I just wanted to let everyone know about our trip June 1st -10th at the CR.
We stayed on the 9th floor tower with an MK view. The view was unbelievable and I do not think it can be beat anywhere else. The fireworks each night were amazing, and towards the end when they play the wishes song loud, we could hear it! It felt like we were close enough to hear people screaming on Splash Mountain. We did notice that about every 10 seconds you could see a large flash from Splash Mountain which must have been the camera taking the picture from the drop.
Our check in was easy, our room was not quite ready, but we only had to wait about 30 minutes. Our check out was also very easy, and it was great that we could check in for Continental Airlines at the resort.
We have two children, 6 and 3, so I wanted to get life vests for them in the pool. I was surprised that we only had to do this once. They assigned our children the life vests, took down our information and let us know that we needed to return the vests on our last day. This made it so much easier than having to checkout life vests every day!
If you are leaving the MK late at night (around closing) I would highly suggest taking the walkway. I was surprised at how long the line for the resort monorail was!
Here is one of my major complaints which will not bother most of the people who are going to the CR, but I have to say it anyway. DH and I both are smokers, so when I made the reservation it was for a tower room with the MK view with smoking preferred. When we checked into the resort, I was told that all of the tower rooms were now nonsmoking. Only one of the wings (sorry I cannot remember which one) had smoking optional rooms. So they tell me that they are going to put me on the 9th floor in a section where they put other people who might want to smoke and that it is okay to smoke on the balcony.
At first I had no problem with this, I have children, so I would smoke outside anyway. But then I started thinking about if I did not have children and how much I was paying for this room and what if I wanted to smoke in the room. So I call down to the front desk to ask where the smoking rooms are. They tell me they are on the 1st floor. What? There are no rooms on the first floor. No the smoking rooms are on the first floor of the wings they tell me. So I ask to talk to a manager (no, not to get anything, just to find out what the policy is). The manager tells me they are nonsmoking resort, except on the balconies, and that I should have been notified when they changed their policy. Okay. So I decide to call down to the front desk the next day and ask the same question. The manager says "Well you must be on the 6th floor, that is where we put the people who request smoking". No, I am on the 9th floor. At this point I gave up and quit worrying about it. I smoked on my balcony, and I sincerely apologize to anyone who was next to me who requested a nonsmoking room. When the CM first told me to smoke on the balcony of a nonsmoking room, I thought "are you kidding me, the people who cannot be around smoke will kill me!".
My main complaint about all of this was that I spoke to three different managers and they all had a different answer. So I guess this complaint would also affect nonsmokers, since they could not decide where they smoking rooms should be.
Since being back home, I thought the CR was great, the view itself was great and worth the money. I might give it another try just because I am giving them the benefit of the doubt, and assuming that the managers were confused because of all the rehab going on.
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DH will have a FIT if he comes back to a room that is too warm.
