Is "Preferred view" the new "Lake view"

[Simba's Mom]

And is "resort view" the new "standard"? I'm particularly thinking of Polynesian and Grand Floridian. I looked at those two resorts, remembering staying in a VGF Lake view studio and loving it, but sadly it is no more. There is, however, a Preferred view, and something called "Resort view". What are they?

 

[sethschroeder]

And is "resort view" the new "standard"? I'm particularly thinking of Polynesian and Grand Floridian. I looked at those two resorts, remembering staying in a VGF Lake view studio and loving it, but sadly it is no more. There is, however, a Preferred view, and something called "Resort view". What are they?

Likely is the case but my best suggestion is hitting up TouringPlans and looking at the resort map. It has all the rooms mapped out and what bucket of view they are part of.

 

[cruisehopeful]

I booked Lake View longhouse and now it says Preferred View.

 

[CarolynFH]

And is "resort view" the new "standard"? I'm particularly thinking of Polynesian and Grand Floridian. I looked at those two resorts, remembering staying in a VGF Lake view studio and loving it, but sadly it is no more. There is, however, a Preferred view, and something called "Resort view". What are they?

Yes, Disney applied that terminology to all the WDW resorts last year, not just BLT or DVC resorts.

Standard View became Resort View.

Lake View at BLT and at Poly became Preferred View; certain views at other resorts also became Preferred View.

Theme Park View stayed the same.

At some cash resorts, various separate, specific views were combined into Standard or Preferred booking categories, so the previous separately bookable views became request-only. It caused some consternation on the Disney Resorts forum too.

 

[lentesta]

Likely is the case but my best suggestion is hitting up TouringPlans and looking at the resort map. It has all the rooms mapped out and what bucket of view they are part of.

Thanks! I'm working on the latest update to BLT today - it's alphabetically the first WDW resort in the list.

It looks like all BLT Preferred views are either of the marina or Bay Lake. There are many, many more Bay Lake views than marina.

@Simba's Mom At the Poly, "Resort View" now encompasses these views (and I'm updating our list):

• Garden View (e.g., room 3820)
• Marina View (e.g., room 1311)
• Quiet Pool View (e.g., 1529)
• Magic Kingdom View (1518, 3218)
• Standard View (1220)
• Water View (2220)

It looks like within the Resort view there are many more Standard and Garden View rooms than any other.