Concierge? What's the Draw?

[Olaf]

I don't understand why everyone is so giddy about staying in a Concierge level room. What's the draw? I can stock a 1 brm kitchen for a lot less money than they spend on those rooms.

 

[Firefighter Mickey]

When some people go on vacation, they like to go "whole hog" (so to speak) and prefer to have a lot of things taken care of for them. This is even the case with some DVC members who may never use the stove decoration during the entire time they stay in a room with one.

 

[Bennet]

stove decoration

LOL I wondered why it seemed unused. It's just part of the theme.

 

[Regina]

While I wouldn't use my points for a Concierge room, I can see why people like being pampered on their vacation.

To each his own.

 

[Olaf]

I understand all that, it's just that I almost choke everytime I see someone post about "saving money" by taking advantage of the "free" food. What I mean is that you can stay in a 1bdrm DVC room for about the same as a standard Concierge Room. I guess it's all priorities. The 1 Bdrm wins hands down in my book.

 

[Synonymous]

I never considered staying at a Concierge room until our recent stay at the Charleston Place, through the CC. We got upgraded to concierge level (it's even better when you don't pay for it!) It really was a treat. We felt like special guests of the hotel the whole time. Free drinks right outside our door all day, food whenever we wanted it. Staff knew our names.

I'm not sure if we'd pay the extra points for it or not, but we will sure be tempted.

 

[DVCDAD]

My family was talking about this recently. Can anyone tell us exactly what you do get at concierge level rooms in the Disney Collection? Thanks

 

[Rock'n Robin]

I can only speak for Poly concierge. We booked a quick 3 night trip in December and my 2002 points are already booked for our July stay, so we got a good AP rate for garden view concierge. Our first stay was the Poly and it is DH's favorite.
We paid $50 a night more for a concierge room over a regular GV. For this we got the refrigerator for free instead of $10, plus we ate one dinner and 2 breakfasts there. Our one breakfast out was $60 (Chef Mickey's), so for a family of 5 that probably saved us some money. We also got at least 15 bottles of water to take to the parks that would have cost us $2.50 each, and DH got about 5 cans of soda. One day we picked up a bunch of uncrustable sandwiches (about 6) to put in the fridge for snacks, so we never had to run to Capt. Cooks for food.
I know the food isn't "free", but when you break the cost down it's cheaper than staying in a regular room and having to eat breakfast out.
If the points had been available, of course we would have stayed in a villa and eaten breakfast there like we did last summer. But if the points are not available, the concierge is a nice way to go. I would not use the points for it, though, they are way too high.
Robin M.
Poly 6/2000 (bought DVC one month later)
BWV 6/2001
Poly 12/2001
BWV/VWL 7/7-7/16 2002

 

[Toxicesq]

After staying on the GF concierge floor one time several years ago, my (then) pre-teen DD said she never wanted to stay anywhere else. Luckily, we bought into DVC and the comforts of the 1 BR overcame her disappointment over no longer getting strawberrries decorated with little tuxedos at tea time. (They really were adorable--little chocolate bowties and buttons on chocolate dipped berries.)

Much as I like BWV, there is something nice, for a change, about NOT having to go shopping for breakfast food, and being able to partake, with no effort on your part, in the concierge floor breakfasts and snacks throughout the day. I was happy to see that DVC members could now reserve concierge floors at the WDW resorts on points, and, since I had a bunch of banked points that needed to be used up this use year, I've split my next visit between a 1 BR at BWV and the Poly Concierge. I only hope the strawberries are still wearing bowties.