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

[dismedvc]

Regarding the LV rooms with a "MK view", can you tell me what specifically you looked out on with those views? You say you saw the MK. Does that include a full castle view?, pool view? How much of Bay Lake did you see, etc.?? Thanks SO much!

We were in room 8108. I do not have any pictures, but if we stood at the entry door and looked out the window, we saw the shoreline and Bay lake.
From the balcony:
if we looked straight out we saw the same.
looking right we saw Bay Lake,
looking 20 degrees left, and down, we saw the tennis courts and the service area where they pick up the laundry.
looking 45 degrees left we saw space mountain,
looking 60 degrees left we saw the castle.
looking 90 degrees left we saw the edge of the seven seas lagoon
the BLT pool is on the inside of the building, so we could not see that at all
Hope that helps

 

[drmommy]

subscribing...

 

[jakenjess]

Looking to stay in a dedicate 2 br. Can someone give ma a hint for what to ask for to be able to see the fireworks? We are booking in a lakeview. I have small children comming so I want a dedicated. Would it be better to ask for a lockoff to get a better view?

We just returned from a stay in a 2BR ded, 7602. It was a lake view, but we could see Space Mountain (and a lot of the fireworks) sitting on the sofa. From the master balcony, looking to the left, we could see the castle and all of Wishes. I'm sure if we had had one of the lock-offs next to us the view would have been even better, but we were very happy with it!

 

[mickeyetta]

Just returned from 1 Week at Bay Lake Tower (16th Jan to 23rd Jan)

Stayed in room 7509 Studio Apt with views of the Pool and Courtyard. Booked a Lake View Room....which is exactly what I got!

Mickeyetta

 

[disneylovin24]

This is a great thread I haven't gotten to read it all yet, but I'm going to later!!


Quick question, I'm going to be staying in a 1 bedroom MK view in a week woohoo and I was wondering that floors do the 1 bedroom's go up to

 

[jakenjess]

Quick question, I'm going to be staying in a 1 bedroom MK view in a week woohoo and I was wondering that floors do the 1 bedroom's go up to

Check out the charts on the first page of this thread; they show where all the rooms are.

Enjoy your trip. It's a fantastic resort!

 

[dismedvc]

Great thread work2play. The locations on your "room map" on page 1 are spot on.

I have edited my post #661 above to include the room number (8108), although I see you did previously have a report on the view from that room.

Also, I found this on another thread, and it confirms what you might have suspected from your "room map". (it is for room 7326, for which you did not previously have any reports)

We just returned from a wonderful trip to BLT 1BR MK View (1/27-2/2) and I'm planning on writing a full trip report, but until then, I wanted to make a few comments about BLT.

First the good:

• Location, Location, Location (If you love MK and like to visit the other resorts as well as Epcot, you couldn't ask to be at a better spot).
• Beautiful rooms (if you like that look, which we do).
• Two bathrooms.
• Bay Cove Pool (I was worried that the slide would be too scary for DD, but she loved it.)
• Sky Bridge (Very easy to get to Contemporary)
• Community Room (This is the first time we stayed at a resort that had one)

The Bad:

• Room location. We had reserved a MK view room, which technially we got, however we were assigned the absolutely worst possible MK room (7326) It is a MK room from the living room only, and only if you are sitting on the couch. If you are on the balcony, the support from the BLT awning is right in your line of sight. When we checked in I asked the CM at the front desk if they had anything higher, but they did not. She did say we could switch if another room later in the trip if we were not satisfied. DW was not keen on the idea of moving our luggage and food, so we stayed where we were. I believe being assigned this room was because of when we checked in. We checked in on a Wednesday night, so I do believe that there was not another MK room available at the time. It is just that I will not waste the points in the future for a view of the parking lot.

 

[dizfan]

I didn't know it was possible to be homesick for DVC until seeing this picture. I really miss sitting on the BLT balcony enjoying the lake view.

 

[disneylovin24]

Check out the charts on the first page of this thread; they show where all the rooms are.

Enjoy your trip. It's a fantastic resort!

