The Hess Gas Station near the BoardWalk will close for refurb 10/13/14 and reopen after a couple of weeks. The two other Hess stations, near the Magic Kingdom exit and near Downtown Disney Marketplace, will remain open.
~The DIS
This week I noticed the link I had in the thread to the HESS across from BWI was no longer active. When I tried to fix it, I found that HESS has been sold to MARATHON back in May so maybe the closure has something to do with the re-branding
Hi All: I am new to this and have never stayed at BWI. I have read a lot of about but am still puzzled where to go to use our rapid refill mugs?
Also, for any BWI veterans out there... any good tips for us? Our first family trip there is just a little more than 2 weeks!!
Thank you
Welcome to the thread! Mug refill locations are located in the DINING chapter of the thread and POST 1 has hyperlinks to all the chapters of the thread. I hope you have a great vacation
DRINK REFILLS are available at BoardWalk Bakery, BoardWalk Joe's, The BoardWalk Pizza Window, Seashore Sweets and Leaping Horse Libations. Coffee refills are available at Belle Vue Lounge.
Thank you, WDW! I appreciate the help. Kind of puts you in a quandary, since there are no guarantees with either view or bed choice. If you opt for a certain view, there is still no guarantee with bed choices. And if you opt for a bed choice, there is still no guarantee about view. Interesting choice!
And yes, we have definitely heard from IPO. I didn't know that was the acronym, sorry! They have been a great help with Food and Wine events, as well as normal dinners. Amazing help, actually. We put in a request weeks ago, but the time was not available, so they put us on a "Wish List". I had pretty much written it off, then an email appeared with an updated reservation list. Very, very helpful.
As are you! Thanks again.
You're welcome and just add both requests, listing your most important first. Glad you've had a good experience with the IPO and I hope your vacation is magical.
We stayed 8 days/9 nights at BW. We had a courtyard view room.
Our room was very quiet, in courtyard by quiet pool overlooked fountain.
The quiet pool was a treasure, never crowded, always quiet. We saw one boy one day otherwise no kids around. The feature pool was not too crowded and had less kids than the value and moderate resorts.
The rooms are nice and the AC worked well. The shower was good, plenty of hot water.
Some of the rooms are quite far out. I didn't like the flow of the hotel. To get to boardwalk, we had to wind our way down the halls or walk down a flight to courtyard, walk up a flight to lobby then walk down another flight to boardwalk. There is no way to get to boardwalk from rooms besides going to lobby.
There is no foot court, only QS meals were at the bakery and they only had sandwiches. There is no indoor seating at the bakery and with the rain we had this was a problem. There is a place to get coffee and pastries in AM by lobby in the bar. I could fill my coffee mug there everyday instead of hiking to the bakery.
The transportation via boat was great, quick and easy. The bus transportation was OK, sometimes crowded.
All told, I didn't much care for the Boardwalk. It was quiet but spread way out. I like WL better. I didn't hate it but wasn't impressed.
Thank you for posting your honest review. I feel a lot like you about BWI Vs. WL, but it is so nice being able to walk right into Epcot and DHS. Epcot has so many wonderful food options.
We had a similar issue with the BWB in June. It was very hot, close to 100 and we wanted to enjoy an afternoon dessert. We had been doing quite a bit of walking and we were hoping to be able to enjoy a dessert indoors. We were surprised that the post-rehab BWB didn't have any indoor seating. It does get extra hot on the BW without any shade so we skipped the dessert.
Do you mean that you had a Standard View room with a view of the gardens? Only WL has the CV rooms.
It is in my signature. I forget that with the app, those signatures don't show.
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3002994
The mods have smiled good fortune on me, and I have been able to add a few reports in the same thread. There is an index in the first post.
Mod smiling and good fortune is rare these days so this says a lot about your TRs. I can see your signature, but since there wasn't a date, I assumed it was an older TR. Thanks for the link - love all the witty commentary and candid shots.
We were planning on heading to Boardwalk Bakery to grab dinner after Fantasmic! on 10/20, so we wouldn't get there until around 8:30 p.m. or so. What is the selection like later in the evening? Will we still be able to get the sandwiches/desserts we want, or will everything be fairly picked over? Thanks!
I've never eaten there late night so hopefully someone else will know
If all they were doing was a soft goods rehab, it was the noisiest soft goods rehab I've ever experienced. Every morning around 9:30, the noise would start, to the point you couldn't hear the TV if you had it on. They were nice enough to wait until 9:30 when most people would be out of the rooms, and it ended about 4pm - and it was intermittent through the day. But it was loud. I was on the 4th floor, the first room down the hall to the right from the elevators, so I was fairly close to where they were working. It looked to me like there was a lot of new tiling work done in my room and a new vanity in the room as well, which could account for some of the noise. It's been about a month since I was there, so if they still have that end of the 4th floor blocked off, it has to be more than just soft goods.
Well, you're right, it was more like a semi-soft rehab
. All of the bathtubs were replaced, which might account for the noise? The 4th floor though is where the CL lounge is located which also was rehabbed. Maybe more noise was generated from there or the suites that are up there
. Did they leave a letter warning you about all the noise?
