Astylla
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- Oct 27, 2011
There are several cheer groups here this week too. And the parks are full of different cheer and tour groups.
Yeah its The Summit from May 1st to May 3rd. It's a huge event so I'm not surprised.
There are several cheer groups here this week too. And the parks are full of different cheer and tour groups.
I'm at CSR right now and thought I would share my thoughts so far
The resort is as beautiful as I remembered. The cast memebers have all been very friendly and helpful. I read many times that people find the CMs here to be cranky and unfriendly and I'm glad that I have found the opposite.
My one negative was the Pepper Market. The food was very good, once we got it. It shouldn't take 30 minutes to get 2 cold sandwiches. And then the pop machine is barely working. A CM explained that you had to push really hard to get it to work. And demonstrated by putting both hands on it and pushing with all her weight. We are here 5 more days but won't go back.
I have found it takes approx 3-4 hrs to get your bagsAnyone with experience with an early evening arrival with luggage delivery? We fly into MCO next Saturday and our flight arrives at 7pm. I just got the updated yellow Mluggage tags today as we changed resorts last minute. Now I'm thinking of having them deliver the luggage after all.
Since MK is open until 2am for EMH we will be out late anyway. I'm just worried that it won't arrive by the time we return to our room. If it isn't there for some reason can we call bell services to have it delivered?
We were there from 4/17 - 4/25, and we saw lots of cheer groups, but had no issue with them at all. We only used the bus once, though. We mainly saw them in PM or at the main pool. They were as sweet as can be. Now the bridal party at the Dig Site was a slightly different story...
I have found it takes approx 3-4 hrs to get your bags
The last time we actually got in around 9 and our bags showed up like midnight. Be sure to tell them you want the bags that night so they do t think it's to late for you and hold them till morning
My one negative was the Pepper Market. The food was very good, once we got it. It shouldn't take 30 minutes to get 2 cold sandwiches. And then the pop machine is barely working. A CM explained that you had to push really hard to get it to work. And demonstrated by putting both hands on it and pushing with all her weight. We are here 5 more days but won't go back.
I feel the same way. I loved so many things about CSR, but I hated the Pepper Market. I would go to one station and get two meals for my kids, then go to another station for MY meal, and have to wait 10-15 minutes (while their meals were getting cold). I tried to do this another way, by ordering my meal first, and going to the other station and getting their's, but when I returned to the original station, the person working there had given my meal away, forcing me to wait again. My 3rd attempt was to order my food, order my kids' meals, and then pay and bring it to them, and go back for my food. But again, the server gave away my meal.
The food was good, but every time I went there, I was frustrated at the setup.
Just curious to know were they at the main pool?I stayed end March, my 3rd stay and had some issues which mean I will think twice about going back there again. It wa previously my favourite resort as it was disney but not in your face, has the amazing lake for a great walk and is in a good location on property.
My main issue was a conference of young (future/young) health professionals who arrived on our last full day. That evening they had a pool party, very loud....... And when I rang front desk after 11pm, it took 2 attempts to get it sorted out. When I checked out the next day (went to central area as they had not delivered/emailed my bill for the second year running), I talked to the cast Member about my issues and her uninterested response was 'well we are a. Conference hotel' which sort of misses the point :-(
I have since provided feedback to customer relations, particularly about the excellent cast members and service at AOA (value resort) and their response was very good. But the conference issue would make me think about staying here when conferences are young/teens/colleges are the conference and has taken the shine off this resort for me. I am going to go back to AOA next year.
Also as I am getting older I find having a preferred room location to be a necessity. The problem with that at CSR is that puts you st the last bus stop to get picked up.
Those two flaws mean I will be booking a value resort next time. The preferred room fee is much easier to swallow and you get great proximity to the bus stop.
Just curious to know were they at the main pool?
I agree...we pay for some sort of a preffered location every vacation.
You actually found that using Bus stop 1 was an issue?
We stayed BC at CSR for 16 night this past Dec 10th-26th and 12 nights Dec 12th-24th 2013. That's 28 nights using stop 1 exclusively with not a single complaint about the bus service. And as you can see the tail end of those dates run into the busiest time of year. The great bus service is one of the reasons we always stay at CSR.
I will say that we don't do rope drop anymore, but catching a bus at stop 1 anytime from 10am to Midnight was never an issue and the Cabanas 9B building is the closest your room can be to a bus stop on WDW property. Hard to beat that!