The chart was confusing me:confused I think from what I read there are 1 bedrooms up to the 12th floor? Also, I'm starting to get a bit worried. I've been reading about people who paid for the MK view and got a blocked view or were on a low floor

 

[liznboys]

Over marathon weekend I stayed in room #7906, a Lake View Studio. It was a great location with a beautiful view of the lake and a view of MK. Here are pictures:

View towards the right:

Straight out:

Left:

Down:

Down:

 

[jakenjess]

The chart was confusing me:confused I think from what I read there are 1 bedrooms up to the 12th floor? Also, I'm starting to get a bit worried. I've been reading about people who paid for the MK view and got a blocked view or were on a low floor

Yes, that looks right for MK view, up to the 12th floor. I think one of the charts shows what's actually been reported that people have been assigned, so maybe that will tell you how low the MK view rooms go.

 

[tarheel_girl]

We just got back from staying at BLT for a week in a dedicated two bedroom. We had a little drama checking in. There was one "lake view" ded. 2 bedroom left when we checked in about 8:00pm. We were given 7329. I had read this entire thread before I left and knew that the 3rd floor was not the best, but what could we do?? We got up to our room and I immediately called back to the desk. We didn't have a lake view. We were looking at trees. You could see the pool between the branches if you looked hard enough. I was told that we had booked a water view. If you can see water it is considered a water view. I told her I couldn't see water only trees. After about 30 minutes on the phone she told me that we could switch rooms the next day for a $60 cleaning fee. We agreed to that. She also said she understood our frustration...the bamboo was too high when planted in her opinion. She told us that we would be 5th floor or higher on the inside or somewhere on the outside. I told her that we would really appreciate the outside since that is what we had requested originally. She told me that she'd see what she could do. Her name is Mary and she was wonderful to work with! Once we 'checked out' of that room, BLT was great to store all of our luggage and groceries until the afternoon. We got moved to room 7944 and LOVED it. It was so much more spacious. Yes, the inside rooms have a laundry room but with three little ones running around we need more living space. The laundry closet was just fine with us. I really feel like DVC is going to have to add a couple of different categories for the inside/outside rooms. I got really mad thinking that we almost stayed on the inside for the same number of points as the outside rooms. The outside rooms are wider and you have two bar stools at the counter which we needed with 8 people. We couldn't have all eaten together in the inside rooms. Also, the outside rooms, at least on the
9th floor have unobstructed views of the Lake. It's not fair that the inside rooms have to look through trees for the same number of points. I really think that this is going to become a big issue the more time people spend at BLT. Don't get me wrong. I loved staying that close to the Magic. Seeing the fireworks from top of the world was unbelievable. I just feel like there needs to be more than standard, lake and MK views to be fair at this DVC resort.

 

[DenLo]

We just got back from staying at BLT for a week in a dedicated two bedroom. We had a little drama checking in. There was one "lake view" ded. 2 bedroom left when we checked in about 8:00pm. We were given 7329. I had read this entire thread before I left and knew that the 3rd floor was not the best, but what could we do?? We got up to our room and I immediately called back to the desk. We didn't have a lake view. We were looking at trees. You could see the pool between the branches if you looked hard enough. I was told that we had booked a water view. If you can see water it is considered a water view. I told her I couldn't see water only trees. After about 30 minutes on the phone she told me that we could switch rooms the next day for a $60 cleaning fee. We agreed to that. She also said she understood our frustration...the bamboo was too high when planted in her opinion. She told us that we would be 5th floor or higher on the inside or somewhere on the outside. I told her that we would really appreciate the outside since that is what we had requested originally. She told me that she'd see what she could do. Her name is Mary and she was wonderful to work with! Once we 'checked out' of that room, BLT was great to store all of our luggage and groceries until the afternoon. We got moved to room 7944 and LOVED it. It was so much more spacious. Yes, the inside rooms have a laundry room but with three little ones running around we need more living space. The laundry closet was just fine with us. I really feel like DVC is going to have to add a couple of different categories for the inside/outside rooms. I got really mad thinking that we almost stayed on the inside for the same number of points as the outside rooms. The outside rooms are wider and you have two bar stools at the counter which we needed with 8 people. We couldn't have all eaten together in the inside rooms. Also, the outside rooms, at least on the
9th floor have unobstructed views of the Lake. It's not fair that the inside rooms have to look through trees for the same number of points. I really think that this is going to become a big issue the more time people spend at BLT. Don't get me wrong. I loved staying that close to the Magic. Seeing the fireworks from top of the world was unbelievable. I just feel like there needs to be more than standard, lake and MK views to be fair at this DVC resort.

Could you post photos of the two different rooms' views? Thanks.

