Disney's CONTEMPORARY RESORT Information & Questions

[DLgal]

Thinking about this resort for my next spring break trip, which is early enough to fall into "regular" instead of "spring" season. Rack rate for the garden wing is lower than the other two monorail resorts, but looks like the discounts have been lower, 15% compared to 25%. Curious what kinds of bargains you all have managed to snag.

Well, we used the military discount but stayed 5 nights in the garden wing first week of May this year for a grand total of $2100 (after taxes).

 

[Lily13]

Staying here for the very first time - 27 days to go. Cannot wait!!!

We will be there in 26! First time at Contemporary too

 

[Grace&Carolinesmom]

Any info on room refurbs? I read there was a construction permit issued and some were speculating it could be an extensive room refurb.

 

[princessebird]

We are at BLT right now, and a bevy of MK fireworks went off at 5:20am this morning. Is this a “thing”? It woke everyone in my room with a start, and none managed to go back to sleep.

ETA: Another bevy just went off at 6:10.

 

[3DisneyBuggs]

We will be staying in the garden buildings. I did request first floor but if we get higher floor are there stairs? I dont see any outside the buildings like at other resorts.

 

[wdhinn89]

We are at BLT right now, and a bevy of MK fireworks went off at 5:20am this morning. Is this a “thing”? It woke everyone in my room with a start, and none managed to go back to sleep.

ETA: Another bevy just went off at 6:10.

We just came home a week ago after a 5 night stay and never heard early morning fireworks. Maybe they had some kind of overnight event. I can't imagine there would be many at that time though.

 

[Staren]

This time of year my guess is that early morning fireworks might be related to a grad night event.

For the garden wing question, all deluxe resorts have inside hallways. That includes the CR garden wing. They aren’t motel style like the mods and values. The stairs will be inside.

 

[Deb & Bill]

We will be staying in the garden buildings. I did request first floor but if we get higher floor are there stairs? I dont see any outside the buildings like at other resorts.

We found the stairs opposite the elevator on the end closest to the main building.

 

[princessebird]

We are at BLT right now, and a bevy of MK fireworks went off at 5:20am this morning. Is this a “thing”? It woke everyone in my room with a start, and none managed to go back to sleep.

ETA: Another bevy just went off at 6:10.

Apparently, it was testing for the Villains after hours event. I kindly expressed my displeasure that we weren't at the very least notified that it was going to happen. They sprinkled a little pixie dust for compensation.

 

[rj9555]

Anyone have a link to the June activities calendar? All I see on this thread (and on Google) is the May calendar. Thanks.

 

[WillowRain]

Anyone have a link to the June activities calendar? All I see on this thread (and on Google) is the May calendar. Thanks.

SAME! Trying to plan some stuff around park days for the kiddos at BLT!

 

[saksn4]

We will soon be enjoying our stay at Contemporary! Does mousekeeping still leave small bottles of shampoo and conditioner or is it now mounted on wall? Just wondering so we know what to expect! Thanks!

 

[JoanneAZ]

We will soon be enjoying our stay at Contemporary! Does mousekeeping still leave small bottles of shampoo and conditioner or is it now mounted on wall? Just wondering so we know what to expect! Thanks!

When I was there in April it was still the little bottles of the H2O stuff.

 

[jemtx]

We will soon be enjoying our stay at Contemporary! Does mousekeeping still leave small bottles of shampoo and conditioner or is it now mounted on wall? Just wondering so we know what to expect! Thanks!

JUST got home & they still have little bottles of shampoo, lotion, conditioner, etc. They replenished them daily as well.

 

[Vern60]

Oh glad to hear it jemtx and JoanneAZ. I just booked three days in July with the 25% discount. I was really surprised to see that they were offering lake view tower rooms, not the garden wing, how awesome. You probably all know the saying, "ever since I was a little kid and saw the monorails running through ...." ha ha. So this will be our first split stay. We had earlier reservations for the Poly but canceled those for the 3 nights at Contemporary (first time ever), and then 4 nights at the Yacht club, (also water view). I just feel super lucky, just a month in advance, decent prices (well, you know what I mean for Disney), and it's for a Tower room, followed by a water view.... hyped I am

 

[jemtx]

Oh glad to hear it jemtx and JoanneAZ. I just booked three days in July with the 25% discount. I was really surprised to see that they were offering lake view tower rooms, not the garden wing, how awesome. You probably all know the saying, "ever since I was a little kid and saw the monorails running through ...." ha ha. So this will be our first split stay. We had earlier reservations for the Poly but canceled those for the 3 nights at Contemporary (first time ever), and then 4 nights at the Yacht club, (also water view). I just feel super lucky, just a month in advance, decent prices (well, you know what I mean for Disney), and it's for a Tower room, followed by a water view.... hyped I am

Just got back from almost the same split. Loved it. Tower room was great. Could see Epcot from balcony—walked out front door and had an amazing view of space mountain, castle and monorail. You’ll love it.
Have a wonderful trip.

 

[Vern60]

Awww thanks jemtx, glad to hear you had a great time! We are very excited, though I don't want to talk it up toooo much since you just got back

 

[jemtx]

Awww thanks jemtx, glad to hear you had a great time! We are very excited, though I don't want to talk it up toooo much since you just got back

We’re totally sad & miss it already, but I’m happy to answer any questions I can help you with.
As I mentioned we just returned from almost your same vacation. We did 3 nights at CR tower and 3 nights YC SV-CL. We ended up upgrading to club at the last minute with a good deal/rate I found.

 

[ksromack]

Oh glad to hear it jemtx and JoanneAZ. I just booked three days in July with the 25% discount. I was really surprised to see that they were offering lake view tower rooms, not the garden wing, how awesome. You probably all know the saying, "ever since I was a little kid and saw the monorails running through ...." ha ha. So this will be our first split stay. We had earlier reservations for the Poly but canceled those for the 3 nights at Contemporary (first time ever), and then 4 nights at the Yacht club, (also water view). I just feel super lucky, just a month in advance, decent prices (well, you know what I mean for Disney), and it's for a Tower room, followed by a water view.... hyped I am

Disney math surpasses all other math! We really enjoyed our 2 nights last December. We had a theme park view at the Contemporary and really enjoyed those nights. We also had 2 nights at the Poly and really enjoyed them too...I mean, what's not to enjoy at those monorail resorts? I've always wanted to stay at the Yacht or Beach Club. I think that and the All Stars, oh, and AoA are the only resorts we haven't stayed at. Enjoy your trip, you will

 

[Vern60]

We’re totally sad & miss it already, but I’m happy to answer any questions I can help you with.
As I mentioned we just returned from almost your same vacation. We did 3 nights at CR tower and 3 nights YC SV-CL. We ended up upgrading to club at the last minute with a good deal/rate I found.

Oh that is neat jemtx, very similar indeed! Well, there is always next time to look forward to, and the memories of course. I have heard a lot about split stays so it will be really exciting to give that a try, some people say it makes it feel like two separate vacations. And, I have never stayed at the Contemporary so I'm really excited about that as well. I was almost going to try and tell the kids we were only going for 3 days and then at the last minute surprise them, but I didn't have the secrecy in me and they already knew we had 8 day airline tickets