Our 1st trip home to BCV. Ressie was made 9 months earlier, only request was non-smoking. We checked in around 7pm, got really nice welcome home from both gatekeeper and CM checking us in. CM (porter) gave us a nice tour of BCV prior to our room. The studio is #447, the minute the door opened, very strong smoke odor overwhelmed us. The CM acknowledged that this is a smoking room and offered to call down for reassignment. We waited outside the room with our luggage. After about 15 minutes (meanwhile children were getting restless, so send them and DH down to check out the rest of the building), he came out and said theres another room available. Down the hall we go to the new room, door opened, no odor, Im happy. CM going down to get us new keys, I called DH on cell phone to tell him they can come back and I start to unpack. Wheres the closet? No closet? Where do I hang clothes? Clothing storage space is consists of 6 inch wide hanging space on both side of entertainment unit (already occupied by ironing board, iron and a pack & play) and 4 drawers of about 3 deep and 5 wide, couldnt even fit DH folded t-shirt without crushing sides. Bathroom has sliding door, cannot hang over the shoe organizer, vanity space is 2 ledge where a cup would not fit. CM returns with keys and acknowledged this is an accessible room. BY now its 8:10 and we have PS at Cape May at 8:30, so I tell myself, its OK, well live out of the suitcases. I moved the plastic table from patio to bathroom and will use that as vanity. Well make do!
Had a wonderful dinner at Cape May, return to room, take a shower, relax and unpack. Shower is handheld with NO water pressure, water drips out. That I cannot live with. Next morning, DD9 is having a fit because she has to wash her long hair in the sink because the shower couldnt get the shampoo out. Went down to desk to request room change, no room available, have to put up with room for another day.
Next morning, pack up and stored luggage. Went to park, return and have new room #169. Great room, clean with normal storage space. Water pressure is not great but at least we can get clean. Stayed in this room for 4 nights and very happy. WE love BCV location and SAB.
Left for Disney Wonder, had a wonderful time. Disembarked on Sunday and checked into VWL for one night. Another studio with non-smoking request. Well our name must be on the Black list, as this time, we got a smoking accessible room. The odor was not so bad this time, so I decide to stick with it for one might. The kids played at the pool, we had a great afternoon, went to room to shower, water control is broken, cannot get right temperature without a lot of fiddling. Finally got water temp to stay consistent, pressure is low again (I think its due to the handheld unit). The four of us took shower one after another without turning off the water because we dont know if we can get the water right again. This shower did not have a tub, so by end the whole bathroom floor was wet and yucky. Went to Artist point and had an excellent dinner. DH and kids went to arcade and I went back to room to repack luggage for trip home. Our smoking neighbor must have return because smoke begins to billow into our room through the connecting door. We were so tired that we just keep the fan on and live with it for one night.
All in all, we had a great vacation, Ive learned my lesson about non-smoking room and accessible room request. A while back, someone post that she will not stay in an accessible room and I thought she was being unreasonable. But now I understand why. The accessible room has no storage space. The kitchenette has no shelve space, the cutlery tray is stack on top of the toaster, and the paper goods are stack on top the cutlery tray, it gave a very messy feeling.
Sue from Boston
Had a wonderful dinner at Cape May, return to room, take a shower, relax and unpack. Shower is handheld with NO water pressure, water drips out. That I cannot live with. Next morning, DD9 is having a fit because she has to wash her long hair in the sink because the shower couldnt get the shampoo out. Went down to desk to request room change, no room available, have to put up with room for another day.
Next morning, pack up and stored luggage. Went to park, return and have new room #169. Great room, clean with normal storage space. Water pressure is not great but at least we can get clean. Stayed in this room for 4 nights and very happy. WE love BCV location and SAB.
Left for Disney Wonder, had a wonderful time. Disembarked on Sunday and checked into VWL for one night. Another studio with non-smoking request. Well our name must be on the Black list, as this time, we got a smoking accessible room. The odor was not so bad this time, so I decide to stick with it for one might. The kids played at the pool, we had a great afternoon, went to room to shower, water control is broken, cannot get right temperature without a lot of fiddling. Finally got water temp to stay consistent, pressure is low again (I think its due to the handheld unit). The four of us took shower one after another without turning off the water because we dont know if we can get the water right again. This shower did not have a tub, so by end the whole bathroom floor was wet and yucky. Went to Artist point and had an excellent dinner. DH and kids went to arcade and I went back to room to repack luggage for trip home. Our smoking neighbor must have return because smoke begins to billow into our room through the connecting door. We were so tired that we just keep the fan on and live with it for one night.
All in all, we had a great vacation, Ive learned my lesson about non-smoking room and accessible room request. A while back, someone post that she will not stay in an accessible room and I thought she was being unreasonable. But now I understand why. The accessible room has no storage space. The kitchenette has no shelve space, the cutlery tray is stack on top of the toaster, and the paper goods are stack on top the cutlery tray, it gave a very messy feeling.
Sue from Boston
