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

[molly1206]

Just booked a std view 1 bedroom at BLT!! Looking at the room number map it looks like the ground floor rooms on the outer part of the C, facing the contemporary tower and marina, are considered standard view. I'm wondering though because I read someone post on here that standard would be trees or parking lot . I requested a ground floor in hopes we would get one of those rooms(with the open lawn outside the door), but if those are lake view I better change my request!! Anyone know??? Thanks!!!!

 

[ppony]

Just booked a std view 1 bedroom at BLT!! Looking at the room number map it looks like the ground floor rooms on the outer part of the C, facing the contemporary tower and marina, are considered standard view. I'm wondering though because I read someone post on here that standard would be trees or parking lot . I requested a ground floor in hopes we would get one of those rooms(with the open lawn outside the door), but if those are lake view I better change my request!! Anyone know??? Thanks!!!!

Other than those diagrams on the first page of this thread whoich I've references so many more times than I can cout , google maps is your friend! http://g.co/maps/8d9bu Have a look for yourself! I LOVE looking at WDW from satellite view. Looks like ones closest to the lobby will have that kind of view of the parking lot and the further out you go, trees and the contemporary. There are what looks like, only 8 SV 1BRs on the inner circle and over twice that on the outer. You'll have a pretty good shot at the outer rooms.

 

[work2play]

Just booked a std view 1 bedroom at BLT!! Looking at the room number map it looks like the ground floor rooms on the outer part of the C, facing the contemporary tower and marina, are considered standard view. I'm wondering though because I read someone post on here that standard would be trees or parking lot . I requested a ground floor in hopes we would get one of those rooms(with the open lawn outside the door), but if those are lake view I better change my request!! Anyone know??? Thanks!!!!

As best I can tell there are 26 SV 1BR rooms, 8 inner 18 outter. There are only 3 rooms that meet your description 7134, 7136 and 7142.

Good luck

 

[work2play]

From the DVC Member email received today:

Disney Vacation Club® is pleased to announce that 2013 Vacation Point Charts are now available online to help spark your imagination as you dream up next year's vacations.

As you plan your travels, please note that Disney Vacation Club has adjusted the 2013 Vacation Point Charts for Bay Lake Tower at Disney's Contemporary Resort and Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa.

The adjustments to the Bay Lake Tower chart stem from a scheduled reassignment of 10 rooms from Theme Park View to Standard View effective Jan. 1, 2013. This shift is based on Member and Guest feedback, and is designed to better reflect the rooms' views.

I will update the first post later in the year, but I am sure that it is the rooms on the lower floors.... Not exactly sure which 10, there are 6 on the third floor, but not sure what other 4 rooms....

 

[mousefan1972]

From the DVC Member email received today:

Disney Vacation Club® is pleased to announce that 2013 Vacation Point Charts are now available online to help spark your imagination as you dream up next year's vacations.

As you plan your travels, please note that Disney Vacation Club has adjusted the 2013 Vacation Point Charts for Bay Lake Tower at Disney's Contemporary Resort and Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa.

The adjustments to the Bay Lake Tower chart stem from a scheduled reassignment of 10 rooms from Theme Park View to Standard View effective Jan. 1, 2013. This shift is based on Member and Guest feedback, and is designed to better reflect the rooms' views.

I will update the first post later in the year, but I am sure that it is the rooms on the lower floors.... Not exactly sure which 10, there are 6 on the third floor, but not sure what other 4 rooms....

Any ideas as to the room types? Was it 10 lock off 2 BRs that were reclassified? Or 5 1 BRs, 5 studios, etc....?

 

[wdrl]

The adjustments to the Bay Lake Tower chart stem from a scheduled reassignment of 10 rooms from Theme Park View to Standard View effective Jan. 1, 2013. This shift is based on Member and Guest feedback, and is designed to better reflect the rooms' views.[/I]

I will update the first post later in the year, but I am sure that it is the rooms on the lower floors.... Not exactly sure which 10, there are 6 on the third floor, but not sure what other 4 rooms....

