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Iam planning a trip to either the Yacht Club Club Level or the Beach Club Club Level in September this year as part of my DD's surprise 21st birthday trip.
My question has probably been answered in this thread but as there is so much to read I hope you don't mind if I ask it anyway.
I have read that the Yacht Club Lounge has been refurbished and was wondering if the Yacht Club Club Level standard rooms will be undergoing a make over and if so when will this be started and when is it likely to be completed.
Yes lounge has been refurbished. The rooms on the 5th floor club level will be started soon. We have not seen a timetable. I think the beach club 5th floor room renovations took place from mid October to early December 2014
ETA- I'll add you to the Be Our Guest list we keep on Page 1. We have been getting mixed reports from various sources about when the YC room renovations will start.
Continue to monitor the first post on Page 1 of this thread for refurb news.
At this point, the only way to ensure you will have a renovated room is for a Beach Club stay. You can always book there and if the rooms at YC CL have been redone, Disney makes it easy to switch your reservation (if there is availability).
Hi all,
I am from the uk and am already in planning mode for our trip in August 2017! We always stayed offsite in a villa but in 2015 stayed at SSR with the free dining offer. We loved being in the Disney bubble and decided our next visit would also be on site. We had a dinner ADR at Yachtmans Steakhouse and explored the area and fell in love with the place. We are saving our pennies very hard to be able to stay at either Yacht Club or Beach Club for our holiday hoping we are able to take advantage of the free
ddp that they usually offer uk guests as the flights and room rates add up for a 16 night stay which makes the long flight worthwhile. I do have a couple of questions if anyone would be kind enough to help me. We are staying in August so know it will be busy but will SAB be unbearable and will we be able to ever find 3 seats together??? I have read reports where people get up early and head off to the parks after reserving their loungers with towels for when they return late afternoon. Is this a common practice? We had no problems getting loungers at SSR in any of the pools and there were no saving of seats there. Also, I really love the Yacht Club side and the lobby etc but the Beach Club rooms look much nicer. I had read the Club Lounge at the Yacht Club is being refurbed but are the normal rooms and would they all be completed by August 2017? Sorry for the questions but the holiday will cost us about £8000 so we want to make sure we get the choice right
I will pencil you in on the Be Our Guest list we keep on Page 1.
My trips have been in July and August, and I can usually find one or two loungers together at the pool. I think the recreation CMs have gotten better about clearing unattended loungers that just have towels on them. The practice is frowned upon and not permitted, but that doesn't mean that people don't try. Since Stormalong Bay doesn't open until 9 in the summer (I think), nobody has access first thing in the morning, so the earliest the towel game could start is then.
Here is some info we have on the FAQ post about chair piggies:
When my group was there in August, Stormalong Bay opened at 9 am, so you couldn't even access the pool area until then. So if you eat breakfast before 9 and get there when the pool opens, you shouldn't have a problem finding the spot you want.
My super-secret "shady" suggestion (see what I did there) is to get a couple of the seats at the top of the stairs of the gazebo looking thing above Hurricane Hanna's. You aren't really close to pool, so if you are trying to watch kids it isn't the best place, but it is out of the way and covered and there is often an open lounger or two.
In 4-5 trips to the pool in the past two trips we were always able to find a couple of chairs (sometimes chairs, not loungers) both in the afternoon and the morning, although sometimes we had to walk over a couple of bridges to get there.
Here's a bit of info we have on the first page about the "Towel Game"
Do guests play "The Towel Game" at Stormalong Bay? How do I deal with "Chair Piggies?"
Check out this useful post by NinjaMom:
Chair Piggies
I sure hope the YC rooms are done by August 2017, but I am not going to make any promises.
It is very easy for us in the US to make changes to our reservation- change resorts or dates- but I don't know if that is the same for our friends across the pond. Hopefully some folks who have vacationed from the UK can let you know if you are able to change your resort reservations, like from BC to YC, without much hassle.
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