 

[TheGeddings]

All,
We just stayed at BLT and I thought I would drop a tidbit of information to you all. We booked on Lake View, however, our room was on a corner where we could see MK extremely well. We were very close to Space Mountain.

Our room was 7808, our friends were in 7806. This was on the 8th floor. I would not go much lower than that to see the park. But any floor 8th and up should have a selection for this.

8th - 7808
9th - 7908
10th - 8008

You get the picture.

This will save you some points on an MK view, by staying lake view.

I know the disclaimer that they can't guarantee a particular room, but at least you can request it.

HTH!

 

[DISFANSHAN]

Were you in a Studio, 1BR or 2BR?

Thank you!

 

[Dork.]

Hello, everyone! Thanks for starting this thread, I read it from beginning to end before our recent trip to BLT. I really appreciate all the good information both in this thread and on the disboards in general. You guys rock!

(As a side note, in Epcot one of the Disney Research folks stopped me and asked which websites I used to help plan our trip, and disboards was at the top of my list....)

We were in a 1BR suite, Room 8436 (Lake View), which was pretty high up. We had a full-on view of the back of the Contemporary and the Contemporary pool and marina, of course. On a clear day, we could see the Spaceship Earth ball, the Swan and Dolphin, the Studios water tower, and a bunch of other buildings I couldn't recognize. We could see the higher Epcot fireworks clearly, but we couldn't see the fireworks that were low on the lake (which is most of the show, of course).

I have pictures of the view, but since I am such a n00b here disboards won't let me post the links. Oh well.

We are not DVC members, but took advantage of the pay for 4 nights, get 3 free offer from a few months back. We have an 18-month-old, and we were able to have one of us get her back for her naps to keep her happy while the other spouse stayed in the park with our older child. The suite had plenty of room, and we feel we made good use of it.

We really liked the BLT property, and would consider joining DVC if we lived closer to Disney (and had the cash on hand, of course). But the next time we consider going to Disney, I will definitely look at staying at a DVC villa, if possible. (Perhaps by renting out some of your points?)

Housekeeping was excellent, and the few problems we had with our room were resolved promptly. One minor complaint: the sinks are a good height for adults, but too tall for our kids. There was a high-chair and pack-and-play waiting in our room. Why couldn't there be a small stepstool as well? The Front Desk could not locate a stepstool for us, so we had to put the high kitchen counter chairs in the bathrooms for our kids to use. Disney is usually good with these details, I'm surprised they didn't think of this. This is a minor complaint, though, it didn't matter all that much and everything else about the room met our expectations!

 

[torsie24]

Hi all.

I am going ot be booking an MK studio soon.

I've seen the amazing view from 8018 - are the xx28 views as good? Or should I note a preference between 18 and 28? I was just planning on asking for as high a floor as possible.

 

[work2play]

Hi all.

I am going ot be booking an MK studio soon.

I've seen the amazing view from 8018 - are the xx28 views as good? Or should I note a preference between 18 and 28? I was just planning on asking for as high a floor as possible.

Probably a good choice, the broader the request, the more likely the chance they can fill it.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Hi all.

I am going ot be booking an MK studio soon.

I've seen the amazing view from 8018 - are the xx28 views as good? Or should I note a preference between 18 and 28? I was just planning on asking for as high a floor as possible.

I was recently in an xx28 studio (7428 to be exact so I was also on a lower floor - 4th) and would recommend requesting an 18. My direct view was of the CR. Nice, but not exactly MK IMO.

This is the straight-on view and what you could see from inside the room except if you were standing immediately by the window on the left side. Then you could see the castle.

Here's the view from the balcony looking towards the right:

And the view looking towards the left from the balcony:

My request had been for floor 8 or higher.

 

[WDWFERN]

I am hoping to stay in a BLT GV in 2011 as part of an 11 person family grand gathering. Since we are going to have to bank and borrow points for this trip, I know I am probably overthinking the whole thing, but want it to be special! Anyhow, as there is a substancial difference in points between the 2 views, we would have enough points for 5 nights in MK GV or 6 nights in LV GV. I was set on the MK view, but now I am wondering if we should do the LV instead as the views from rooms XX26 and XX30 really don't directly overlook the MK anyhow (although I do still think the view of GF, contemp/monorail, and Seven Seas Lagoon is neat too). Any thoughts? Thanks!