Disney's CONTEMPORARY RESORT Information & Questions

[WeLoveLilo05]

Hi all!
Staying at Contemporary for the first time in 4 weeks. We were watching a youtube video on the rooms, we are staying in the garden wing. I noticed in the video there was no drawers to put clothes under the TV like most of the hotels have. Am i missing something? Where are you putting all your folded clothes? I see they have the 2 closets but thats not much room for 5 people staying a week. If there's no drawers where are you putting your clothes? Any tips?
Also we are doing a split stay, moving over to yacht club, this is our first ever split. How will we get over there with our luggage? Thanks!!

 

[PolyRob]

Hi all!
Staying at Contemporary for the first time in 4 weeks. We were watching a youtube video on the rooms, we are staying in the garden wing. I noticed in the video there was no drawers to put clothes under the TV like most of the hotels have. Am i missing something? Where are you putting all your folded clothes? I see they have the 2 closets but thats not much room for 5 people staying a week. If there's no drawers where are you putting your clothes? Any tips?
Also we are doing a split stay, moving over to yacht club, this is our first ever split. How will we get over there with our luggage? Thanks!!

I don't unpack into drawers so I am not aware of other methods, but there are two longer drawers between the bed and desk:

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

I don't unpack into drawers so I am not aware of other methods, but there are two longer drawers between the bed and desk:

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would you say its bigger than a nightstand drawer?
do you remember if its 2 or 3? not sure if there's another one down there the bed is in the way lol

 

[PolyRob]

would you say its bigger than a nightstand drawer?
do you remember if its 2 or 3? not sure if there's another one down there the bed is in the way lol

It was almost a year since I took that pic, so I stole this one from Google that shows it better:



Definitely only two drawers, but they seem longer than a regular nightstand. Hope that helps!

 

[Jfsag123]

Also we are doing a split stay, moving over to yacht club, this is our first ever split. How will we get over there with our luggage? Thanks!!

You can either take your luggage to bell services or call for them to come pick it up from your room in the morning before you check out. You tell them how many bags and which resort they’re going to and they will transfer them for you. Your bags should arrive at your second resort by 5:00pm. Then you can either pick them up from bell services or have them brought to your room there.

 

[Deb & Bill]

You can either take your luggage to bell services or call for them to come pick it up from your room in the morning before you check out. You tell them how many bags and which resort they’re going to and they will transfer them for you. Your bags should arrive at your second resort by 5:00pm. Then you can either pick them up from bell services or have them brought to your room there.

Make that hopefully by 5PM. It could be later.

 

[Jfsag123]

Make that hopefully by 5PM. It could be later.

Well I did say “should.” The cast members say delivery by 5 and we’ve never had ours show up later than that, but it’s always possible there could be a delay.

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

You can either take your luggage to bell services or call for them to come pick it up from your room in the morning before you check out. You tell them how many bags and which resort they’re going to and they will transfer them for you. Your bags should arrive at your second resort by 5:00pm. Then you can either pick them up from bell services or have them brought to your room there.

do they put a tag or something on them in front of you that says wheres its going? or they just haul it off?

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

It was almost a year since I took that pic, so I stole this one from Google that shows it better:

View attachment 419903

Definitely only two drawers, but they seem longer than a regular nightstand. Hope that helps!

Thanks!!

 

[Christine]

Hi all!
Staying at Contemporary for the first time in 4 weeks. We were watching a youtube video on the rooms, we are staying in the garden wing. I noticed in the video there was no drawers to put clothes under the TV like most of the hotels have. Am i missing something? Where are you putting all your folded clothes? I see they have the 2 closets but thats not much room for 5 people staying a week. If there's no drawers where are you putting your clothes? Any tips?
Also we are doing a split stay, moving over to yacht club, this is our first ever split. How will we get over there with our luggage? Thanks!!

Last year we stayed at the CR (Garden Wing - LOVE IT) with 3 people in the room. The closet that is opposite the bathroom is pretty spacious. If memory serves me correctly, within the closet there is a stack of drawers. I used that for all my underwear, shorts, T-shirts and smaller items (I bring a ton of clothes) and my husband used some of the drawer space also. My 23 year old son just seemed to live out of his suitcase. There was also room for me and my husband to hang up any shirts we wanted to not be wrinkled and I stacked some things like his shorts on the top shelf. I probably could have gotten more in there also, but didn't need to. I don't think we ever used the other two drawers between the beds.

