1st stay at Contemporary w/3 young kids...have few ?s

[sunnymom]

We are staying at the Contemporary for the first time with kids 2, 3, and 6. The only rooms available are wing. I keep reading about the walkway to MK. Is it that close to MK that you can use the walkway with kids? Also, I keep reading about location of the wings and how some are so far from the towers. I also read about how you can see the fireworks from some of the wing rooms? Where should we request....if we are able to do so....What are the pools like? It hard to see from the photos. Any other info???Thanks!!!

 

[frazzled one]

It's been too long since our family was at the Contemporary (1997!), but we loved it, and what we loved best about it was the walk over to MK. There are topiary animals to look at, personalized bricks to read in the walkway, and you can see and hear some of the attractions - it feels as if you're in the park already! Will you have a stroller for the two little ones? That would help - it was just a 5 minute walk for us from the CR lobby exit (fast walkers/impatient dh ), but timing the walk from your room will certainly add some minutes. I think it's the North Garden Wing that you want for proximity to the MK.

 

[RichieGraciemom]

i love the wings, no balcony to worry about with the kids, walked right out to bay lake and swimming pool and the walk was great to mk. Dont get me wrong the tower was nice with the balcony, but the wings were easy with kids. one other time we had a parking lot so the car was right outside our sliding glass door and we found that handy to load the car back up. if at the end of the wings the walk can be a little long, but no longer then waiting for an elevator to get to a tower room. good luck and that is my favorite hotel, we are now dvc owners and hope that part of this becomes dvc like the rumors going around. enjoy, have stayed there three times.

 

[Hincher]

We love the Contemporary. We stayed there last year and we're going back this year. We tried to make ourselves stay somewhere else, but why mess with perfection.

We've only stayed in the Tower but I would try a Garden Wing room. We even down-graded from the Poly to stay there we love it so much.

 

[GalDisney]

I stayed at The Contemporary for the first time last week. Had a room in the North Wing. It was great! The North Wing is closest to the walkway to the MK. The walk takes about 10 mins. Also, there is a side entrance to the North Wing that takes you in to the Food and Fun Center ( food court and mug refills) in the Tower and from there you can take the escalator to the Concourse in the tower. I recommend the North Wing as it closer to the main tower and MK walkway. Altho the South Wing is closer to the swimming pool.

 

[pearljim]

Two pools - one shaped like Mickey and another more adult rectangular pool closer to the Bay. The Mickey pool has a slide that my grandsons loved (ages 3-4). They also have the squirting fountains (don't know what to call them) - randomly shoot water straight up about 4 feet or so. It has that soft, rubbery surface as I recall. The boys loved running through that as well.

 

[4mykids]

The pool is great, although I don't remember it being shaped like Mickey. It was more of a free form design with a fountain in one section and lots of watter sprays in another.

If your child is the first one there in the a.m., you can ask the lifeguard if he/she can "open" the pool. On my DD11's birthday, she did this. They put the Sorcerer Mickey's hat and gloves on her and gave her a wand. She pointed to the different water features and said the magic words. Then she was the first one allowed to go down the slide! Then they put her name on the pool chalkboard as "Sorcerer of the day" (or something similar). Great fun!

 

[Joe Mouse]

If your kids can swim, they will enjoy the pools at Contemporary more so if they can't. The Contemporary does not have kiddie pools. My kids were 7 and 4 when we went last year and they clung to us or held on to pool walls. I don't remember the pool area having life vests, tubes, etc.

Joe Mouse

 

[RichieGraciemom]

they do have life jackets, just ask for them, bring arm swimmies and they can use them also. There is no kiddie pool but the main pool is not very deep, maybe four feet at the most , not sure on that though.