I'm hoping to go back to the Contemporary next year for the first time in more than 20 years. I have a quick question: what type of music do they play in the public areas there? I vaguely remember movie songs.
The pool area music is unchanged and is still 90's tunes. I love hearing those familiar tracks and even told a Recreation Manager to make sure they don't change it LOL. (The music is piped in from his office.) As far as indoor music, I don't recall movie scores.
Yes KOOK! Those are the ones! And on the maps they look square vs rectangle (at least 5150 & 5151 do).....and with the hallway running in between the rooms, the door to the room must come in at the side of the room. And with an extra window.....hmmmm, they have to have a different layout. Just odd that there is no mention or photos of these rooms anywhere! I have searched every phrase I can think of...including just "Contemporary 6107".
I'm kinda hoping we get one of them so I can put an end to the speculation.....
admit it, now you are just as curious as me 
I honestly don't see a bad view at any of the garden wing garden view rooms on TP's room finder map. So I will be happy with anything. Just curious
I hope you get one of those quirky rooms and make sure you take lots of indoor photos
Hey everybody, I plan on renting one of those Pontoon boats at the Contemporary. I have no experience whatsoever in driving a boat but I think it would be cool to be captain of a small boat at Disney World. LOL. Are those Pontoon boats easy to maneuver & drive? How fast do they go? Can you drive to Seven Seas Lagoon, stop the boat at a spot where you won't interfere with other boats, to take pics of the Magic Kingdom from the water? Is it like driving a car? Any tips will be greatly appreciated.
I've never rented one, but they do look like fun. Sea Raycers are allowed out of the area in which they are rented, however, I believe that boats must remain where they're rented so you'd have to stay in Bay Lake. No photography is allowed on the Sea Raycers, but I'm sure it isn't a problem on the boats.
HERE'S an article by Jack Spence about renting the boats that should be very helpful.
Hello all! Just joining this thread for the first time and I'll have to go back and start reading from the beginning!
Very excited to have just booked BLT as part of our big April 2016 trip! We'll start off at Universal for 3 nights, then move to BWV for a Sun-Fri stay, take a short detour up to Savannah for the weekend, then back to WDW for 3 nights at BLT! So much has changed since our last WDW trip over 10 years ago - pre-kids! I need to get myself back up to speed on all of the tips and tricks in my planning! Super excited to introduce my kids to WDW for the first time! They've been to
Disneyland twice as it's much closer for us living on the West coast.
We've booked a 1BR Lake view, high floor request. We were going to go with Standard view but I got "upsold" on the lake view by the DVC owner we are renting points from, lol!
Now I just have to plan and wait patiently...
Congratulations and welcome to the thread! Sounds like a fun trip and you've got plenty of planning time.
Hello all! My DS is graduating from High School next week
I converted my children as Disney fans from a very young age...so all four of us are heading to Disneyworld and staying at the CR for the first time August 4-11th. I'm hoping my favorite place on earth will dull the pain I'm feeling with him getting ready to leave the nest.
Congratulations to your DS and I'm sure CR will be a great DIStraction
. I'll add your dates to the Log-orail
Same here, our one and only DS just graduated and we are heading to the CR in a couple of weeks. We are hoping that he will continue to take family vacations with us to WDW.
Congratulations to your DS as well! I will be in the same boat/Sea Raycer next year with DD graduating. I wonder if she'll choose CR, too
Staying at the Contemporary for 7 nights in mid-June with two under two(And others of various age sizes and temperment) and wanted to know details on the elevator issues I have read many times on this board.
1.) Is it a delay all day, every day?
2.) How long of a delay?
3.) What is the issue? I ask that because I have stayed in older hotels with as many or more rooms with four elevators but no issues like listed. I just do not get why they could not reprogram the elevators.
to the DIS and the CR/BLT thread!
The issue in the Tower is that there are 15 floors in the Tower and only about 5 elevators, one of which only goes to/from CA Grill on the 15th floor. At peak times such as mid-late morning and early-late evening and/or when the resort is full, the wait can be very long and the elevators very crowded. When we were there, at peak times, it took at least 10 minutes to get to our room on the 11th floor.
We last stayed there during spring break, Easter week, so it was very crowded, and other than early morning when I'd go down to the gym, the elevators were packed and the wait long. It was really frustrating and, unfortunately, you can't access any of the floors with rooms by stairs. The stairwell doors are locked from the outside so you can only use them essentially to go down, unless you prop it open and hope no one closes it. This adds to the amount of people wanting to use the elevators.
Another stay, we were on the CL floor (12th) and during that week, there were a couple of elevators that wouldn't work with our KTTW Card so we would have to wait for another elevator. We were told it was a known problem and they were working on it, but it wasn't fixed during our stay, but I'm sure it must be now.
Can you all please help me with timing for transportation from CR to AK and HS early morning? I've read that the CMs don't always know the exact times or timing of the buses. We'll be there next week, need to get to AK by rope drop on Monday, June 1st and HS by rope drop on Thursday, June 4th. We'll be staying in the tower. Advice? TIA!!!
I saw a permit for an electronic sign that was to be installed at the CR bus stop. I don't know if they've done it already, but it should be installed eventually. It shows the bus wait times (using the bus' GPS).
In April, the bus was not stopping at Poly nor GF, but it would go to WL. It would then go from there to a water park. It was a long wait for the AK and DHS bus (2-3 DtD buses would come for each AK/DHS bus) and then the ride seemed so long, maybe almost 45 minutes. For RD, they probably dispatch more buses, (we were traveling mid-morning), so I would be at the bus stop at least one hour prior.
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. And, for whatever reason, at least when we were there at spring break, the DHS and AK buses took about 30 mins.+ to arrive at CR, which meant a big busload of anxious folks were waiting by the time it arrived. I'm sure this had something to do with it being Easter week and extra crowded. Your time est. is a good one and is usually our experience, too, but during holidays, a little extra time might be needed…and patience (of which I have little
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