardonay.

Also at time of registration asked for Grade A student programme for DD with benefits previously mentioned.

Have to say we stayed at Boardwalk and Beach Club on the same trip(vaction Club members) but found the staff and service at RPR to be superior.

Any more info required?

Phil

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