BLT -- a few comments and a question

[jekjones1558]

Just back from staying in a 1 bedroom Lake View at BLT. Requested an even number room on the north side so we could see Wishes. Got even number south side and was disappointed until I got to the room. 14th floor room 8436, gorgeous view of Marina and Contemporary pool area and Electric Water Pageant every night. Amazed that we could see a lot of Illuminations! Also fun to see DHS, Epcot, AK, and DTD in the distance. Since it was easy to go to TOTWL for Wishes I will now request this area. Bonus was that it was closer to the bridge to Contemporary. Felt very lucky.
I think there are bugs to be worked out in Bell Services here. It took 1½ hours to get one of our Owner's Lockers then another ½ hour to get the second one. They claimed that they couldn't find them??? However, this inconvenience also turned into a stroke of luck. Because we had to wait for the lockers I took the time to call Delta about getting a last minute ticket for my great nephew, who was not originally scheduled to come on this trip. I had tried at the ticket counter when we landed at MCO and the only option was over $900, pretty steep for a 4 day trip. I balked at the price but relented when we got to BLT. When I called Delta from the room I got a different agent who was able to get a ticket for 42,500 FF miles! I couldn't believe it! Another stroke of incredible luck.
Our room was pristine. We had TWELVE bath towels and face cloths, lots of towel designs, body lotion (maybe that is standard now??) I called to tell the housekeeping supervisor about how perfect the room was and to get the name of the housekeeper so I could give her a tip. When I saw her the next day she told me that she was instructed to give us whatever we wanted. We found clean towels and emptied wastebaskets on 3 days during our 7 day stay. We felt spoiled indeed.
I found out that MDE is NOT a great system if you add someone to your room after you have already checked in. I could not add FP+ or dining reservations for my nephew, even after his name was added to the reservation. After spending 2 hours having MS refer me to the front desk and the front desk refer me to MS, I finally found a hero at BLT who cancelled our reservation and made a new one and that fixed the problem. He guaranteed that we would not lose our room in the process and he was right. I will be watching my points to make sure there are no issues (past experience speaking here).
I just LOVE the extra bathroom setup. When my great nephew and his mom joined my great niece and me, it was so, so great to have the second full bath. I don't know that I would have invited my nephew had we been in a 1 bedroom without that second bath, even though my nephew is only 9 and doesn't spend a lot of time on grooming . The extra sleeper chair was also a godsend, and it was my bed for the week. While not as comfortable as a bed, it was just fine for a week.
Now the question: Do BLT rooms all have the little plastic travel wine openers (the kind that cost $1.00 or so) instead of regular cork screws or did a previous guest just abscond with the good one and leave the plastic replacement? I called to get a regular one because I was not strong enough to get the cork out with the plastic one and housekeeping seemed to have a hard time locating one. Just wondering if the cheapies are now being substituted. We have always had regular ones at WDW previously.
I admit to still preferring the location and more personal feel of BWV but I truly, truly enjoyed this trip. BLT owners have a real gem to call home.

 

[wdwmouse]

Thank you, Jean! We are Boardwalk lovers and had a hard time trying a new place. We are coming to BLT in June. We also booked a lake view, one bedroom. The only request I made was upper floor. Kind of excited to see what we get!
Knowing how you feel about BWV, I am so glad to read this excellent review of BLT.
Can't wait to get there!

 

[DebbieB]

I had a similar thing happen at BWV. I had a pool/garden view studio because of date changes. I had requested Village Green but was disappointed when I got pool view. Turns out I liked it! It was top floor and about 4 rooms from the elevator. Plus got to see fireworks from a private party at DHS one night.

 

[wdrl]

Now the question: Do BLT rooms all have the little plastic travel wine openers (the kind that cost $1.00 or so) instead of regular cork screws or did a previous guest just abscond with the good one and leave the plastic replacement?

I admit to still preferring the location and more personal feel of BWV but I truly, truly enjoyed this trip. BLT owners have a real gem to call home.

We've always had a metal cork screw when staying at BLT. But perhaps they are phasing out the metal ones for something cheaper. A cork screw is just another item that you might want to add to your owner's locker.

Glad to hear that you enjoyed your stay at BLT. How did things work out with the Monorail? I haven't kept up with news about the Monorail System, but wasn't the Resort Line down for several hours during the day?

