Disney's CONTEMPORARY RESORT Information & Questions

[DJJimmy9]

Any fellow DIS'era or DVC friends currently staying at BLT? We are checking out today and have some extra unopened supplies that we would like to give away...case of bottled water, some soda, milk, juice, cheese. If interested...message me. Must pick-up today before 10:30am.

 

[WDWKOOK]

Any fellow DIS'era or DVC friends currently staying at BLT? We are checking out today and have some extra unopened supplies that we would like to give away...case of bottled water, some soda, milk, juice, cheese. If interested...text me. 215-470-1894. Must pick-up today before 10:30am.

That's a really nice offer. @kmorlock posted your offer to the WL/VWL thread and I posted it to the GF/VGF and Poly threads. Safe travels home.

 

[Seltzer76]

Hi! I am thinking about staying at BLT next summer....curious how convenient the monorail is from there since it is a bit separated from the main hotel...is it much of a walk? Should I request a certain floor, etc? Thank you!

 

[porterbl1]

Looking forward to the cold part. May was a killer!

Ditto!

 

[DJJimmy9]

Hi! I am thinking about staying at BLT next summer....curious how convenient the monorail is from there since it is a bit separated from the main hotel...is it much of a walk? Should I request a certain floor, etc? Thank you!

It's a very easy walk to the monorail from BLT. No more than 5 minutes. The monorails have been a little unreliable lately, so the best part of BLT is the 10-minute walk to MK. Taking the monorail to MK would easily take double that since the MK is the 4th stop when leaving the contemporary. Taking the monorail back to BLT from MK is great since it is the first stop.

 

[hill6]

Looking forward to the cold part. May was a killer!

This past May was brutal. It has been hot in prior years but this May was the hottest.

 

[WDWKOOK]

Just in case my fellow contemporary and BLT fans don't know about this and want to be extra styling when they walk in the door...vans has a Disney shoe line ! To feed my shoe and Disney obsession I scored the Mickey, Minnie and pooh styles and believe there is also a Donald Duck. Some available on the vans website and zappos.

How fun! Thank you for posting. I also found them on the AAFES website, for those who have military shopping privileges. They are about $12-$15 less than retail.

29 is a popular number. We celebrate ours in two weeks and we head to WDW in four weeks.

How exciting! Congratulations!

Congrats to everyone celebrating 29th anniversaries! We recently celebrated #10, but not in Disney World. We did spend #9 at BLT last year, though. We were going to go this year for our 10th, but just couldn't wait another year!

Happy belated anniversary

Lots of 29s! We'll be celebrating #11 on Halloween in MK this year! Hoping we'll be able to celebrate #29 there too!

That sounds like so much fun! Happy (early) anniversary!

We will be celebrating our 40th on 11/22. Staying 11/22 - 11/27. We will have dinner on the 22nd at California Grill. Our second stay at the CR. Hooked after the 1st stay!

What an epic anniversary! I'll add it to the Log and make sure it's noted in your reservation and ADRs

Hopefully Jack is with you as well at MK for Halloween!! (Referring to your screen name of course! ) That's awesome your anniversary is on Halloween, obviously you're a big fan!

Our 11th is this year as well in early October. It's actually on the day we get off our Disney cruise, so it's our travel day home, but the timing was better than waiting to cruise the next week. Happy anniversary to everyone coming up!

Good one, and what a great anniversary trip

On the Anniversary note, our 23rd is coming up in Oct. as well . Happy Anniversary to all celebrating, especially those at Disney & DCL! Have a magical day!

Love all these October anniversaries. October is a fantastic month, especially where the seasons change.

Just wanted to add my name to the October anniversary list! DH and I were in the World last year on our anniversary (Oct. 14) and plan to be next year as well (our 10th)!

Happy Anniversary to the rest of my October friends!

Let us know when you've booked and happy (early) anniversary

 

[Seltzer76]

It's a very easy walk to the monorail from BLT. No more than 5 minutes. The monorails have been a little unreliable lately, so the best part of BLT is the 10-minute walk to MK. Taking the monorail to MK would easily take double that since the MK is the 4th stop when leaving the contemporary. Taking the monorail back to BLT from MK is great since it is the first stop.

Thank you!

 

[Jfsag123]

I am weak and addicted to Disney and so have added an additional night to our BLT stay - we will now be there through 6/18/16.

