Reserved two rooms for 6 at the CBR Thanksgiving week.
Requested connecting rooms, 1st floor, and building location near the Dining. How did I do? Is it likely I will get these requests? Did I miss anything?
Reading over this thread it looks like there is an upcharge for preferred locations... Trying to keep close to the dining, transportation, and main pool to keep the walking to bare minimum. When we stayed at CSR, it was a very long walk to the main pool and dining and the golf carts were always full to get a taxi ride.
Can someone also describe the pool depth? Is this good for adults with deep areas? The pool looks a little small from the pics and it looks like it tailors to young children.
Is this also a good resort for my older teens?
How is the resort Dining choices for breakfast?
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There is an upcharge for preferred that is WELL worth it. You may luck out and get it anyhow but I don't know if they are filled capactiy around when you will be there but I think if you are concerned with location it is worth the money to upgrade... we were there for a week and it cost us about $130 to upgrade to preferred and it was worth every penny. Because what it comes down to is that requests are just requests... you could show up and get all 3 or show up and get none. And if you do decided to upgrade I recommend changing your request to preferred Martinique-- it was so close to everything! Old Port Royale (where the food and pool are) was so close to us in building 26 that we used their bus stop instead of the Martinique one. Also, there is transportation from every village, like I just sort of mentioned. You had separate bus stops.
As far as the pool- It was designed for all ages... a few pages back I posted pictures and the main part that has the slide and the bridge separates a smaller wading type kiddie pool from the main pool. There is also another wading type pool set off to the side. The majority of that main pool seems to cater to older crowds to me. I don't know exact depths but it was around 4 ft by the waterfall, and as you walked to the opposite edge got to around 6 ft or so (all I know is my boyfriend at 6 ft could no longer touch the bottom) before come back to 4 ft again. We are 22 and 24 and loved it.
I guess that sort of answers your question about the older teens since we are not far from teens ourselves and my boyfriend and I LOVED it. Your family may want to try the Sea Raycers... you get a voucher for 30 free minutes when you buy 60 and we only went out for about a half hour and it cost us roughly $25 so for $50 and 90 minutes that you could split between a few boats it may be a fun thing for everyone on an afternoon at the resort.
The only difference in breakfast choices that we saw that were different from our stay at All Star Movies was omlets. There were the Mickey waffles, the Adult breakfast platter and variations of it (eggs, french toast, bacon, sausage, biscuit) and then all these different kind of omlets... plus like bagels, muffins, and fruit and such. We really disliked the lunch we had at CBR but ate breakfast there every single morning.
In any case, hope that helps!
I'm pretty sure I've seen it posted that there is a bus that runs around CBR. Can anyone tell me about how often that bus runs? I just need to know if they run fairly regularly, or is it just a couple of times a day.
Also is it alright to get on the bus if you're still damp from swimming?
And can I take food, (like ice cream) onto the bus to take back to my room?
There is an internal shuttle. However, we never used it until our last day. I don't know what the rules are but there were people with food and people with bathing suits on it when we rode. We had to get from OPR to Barbados and it was the longest we waited for any bus the whole week. We were both happy to have not had to use this service but again, we only used it once so it could be a fluke.
Wish I could be more helpful!
She recommended I check back occassionally to see if there were any cancellations. Is this likely to happen?
