We are currently driving home so I have a few minutes to try to do my review. We really enjoyed our stay at CSR. The resort is beautiful. DH was disappointed by what he considered to be a lack of Christmas decor.
The computers were down when we got there so the line was huge but it came up not 10 minutes after we got in line. The people at the beginning of the line had been waiting almost 2 hours! My daughter and son were given balloons and stickers to help occupy them while we waited. We were assigned to Casitas 5124. We had not paid for a water view, but did have a lovely fountain view. Our little boy loved that fountain!
Mousekeeping was hit or miss. Never had any towel animals, which was fine. However on our next to the last day, the bagged up trash was left in the middle of the room, only two towels were left and the beds were rather haphazardly made, which was not okay.
We had to use urgent care while we were here, when my daughter had a fever of almost 103. We just used the facility printed on CSR's resort info. They were WONDERFUL. They send a van to pick us up and she was seen, given medicine and back to the resort in a little less than 3 hours. I would highly recommend them if anyone unfortunately needs those services.
We ate at Cafe Rix once and took our food out to the lake, which was nice. The food was okay, nothing spectacular but fine. We ate at Pepper Market very late the night we came back from urgent care. My chicken fajitas were wonderful, as good as our local Mexican restaurant, which is very good. We had a very sweet server, who could tell my daughter didn't feel well and she tried everything to make her smile.
The gift shop was nice. I did do some shopping there and they have a decent selection available.
We did take advantage of the luggage room because our room wasn't quite ready when we arrived. But we got a text not ten minutes after the luggage room took our luggage into storage. So we just called them and they had it at our room in about 10 minutes. We also used Garden Grocer while we were here and it was stored in the luggage room while we were in the park and they brought it right to us when we got back. Very friendly and helpful.
Bus service ROCKED! We never waited longer than 15-20 minutes for a bus and that was only once when we had just missed one. We always had boring drivers (have had very entertaining ones in the past).
I think that pretty much summed it all up for the resort. I would definitely come back here. We did book a bounceback for May, but not to CSR because we are going to be coming with some friends and staying in a 2 bedroom villa at Old Key West. I've never stayed in a deluxe before
MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone!!
We're still here at just a few doors down. So sorry to hear about your DD, praying she better now.
We got here the 18th and leave the 29th. Did you see our room window. We too were upgraded and I actually asked for the Ranchos. I too agree the Buses are super great except on Wed when trying to leave the MK...that was a nightmare. Had breakfast at PM, so now we've had breakfast, lunch and dinner there. Lunch is probably my choice of the three. Servers have been very nice and friendly. A few of the preparers we are little snooty our first night, but have since been very nice. Mousekeeping is great except for the 2 days our lady was off. We are daily tippers and have extras of everything...it's getting to be too much. Santa and Mickey were in the lobby last night. Wish I had my camera. DS8's favorite place is the pool here. It is AWESOME! Better go...
We stayed at CSR in February and loved it. We stayed in Cabanas 8B and it was the perfect location between the Dig Site and the parking lot/bus stop. Since we drive from CT, we almost always drive to the parks. We were concerned that being so close to the pool, it would be noisy in the evening. We couldn't hear anything. (We are early to bed, early to rise people). On our next trip, we thought we might try one of the Royal Guest rooms at POR but actually called back to switch to CSR. We have requested the same building so that we can take advantage of that awesome location again.
I may need to request it next time. I've been in Cabanas 9B twice, 9A twice, and 8A twice (as well as Casitas 1 and 2). All of the Cabanas are fairly close to the main pool, bus stop, and main building and I've never had a problem with pool noise in any of the rooms. In fact, Dec 2010 I had a wonderful corner room in Cabanas 9A. The side window overlooked the Cabana quiet pool and the front window overlooked the lake. It was a perfect location. I was literally maybe 10 steps from the quiet pool and halfway between bus stops 1 and 4. I never heard a sound. I too always go to bed early and am awake very early. Sorry to hear about the bad smell in your bathroom, but glad to hear they took care of you.
I too love the Cabanas and always request first floor somewhere in the Cabanas with a preference for Cabanas 8A. The only Cabanas building I've not been in is 8B.
We stayed at CSR in February and loved it. We stayed in Cabanas 8B and it was the perfect location between the Dig Site and the parking lot/bus stop. Since we drive from CT, we almost always drive to the parks. We were concerned that being so close to the pool, it would be noisy in the evening. We couldn't hear anything. (We are early to bed, early to rise people). My only complaint was that there was a strange odor in our bathroom. I couldn't quite pinpoint what it was, I just know I didn't like it. I called the main desk and they offered to switch our room but we liked the location so much we opted not to do that. We were getting ready to head out and they said they would clean the bathroom well that day. It didn't help. I called again and they apologized and said they would be by to "super clean" the room. I have never experienced anything but amazing service at Disney and was confident this would finally help. They ended up not coming. I called back and asked to speak to a supervisor. Within an hour, they came right in (we left again) and did a very thorough cleaning which included changing out the shower curtain and liner, bed spreads, etc. Problem solved. The smell was gone! On our next trip, we thought we might try one of the Royal Guest rooms at POR but actually called back to switch to CSR. We have requested the same building so that we can take advantage of that awesome location again.
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I am so jealous of your tickers! You are lucky to spend so much time in the world!
Get an AP. That little bugger just keeps getting out of it's box to book future trips. At least that's what I keep telling my family. Really without the AP discounts I get, I couldn't make as many trips as I do. (I used an AP discount for my upcoming Feb trip, but for the May, Sept, and Oct/Nov trips I booked bounceback deals when I was there earlier this month. I'm hoping an AP discount comes out for each of them that beats the bounceback though.) Plus I work in a very high stress job (only 11-7 RN on a psychiatric behavioral unit) and really, really need those trips away from reality to keep my own sanity.