 

[mickeynut1]

I am weak and addicted to Disney and so have added an additional night to our BLT stay - we will now be there through 6/18/16.

Congrats, it's always exciting adding on an extra night .

 

[MrsSkellington]

Hopefully Jack is with you as well at MK for Halloween!! (Referring to your screen name of course! ) That's awesome your anniversary is on Halloween, obviously you're a big fan!

Our 11th is this year as well in early October. It's actually on the day we get off our Disney cruise, so it's our travel day home, but the timing was better than waiting to cruise the next week. Happy anniversary to everyone coming up!

Congrats!

And yes, The Pumpkin King will be there. He is getting pretty excited, now that we've agreed to hire a sitter to watch the little guy on party night. Not like we'll make it to midnight, but we'll darn sure try!

 

[InStitchesinNE]

Just read this at the rumors board:

http://www.orlandoparksnews.com/2015/09/contemporary-resort-new-rfid-pucks-at.html

Has anyone used this yet? How easy/time consuming was it to order and get your food? We will likely be having breakfast here several days of our trip. On prior trips we stayed at POR and it was always chaos in the morning because we had to stand in several different lines to get breakfast for each of our kids because they all wanted something different.

 

[diddldonna]

Just read this at the rumors board:

http://www.orlandoparksnews.com/2015/09/contemporary-resort-new-rfid-pucks-at.html

Has anyone used this yet? How easy/time consuming was it to order and get your food? We will likely be having breakfast here several days of our trip. On prior trips we stayed at POR and it was always chaos in the morning because we had to stand in several different lines to get breakfast for each of our kids because they all wanted something different.

Would love to know this too xxx

 

[katyj26]

Very excited to say that with the Visa room only deal today we are officially booked in Contemporary Tower Theme Park View for February 1-9 2016!! Cannot wait!

 

[morrismhs]

Could you add us to the first page? We are heading to WDW 10/6/16 - 10/10/16 for DH's 50th. Staying CR Atrium TPV - so excited!!!!

 

[honey3684]

I wonder when they started the pucks at Contempo Café we stayed there Sept 12-19 and were given the number card, even on the 19th when we ordered. Too bad we missed this

 

[FoodieFriend]

yay! we arrived today & since i had checked in online, when we stepped off the Magical Express, i had received a text that our room was ready. we used our magic bands to enter our room & found the room in wonderful condition! we headed out to Downtown Disney/Disney Springs for dinner at Fulton's & had a wonderful dinner with Vanessa as our server. I can't wait to praise her degree of service to her bosses! she was wonderful! the only bummer was that when we returned to our room, the ice maker we had turned on when we left at 4pm still had not made any ice by 11pm. i thought that was kinda weird. i tried to reset the on/off switch, but could only wait to see if it helped at all. i did place a call to the front desk for a trouble ticket just in case by morning we didn't have ice. we did grab some ice from the ice machine to tide us over.

also report on the taste of tap water which a huge concern to my family. straight from the tap, SWAMPY. luckily we did bring a brita pitcher & the filter removed a majority of the bad taste. i used Crystal Light powder in my Brita-ed water & it tasted great. my friend drank it after filtered & noted barely any swamp taste left. i think we're good with that. thanks to everyone that gave me any pointers on the water situation. since i haven't had ice made yet, i can't report if the ice maker has a water filter but the ice from the ice machine tastes fine. our first park day is tomorrow!! time for some sleep to make RD!

oh, and wifi is working fairly well. of course it's absurdly late at night, so i'm guessing usage is fairly low. my phone had run pretty well with in-room & public area wifi at BLT/CR. will report more on how that goes for me at the parks tomorrow.
g'night all!

 

[mickeynut1]

Very excited to say that with the Visa room only deal today we are officially booked in Contemporary Tower Theme Park View for February 1-9 2016!! Cannot wait!

Congrats on the discount!

Could you add us to the first page? We are heading to WDW 10/6/16 - 10/10/16 for DH's 50th. Staying CR Atrium TPV - so excited!!!!

