We got back from WDW this week. We stayed Aug 21st to the 28th and then followed that up by transferring to Animal Kingdom Lodge for 2 nights. We really enjoyed the Coronado. We checked in Sunday afternoon about 4 pm and were helped immediately. We did not do online checkin. We were given Ranchos 6B. I told the cast member that I really didn't want to be that far away as my husband has some problems with walking a lot so she checked and gave us a room in 8B. My family started to put luggage on the luggage cart as we had groceries and many suitcases but someone from Bell services explained that they had to take the luggage to the room as someone had hurt themselves using the cart by themselves. That was fine with us!
A few minutes later they were ready to take us to our room in a cart. When we arrived, my husband opened the door of the room that faced the parking lot and found out that there was someone in the room! The TV was on and clothes were scattered all around but the occupants weren't there at the time. So, the good thing is that since we had the CM there, he radioed for another room and promptly got us one another room in 8B but this one was facing the greenery on the front side of the buildings that faced the lake. A much better view! The CM told us that they had switched the room reservations system from an outside company that was working well to now being done by Disney but this new system seems to have kinks in it. He said it was called Lilo but he was sure that Stitch was in there somewhere causing trouble!
We enjoyed the pool movies but got rained out one night. My teen boys liked the slide and the fact that the pool was so big that it didn't feel crowded with kids. The kids liked the Pepper Market although I ended up getting the fruit plate or salads after awhile as I don't like to have a lot of food with added oil as happens with foods cooked on the grill.
One interesting thing was that at breakfast, we got 2 drinks. Both times our server told us that as well as the cashier but I was sure that it was supposed to be one drink now with the dining plan. We brought the reusable mugs one day and even got a third drink ( a bottle of water) by using the mug. They never filled up our mugs, just brought us drinks in glasses and we always got the bottle of water also with the mugs so that was kind of silly but nice not to have to wash the mugs.
I asked the person who seated you one day if the oatmeal which was 3.99 was a snack credit. He told me no as it was over $4.00 with tax. Then I decided to ask the cashier and she said it was a snack credit so I bought it several times and it was always a snack credit. It is served behind the counter by one of the cooks but they have brown sugar, cinnamon and golden raisins out that you can put in it.
For getting coffee at Cafe Rix, it is never busy much at 7 am but 8 to 8:30 am when I went, it was always a much busier time. The Pepper Market opens at 7 am and it wasn't busy at all the first hour it was open.
We did like the fact that the rooms had a clothesline built into the shower that you could pull out and put your swimsuits on. Also, we did laundry several times and it was never crowded and the change machine took $5 and $1 bills and it always worked so it worked well for us. The laundry was open 24 hours and has a place to put your card key so it was great that I could get up early and do the laundry.
My husband rented a
scooter offsite from Apple Scooters. We called Bell services when we got to our room and they said it wasn't there. I had to go back to talk to the concierge who found the scooter in one of the storage rooms. We had requested Casitas 4 or 5 but didn't get them as we wanted the first bus stop. When we went to leave for the parks at 8:15 or 8:30 am, we did have problems the day that we went to Magic Kingdom as it took my husband 5 buses to finally get on but he was only about 1/2 hour behind us as we had got on the bus thinking he would get on. After that, for the 8 to 8:30 times when we left, we walked over to the bus stop at the Ranchos as it got us on sooner than the Cabanas bus stop and we were able to sit instead of stand a couple of times and my husband was able to get on with his scooter. When we went somewhere in the middle of the day or later in the day, it wasn't a problem to get on the bus stop by the Cabanas with my husbands scooter.
Anyway, we enjoyed our stay a lot so if you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Katmark, thanks for helping with this thread. I learned a lot from it!
If I do a TR I will definitely let you know. It is a couples trip. Me and TC are going with my best friend and her fiance. We are celebrating her birthday (get there the day after) Our 15 years and their 10 years....
. Yeah I plan to drag everyone on a resort tour on our off day just to see it. Thanks for the reminder/info about the Pop thread! 
We have only done the 
That is the only section I really don't like. We're hoping for the Cabanas too.
Question for you--I see the room number you had clearly and wonder if the numbering system at CSR is the same Pop, where the first digit is the building number, the second digit is the floor you're on, and the third and fourth represent the room number. Is that true?
