Oh goody! We're here! At the Beach Club!!
I was alternately laughing (with you, of course) and cringing at your description of the walk over. Did you really carry both of them?
Well at least you made it!
Would you be willing to PM me the room requests you made? Where/how did you research this? And one more question... did you/your MIL do online check-in? I always wonder whether that impacts one way or another getting your requests.
Almost forgot.. the Beverly pictures are priceless!
Yes - I actually
did carry both of them at the same time. Only because I didn't see any other option. A learned a big lesson that day!
As for our room requests, there is a great website here that shows a layout of all of the room numbers. Many of them have photos posted with the views from that particular room.
http://www.parkinfo2go.com/dvc-bcv/
It is a great resource! You will love it as a BCV owner!
As for online check-in, because we were transferring in using an RCI trade, we were not able to do online check-in. However, we did online check-in at both the Contemporary and the Polynesian. Worked beautifully! We got the exact rooms that we requested, and we had very specific requests.
While there are a lot of people worried that online check-in will compromise their ability to have their room requests honored, this is not my experience at all. As I understand it, room assignments are made a couple days before arrival anyway.
I was a little nervous with the online check-in because there is no where on the form to note specific room location requests. However, if they are on the original reservation, my experience proves that they are not deleted by the online check-in process.
So I say - do it!!! The less time in lines and dealing with things like check-in during your vacation the better!
Thanks to the links I was able to read your entire trip report (so far) from start to finish. Your kids are adorable...I just LOVE Declan's hair. Too cute! I can't wait to read more. I'm also excited to read about your thoughts on Beach Club. We have never stayed on "that side" and I would really like to attempt an adults only (Epcot focused) trip.
Thank you and Welcome!
This is the 1st time I have included links in my TR, but it is going to be a godsend after I finish the report and want to print off my posts for the scrapbook.
As for the BC, I would highly, highly recommend it!!! Perfect for an adults' trip focussed on Epcot.
I am sure it is no coincidence the Villas book up so quickly during F&W!
Yay, you made it to the Beach Club! We have loved staying there. Sorry to hear that your kids were melting down on the walk over. That can be a long walk, even for an adult, in the heat. It was so hot! The frozen drinks at Club Cool can be a lifesaver in that kind of heat!
I must say - that walk over to the BC was not one of the finer moments on the trip!
What a miserable way to enter paradise!
What a great view! I am happy you got all your room requests
I felt so sorry for you walking all that way in the heat. I don't know how you made it. It probably felt like walking across a vast desert to a distant oasis. I am glad you rented that stroller! My sister had to eat some words the first year we went. She had a "just turned 5 year old" and swore that she was old enough to walk the whole week. It didn't last but a couple of days before she broke down. It really helped all of us have a much better time.
Totally agree with you on the stroller!
It just kills me everytime I read posts by people (probably without kids) complaining of parents who clog up the parks by carting children over 5 around in strollers. Don't they realize we are saving them from being subjected to whiny, crying kids who are tired of the tremendous amount of walking they would have to do in the parks?
I will gladly step aside for any stroller if it means less tears and whines in the Parks!
quite the walk! Glad you made it over and I love the view of home.
Yes, I don't mind walking myself and obviously overestimated the kids' ability to do this kind of trek, especially in soaring high temperatures. Lesson learned for sure!
I felt your pain reading that report!! The August heat just about does us in....I can't imagine doing it with one child on my back and one of the front....I might have opted for the canal bless you for being a great mom!!
The view from your room is nothing short of fantastic.....stunning
I didn't last carrying them for long! I am sure I had to keep putting them down to take a break about 3 times during the walk from the bridge to the BC. Oh....I am exhausted just thinking about it!
And isn't that just the greatest view?
This trip really spoiled us!
That can definitely be a long trip from the Contemporary to the Beach Club. On our trip last summer I had the bright idea of going from the Beach Club to Chef Mickey's in that way. And that was the grumpiest my kids were the entire trip. Lesson learned for me (and now for you too.)
Awesome that you got you room request for the studio. Hope you are that lucky with your 1 bedroom.
I am so happy to know I am not the only one who overestimated my kids' endurance. It would have been completely fine if I had that stroller. I don't mind walking at all, and to me, it would have been a great little walk. Albeit a hot one!
but well done for ignoring the call of the canal! great view from your room! 
That made such a big difference!
