Waterview rooms are available in every village so personally I would request an area that you like. If Martinique was your favorite, go for it unless you want to experience a different village.
It is so disappointing to hear all these comments about rooms in 25 and 26 having bad odors. We are arriving in 32 daysand I am very much hoping to get one of the waterview rooms in those buildings. JungleCruiseFan I look forward to hearing how tolerable the smell is since you decided to keep the room. Wondering if I should pack wall plug ins to help with the smell. We will be staying for 12 days and I think a good room is important - however I am not going to let it ruin my trip
We have our first stay at CBR coming up in less than 60 days.
Like so many before me, I want to request Jamaica 45 (or 46 or 44- we are not THAT picky).
What is the very best thing for me to do to request one of these particular buildings?
Complete online checkin (I know this is not a request on the checklist, so not sure what to check on the room request list)?
Call? Fax? (Does ANYONE fax anymore?) All of thee above?
I hope you have a wonderful trip!
Wow! Thank you so much! That is awesome information. When would be the best time to put in my request? Should I do it sooner than later? Wait for when it's close to my trip? Thanks again!To get you closest to the main pool a preferred room would guarantee you to be closest- it would put you in Trinidad North or Martinique buildings 24, 25 or 26. You could also book water view and request Martinique or Trinidad North since they have waterview rooms in both of those villages. If you want to remain in a standard room, you can request Martinique building 22 or 23 which are the next closest buildings or Jamaica 45 or Aruba 51 which are just across the lake. They have a kids play area on the island that the kids may like to stop at on your way over to the main pool. Building 45 in Jamaica or Aruba 51 are the closest to the bridge to the island and the walking distance is about the same as if you were walking from building 22 in Martinique. Here is the map of the resort that may help give you a visual.
You will know when you enter the room. For us it was overpowering. We loved the location so much that we tried to stay-attempted to take a nap and wait for luggage since we'd been up since 3am traveling and it was just too strong an odor. I smelled the AC unit, rug, bedding, drapes.....and couldn't find where it was coming from. Sinuses filled up and we knew we couldn't stay. If it's just mild, and/or comes and goes then you'd probably be ok to stay. Like I said, it was very obvious for us and strong-in hindsight we should have switched rooms immediately but that's so hard to admit when you are overtired and not thinking clearly, and the location and view are just perfect. I'm sure it's not every room or no one would stay there so here's to hoping you get a great room with no odor! We loved our reassigned Jamaica 45 water view room(view wasn't great but location was just as nice)It is so disappointing to hear all these comments about rooms in 25 and 26 having bad odors. We are arriving in 32 days
It's crazy that they are aware of this problem and can not seem to fix it
Truly there is no better time to add your requests just as long as they are in place a couple weeks-10 days prior to your check in. They assign rooms about 4-5 days prior to your check in so you want to make sure your request are in olace prior to that. Personally I would call and add them now, just one last thing to worry about. And always remember, requests are only requests and never guaranteed. We have had some trips with great luck in the past and other times we got something totally opposite of what we requested but ended up loving the location! We also have requested and got exactly what we wanted and disliked it. lol For us, Once we get there, the room is only to sleep. We are rarely in the room.
