Sorry that I took so long to reply, but my mouse died and I had to replace it!
First, the weather.... It was pretty chilly when it was in the 50's. On those days we wore jackets, hats and gloves. But the wind was also blowing, so it felt colder than 50's. It did get chilly at night too. On the days that were in the 70's we wore jeans, sweatshirts and t shirts underneath, so that in the afternoon we could take the sweatshirts off, and we were pretty comfortable. Believe it or not we were able to swim for awhile on one of the days in the 70's!
The WDW Transportation from WL...... We used the boat to the Magic Kingdom and found that to be the fastest to the Kingdom. I was a little irked that the bus would drop you off at the Transportation and Ticket center and then you would have to transfer from there to the MK, so we took the boat after one bus trip and it was soooo much faster. The buses are also sharing pickup and drop off with other resorts, which I was also a little upset about, because I feel that I am paying premium prices for a deluxe resort, therefore, I feel that WL should have their own bus! We had to pickup at Grand Floridian before we went to the Animal Kingdom, and had to share with Fort Wilderness for the other parks. But overall, the buses were O.K. they seemed to run about every 15 minutes. I don't know what was the deal with all of the buses that passed our bus stop that had SPECIAL on them, I don't know who gets to ride those, but they were mostly empty!
The room..... we had 7107 and my parents had 7109, both concierge, but not connecting rooms. We were very close to the conceige desk and buffets that they set out, which was very conveinient. It seemed that some of the rooms could be very far away from the buffet. I felt that the room was as big as the rooms at Dixie Landings and Carribean Beach. We had two queen beds, the bunk bed rooms may feel a little bigger. Pretty standard, we had a robe in the room and they had turndown service every night. Unfortunately, no towel animals or any extra surprises despite the fact that it was my husbands birthday and conceige services knew that.
The Service.... We didn't bug conceige services very much except for a few priority seatings. I didn't ask for any of the really hard to get in restaurants.... I should have challenged them to see if they could get CRT seatings!
Castmember Miguel helped us the most and was very helpful and nice. They had crayons and books for the kids in the conceige lobby and Lincoln Logs to play with. We had to use the room key to get to our floor from the elevator, which was kind of neat. The buffets were wonderful! We ate breakfast everyday there and had afternoon snacks and evening wine and desserts. The food was really good. I don't know if I would pay full price for the conceige floor, but at $30 extra a night it was well worth it for us ( a family of 4) at that price.
The View.... We had the room that was the closest to the inside courtyard, on the inside corner. We could see the pool and geyser, we couldn't see the waterfall. We could also see the lake and the Electrical Water Pageant on it everynight. It was very quiet, but we could hear the elevators running up and down from our room at night.
Hope that this helps! Let me know if there are any more ???????