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

Last year we stayed at the CR (Garden Wing - LOVE IT) with 3 people in the room. The closet that is opposite the bathroom is pretty spacious. If memory serves me correctly, within the closet there is a stack of drawers. I used that for all my underwear, shorts, T-shirts and smaller items (I bring a ton of clothes) and my husband used some of the drawer space also. My 23 year old son just seemed to live out of his suitcase. There was also room for me and my husband to hang up any shirts we wanted to not be wrinkled and I stacked some things like his shorts on the top shelf. I probably could have gotten more in there also, but didn't need to. I don't think we ever used the other two drawers between the beds.

Thank you.
How far was your walk to the food court?
Did you walk to MK from your room? How was it?

 

[Christine]

Thank you.
How far was your walk to the food court?
Did you walk to MK from your room? How was it?

I wish I had a map handy because I'll probably explain this poorly, but my room was located on the first floor of the garden wing right in the middle of the entrance that is closest to the Tower and the entrance that opens into the parking lot.

I basically had a relatively quick walk down the hall the to the entrance to covered walkway to the Tower. That walkway, to me, seemed fairly short. I then entered the Tower at the first floor and took the escalator up to the Cotempo Cafe. Never used the elevators. Sometimes I took the outside stairs up when I was feeling spunky (not often!!). Honestly, it was no more than 5 minutes at the most. I could see it taking longer if you were at the farthest point of the Garden Wing.

I never did walk over to the MK. My father was with us with an ECV and we just never tried it. Didn't know how much that would drain the battery.

 

[Mcterry]

We will be at the CR in a little over a week. We stayed in the garden wing for a few nights in October. This is a surprise trip for my kids from my mom, she wanted to stay at Poly but it wasn’t available for what she wanted, so we are staying in a Tower Theme Park view. I think it’s going to be amazing! I have enjoyed reading everyone’s reports.

 

[Dave006]

Thank you.
How far was your walk to the food court?
Did you walk to MK from your room? How was it?

The Contemporary does not have a food court but does have the Contempo Cafe that has Grab 'n' Go food and the Contemporary Grounds. Both are located in the A-frame tower. It is less than a 3-5 minute walk from the far end of the Garden wing on Bay lake.

Contemp Cafe - located on the Grand Canyon Concourse (fourth floor) offers beverages, snacks and a few hot items. Limited service is available from 6:00am – midnight. Full service is available from 7am – 10pm.

Contemporary Grounds - is on the lobby level to the right of the main entrance offers hot and cold beverages and baked goods.

Fantasia Market – located on the Grand Canyon Concourse (fourth floor), offers a variety of reading material (newspapers, magazines, etc.), liquor, packaged food items and refrigerated items.

Walking times vary depending your location in the Garden Wing. The time from the far end of the Garden wing averages less than 15 minutes at a slow pace. If you take the Monorail it will take 20-35 minutes depending on any delays since it runs clockwise from the Contemporary, TTC, Polynesian, Grand Floridan, MK.

The Contemorary also has it own Security checkpoint on the walkway to the MK so you avoid the larger security queues at the MK main gate.

Dave

 

[honey3684]

has anyone had any experience with HA studios? we have one for our upcoming trip and I cant find much info on them. Are they all north facing?

 

[Jfsag123]

do they put a tag or something on them in front of you that says wheres its going? or they just haul it off?

They put tags on them with your last name and where they’re going and they also give you a receipt. Picture of receipt attached.

 

[Dave006]

has anyone had any experience with HA studios? we have one for our upcoming trip and I cant find much info on them. Are they all north facing?

They have Standard view and Lake view HA studios available. What exactly does your reservation show for the room type?

There are 4 types available.

Dave

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

They put tags on them with your last name and where they’re going and they also give you a receipt. Picture of receipt attached.

oh great! Thanks!!!

 

[honey3684]

They have Standard view and Lake view HA studios available. What exactly does your reservation show for the room type?

There are 4 types available.

Dave

My reservation on MDE says this
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[SarahC97]

My husband and I are checking in Friday in a theme park view room. So excited - we've never stayed in the main tower. Got a pretty great AP rate too!