It's so funny to hear that it's chilly and rainy somewhere! We've been dealing with a heat index of 106 for two weeks or longer. I honestly like hot weather, but this is even a little too hot for me!Yes! It's been such a cruddy summer here - chilly and rainy. I need to promise myself I won't complain about the heat and humidity in Florida
Wow! Your weather is normally about what ours is (temperature wise) but that's insane! I've never seen the heat index that high for Orlando (even in August it was around 105...when we were there). BTW, my DH stayed at CSR for a convention and did the business class CL. He said it was pretty good. I personally would love to see pictures
It has been cool here this summer too. Not even hot enough to swim. And constantly rainy and gloomy. I'm ready for some blistering heat!!!It's so funny to hear that it's chilly and rainy somewhere! We've been dealing with a heat index of 106 for two weeks or longer. I honestly like hot weather, but this is even a little too hot for me!
Wow! Your weather is normally about what ours is (temperature wise) but that's insane! I've never seen the heat index that high for Orlando (even in August it was around 105...when we were there). BTW, my DH stayed at CSR for a convention and did the business class CL. He said it was pretty good. I personally would love to see pictures
Heck, I can't wait to get to Florida for some "cooler" weather. I kid, but it's been a very hot summer here in Vegas.It has been cool here this summer too. Not even hot enough to swim. And constantly rainy and gloomy. I'm ready for some blistering heat!!!
It's so funny to hear that it's chilly and rainy somewhere! We've been dealing with a heat index of 106 for two weeks or longer. I honestly like hot weather, but this is even a little too hot for me!
Wow! Your weather is normally about what ours is (temperature wise) but that's insane! I've never seen the heat index that high for Orlando (even in August it was around 105...when we were there). BTW, my DH stayed at CSR for a convention and did the business class CL. He said it was pretty good. I personally would love to see pictures
), but I've gotten spoiled over the last few years and don't want to give up CL!! Plus, other than the fireworks from our balcony, the Bay lake View actually looks prettier to me. I think that the park and fireworks view might trump it, but at least it's not like it's either a TPV or garbage dump view or something like that! I did read that the odd numbered rooms on the Bay lake side have a bed that faces the WL. Is there any benefit to facing one direction over the other? I get it that the TPV side you can see the fireworks while sitting on the bed, but from the other side does it really make any difference? I'm not sure if I should make any requests,any thoughts? So far all I've gathered is Chef Mickey's can be loud, you can see Space Mt when you exit your room from the side toward the MK (which is the opposite side of CM, right?), and the whole even vs odd room thing. 
Ill trade ya! Send me a pm with any Dland recommendations and ask away about GF CL. I have stayed in both RPC and SL and going to SL in a few weeks!!
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. The GF is an amazing resort, you're going to love it! 
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For those of you dealing with heat indexes over 100, please stay hydrated and take care of yourselves!
It's been a few years for us at AKL CL, but we have stayed there several times and we really, really love it there. Enjoy it while you can all fit into the room. Honestly, the lounge is one of my favorites at WDW. Also, we did something similar, with WDW/DCL/WDW and it was fantastic. The cruise was nice and relaxing, and people looked so sad the morning it was over, but we were still in our happy place, on the way back to WDW.
We go to both WDW and DL, so I can try to answer any questions you might have. Off the top of my head... you aren't really planning early for WDW (I know it's early for DL, but at WDW you can make dining plans 180 days in advance and people actually do that! Our DL trips have me finalizing dining a week out with no problems, but it's not like that at WDW). Also, it's huge and very spread out, so you need to figure on spending quite a bit of time getting from place to place, unlike DL. My advice is to get a good guide book (like unofficial guide) that helps you learn about the attractions and figure out which ones you really want to do (4 full days isn't enough to do everything, so you'll have to choose carefully). That will help you figure out how much time you want to spend at each park. Then you can plan your days and your dining. DTD is far from everything (unlike at DL) so on short trips we tend to skip it. Also, we tour a bit differently than WDW regulars, in that we spend less time at the MK since there is no Epcot or Animal Kingdom in California. Please feel free to message me with any questions you might have. Oh, and CL at the GF is wonderful (and the GF is wonderful in general), and April is great weather-wise. Hope this helps!
