Thanks for posting recent information.
Kathy
As usual, a handful of clueless types are here at Sugar Loaf at the GF. Imagine walking barefoot in an area where food is served? And thanks to those who come in from the pool and sit down in the dining area. Ah, those wet seats! Motel 6 might be a better fit for these folks.
All the best.
The beat goes on. Although you can't enter a 7-11 or any other convenience store unless you pass the "no shirt, no shoes, no service" rule, you can at the Grand Floridian's Sugar Loaf club level building. We just got back from "Twilight Refreshers" where we noticed a bare-chested Neanderthal in his wet bathing siut. Now get this: he's looking over the beers and sees a Samuel Adams Summer Ale. And then he quips: "Ugh, Sam Adams Summer Ale; I'm going with an American brand!"
You can't make this stuff up.
All the best.
As usual, a handful of clueless types are here at Sugar Loaf at the GF. Imagine walking barefoot in an area where food is served? And thanks to those who come in from the pool and sit down in the dining area. Ah, those wet seats! Motel 6 might be a better fit for these folks.
All the best.
The beat goes on. Although you can't enter a 7-11 or any other convenience store unless you pass the "no shirt, no shoes, no service" rule, you can at the Grand Floridian's Sugar Loaf club level building. We just got back from "Twilight Refreshers" where we noticed a bare-chested Neanderthal in his wet bathing siut. Now get this: he's looking over the beers and sees a Samuel Adams Summer Ale. And then he quips: "Ugh, Sam Adams Summer Ale; I'm going with an American brand!"
You can't make this stuff up.
All the best.
I will say the AKL CL staff were vigilant about shoes in the lounge. And some guests were NASTY about it, too!
Love it! I saw some eye poppers myself last summer at RPC. My personal fav was the woman wearing her CL bathrobe to the lounge. With nothing on underneath.
Gotta love the "clueless" types!
So funny cause it's true!
I hope they have zebra domes and chocolate covered strawberries while we are there. Well, chocolate anything will be good!
There's really no reason to tell them, unless you need an updated itinerary ASAP. If you do, email them that you made some changes and they will then update your itinerary. Some IPOs will actually take a look and see that you've made some changes and update it before they email it to you (WL did this). Other IPOs will simply email your existing itinerary that might be out-of-date (Poly did this). If you don't need it now, it should be updated when you check-in.
In the past when speaking to a former Cast Member of the Atrium Club he told me that in the past guests have requested various Beers that were not available in the lounge, so if you find a specifc brand of Wine or Champagne I would not the IPO know about it and see what they can do.
That sounds really frustrating. Which IPO are you dealing with? Do you have an update for us on whether or not you got your ADRs?Is it typical for IPO to misplace and not know where all the information is that you send to them before the deadlines for dining!
Got an email today for each room saying they do not have any info from us BUT I sent it all when they sent the link to us. They blame it all on a Third Party company!!!
Disney IPO own up and take the blame and make it right please!
Is that not why we stay on the club floors so these things do not happen!!!
Help!!! Now I have to try and find all of the requests that we sent them and hope they can make it happen! Well there goes Cindy's and Chef Mickey's!!!
This is a good excuse to "try and make a meal off of club"!
Sorry disboard pals - but thanks for letting me blow off steam in a caring environment.
Disney I hope you are listening!
As usual, a handful of clueless types are here at Sugar Loaf at the GF. Imagine walking barefoot in an area where food is served? And thanks to those who come in from the pool and sit down in the dining area. Ah, those wet seats! Motel 6 might be a better fit for these folks.
All the best.
I notice from your signature that you've stayed MANY times at the GF, so I assume this isn't your first SL stay? Just curious if you've noticed an overall decrease in the decorum of the patrons or do you think it's an overall decrease in the lounge staff not enforcing the rules or a bit of both?The beat goes on. Although you can't enter a 7-11 or any other convenience store unless you pass the "no shirt, no shoes, no service" rule, you can at the Grand Floridian's Sugar Loaf club level building. We just got back from "Twilight Refreshers" where we noticed a bare-chested Neanderthal in his wet bathing siut. Now get this: he's looking over the beers and sees a Samuel Adams Summer Ale. And then he quips: "Ugh, Sam Adams Summer Ale; I'm going with an American brand!"
You can't make this stuff up.
All the best.
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I have been getting an updated itinerary from GF's IPO, and have actually been letting them makes the changes for me. I notice from your signature that you've stayed MANY times at the GF, so I assume this isn't your first SL stay? Just curious if you've noticed an overall decrease in the decorum of the patrons or do you think it's an overall decrease in the lounge staff not enforcing the rules or a bit of both?
For example, last August I stayed at the CR/CL and rules were not enforced in the 8 days we were there. But, at WL last Christmas, a teenager tried to enter the lounge in his stocking feet and was immediately told by a lounge CM that shoes were required and he couldn't enter without them. I thanked the CM for enforcing the rules that make CL more enjoyable for all of us and she said she never hesitates to remind guests of the rules so that everyone can have a better CL experience. As a result, I personally found the WL lounge far more pleasant, neat and orderly than I found the Atrium Club.
I suppose what I'm trying to say is that in my CL experiences, the guests are no different (good or bad) from lounge to lounge, but what doesn't remain a constant is the enforcement of existing rules. If lounge CMs choose for whatever reason to ignore the guests in bathing suits, robes, bare feet, unsupervised children using their fingers to serve themselves, etc... then perhaps we need to offer gentle reminders to the CMs of the "infractions" we witness. Maybe they think we don't notice these things or we don't care
As usual, a handful of clueless types are here at Sugar Loaf at the GF. Imagine walking barefoot in an area where food is served? And thanks to those who come in from the pool and sit down in the dining area. Ah, those wet seats! Motel 6 might be a better fit for these folks.
All the best.
Not sure why really.
We noticed this our last trip to GF SL. There were a LOT of crashers/friends of friends/etc from the pool almost everytime we were in the lounge. This of course made seating very difficult to obtain.
The CM's were aware but many voiced that they felt helpless.
We've stayed at every WDW Concierge level multiple times, but this really put a damper on the SL Experience.
Later in the trip DH asked a different CM if she would be able to help with our online check-in for our Vero Beach stay. She directed him to computers in the lobby.
Well I have an example of that happening and what the Cast Members did later on. In August 2009 while my family and I were in the Atrium Club lounge of the Contemporary these guests staying up there invited at least 20 of their family or friends, which made the lounge very crowded and it got very loud, plus some of those people had little kids running around which made for a dangerious enviornment. Had we not got a table before they arrived you can bet we would have complained, however we didn't say anything to the Cast Members at that time. Well a couple of hours later when we returned they had put two signs in the lounge, one in english and the other in spanish which said the Atrium Club lounge is reserved for guests staying up there and etc. Not once in my previous stays up there did they ever put out those signs. Anyway we then started talking to one of the Cast Members who knew us from our previous stays up there and knows we were regular repeat guests about what happened. Well he appologized and knew of the problem and I asked how come they those people weren't asked to leave? He told me the first time that happend the Cast Members are not allowed to say anything, however he said if they tried that a second time the people not staying up there would be asked to leave.
There is one girl who has been there a long time who has never been terribly helpful, so I tried to avoid her. 
