NeverWantToGrowUp
Earning My Ears
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- May 12, 2002
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We just got back from our 5 days in GC. We stayed in concierge room and here are some info for those who are interested. (I, myself, found very little information on the concerige room before I left, so hopefully, this will help those who are interested in staying in GC concierge room)
- Check-in: we have to wait in line like everyone else. There is no separate concierge check-in like some resort in DisneyWorld.
- parking: valet is $12 a day or self park which is across the street.
- concerige lounge: I like it. It nice and one can see "limited" view of firework from DL and they do piped in music but the viewing is not 100%. (not as nice as seeing the firework from Polynesian concierge lounge or beach!)
breakfast: coffee, tea, juice, milk, cereals, crossants (chocolate and plain), muffins, bagles and cut fruits.
through out the day, there is a nice whole fruit bowls, chips, water and soda. We didn't have any problem of getting more than two bottles of water/soda per person to take to the park. The staffs are all very nice and helpful. In the afternoon, there are big cookies added. Evening offering is VERY LIMITED. Cheese and fruit platter, bread and butter, veggie platter, PB&J sandwiches and ONE appetizer. The days we were in the lounge during the grand hour the offering were, olive spread on cut crusty bread, some sort of chopped up pickle mushrooms and olive, tomatoes in a mini tortilla cup, some kind of savory mousse in a mini puffy pastry cup. There were wines with grand hour but seems to only have one or two variety.
Overall, we liked the concierge service. (Would have been better if they beefed up the grand hour food offering and have a separate check-in for concierge check-in)
Room location: we had the park view and was put in room 6416.
All the room in 64xx is a LONG walk to concerige lounge. The
rooms in 63xx are a lot closer.
Speak of room, I don't know if anyone had encountered this problem. Upon check-in, the CM went into the back room for a good 15 minutes and came back to tell me that my reservation was canceled due to lack of deposit. I was very confused because in my hand is the confirmation from my reservation that indicates no deposit is required. It turns out that after I made the reservation through their central reservation system, I did an on-line quote from "Dream Unlimited" to see if I can get a cheaper rate. Little I know, my on-line quote from "Dream Unlimited" means they actually make a reservation for me. Since I didn't like the quote I got, I never follow up on it and on the hotel computer system it shows I canceled my reservation! It took another 15 minutes to iron out the whole mess. The only saving grace was I did have in my hand the confirmation letter from central reservation system. But there was no more room on 6th floor (concierge floor) for us. Needless to say, we were pretty upset. The CM offered to put us on the third floor with access to concerige lounge and move us to 6th floor the following day.
The hotel was pretty crowded but the concierge lounge was never really busy, even though, it sounded like almost all the room was booked.
The park was very very crowded. Luckily, we had the hopper pass that allows us to collect mulitple fast pass. We absolutely love that feature. With mulitple fast passes, we were doing 4 rides in 1 hour vs 45minutes to 1hour wait on some of these rides!
- Check-in: we have to wait in line like everyone else. There is no separate concierge check-in like some resort in DisneyWorld.
- parking: valet is $12 a day or self park which is across the street.
- concerige lounge: I like it. It nice and one can see "limited" view of firework from DL and they do piped in music but the viewing is not 100%. (not as nice as seeing the firework from Polynesian concierge lounge or beach!)
breakfast: coffee, tea, juice, milk, cereals, crossants (chocolate and plain), muffins, bagles and cut fruits.
through out the day, there is a nice whole fruit bowls, chips, water and soda. We didn't have any problem of getting more than two bottles of water/soda per person to take to the park. The staffs are all very nice and helpful. In the afternoon, there are big cookies added. Evening offering is VERY LIMITED. Cheese and fruit platter, bread and butter, veggie platter, PB&J sandwiches and ONE appetizer. The days we were in the lounge during the grand hour the offering were, olive spread on cut crusty bread, some sort of chopped up pickle mushrooms and olive, tomatoes in a mini tortilla cup, some kind of savory mousse in a mini puffy pastry cup. There were wines with grand hour but seems to only have one or two variety.
Overall, we liked the concierge service. (Would have been better if they beefed up the grand hour food offering and have a separate check-in for concierge check-in)
Room location: we had the park view and was put in room 6416.
All the room in 64xx is a LONG walk to concerige lounge. The
rooms in 63xx are a lot closer.
Speak of room, I don't know if anyone had encountered this problem. Upon check-in, the CM went into the back room for a good 15 minutes and came back to tell me that my reservation was canceled due to lack of deposit. I was very confused because in my hand is the confirmation from my reservation that indicates no deposit is required. It turns out that after I made the reservation through their central reservation system, I did an on-line quote from "Dream Unlimited" to see if I can get a cheaper rate. Little I know, my on-line quote from "Dream Unlimited" means they actually make a reservation for me. Since I didn't like the quote I got, I never follow up on it and on the hotel computer system it shows I canceled my reservation! It took another 15 minutes to iron out the whole mess. The only saving grace was I did have in my hand the confirmation letter from central reservation system. But there was no more room on 6th floor (concierge floor) for us. Needless to say, we were pretty upset. The CM offered to put us on the third floor with access to concerige lounge and move us to 6th floor the following day.
The hotel was pretty crowded but the concierge lounge was never really busy, even though, it sounded like almost all the room was booked.
The park was very very crowded. Luckily, we had the hopper pass that allows us to collect mulitple fast pass. We absolutely love that feature. With mulitple fast passes, we were doing 4 rides in 1 hour vs 45minutes to 1hour wait on some of these rides!