I suspect DVC is talking about 10 "Vacation Homes" and not 10 rooms. Each lock-off two-bedroom is considered one Vacation Home. There are four Vacation Homes on BLT's 3rd floor and six Vacation Homes on the 4th floor that are currently classified as Theme Park Views. I think those will be the 10 Vacation Homes reclassified to Standard View.

Basically, in 2013 the Theme Park Views will begin on the 5th floor, while currently they start on the 3rd floor. We probably won't be able to confirm this change until guests start to check in to BLT in January 2013.

P.S. -- Thanks for maintaining this thread!!!

 

[DVCBrian]

I suspect DVC is talking about 10 "Vacation Homes" and not 10 rooms. Each lock-off two-bedroom is considered one Vacation Home. There are four Vacation Homes on BLT's 3rd floor and six Vacation Homes on the 4th floor that are currently classified as Theme Park Views. I think those will be the 10 Vacation Homes reclassified to Standard View.

You could be right. However, I have my own theory as to the "10 rooms" they plan to reassign:

3rd floor - all rooms reassigned as SV (7316, 7318, 7320, 7326, 7328, 7330)
4th floor - half of the rooms reassigned as SV (7426, 7428, 7430)
5th floor - one room reassigned as SV (7530)

I once had a chance to walk through 7530 (a 2BR dedicated) and the view was awful - with the added "bonus" of direct line of sight from the living room to every person walking across the skybridge from CR to BLT - no privacy at all. I'm convinced they get lots of complaints about 7530....

 

[ppony]

I suspect DVC is talking about 10 "Vacation Homes" and not 10 rooms. Each lock-off two-bedroom is considered one Vacation Home. There are four Vacation Homes on BLT's 3rd floor and six Vacation Homes on the 4th floor that are currently classified as Theme Park Views. I think those will be the 10 Vacation Homes reclassified to Standard View.

Basically, in 2013 the Theme Park Views will begin on the 5th floor, while currently they start on the 3rd floor. We probably won't be able to confirm this change until guests start to check in to BLT in January 2013.

P.S. -- Thanks for maintaining this thread!!!

I'm REALLY happy to hear this. There are some of those TP rooms that are just so NOT TP worthy. Gosh, I remember a thread getting really heated when people were saying they should reassign them and others saying it would never happen and those of us that wished they would were idiots. If you're spending premium points, you should be getting what you paid for. No matter how they do it, actually SEEING what the views are with eyeballs and making the assignment is what was needed over looking on a architectural diagram and doing it.

 

[work2play]

I suspect DVC is talking about 10 "Vacation Homes" and not 10 rooms. Each lock-off two-bedroom is considered one Vacation Home. There are four Vacation Homes on BLT's 3rd floor and six Vacation Homes on the 4th floor that are currently classified as Theme Park Views. I think those will be the 10 Vacation Homes reclassified to Standard View.

Basically, in 2013 the Theme Park Views will begin on the 5th floor, while currently they start on the 3rd floor. We probably won't be able to confirm this change until guests start to check in to BLT in January 2013.

P.S. -- Thanks for maintaining this thread!!!

You are very welcome! Thanks for all the information you provide as well, I could not have done it without you!

Your theory makes sense, looks like an easy way to come up with the 10 vacation homes. I also agree that I would be disappointed to get 7530, but I am safe since I would never pick MK view due to the view of the parking lot....

 

[ppony]

You are very welcome! Thanks for all the information you provide as well, I could not have done it without you!

Your theory makes sense, looks like an easy way to come up with the 10 vacation homes. I also agree that I would be disappointed to get 7530, but I am safe since I would never pick MK view due to the view of the parking lot....

I want to thank you as well Work2play for the work put in on this thread. I can't tell you how often I've come to it and referenced it!

 

[shalom]

I want to thank you as well Work2play for the work put in on this thread. I can't tell you how often I've come to it and referenced it!

Second this.

 

[DVCBrian]

You could be right. However, I have my own theory as to the "10 rooms" they plan to reassign:

3rd floor - all rooms reassigned as SV (7316, 7318, 7320, 7326, 7328, 7330)
4th floor - half of the rooms reassigned as SV (7426, 7428, 7430)
5th floor - one room reassigned as SV (7530)

I once had a chance to walk through 7530 (a 2BR dedicated) and the view was awful - with the added "bonus" of direct line of sight from the living room to every person walking across the skybridge from CR to BLT - no privacy at all. I'm convinced they get lots of complaints about 7530....