Hi everyone. I've been following for a few years now, and i think I may have even posted a few times over the years, but not regularly. I love keeping up with what's going on, and when we have upcoming trips it's even better. I tend to get really excited and read the boards constantly when a trip is in the next month or so and drop off after we get home and hit that post Disney trip depression! Now I'm beyond excited, we have 2 trips coming up and are lucky enough to be CL for them. We'll be staying at the Poly GV CL August 16-23, and the CR Atrium Club Standard View Dec 23-29.
We've stayed at the Poly CL 3x before, GV twice and TPV once. One of our GV stays we got room 1515, which faces the lagoon (it was reclassified due to the construction fence at that time), and it ended up being great. I am kind of concerned about our view this trip, with all of the construction, but we got the "Magical Deal" and I can't come close to the rate even with our AP discount, and I really don't want to give up CL, so we'll just deal with it. Does anyone have any thoughts or opinions about what might be better during construction - third floor with a balcony that I assume will overlook the construction and give you a vista of what used to be beautiful and quiet but will now be a mess, or first floor with what will I assume be a view to fences. Or any thoughts over whether the end of the building near the lounge or away from the lounge would be more shielded from the construction? I did contact IPO, and FWIW they told me the first floor rooms would remain in use and the doors would not be locked. But who knows, I have read differently elsewhere. I would not want a room with a locked patio door, I would prefer the second floor with no outdoor space to that. I've always thought I would have to not have a balcony or patio, but th construction is making me think I care less about that and more about having the most space between our room and the construction. Luckily my DH isn't worried about the construction, he says when we're GV we don't use the balcony much anyway and we can still see the fireworks and view from the lounge. I'm hoping for the best. The new kids water play area looks great for my DSs 2 and 5, a since it will be August I assume we'll get to use it a lot! The loved the play area at the GF last Sept, and I think this one looks even better.
I'm really excited about the CR over Christmas. I know it will be crazy, but we've never gone actually over the holidays and staying at the CR we can walk to the MK and at least avoid some of the lines and chaos to get there. We've also never stayed at the CR. Honestly, over the years it's never done anything for me other than looking cool with the monorail going through, but now that we have plans there I'm excited to get to know a new resort. I know the view and room will be nice, and my son loves the 4th floor with the monorail, arcade, and Chef Mickey's, so we had to try it and a busy time of year seemed to be a great time to give it a try. We debated between TPV non CL and standard view CL. The TPV was actually quite a bit cheaper (I should say less expensive, nothing about this trip will be cheap
Well, I just wanted to say Hi, share my excitement, and get some advice about room requests. I'll be following along, I finally read the entire CR thread and caught up here and on the Poly thread since I had let them go after our last trip to the WL Deluxe room in May.
For Poly CL GV I always request the 3rd floor. I find it quieter and I enjoy having a balcony. Atrium club at the CR is amazing!!!! One of the best WDW trips I had last year for sure. I don't even think you need to put in a request there unless you want to be closer to the lounge/elevators. But it's a short hallway anyway. All the rooms overlook the lake and pool area. So no dumpsters. 
We are all a little CL obsessed so you're in good company. You'd be surprised how fast next April will come around. You'll be booking dining reservations by October.
I've never stayed at CR CL because I'm not in love with the pool area, but I have recently become a bit curious. Since we've recently started to stray from our favorite, I'd like to know where the Atrium CL rooms are located. I know you said they have a view of the pool area, but are there some on the same end as Chef Mickey's? I just remember waking up bright and early to the napkin spin song years ago (before we even knew CL existed) and I would not want to be near the restaurant if we ever decide to book a stay there.Sounds like you've got some awesome trips planned!!
I can tell how excited you are! You're my kind of Disney fan!
We were in 1501! We were the first room as you entered the hall.
Tell us all about your trip!!!
