Just got back from a fantastic week at the YC! We were in room 4184, which looked out over the porte cochere. I've read reviews of that location being pretty noisy with the traffic below, but we never noticed it. The room was one room down from those that share the huge balcony, which while we were there was used as a playground for most of the day, which was certainly more noisy than any of the traffic noise! That being said, the room was one of the quieter ones we've stayed in at the YC. We don't really care about daytime noise, as long as it's quiet at night while we're trying to sleep we're happy! We did have a connecting door in our room, but we never heard anything from next door. The neighbors all around were all super quiet at night, which we haven't always had luck with in the last few years.
The room itself was great, seemed larger than others we've stayed in at the YC/BC. It was one of the few rooms at the YC we've had with a daybed. The room also had a tub, we've yet to stay in a room there with a shower only. There were more items in the vanity kit than previous years. We're used to only getting shampoo, conditions, and body wash, but this year we had mouthwash, lotion, a shower cap, and a kit with stuff like q-tips, cotton, etc. I'll post some pictures of the room once I get them all downloaded!
We did have one issue on our last day with mousekeeping. It was actually pretty ridiculous. We came back to our room at 3:00 after doing the EEMH at HS so we had been gone for over 9 hours and were exhausted and just wanted to rest for a bit. Well, we got to our room just as mousekeeping did, so she asked if it was our room we were heading towards, to which we said yes thinking she would give us the option of skipping the cleaning so we could rest. Instead, she gets all pissy and proclaims we can't come in and proceeds to pull her cart right up against the door so we couldn't access it and slams the door. We were running on fumes at that point and weren't really functioning, so just went to sit down and wait (in retrospect I wish we had just gone in the room and kicked the woman out). After about 10 minutes the woman pokes her head out and sees we're still there and snaps "it's going to be a long time!" Now I'm sure that she probably had more rooms to clean that day than there was time in the day so I get not always being in a great mood and not always doing the right thing, but this was kind of extreme.
A few minutes later a manager ended up coming by, so we explained to her what happened, so she ended up going into the room to talk to the woman, and ended up coming out a few minutes later to apologize, but unfortunately the woman had taken all the linen down and it was thrown around the room so she said it would be another 20 minutes or so and asked if we could go downstairs to hang out for a bit. This would have been a fine option, but my mom is getting over a broken foot and was really struggling to walk so didn't want to hike all the way back downstairs at that point. So we ended up just waiting in the hall for our room to be ready. It was such a downer to end the trip like that, but we got over it in time to check out the new fireworks!
I realize now that I wrote this that there is a lot of writing dedicated to the one bad thing that happened, but it really was a fantastic trip and even with the issue at the end of the trip, YC is still our favorite!