Have a great trip!

yay! we arrived today & since i had checked in online, when we stepped off the Magical Express, i had received a text that our room was ready. we used our magic bands to enter our room & found the room in wonderful condition! we headed out to Downtown Disney/Disney Springs for dinner at Fulton's & had a wonderful dinner with Vanessa as our server. I can't wait to praise her degree of service to her bosses! she was wonderful! the only bummer was that when we returned to our room, the ice maker we had turned on when we left at 4pm still had not made any ice by 11pm. i thought that was kinda weird. i tried to reset the on/off switch, but could only wait to see if it helped at all. i did place a call to the front desk for a trouble ticket just in case by morning we didn't have ice. we did grab some ice from the ice machine to tide us over.

also report on the taste of tap water which a huge concern to my family. straight from the tap, SWAMPY. luckily we did bring a brita pitcher & the filter removed a majority of the bad taste. i used Crystal Light powder in my Brita-ed water & it tasted great. my friend drank it after filtered & noted barely any swamp taste left. i think we're good with that. thanks to everyone that gave me any pointers on the water situation. since i haven't had ice made yet, i can't report if the ice maker has a water filter but the ice from the ice machine tastes fine. our first park day is tomorrow!! time for some sleep to make RD!

oh, and wifi is working fairly well. of course it's absurdly late at night, so i'm guessing usage is fairly low. my phone had run pretty well with in-room & public area wifi at BLT/CR. will report more on how that goes for me at the parks tomorrow.
g'night all!

Glad you got a great room and that it was ready upon arrival. Sorry about the ice maker, I hope it's fixed soon. Hope you have a great time .

 

[Georgi Zhukov]

Hello KOOK, Nut and fellow CR lovers! My wife, boys and I will be heading back to the CR (TPV room) from April 8th to April 12th of 2016. Can you please add us to the first page trip log to make us official?

Since I haven't been on the boards in a while, I thought I'd share my new WDW/vacation "strategy." It involves things we could only do if staying at the CR, so I think it's still appropriate for this thread! In the past, when the boys were younger, we'd stay a full week at the CR, following the normal RD routine and thoroughly exhausting ourselves in the process. We'd fly home, beat, bummed that our Disney vacation was over, and dreading having to return to work/school. However, last year (April 2014) we stumbled upon a great system that gave us the best of both worlds - a full WDW experience AND relaxing vacation. We were due for a visit with my in-laws (who live in the Tampa area) and decided to do a split trip - spending 4 nights in WDW at the CR and then driving to spend 4 nights with the in-laws.

As it turns out, for the first time, our boys (who were 10 and 13) discovered the joys of what we ended up calling "late night runs" at the MK. Every day at WDW, we would go bright and early to whatever park was on the agenda, go back to the CR to rest and shower, go to dinner, and then watch Wishes from our TPV room. As soon as the show was over, we'd gear up and then walk to the MK for another couple of hours in the park - which closed most nights we were there at midnight. By the time we got to the MK, we'd be there just in time to catch most or all of the Celebrate the Magic show and then we'd start hitting all of our favorite rides (with minimal-to-no lines). We'd catch parts of the MSEP between rides and would then usually close the park and head back to the CR to crash - most nights my youngest son and I would walk back and my wife and oldest son would take the monorail, betting who would get back to the room first. They did but my youngest son and I always had the much nicer trip/stroll! Then we'd wake up early the next morning and do it all over again.

By the end of our 4th night, we had done and seen so much, it FELT like we had been in WDW a full week. We were still sad to leave our beloved CR (checking out is always so depressing), but we were all looking forward to 4 days/nights of relaxation at my in-laws - chilling by the pool, reading, etc. By the end of the week, we were fully rested and ready to return home. Plus, we saved well over a thousand dollars by cutting our CR stay from our normal 6 nights down to 4 nights. The light bulbs went off over our heads and we agreed that we should follow the same plan during our next WDW trip (and all trips from now on). The moral of my long story is that this strategy (jamming a full week's WDW vacation into 4 nights) could only be possible in my opinion by staying at the CR. The flexibility it offers with the MK walking path, monorail access, ability to watch Wishes from your room, etc. is second to none.

Anyway, I'm back and I'll be checking out the thread(s) over the coming months to see what I've missed and what's new at the CR and WDW as I plan for my 2016 trip. Cheers!

 

[FoodieFriend]

update: the ice maker is kinda sorta working BUT we noticed that the water used is NOT filtered. as it melts, you can smell/taste the swampy-ness that's in tap water. just in case someone wanted to know. the ice maker has filtered water ice from what i've noticed (i mean the industrial ice maker on designated floors in BLT. i use the one on the 4th floor near room 7420).