Club level access

[MarinaD]

Is it usually a room (requiring your key to enter) or is it an open area where the key is presented to ensure that you are CLUB level guest?

I'm looking to either BWI Club or Beach Club? Any preferences?

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

At the BWI you insert your KTTW card in the Innkeeper's Club door on the 4th floor and it takeas you into Club Level section of the hallway.

 

[bowbat]

Is it usually a room (requiring your key to enter) or is it an open area where the key is presented to ensure that you are CLUB level guest?

I'm looking to either BWI Club or Beach Club? Any preferences?

I haven't stayed at BC, but I can tell you that CL at BWI is part of the 4th floor. There is a key-card access door at one of the hallways & beyond it are (most of) the CL rooms as well as the lounge. A CM sits at a desk outside of the door, so it's sort of double controlled access.

BWI CL is wonderful; I can't recommend it highly enough.

 

[vicki_c]

At Beach Club, it is an entire floor (plus some rooms on other floors), but you can't access the 5th floor where the lounge & staff are without using your properly coded KTTW card in the elevator.

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

I haven't stayed at BC, but I can tell you that CL at BWI is part of the 4th floor. There is a key-card access door at one of the hallways & beyond it are (most of) the CL rooms as well as the lounge. A CM sits at a desk outside of the door, so it's sort of double controlled access.

BWI CL is wonderful; I can't recommend it highly enough.

Plus the Cast Members who sit at that desk can also open that door for you by pressing a button they have. So basically when they start to remember you and etc they can already have the door open once you reach their desk, before you have a chance to open it yourself with the Key To The World cards.

 

[TheRustyScupper]

1) As with better hotels' Concierge Floor, the WDW Club Floors
. . . require access through a coded room key
. . . one inserts the key into the special key slot
2) The coded room key keeps non-Club-Floor guests out.
3) By looking at the key, one cannot know it is Club Floor. *
4) It must b e inserted into the key slot.

* Sometimes Club Floor guests get a yellow/gold room key. But,
these are also given out to VIP's. (There are three VIP levels, from
regular folks to true VIP's.) They are also used for normal guests
when the blue keys run short. So, even these are not a way to assure
Club Floor privileges.

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

* Sometimes Club Floor guests get a yellow/gold room key. But,
these are also given out to VIP's. (There are three VIP levels, from
regular folks to true VIP's.) They are also used for normal guests
when the blue keys run short. So, even these are not a way to assure
Club Floor privileges.

Everytime I have stayed Club Level I was always given the gold KTTW card, so I would say it's a guarantee that those guests always get that one.

 

[WDWKOOK]

Everytime I have stayed Club Level I was always given the gold KTTW card, so I would say it's a guarantee that those guests always get that one.

Once when we had a card remade, it wasn't yellow. DD lost her CL KTTW card while horseback riding. The CM at the WL front desk (not the CL desk) made a new card for her, but it wasn't yellow, it was blue. DD was disappointed because she really liked her old yellow card and I asked if one was available. The CM remade the card for her using a yellow card blank.

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

Once when we had a card remade, it wasn't yellow. DD lost her CL KTTW card while horseback riding. The CM at the WL front desk (not the CL desk) made a new card for her, but it wasn't yellow, it was blue. DD was disappointed because she really liked her old yellow card and I asked if one was available. The CM remade the card for her using a yellow card blank.

If we ever needed to get one of our KTTW cards replaced we always do it inside the Club Level lounge, because at least over there they only have the yellow/gold cards.

For example in August 2010 when we stayed Club Level at the Contemporary before going up to the 12th floor Janet who was the Cast Member that took us up there went to the online check-in desk that had Blue KTTW cards. The funny thing is we didn't do online check-in so not sure how those got over there. Anyway once we got up there we asked if we could switch them to the yellow/gold cards and that was not a problem.