We stayed at CBR for 10 days in the beginning of March. We have only stayed at deluxe resorts or offsite over our years coming to Disney as we have a family size of 5 - 10 people with our extended family.
Great resort would stay here again.
We used
MDE and did online checkin but also stopped by the main building and I am glad we did as they had personalized buttons for the kids.
Transportation, we were thinking of getting a car rental as this was our first time without a car at disney. We did not need a car, IMO better to save the $ and stay an extra night. We only waited for a bus once more then 10 minutes over 10 days and most pulled up soon after getting to the bus stop.
We had early ADRs on two occasions and got a cab which pulled up right by our room. This was maybe $12 - $15 both times so a good choice if you need to get around quick but both times we did call ahead about 30 minutes.
Room, we were in Aruba 56 right outside the Aruba bus stop, this was great after a long day at the park.
When we checked in they said the walk to the main building would be about 20 minutes so to use the internal bus. I used the internal bus once (which took forever) and walked back to our room. The walk was maybe 5 minutes so for me I never used the internal bus again. My advice, on day one walk from your room to the main pool and Old Port Royale and see if the walk works for you. Nice short walk and so much to do from the kids playground to the big pool to the pool bar!
We used the food court at Old Port Royale a few times times which had a bunch of options and the gift shop had beer, snacks and cases of water for about $6.
Housekeeping was not at all what we are use to. We had to call for towels or Tp more then once and on our last day we came back to a room around 8 pm that was not cleaned at all and that was after leaving $5 2x hoping it would inspire the gal cleaning the room. Big problem and we let the hotel know about it but it looks like this happens a bunch at this resort.
Bell services could not have been better, we had a early 6 am flight out so we had to be at the MDE bus stop by 3:30 am. Bell services knocked on our door at 3:05 am and we were all still sleeping. Because of the time change our phone alarms did not go off. We luckily all had showers late the night before so we all got ready in 12 minutes while the bellman laughed the whole time. We made the MDE bus and he got a good tip.
Our last trip was at the BC at Christmas and while wonderfull with discounts we were able to stay at CBR for 3 more days and for less $$$. The 3 extra days really made our trip so CBR will be a top option for us on our next trip.