BLT rooms and views with picture links! Last update of post #1 10/21/2015

[Waddler]

Fireworks booms are loud, so be prepared!

So true! The fireworks tripped the alarm on the yellow jeep in your picture almost every night.

 

[gdrj]

Photos from Phone a bit grainy. Lake view room. You do NOT need to lean with one foot in the air for these views. Straight ahead is woods to the right is lake. As I recall limited view of Electric Water Pageant. To the left is in the photos below.



Overcast Day



Zoomed in a bit



Fireworks

 

[Finally DVC]

I checked into a standard view studio on January 1, 2013 and was placed in room 7318.

Thanks! Did you happen to take any photos of the view from that room? We do not have any pictures posted yet from that room.

Sorry, I didn't bother. It was just the parking lot

 

[Sheri in CT]

Are there any rooms without balconies? I will be traveling with 3 kids under 6 and worry a little about the balconies.

 

[work2play]

Are there any rooms without balconies? I will be traveling with 3 kids under 6 and worry a little about the balconies.

No, they all have balconies. There are double locks on the balcony doors, the top lock is around 12-18 inches higher that the door handle. I sometimes have trouble getting the door open! Both must be in the unlocked position to be able to open the door.

 

[bigAWL]

Are there any rooms without balconies? I will be traveling with 3 kids under 6 and worry a little about the balconies.

No, they all have balconies. There are double locks on the balcony doors, the top lock is around 12-18 inches higher that the door handle. I sometimes have trouble getting the door open! Both must be in the unlocked position to be able to open the door.

Actually, the first floor rooms have patios instead of balconies. But you can't guarantee you will be assigned to one of those.

 

[work2play]

Actually, the first floor rooms have patios instead of balconies. But you can't guarantee you will be assigned to one of those.

Good point! There are a few standard view rooms on the first floor that have patios.

 

[lundve]

I can't believe we got a room not on the list. Our family of 4 stayed in a lake view studio (man did it feel small!!) last weekend. I did not request anything - figuring we would be on the inside facing the pool but were pleasantly surprised with a north side view.

It was Room #8008 on the tenth floor. It is considered a lake view studio. It is a lock-off and connects to #8010 which is to the left. Here is a panorama.

The boys loved the fireworks from the balcony too - you can really tell from here how far away from the castle they are actually let off.

 

[work2play]

Thanks! Nice photos. I have updated the first post with your information.

 

[dismedvc]

Can anyone confirm which rooms were really converted to Standard View earlier this year? I will update the color coded map on the first post if we can confirm which ones were changed...

JoAnne

Going the other way, we were in 7205 our last trip, and that is now considered a lake view, so at least one of the rooms shown as standard view on the "inside" (odd number rooms) has now been changed to lake view. The view from 7205 was pretty bad. When we returned, I looked at the thread and saw 7205 was classified on the thread as standard view. I then contacted my guide to see if we had in fact been put in a standard view room even though we booked and were charged lake view points. She confirmed that 7205 was now a lake view.

 

[bethp1968]

We were in room 7234 (standard view 1 bedroom) with a view of Contemporary, Lake/Marina, and a partial view to the right of the monorail. Not a bad view, IMO. Also, very close to elevator. No complaints

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

In mid-May we had a single night in a Standard view studio - 7306. I found I have a much better opinion of the BLT studios now that they have moved the bathroom sink out of the kitchen!

In general the room was in good condition although that new bathroom sink was chipped - apparently from something heavy being dropped in it.

Here are a few pictures including a couple I took of the inside of the room. You can compare the bathroom/kitchen layout now to the layout when pictures were previously posted of this room:

And the view:

And a couple from the top:

 

[JoeATC]

Staying in 7510, 5th floor view to the north. This is now a lake view (1BR). Talked with Member Svcs and front desk DVC folks, was told rooms facing north 2nd floor and up are all lake views. We do have a good view of Wishes on the bright side. If they would remove the tree to the right looking out the living room window that would be great. Then again, I wouldn't want the deforestation police on my case. All I can think of is Kali River Rapids and the uplifting message they portray.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

All these reports of rooms that were standard now being lakeview seems surprising. We all were told of theme park rooms being changed to standard views and points were reallocated for that (going up for some room types) so this switch of standard to lakeview doesn't seem to make a lot of sense or maybe even be possible - nor is it consistent since we had a 3rd floor north view booked standard view but MS told the above poster that anything above the 2nd floor is lakeview. And another poster who had an inside room with poor view was told that was a lakeview so it doesn't seem like they changed some of the outer rooms to lakeview and courtyard rooms to standard.

