Hi PugLover! We stayed at CSR on a previous trip and highly recommend CBR over this resort. I really don't think you have to be in a deluxe resort to enjoy your stay, either. The CBR also has privacy curtains for the bathroom area. What a great idea they are! I don't know why all the hotels don't have them! I know the rooms were recently re-done, but the carpet was a surprise in our room. There were BIG stains as well as a sticky spot between the 2 beds, which everytime I got out of bed I stepped in it! Not a big deal, but the carpet sure took a beating in our room (previously; not us!). But we still love this resort! I don't know what time the pool bar closes; we were never around at night. But we did have frozen drinks during the day! Yummy! We had a cooler in our room. Brought 3 cases of water down with us and bought beer while in WDW in the gift shops. An interesting note my DH and another man noticed; the beer in the gift shop is cheaper than the beer in the food court store (deli type store-bottles and cans!) They both found this funny; like they found the big bargain in Disney! We did not eat at Shutters, sorry! Any other questions, just ask!
Hi boston-yachter! We brought DS's BF also! It was a lot of fun to have him with us. At the CBR, they had their own room, so they loved that! We had pizza delivered late one night after a day at the parks so they ate in their rooms and watched tv; they thought that was great! The 2nd night we did an e-night and got back to the room 3:30 a.m.! (bus problem; I'll post that on my trip report!) We only stayed at CBR for 2 nights, so that was it on their night entertainment there. At the BC they went to the arcade, walked to boardwalk, and came back bored because everything closed and there was nothing to do! We liked to have them back at the room around 12:00. They bumped into 2 schoolmates at Epcot who were staying at the ASSp and they came back to our hotel that night and walked around the boardwalk and we drove them back to their hotel around 12:30. We fully expected to be "ditched" by the boys during the day, but they wanted to stay with us; go figure! We even gave them room charging keys in case they wanted to go off, but they didn't! When we would return to the hotels at night (if it wasn't too late!) they would wander off and do whatever was available. At ASMo they also had their own room, and stayed up late watching tv after the arcade our first night there. The next morning we couldn't get them on the phone (I even arranged a wake-up call for them!), they wouldn't answer the door (I told them to latch it from the inside so our key to their room wouldn't work!). I went into a panic after about 45 mins. because we were doing MK early entry! I didn't want to wake other guests up by banging constantly! But they did eventually hear us. For this reason I would definitely insist on a connecting room from now on! At CBR they rented bikes during the day and really liked that. They bumped into another schoolmate there as well! It is a Small World afterall!
Another interesting note for CBR- almost all the windows in our bldg had towel animals! Our mousekeeper was a very nice lady! This is the only hotel this trip that we had towel animals, and we left mousekeeping envelopes every night!
Any other question, please ask away! I'm happy to help!
late last night. Stayed 2 nights at ASMovies, 2 nights CBR, 4 nights BC and 2 nights HRH. Will be posting trip report soon. Any questions in the meantime?
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