DH and I spent the 25th to Nov 1 at Pop. I have to say we were very unhappy with the changes at POP and you combine them with the MB changes and we were fed up most of the week. We were in the 30's building ground floor facing the lake, no complaints there! Then we enter the room and need to meet our DD and her husband at SOG to buy park tickets. We drop our carry ons in the room, DH throws our money in the safe and locks it, as he is removing the key the core of the safe comes with it! A quick call to maintenance and were told because it involves the safe we have to wait for maintenance, we told them we would call when we got back as we had to meet the kids. We stopped at the front desk on the way to grab a cab to ask for a fridge, we were told it was a request only and they would see if one was available but there was no guarantee. When we get back from shades there are fridges outside each door of the 30s building and they were installing them. DH picked ours up and carried it in and plugged it in. For the rest of the week it made this noise on and off, sort of like a low pitch tea kettle it was the last day there that I figured out the noise was coming from the fridge but it woke me up off and on all week! Next we head to the food court and I see the changes, I was really unhappy with most of the changes there but we have talked about most of those in this thread but really, no cheese fries! Vacation is the only place I eat those!!!! My biggest problem was wine. They have done away with the individual bottles of wine and have gone to a wine blend. They have a white and a red and they are the most vile tasting wine EVER MADE!!! Think skunk water, I mean really, really bad. I am not a wine snob by any stretch of the imagination but this stuff is baaad!
As the week went on the maintenance guys "fixed" the safe twice and the shower head broke so they had to come and replace that too. Then the day before we left we noticed the rug in the shower/sink area was wet so again we called maintenance and went out for our last day, we came back to meet other members of our family who were in the area for a bite and drinks. The rug was more wet than when we left so yet another call to maintenance. We spent a few hours at the bar area eating visiting and having a few drinks and then headed back to our room and by this time that area was flooded. We had to keep our shoes on to get to the bathroom and back ( not very magical in the middle of the night) Our last morning there I showered but didn't wash my hair because I would be standing in a puddle of water to blow dry it. At this point we called the manager and asked him to come to our room so he would see the flooded carpet himself. Of course he didn't come but he called and said he would look into it. He called the day after we got back and said he was sorry for our trouble and was going to credit us for a night.
The magic bands were a whole other problem that cost me another few hours of my vacation trying to resolve issues. It was the first time ever that I was happy to leave Disney and head home.
