Hi,
I landed at the HRH on Aug. 5th for 3 nights and when I went to check in they wanted me to sign for a $237/night gardenview room. I had originally held that, until I decided to get an AP and hence and AP rate for $179 a saving of $60 per night.
I said, what about my $179 rate that I'd received 2 confirmations on in June and they said they didn't have a record of it, so I had to run to the car and produce my photocopied versions of the confirmation notes.
I hadn't received the 3 confirmations the week prior to Aug 5th, as we'd already left Canada for Disney and didn't check the emails.
The desk guy said I would have had to pay the $237 if I hadn't had the photocopied confirmation note - boy would I have had issues with that!!!!
Anyway, we had a great 3 nights there and enjoyed our gardenview room. There are no balconies anyway, so for us, we liked saving money and staying in a gardenview room facing the water taxis etc - likely not the most picturesque, but a nice enough view all the same. We were on the second floor, even though I had requested certain areas based on the DIS boards, but since none were ready by 4pm, we were anxious to get our room and took room 2106.
Have a great trip! You'll love Express at Universal/IOA! It sure beat the week of Disney Fastpasses!
