I agree that we need some real data before we can say a reservation for a dedicated studio is a guarantee of avoiding a parking lot view. I hope that the room assigner and the front desk will respect the difference between a dedicated and a lockoff studio. I also hope they will not "cave" when someone who does not have a dedicated studio reserved ends up getting one when they complain to the front desk about the parking lot view, leaving the last guest who checks in with that view, regardless of what is written on their confirmation letter. I've only seen one report so far where someone booked a dedicated and got a lockoff but that was in the Savanna View category, not the Value.
Most of the dedicated studios have a small closet where the connecting door would have been.
Our dedicated Value studio did have a closet, and was a SV.
We arrived quite late(left Detroit during snow storm, and sat on runway for 2 hours), and still got the dedicated and SV.
Unfortunately, we moved the next day into a SV room, and had NO closet, I really missed it. I wish I could have stayed in the Value View( at a reduced points cost) also because the SV room had a superb view of construction
The reason that I'm so upset is that I called day by day at 11 months out for 7 days to get the value studio
Knowledge is power - I will definately sign up for the dedicated studio for next time. I guess I didn't know as much as I thought I did about Disney
"Ronald Duck" merged my AKV Units map with an aerial photo of Jambo House to create this new map! (Originally posted here: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=24678438) Unit 52 in the lower left of the map is made up of two 2BR lockoffs that face the parking lot. The other parking lot facing rooms on the 5th floor are not part of AKV, they are still part of AKL.
In Jambo House there are only two 2BR lockoffs that face the parking lot. They are in the Value booking category and are in Unit number 52 on the map, in the area marked in yellow. Only those two 2BR lockoffs in Unit 52 face the parking lot. The other Value villas face either the Sunset Savanna or the pool area. The Standard View rooms are colored light blue/turquoise and they all face the pool area.
If you are booking a Value villa, there are two 2BR lockoffs that face the parking lot, four that face the Sunset Savanna and four that face the pool area. You can request a particular view but it is only a request, not a guarantee. If you want to be sure you can't possibly get a parking lot view, you would have to book a different category. In Jambo House the Standard View rooms face the pool area. (Note: this will not be the case in Kidani Village. The Std View rooms in Kidani will have a view of a pool, garden or parking lot.) The Savanna View rooms face a savanna. The Concierge rooms (Jambo House only) face either the Sunset Savanna or the pool area.
If you booked a Standard View 2BR, you will be in that turquoise area of the map which surrounds the pool area. The only issue you might have is that if your room is very close to the lobby, you will be looking at the restaurants' roof when you look down. You can see it better in this aerial photo:
It seems like it's just who gets there first. Or is it that they hold the savanna room for us even if the people who beat us there say they don't like their parking lot view and request to move. I'm not sure if I'm getting my point accross
