Ground floor rooms

[mrsminniemouse]

Hi!
I was wondering if people would like to share their views on ground floor rooms. My DH always wants higher rooms. He says they are better because you get less noise from overhead, fewer bugs crawling under the door and it is more difficult for people to break in or even see in. Not sure any of his arguments have a good basis.

I always think it might be cool to go out of your patio door to the pool (if someone stays in the room of course, I assume the doors cannot be locked from outside) Now we have a baby I wonder if ground floor is easier what with the stroller etc.

Also are most of the HA rooms on ground floor? I always wonder why HA rooms would be upstairs because in the event of a fire and the elevators were out of use how could a wheelchair user get out easily?

We want to say at OKW next year and I know not all the buildings have elevators but if we were on ground floor we could just wheel the stroller right out.

Any experiences or comments most welcome.

Mandy

 

[MDonley]

Your're right for the most part. My DW uses all those excuses to stay off the ground floor. At OKW, the HA studios on the ground floor have showers that allow water to get all over the bathroom and have seats in them .... that was enough to convince me to move upstairs and leave HA rooms to those needing them. We didn't ask for HA at the time, it's all they had available on our short visit home.

 

[sandieb]

I loved staying in a ground floor room at the BCV...it is so convienent. There were no problems with noise, bugs, etc. I did specify "No handicapp" when making my request. The ground floor was the luck of the draw, but I wouldn't hesitate to stay there again. Sandie

 

[Michelle GT]

We stayed on the ground floor at Poly last Oct and we could walk over to the volcano pool from the patio. Our kids loved it. We didn't have any problems with bugs.

 

[Uncleromulus]

I'm in agreement about the noise from rooms above. Everytime we get a ground floor at OKW, I swear there is a jumping rope competition going on in the room above ours. It never fails.

 

[rocketriter]

Some years ago someone did break into the ground floor room next to where my family was staying. There was a great commotion, shouting and running around, and then police stomping around.

But this was *NOT* a building associated with Disney in any way! In other words, it is possible. However, I suspect that within the Disney umbrella it's hit-by-a-meteor unlikely.