Based on hints and techniques described by others in this thread, I've attempted to calculate the total points per year for 2011, 2012 and 2013 (based on the above theory for 2013). In my calculation, I assumed for points purposes that BLT contains only 2BR and GV accommodations and used only 2BR DED/LO and GV counts to calculate the total points in the resort per year. In the above 10 rooms I've listed, 7318/7320 comprise a 2BR LO, and 7326/7328 and 7426/7428 also comprise 2BR LO units, so there are a total of 7 2BR units when you count each studio/1BR combination as a single 2BR LO.

2011 - 5,723,488 points
2012 - 5,736,129 points (366 days due to leap year)

For 2013, with the assumption that 10 "rooms" or 7 2BR rooms were reassigned from TP to SV category, the result is:

2013 - 5,717,291 points

If these assumptions and calculations are all correct (a great big IF!!!) there is a 6,197 point difference (or less than 0.11% difference) between 2011 and 2013 which out of a 5.7 million point total, is pretty darn close to "unchanged", the word Disney used to describe the net effect of the change across the total resort.

As another point of interest, if I adjust the 2012 calculation to assume that Feb 2012 has 28 days instead of 29 days, the total would have been 5,719,913 points - leap year added more than 16,000 points to the 2012 calendar. This is even closer to the 2013 calculation - again using the assumptions I've described.

The adjustments to the Bay Lake Tower chart stem from a scheduled reassignment of 10 rooms from Theme Park View to Standard View effective Jan. 1, 2013. This shift is based on Member and Guest feedback, and is designed to better reflect the rooms' views. At Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa, the Vacation Points required for Treehouse Villas are increasing based on high Member demand.

Increases and decreases within these two Resorts' charts keep the total number of Vacation Points for each Resort unchanged.

I too would like to thank work2play for all the work maintaining this thread. My family has depended on information learned in this thread to make the most of every visit to BLT - a building which we love and which prompted us to join DVC in the first place.

Finally, as to why I've gone to all this effort...... The other theories posted in this thread as to how DVC will reallocate BLT rooms from TP to SV are very credible and are likely to be accurate. I however remain struck by the particular case of room 7530 - this room simply must be reclassified as SV in my opinion. So, my approach to the question was to start with the assumption that 7530 was being reclassified, and then count from there to find the rest of the rooms.

 

[JWG]

I assumed when they said 10 rooms, they meant 10 2BRs and that the changes would impact 73xx and 74xx, rooms xx16 - xx30.

That is 10 2BRs, 6 dedicated and 4 lock-offs.

If they do something different, then they're not changing all the rooms on the 3rd and 4th floor which would seem odd. All of those rooms share the same view issues, below the tree and monorail line. Unless the curve of the monorail makes the rooms closer to the CR on the 4th floor enjoy a better view requiring no change.

 

[luckyman_apd]

I have a question. I've checked this thread several times, and looked at the building chart on the first page. Last February (early february) we stayed here on rented points (our intro to DVC and started our interest in purchasing). I know we paid for 231 points for a 5 night stay. That was Tuesday through Saturday Night. That is the point requirements for SV. Our room was located on the top floor of the building, a short walk to the TOWL. I know we were on the north side in the inner ring. We had a great view of the lake, and the water electric parade each night. So, looking at the building chart, it had to be room 8605. I swore it was more like 8609, but that can't be right looking at the chart as we had a dedicated 2br, not a lock off. I'm pretty sure we were not the last room on the end either.

Anyway, this is ABSOLUTELY a Lake View room, but I know we only used SV points. Is it possible they would put us in a LV with SV reservations? Now that we are waiting on ROFR for a BLT contract, just curious if this happens on occasion or if we were just extremely lucky. I can't see the lady we rented from using LV points and only charging us SV pricing. She did say when she booked our reservation, this was the LAST 2 br available as we actually had planned to go a week earlier but changed it to get all of our nights in the BLT. The other weeks we let her know we could travel she told us they had no availability for the Friday and Saturday nights, so we took this one. We also didn't check in still 11pm at night.