 

[paults]

Just back from staying in a 1 bedroom Lake View at BLT. Requested an even number room on the north side so we could see Wishes. Got even number south side and was disappointed until I got to the room. 14th floor room 8436, gorgeous view of Marina and Contemporary pool area and Electric Water Pageant every night. Amazed that we could see a lot of Illuminations! Also fun to see DHS, Epcot, AK, and DTD in the distance. Since it was easy to go to TOTWL for Wishes I will now request this area. Bonus was that it was closer to the bridge to Contemporary. Felt very lucky.
I think there are bugs to be worked out in Bell Services here. It took 1½ hours to get one of our Owner's Lockers then another ½ hour to get the second one. They claimed that they couldn't find them??? However, this inconvenience also turned into a stroke of luck. Because we had to wait for the lockers I took the time to call Delta about getting a last minute ticket for my great nephew, who was not originally scheduled to come on this trip. I had tried at the ticket counter when we landed at MCO and the only option was over $900, pretty steep for a 4 day trip. I balked at the price but relented when we got to BLT. When I called Delta from the room I got a different agent who was able to get a ticket for 42,500 FF miles! I couldn't believe it! Another stroke of incredible luck.
Our room was pristine. We had TWELVE bath towels and face cloths, lots of towel designs, body lotion (maybe that is standard now??) I called to tell the housekeeping supervisor about how perfect the room was and to get the name of the housekeeper so I could give her a tip. When I saw her the next day she told me that she was instructed to give us whatever we wanted. We found clean towels and emptied wastebaskets on 3 days during our 7 day stay. We felt spoiled indeed.
I found out that MDE is NOT a great system if you add someone to your room after you have already checked in. I could not add FP+ or dining reservations for my nephew, even after his name was added to the reservation. After spending 2 hours having MS refer me to the front desk and the front desk refer me to MS, I finally found a hero at BLT who cancelled our reservation and made a new one and that fixed the problem. He guaranteed that we would not lose our room in the process and he was right. I will be watching my points to make sure there are no issues (past experience speaking here).
I just LOVE the extra bathroom setup. When my great nephew and his mom joined my great niece and me, it was so, so great to have the second full bath. I don't know that I would have invited my nephew had we been in a 1 bedroom without that second bath, even though my nephew is only 9 and doesn't spend a lot of time on grooming . The extra sleeper chair was also a godsend, and it was my bed for the week. While not as comfortable as a bed, it was just fine for a week.
Now the question: Do BLT rooms all have the little plastic travel wine openers (the kind that cost $1.00 or so) instead of regular cork screws or did a previous guest just abscond with the good one and leave the plastic replacement? I called to get a regular one because I was not strong enough to get the cork out with the plastic one and housekeeping seemed to have a hard time locating one. Just wondering if the cheapies are now being substituted. We have always had regular ones at WDW previously.
I admit to still preferring the location and more personal feel of BWV but I truly, truly enjoyed this trip. BLT owners have a real gem to call home.

We preferred the marina view also when we were there in May and got 12 fl, then after our cruise went back to BLT and got north view (hated it) view of tennis courts and part of lake

 

[jekjones1558]

We've always had a metal cork screw when staying at BLT. But perhaps they are phasing out the metal ones for something cheaper. A cork screw is just another item that you might want to add to your owner's locker.

Glad to hear that you enjoyed your stay at BLT. How did things work out with the Monorail? I haven't kept up with news about the Monorail System, but wasn't the Resort Line down for several hours during the day?

I used to keep a corkscrew in one of our lockers but never needed it. Guess I will be bringing it back next month.
The monorail was down during the day until Saturday. It didn't bother us. I always rent a car and we walked to and from MK.

 

[jade1]

Nice to hear Jean.

You also benefitted from the LR getting wider toward the windows-gives much more room for the chair bed. Inside the "C" they are pretty tight.

That wall of glass is so nice right? We like an "active" view so this sounds nice. Still liked the MK view so much will stay with that for now.

How about the decor? We really like it, seems to be a trend as the latest Chicago hotels seem to have similar decor/look.

2nd full bath is so nice in a 1BR-too bad about VGF.

 

[bbn1122]

We were on the 14th floor our last visit and loved it. I would have rather been on your side of the floor. We were on the inner circle....nice...but we did like being right across from other villas. Also, we could not see the water parade from our location....could hear it but could not see it.

We own at BLT and on our first visit we were north side 8th floor with a view of Space. Mountain and a peak to the left of the Castle. We could watch Wishes from our sofa.