Hey everyone, thanks for all the great cbr info!!!
We are booking cbr for feb 8-13th and I wanted to know if anyone could recommend the best way to guarantee martinique 1st floor. I am in my 1st trimester and am exhasted as it is. I know I will not want to do the far hikes to the other bldgs and the stairs lugging all our crap.
Also, are the corner rooms better?
TIA
I know this is a late reply but....we stayed in CBR last month (early December '08). We reserved a standard room. At the time of the reservation, I requested Martinique. I had to call the day before our planned trip to change the resevation due to a death in the family. We pushed the trip back by 4 days. At that time we again requested Martinique. We requested Martinique again upon check in. We ended up with Martinique Building 25, 1st floor corner room! We absolutely loved it! This room could not have been more perfect. I am a little confused about what is standard and what is preferred. We paid for a standard, but this room should be preferred. As for getting in Martinique, I am not sure if it was the fact that I mentioned Martinique three times (maybe just one of those was the right time to ask), or if CBR was trying to give us a little bit of magic in light of our loss, or if we just got a wonderful room by the luck of the draw. Whatever it was the room was just right and we will be crossing our fingers to get that very room again in June!
Here are some pics of the room and you can decide if a first floor corner room is any better.
Now, that is a water view!
This shot is blurry, but it was taken from our doorway and you can see how close we are to the beach/water.
This shot was taken just a few steps from our room. In this shot, you can see the water, a little of the beach, and YES that is Old Port Royal (where the pool and food court are located). FYI we often used the bus stop just outside of Old Port Royal and found that it was just as close as the Martinique stop.
That is our room just over my son's shoulder!!
These next two shots represent ds's favorite thing about our room (the beach!) (the sun was setting, and that last pic does not do the scene justice!)
Have a great trip in February. I know that no matter what room you end up in, you are just going to love CBR!
In my opinion, too many people fuss over the size and subsequent walking distance at CBR. Even the CM's kept reminding us of the internal bus system. Despite the wonderful location of our room, we did visit other areas of the resort and found that the walking was wonderful. In fact, what one CM told us would take 15 mins by foot, only took 5 minutes walking at a steady pace. I really think you will do just fine there.
. So, I'll try one more time:
