andreadoiron
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jan 27, 2007
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just got back from BLT and for anyone looking at booking there here are some of our thoughts:
the pool is too small and too shallow and the slide is good for younger kids but very slow and lame for older kids
the lake view room we had 8142 overlooked the marina and the area that they had nightly movies so was very loud. really not worth the lake points at all although i really don't think there can be too many standard view rooms since every view had partial lake or theme park view (MK and the parking lot is the same view, the pool view is lake view and when i complained that i didn't consider the marina a lake view, i was told that all lake view rooms had partial views of something other than the lake)
we were on the 11th floor and could hear the noise from the contempory's pool (which we could see) "party" every day. the water pagent kept us up until 10:45pm with very loud music. being on the 11th floor did not lessen the noise very much.
if you are going to MK or Epcot, the location is great but taking the bus anywhere else is arduous (the bus to dtd stops at the poly first) really did not like that the poly was on our bus route as it really dragged the bus ride out. 15 min into our dtd bus ride and we passed right by our hotel again. dtd was a 27 min trip. coming back we were first off so i'm guessing for the parks, blt is last off.
the cast members were very nice however this is the first time ever our floor requests were not honored at all. we resvd a room for 1 night for my MIL and emailed, called and asked in person to have her nearby (booked a lakeview studio since i was told that we had to have the same view to be close by so of course extra points for that lake view) and she was assigned to the 6th floor when i requested 14th floor for both of us. lucky for me francisco at online checkin got a manager who bumped her to a mk view room just to get her on the 14th floor but at the opposite end of the building
the dvc lounge is cool to view the fireworks and our balcony did have a view of some of the epcot fireworks (some were too low to see) however it is just a very noisy location. we like to get to the parks early in the am so we like quiet at night. this is not a quiet location.
the pool is too small and too shallow and the slide is good for younger kids but very slow and lame for older kids
the lake view room we had 8142 overlooked the marina and the area that they had nightly movies so was very loud. really not worth the lake points at all although i really don't think there can be too many standard view rooms since every view had partial lake or theme park view (MK and the parking lot is the same view, the pool view is lake view and when i complained that i didn't consider the marina a lake view, i was told that all lake view rooms had partial views of something other than the lake)
we were on the 11th floor and could hear the noise from the contempory's pool (which we could see) "party" every day. the water pagent kept us up until 10:45pm with very loud music. being on the 11th floor did not lessen the noise very much.
if you are going to MK or Epcot, the location is great but taking the bus anywhere else is arduous (the bus to dtd stops at the poly first) really did not like that the poly was on our bus route as it really dragged the bus ride out. 15 min into our dtd bus ride and we passed right by our hotel again. dtd was a 27 min trip. coming back we were first off so i'm guessing for the parks, blt is last off.
the cast members were very nice however this is the first time ever our floor requests were not honored at all. we resvd a room for 1 night for my MIL and emailed, called and asked in person to have her nearby (booked a lakeview studio since i was told that we had to have the same view to be close by so of course extra points for that lake view) and she was assigned to the 6th floor when i requested 14th floor for both of us. lucky for me francisco at online checkin got a manager who bumped her to a mk view room just to get her on the 14th floor but at the opposite end of the building
the dvc lounge is cool to view the fireworks and our balcony did have a view of some of the epcot fireworks (some were too low to see) however it is just a very noisy location. we like to get to the parks early in the am so we like quiet at night. this is not a quiet location.
(Yes, we are the crazy ones who do the MK evening EMH's until 3:00 AM then get up to go to the 7:00 AK early open!!
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Anyway, I thought the slide / pool was a lifeguards nightmare. Each time we were there I saw a guard have to go in to pull some little kid out of the way of the slide...and I saw them have to shut the water to the slide off a couple of times because there were just too many 3 yr olds in there without any parents waiting to catch them. It seemed like every kid in the pool was somewhere between 2 and 5 and many parents seemed to think that sticking a lifevest or floaties on them was sufficient. Many could not swim well enough to clear the slide dump out area and the guards had to get them out of the way. I saw them tell every kid over & over that they had to MOVE out of the way but they couldn't swim well enough to do it. We NEVER let DS go down a slide without one of us at the bottom when he was younger but I saw VERY FEW parents in the pool last week watching their kids. On the other hand, the pool at the Contemporary was WIDE OPEN and had PLENTY of loungers. It was SOOO much nicer. If / when we stay at BLT again I don't think I'll even bother with the BLT pool. 
Also not bedbugs but something else. They seemed to only be in the one bag which was sort of odd. It was creepy but since they appeared to be contained to just the one bag I was able to vacuum them up and get rid of them before they got all over the house HOWEVER before I got everything unpacked they ate some teeny little holes into DH's wool suit. Nothing else. Just the wool suit. And of course it was brand new.
So whatever THEY were they didn't care for synthetic materials since they didn't bother my dresses which were packed in the same garment bag!! 
