Disney's CONTEMPORARY RESORT Information & Questions

[cmarsh31]

Ah do you have a picture of what that looks like?

It was 2017 so I don't remember the room number... this was the "better" view. The room to the right of us had a solid wall. So 8 of these rooms per floor, 3(?) floors, 24 chances? Nope. I'm not booking a Garden Wing Standard View again unless I'm 100% ok with this or the worse option.

There's an old thread of "bad room views" from years ago somewhere, that has these pictures.

 

[TeamSy]

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It was 2017 so I don't remember the room number... this was the "better" view. The room to the right of us had a solid wall. So 8 of these rooms per floor, 3(?) floors, 24 chances? Nope. I'm not booking a Garden Wing Standard View again unless I'm 100% ok with this or the worse option.

There's an old thread of "bad room views" from years ago somewhere, that has these pictures.

Yikes that is rough! Welp guess we are screwed lol... it's not letting me change it now. My fault for assuming it was mostly just a parking lot view, which I figured wouldn't be so bad because it's fun to look at monorail. Lesson learned.

 

[jemtx]

Yikes that is rough! Welp guess we are screwed lol... it's not letting me change it now. My fault for assuming it was mostly just a parking lot view, which I figured wouldn't be so bad because it's fun to look at monorail. Lesson learned.

We once had a std garden view for one night. They tried assigning us one of those wall rooms, so before we went to the room (we checked where it was in touringplans room finder), we went to the front desk asked for something much closer to tower. They gave us a room that was in the first garden wing building and it faced the parking lot with a tree or two and had a perfect view of the monorail if going into the resort (or maybe it was exiting). Either way it was decent for standard view—I’m sorry I don’t remember the number, but it was the first building towards the end over the parking lot (3rd floor). HTH

 

[Dave006]

There are only 12 Standard view rooms that don't overlook the Garden wing parking lot and the Monorail beams above. T Half of the 12 over look a wall and the remaining 6 have a slight Garden view.

Rooms 6x01 and 6x30 (where x is floor 1-3) have a view of a wall and rooms 6x02 and 6x29 (where x is floor 1-3) have a slight garden area view.

Yikes that is rough! Welp guess we are screwed lol... it's not letting me change it now. My fault for assuming it was mostly just a parking lot view, which I figured wouldn't be so bad because it's fun to look at monorail. Lesson learned.

It is not that bad as your odds are quite low of getting one of these 6 rooms unless you arrive very late in the day. And even then check at the Front desk should you get one of these wall facing rooms.

Just put a request for any of this range of room numbers

Rooms 5x52 - 5x67 (where x is floor 1-3) are the main block of Standard view rooms. 1st floor rooms have a patio with greenery and trees blocking most of the parking lot view and make the patio's cooler in the west early evening as the sun sets.

Dave

 

[cmarsh31]

It is not that bad as your odds are quite low of getting one of these 6 rooms unless you arrive very late in the day. And even then check at the Front desk should you get one of these wall facing rooms.

Just put a request for any of this range of room numbers


Dave

I'm pretty sure there are 2 of these rooms on the "inside" wing of the uppercase I, which would be 12 rooms. Not the greatest odds... and we had the better of the worst two views.

 

[TSM]

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It was 2017 so I don't remember the room number... this was the "better" view. The room to the right of us had a solid wall. So 8 of these rooms per floor, 3(?) floors, 24 chances? Nope. I'm not booking a Garden Wing Standard View again unless I'm 100% ok with this or the worse option.

There's an old thread of "bad room views" from years ago somewhere, that has these pictures.

What is the 3 floor building in the background of this picture? We were wondering this on our trip last month as our BLT view faced it?

 

[cmarsh31]

What is the 3 floor building in the background of this picture? We were wondering this on our trip last month as our BLT view faced it?

It's the Garden Wing building - my picture is from the third floor of it looking 'inside' the capital I shape. Before we bought into DVC, we loved it as a quieter, better priced, version of the Contemporary!

 

[Dave006]

What is the 3 floor building in the background of this picture? We were wondering this on our trip last month as our BLT view faced it?

That would be the South Garden Wing Buildings. The BLT was built where the North Garden Wing buildings were located.

Fun facts: The Garden wing buildings don't have a balcony on the 2nd or 3rd floor rooms only a sliding door that partially opens with a railing. Also the Garden Wing building (rooms) were built onsite but not within the building and slide into the building just like the A-Frame main tower rooms. Disney and US Steel were trying new innovative construction methods in the early years with mixed results.

Dave

 

[BridgetBordeaux]

Apologies in advance if this is a few pages back!

I read post 10 but wanted some Summer 2022 current information.

If I want to rope drop Epcot...............

Can I take a bus?
If so, what time does it start running?

If I take the monorail to the TTC, what time does the first monorail pick me up at the resort to take me to the TTC?
What time does the Monorail start going from the TTC to Epcot?

During my upcoming visit, Epcot opens for resort guests at 8am (and MK opens for resort guests at 8:30am)

 

[GADisneyDad14]

Apologies in advance if this is a few pages back!

I read post 10 but wanted some Summer 2022 current information.

If I want to rope drop Epcot...............

Can I take a bus?
If so, what time does it start running?

If I take the monorail to the TTC, what time does the first monorail pick me up at the resort to take me to the TTC?
What time does the Monorail start going from the TTC to Epcot?

During my upcoming visit, Epcot opens for resort guests at 8am (and MK opens for resort guests at 8:30am)

Transportation to Epcot from CR is Monorail only, except in cases where the monorail is down - so monorail is your only option.

I'm sorry, I don't know what time the Epcot line actually starts running - hopefully someone that knows for sure can chime in. I never see any reports of problems for the EE crowd, so I 'assume' it's plenty early, but not sure of exact times.

Enjoy your trip.

 

[DMLAINI]

What time does the EWP go by The Contemporary?

 

[GADisneyDad14]

What time does the EWP go by The Contemporary?

It’s currently around 10:05pm. The app ‘usually’ has the latest accurate time. Hope that helps!

 

[Frozen2014]

We'll be at Contemporary end of next month. Can't wait!

We have the main tower, lake view room booked. Any suggestions on room requests? Or does it not really matter for that room group?

 

[Starscream88]

As high up as you can close to the elevator

 

[DisneyMomx7]

Does anyone know if the splash pad has reopened?

 

[BridgetBordeaux]

@GADisneyDad14

Post 10 in the beginning of this thread needs an update on this issue...........

It is about transportation and is covering monorail details.

It presently says the walkway from GF does NOT go all the way to MK.

That has recently changed.

If you have the credentials, please update that info.

Thanks!

 

[pregnantw4thprincess]

Was just looking at the Garden Wing map and noted that there are two designated smoking areas, yet on Touring Plans is see comments about ashtrays at the exits of other areas - does anyone have experience with this?

I am concerned about having to smell cigarette smoke from our room - I have a former smoker’s nose (quit 13y ago) and my oldest is very sensitive to the smell as well.

Thanks in advance!

 

[pregnantw4thprincess]

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If you can get a Garden Wing room on the channel between the lakes, you can see the boats heading out to start the day. It's pretty great.

Gorgeous! Was it pretty loud with the Water Pageant?

 

[TeamSy]

Is it just me or do most of the pictures not show up in the beginning informative posts?

 

[Dug720]

Is it just me or do most of the pictures not show up in the beginning informative posts?

Not just you. I think a lot of them might have been hosted on PhotoBucket and that hasn't played nicely with the forums for a while.