 

[DVCBrian]

I have a question. I've checked this thread several times, and looked at the building chart on the first page. Last February (early february) we stayed here on rented points (our intro to DVC and started our interest in purchasing). I know we paid for 231 points for a 5 night stay. That was Tuesday through Saturday Night. That is the point requirements for SV. Our room was located on the top floor of the building, a short walk to the TOWL. I know we were on the north side in the inner ring. We had a great view of the lake, and the water electric parade each night. So, looking at the building chart, it had to be room 8605. I swore it was more like 8609, but that can't be right looking at the chart as we had a dedicated 2br, not a lock off. I'm pretty sure we were not the last room on the end either.

Anyway, this is ABSOLUTELY a Lake View room, but I know we only used SV points. Is it possible they would put us in a LV with SV reservations? Now that we are waiting on ROFR for a BLT contract, just curious if this happens on occasion or if we were just extremely lucky. I can't see the lady we rented from using LV points and only charging us SV pricing. She did say when she booked our reservation, this was the LAST 2 br available as we actually had planned to go a week earlier but changed it to get all of our nights in the BLT. The other weeks we let her know we could travel she told us they had no availability for the Friday and Saturday nights, so we took this one. We also didn't check in still 11pm at night.

One possibility is that there was a problem with one of the SV 2BR rooms making it unavailable for occupancy on your check in day, and they put you into an available LV 2BR. Don't expect this to happen again - I suspect this is pretty unusual.

 

[DVCBrian]

I assumed when they said 10 rooms, they meant 10 2BRs and that the changes would impact 73xx and 74xx, rooms xx16 - xx30.

That is 10 2BRs, 6 dedicated and 4 lock-offs.

If they do something different, then they're not changing all the rooms on the 3rd and 4th floor which would seem odd. All of those rooms share the same view issues, below the tree and monorail line. Unless the curve of the monorail makes the rooms closer to the CR on the 4th floor enjoy a better view requiring no change.

My thought was that the monorail curve as the line runs towards MK would make the 4th floor rooms FURTHER from CR better than those close to CR. Probably what you meant anyway.....

 

[luckyman_apd]

One possibility is that there was a problem with one of the SV 2BR rooms making it unavailable for occupancy on your check in day, and they put you into an available LV 2BR. Don't expect this to happen again - I suspect this is pretty unusual.

I wouldn't ever "expect" this. Now that I am buying in and reading a lot daily, it made me think back to that trip. It was an awesome time, and I'm sure we got lucky with an "upgraded" room so to speak.

 

[Sandisw]

I assumed when they said 10 rooms, they meant 10 2BRs and that the changes would impact 73xx and 74xx, rooms xx16 - xx30.

That is 10 2BRs, 6 dedicated and 4 lock-offs.

If they do something different, then they're not changing all the rooms on the 3rd and 4th floor which would seem odd. All of those rooms share the same view issues, below the tree and monorail line. Unless the curve of the monorail makes the rooms closer to the CR on the 4th floor enjoy a better view requiring no change.

This is what I am speculating as well--that TPV will start at floor 5 and go from there. Much of the fuss has really been about being on lower floors and this would seem to correct that.

Of course, we will have to wait about a year to know for sure--unless someone gets Disney to release which 10 rooms they are talking about prior to that.

 

[JWG]

My thought was that the monorail curve as the line runs towards MK would make the 4th floor rooms FURTHER from CR better than those close to CR. Probably what you meant anyway.....

You are correct, I accidentally got that backwards. Assuming it is possible that the rooms furthest from CR maybe aren't impacted due to the curve of the monorail.

To get to 10 rooms, individual actual rooms, you'd have to leave some combination of 73/74 16-20 in the MK view category.

Either: 7416 and 7316, 7318 and 7320 or 7416-22

 

[Montana Minnies]

First time posting pictures. Our Jan.3-10 trip. BLT Grand Villa 8416