 

[dismedvc]

All these reports of rooms that were standard now being lakeview seems surprising. We all were told of theme park rooms being changed to standard views and points were reallocated for that (going up for some room types) so this switch of standard to lakeview doesn't seem to make a lot of sense or maybe even be possible - nor is it consistent since we had a 3rd floor north view booked standard view but MS told the above poster that anything above the 2nd floor is lakeview. And another poster who had an inside room with poor view was told that was a lakeview so it doesn't seem like they changed some of the outer rooms to lakeview and courtyard rooms to standard.

Belated thanks for the pics of the new studio configuration. Since 7205 was a dedicated 2 BR, we did not get to see the new configuration on our last stay.
However, I am confused by the last sentence in the above quote. Based on what I was told, they changed our courtyard room to lakeview from standard.

I think when they reclassified the lower floors in the center section that had been considered magic kingdom views into standard views, they tried to partially make up for it by reclassifying some standard views to lake view to minimize the required point increases.

In my opinion:
3rd floor north view should have been left as standard view. (those rooms look over the laundry delivery service area). MS might have been wrong in what they told the above poster everything above 3nd floor is now lakeview, especially since Kat4Disney was recently assigned 7306 as a standard view.

Floor 5 north view being lake view seems reasonable, and floor 4 north view is questionable whether it is lake view or standard view.

As far as our room, 7205, being reclassified a lake view, that is probably reasonable, but that room is probably one of the worst of the lake views.

Frustrating that DVC does not disclose which rooms fall into which booking category, but if they did, it might lead to another type of frustration if members knew for sure the room next to them or the room directly beneath them was paying fewer points, and that they had been assigned one of the worst views in the category they had booked.

 

[CaliforniaDreaming]

Belated thanks for the pics of the new studio configuration. Since 7205 was a dedicated 2 BR, we did not get to see the new configuration on our last stay.
However, I am confused by the last sentence in the above quote. Based on what I was told, they changed our courtyard room to lakeview from standard.

I think when they reclassified the lower floors in the center section that had been considered magic kingdom views into standard views, they tried to partially make up for it by reclassifying some standard views to lake view to minimize the required point increases.

In my opinion:
3rd floor north view should have been left as standard view. (those rooms look over the laundry delivery service area). MS might have been wrong in what they told the above poster everything above 3nd floor is now lakeview, especially since Kat4Disney was recently assigned 7306 as a standard view.

Floor 5 north view being lake view seems reasonable, and floor 4 north view is questionable whether it is lake view or standard view.

As far as our room, 7205, being reclassified a lake view, that is probably reasonable, but that room is probably one of the worst of the lake views.

Frustrating that DVC does not disclose which rooms fall into which booking category, but if they did, it might lead to another type of frustration if members knew for sure the room next to them or the room directly beneath them was paying fewer points, and that they had been assigned one of the worst views in the category they had booked.

Has anyone heard any more about this reclassification? I read somewhere else that someone had 7202 as a lake view, which sounds consistent with these findings.

 

[Rubeng724]

I counted exactly 120 Dedicated 2 Bedrooms and 147 lock offs. Totally wrong! Theres supposed to be 148 Dedicated and 133 lock offs!

 

[Music City Mama]

7335 standard view (1 BR)

 

[colleen costello]

Thanks for that great photo. I got a room off the waitlist and it is standard view... made a request for "pool view" so I knew we wouldn't get towel processing (we sleep in) or trash area (same reason). I hope to get a room just like yours! Love that view toward the back. And as I am terribly afraid of heights, a lower floor balcony will be wonderful. Checking in next week!

 

[work2play]

All these reports of rooms that were standard now being lakeview seems surprising. We all were told of theme park rooms being changed to standard views and points were reallocated for that (going up for some room types) so this switch of standard to lakeview doesn't seem to make a lot of sense or maybe even be possible - nor is it consistent since we had a 3rd floor north view booked standard view but MS told the above poster that anything above the 2nd floor is lakeview. And another poster who had an inside room with poor view was told that was a lakeview so it doesn't seem like they changed some of the outer rooms to lakeview and courtyard rooms to standard.

Yes, I am confused too. I am choosing to monitor the changes from SV to LV to see if they hold up before changing the map.