Another Boardwalk View Question

[Mich Mouse]

I am still not sure which view to request since there are so many varying opinions.

1. Is the main pool area on the opposite side of the clown slide very noisy? It looks on the map like there is a bit of a garden area between the building and the pool. That area looks like it nice, pretty view, centrally located and convenient. Is it?

2. Where are the banks of elevators? (Don't want to be too close)

Also, when looking at this map:

http://www.allearsnet.com/acc/bwalk2.jpg

3. How about the area behind Jelly Rolls? Noisy/view? It looks like a garden/canal view. Is it pretty over there? Noisy? Convenient?

4. And finally, the area that is behind the main pool, but closest to the Boardwalk. The area jets out on the map. (Not part of the building that fronts the BW) Is that a nice view? Not too noisy?

5. Are the areas from questions 3 and 4 basically the same? I think that looks the most appealing, for a preferered view, but I have never stayed at the villas.

We have a two bedroom reserved. I was all set to ask for a courtyard view but found out that there are no 2 bedrooms in thart area.

Please tell me how to describe these views I might request. Does anyone have a map with room room numbers so I might request "Any room between blah blah and blah blah."

Please give an obsessive woman some help.

 

[crisi]

I am still not sure which view to request since there are so many varying opinions.

Is the main pool area on the opposite side of the clown slide very noisy? It looks on the map like there is a bit of a garden area between the building and the pool. That area looks like it nice, pretty view, centrally located and convenient. Is it?

Where are the banks of elevators? (Don't want to be too close)

Also, when looking at this map:

http://www.allearsnet.com/acc/bwalk2.jpg

How about the area behind Jelly Rolls? Noisy/view? It looks like a garden/canal view. Is it pretty over there? Noisy? Convenient?

And finally, the area that is behind the main pool, but closest to the Boardwalk. The area jets out on the map. (Not part of the building that fronts the BW) Is that a nice view? Not too noisy?

We have a two bedroom reserved. I was all set to ask for a courtyard view but found out that there are no 2 bedrooms in thart area.

Please tell me how to describe these views I might request. Does anyone have a map with room room numbers so I might request "Any room between blah blah and blah blah."

Please give an obsessive woman some help.

I suggest you relax - I think this is the third or forth "what view should I request" post you've made. Chances are you will arrive, make a request, and not get it. If you obsess over the perfect view and don't get it, you'll be disappointed. If you take what you get and are open to surprises, you'll probably be content. Just take what you get. View will not ruin your vacation - you'll be at WDW!

We've requested top floor for three trips - and have yet to be anywhere but floor one or two. We wanted end of hall on our last trip and got just about the first one bedroom off the elevator. We've asked for non-smoking and have gotten smoking. The surprising thing - all the rooms we've gotten were perfectly enjoyable - yeah, I could hear the games from our room over the Screen Door (which is why I wanted a higher floor). But the room on the bottom floor close to the elevator worked out much better than our request would have - it was really convienient to the pool for the kids! Even the smoking room was fine and didn't stink.

 

[DisDaydreamer]

Agreed with the RELAX suggestion. I think you'll enjoy things much more if you don't stress-out on trying create the PERFECT situation. You're gonna have a great time at BWV I promise.

 

[Mich Mouse]

Thanks for the suggestions, and I am definitely not stressed or in need to relax. Not worried in the least. I know I will have a wonderful time, regardless! I am just type A. This is fun for me! I am so excited to be going to WDW again!

I am just looking for information.... Usually I do some research and know exactly where to request room location....and my experience is much more favorable than the reports here. I have always been given exactly what I requested. However, this is my first DVC experience, so I am sure things are a bit different. On a side note, isn't non-smoking guaranteed?

If anyone would not mind answering the questions I posted, I would be truly appreciative.

Thanks

 

[crisi]

Non smoking is not a guarentee. DVC veterns recommend that if it is important to you, it be your only request. And, yes, DVC is different than staying in a Disney hotel, requests are far less likely to be met. DVC operates nearly full all the time - there will possibly only be one or two units even clearing out the day you check in that are two bedroom preferred views. Also, in my experience, CMs checking you into DVC discourage a lot of room negotiations.

Just as an exercise in what we are talking about: There are 149 possible two bedrooms - some will be booked as one bedrooms and studios. About 60% of these are preferred view. So there are a possible 90 rooms - assuming no one is booking them as a one bedroom as studio. 3% out of service at any given time for maintenance, call it three rooms - 87 rooms. Seven days in a week, so the average would be only about 12 rooms coming available on any given day. Approximately two of those are smoking (10-20% of the resort), ten rooms left to "pick from" If you arrive at 2:00 pm, maybe six people have checked in already - four rooms. Three of those aren't clean - one room. If you arrive at 6:00 am, none of the rooms are clean yet - 0 rooms, and they will give you a room key, but won't really assign your room until its been checked out of - since checkout is at 11:00, luck of the draw if arriving early does that much for you.

In comparision, Disney hotels run at about 70-80% capacity. With 20% of the rooms empty, they have a lot more room to meet requests.

Trust to fate in this.

 

[CoolDisneyCat]

I do the same kind of thing with the resort maps .. so I understand!

The elevators are close to the lobby .. in the brown lobby area on the map you posted.

I've stayed at the BWV 4 times, but never in the areas you mentioned. We have stayed behind the slide (in the area jutting out between the 2 pools) twice and over looking the quiet pool. The canal views are very nice. You hear the music from Fantasmic and see the lights. The view of Tower of Terror is cool. Here some pics from the 2nd room along the long hallway after the jutting out part between the pools.

 

[POOH&PIGLET]

Once we stayed by the clown slide. With the balcony door closed, we heard very little noise and that was mainly during the day.

We also stayed near Jelly Rolls with a canal view once. We had a nice view - I believe we could see TOT at MGM. The ferry horns made noise at times. We never hear any ground noise. However, we were really far from the elevators.

Have fun.