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Thank you so much!!! I am getting excited about this possibility!! We are looking at the Yacht Club!Hi Rachel,
Concierge will be able to help you with your ADR's 180 days before checkin. I don't believe they have access to anyplace that is already booked solid, but it can't hurt to ask.
You'll have access to the Club Lounge any time on your check in day. We've checked in quite early and when our room isn't ready, we've had immediate access to the lounge.
It has always been that you had access to the lounge until midnight on the day you checked out also, but I've been hearing lately that there have been problems with this now that the Magic Bands are being implemented. I believe it's a glitch tho. I'm sure someone will chime in here with better info on that one.
As soon as you're booked into a CL room, give thema call & see what they can help you with.
Have a wonderful stay - you'll love it!![]()
I'm sorry to say we had the same experiences when we last stayed Poly CL & have also decided to stay elsewhere. It's such a shame, because the first time was truly magical!
I'm so sorry you had to put up with such lackluster stay.
I don't think it's necessarily just the Poly, or any other specific resort that CL is lacking. I personally feel that CL has changed & I'm disappointed with the changes! This is just my opinion, so please, no flaming! We were so fortunate to receive an amazing upgrade @ BWI because they re categorized the room that we were initially staying in. Check in was great! We were fortunate to have our room ready on arrival @ approx 11am! Got our MB working & everything was smooth. The room was amazing! We had a 2bdrm suite & the extra room with 2 teens was awesome! I handled my ADR's. I had requested that they help me get into Chef Mickey's & Liberty Tree Tavern the night of our Halloween party. They requested that I call & give them a credit card for Chef Mickey's & I was able to obtain my own ADR for Chef Mickey's by checking online a few times. As for LTT, they just responded that it was booked & that was it. I had asked for assistance possibly booking those small boats, & I was interested in booking a scooter & some other things. E-mails had spotty responses (like they'd answer 2 of 4 questions) They gave me the names of there preferred scooter companies & never offered to book anything for me that I had requested. When we asked any of the CM's for help with ADR's, they referred us to MDE App on our phones. I don't know if the MDE App just was having some isolated issues or it just needs work, but half the time we were unable to book ADR's or change them-(the App said call WDW-Dine?) Yeah-super helpful! We haven't stayed @ WDW since 2008. We've always stayed CL. The experiences we had CL were completely different. They offered to make our ADR's, book other things we needed-we even had the BC CL change our flight & rent a car when my son got sick & couldn't fly home. The offerings were better. My DD has a Peanut/Tree Nut allergy. They were supposed to have something for her everyday. That didn't happen. At BC, they had something wrapped & put in our room for her every night. When we stayed previously @ Poly & BC, & GF there were many desks with CM's helping the CL guests. They were so helpful with any add'l planing we needed with ANYTHING. IMHO, I think that it's changed. It seems like ppl book it for the extra food offerings ? Maybe & the priorities of the entire CL is completely different. It's not that I didn't like BWI CL. We had an amazing stay. I'm just not sure that it fits our needs anymore unless we book a suite? The CM's @ BWI were so nice, & they did help us with things, but we were also directed to fix things ourself & for those of us that had stayed CL in the past, it's a totally different experience.
I don't think it's necessarily just the Poly, or any other specific resort that CL is lacking. I personally feel that CL has changed & I'm disappointed with the changes!
This is just my opinion, so please, no flaming!
We were so fortunate to receive an amazing upgrade @ BWI because they re categorized the room that we were initially staying in.
Check in was great! We were fortunate to have our room ready on arrival @ approx 11am!
Got our MB working & everything was smooth.
The room was amazing! We had a 2bdrm suite & the extra room with 2 teens was awesome!
I handled my ADR's. I had requested that they help me get into Chef Mickey's & Liberty Tree Tavern the night of our Halloween party. They requested that I call & give them a credit card for Chef Mickey's & I was able to obtain my own ADR for Chef Mickey's by checking online a few times. As for LTT, they just responded that it was booked & that was it.
I had asked for assistance possibly booking those small boats, & I was interested in booking a scooter & some other things. E-mails had spotty responses (like they'd answer 2 of 4 questions)
They gave me the names of there preferred scooter companies & never offered to book anything for me that I had requested.
When we asked any of the CM's for help with ADR's, they referred us to MDE App on our phones. I don't know if the MDE App just was having some isolated issues or it just needs work, but half the time we were unable to book ADR's or change them-(the App said call WDW-Dine?) Yeah-super helpful!
We haven't stayed @ WDW since 2008. We've always stayed CL. The experiences we had CL were completely different. They offered to make our ADR's, book other things we needed-we even had the BC CL change our flight & rent a car when my son got sick & couldn't fly home.
The offerings were better.
My DD has a Peanut/Tree Nut allergy. They were supposed to have something for her everyday. That didn't happen.
At BC, they had something wrapped & put in our room for her every night.
When we stayed previously @ Poly & BC, & GF there were many desks with CM's helping the CL guests. They were so helpful with any add'l planing we needed with ANYTHING.
IMHO, I think that it's changed. It seems like ppl book it for the extra food offerings ? Maybe & the priorities of the entire CL is completely different.
It's not that I didn't like BWI CL. We had an amazing stay. I'm just not sure that it fits our needs anymore unless we book a suite?
The CM's @ BWI were so nice, & they did help us with things, but we were also directed to fix things ourself & for those of us that had stayed CL in the past, it's a totally different experience.
well I'm glad I came to read about CL. I was thinking about upgrading us to CL at the Poly but not after reading this. thanks guys!.
what about the beach club CL though? We have a one nighter there and I could upgrade it to CL, worth it or not?
While I do think cl has changed over the years we will still book it as long as we enjoy our trips. We do! Especially the poly cl. Please don't read my comment to mean more than that. Cl has always has been an overall good experience for us. The fact that it used to be better or different in some ways does not mean we don't think it's worth it. Just didn't want to leave the wrong impression. If you'd never been before I don't know if you would notice. Sent from my iPhone using DISBoards
Just returned from YC CL. Left feeling "meh." Our last 4 trips were CL at either GF or CR and we have always left thrilled. I am really curious to know if this is a CL issue or a YC CL issue. Thoughts?
Are we expecting too much to have a bit of variety in the appetizers like we have always had before or at least some helpful people at the CM CL? Does the YC CL offer similar variations to the CR or GF or have all clubs gone standard?
We have always been extremely pleased with our CL experience. This is the first one that left us with buyer's remorse.
Thanks for your help.
I loved your beach club concierge thread ... I am wondering which is better, the CL at Beach Club or the CL at Yacht Club.....?
A little disappointed in Yacht Club IPO, they could not get BOG on the day and time we wanted. I kept trying a got it on my own tonight. I sent my requests to them two weeks before the 180 month. So anyone really wanting it may want to consider trying on their own.