My Review-All Star Music Suites are SWEET! Updated new photos I took page 3

Plutofan1 said:
I'm sorry. I feel stupid for asking the question. Were the Calypso suites themed differently than the Jazz Inn Suites? Thanks!

Don't feel Stupid. It is my fault I did not make my post more clear.

The photos of the room at Jazz with the 2 double beds are a standard room that was refurbished. AdventurerKat was staying in a "regular standard room"
which has two double beds and 1 bathroom.

Disney is refurbishing all of the rooms at All Star Music.
Most of the rooms -- Standard rooms, handicapped accessible rooms, king rooms and the new Family Suites are all getting new furniture, carpeting, bedspreads, window curtains, and privacy curtains in the dressing area.

The Suites are all laid out same in the Jazz and Calypso buildings.
 
minnie61650 said:
Don't feel Stupid. It is my fault I did not make post more clear.

The photos of the room at Jazz with the 2 double beds are a standard room that was refurbished. AdventurerKat was staying in a "regular standard room"
which has two double beds and 1 bathroom.

Disney is refurbishing all of the rooms at All Star Music.
Most of the rooms -- Standard rooms, handicapped accessible rooms, king rooms and the new Family Suites are all getting new furniture, carpeting, bedspreads, window curtains, and privacy curtains in the dressing area.

The Suites are all laid out same in the Jazz and Calypso buildings.
Thanks! I really appreciate you posting your review. You have been the BEST planning recourse for picking our resort. You ahve been very helpful. We are really hoping that we enjoy the suites as much as you did!
 
Hi Linda,
Thanks for your review of these suites. They sound great. I'm glad you enjoyed your stay. I know you're the queen of the All Stars, but I was wondering if you got to look around CSR. I have to admit that I was thinking of staying here and was wondering what you think of it. You give such great, detailed reviews. Also, do you know how comfortable the pull out beds are? I'm thinking of taking my nieces DD and DGD here next August and was hoping that they are comfortable. I've been on some that you could feel springs,a metal bar or just a really thin mattress. These are new, so I thought they should be nice.Thanks again!!!
Joan
 

Linda, thanks for the great, detailed review and pics! I am so bummed there wasn't a family suite available for our December stay but that gives a chance to try a resort we haven't stayed at (CBR). Maybe another time! Welcome home and thanks again.
 
Linda,

Thank you so much for your review. We will be sleeping in one of those Suites in 12 days!!! My kids have already decided which beds they are sleeping on in the living room thanks to your pictures. :)

Several Questions:

Did you ever hear construction noise? If so, what time of the morning did it start?

Did they replenish your plastic cups, silverware, & plates everyday or should I bring some from home?

Did you say that there was a curtain between the living room and the kitchenette area? I had actually thought about bringing a curtain from home. If DD sees any movement, it will be a reason to not go to sleep. :rotfl: Although I am hoping that all the walking she will be doing will tucker her out. :lmao:

I know that they couldn't honor your request for a HA room, but were all your other requests honored? We have asked for a top level non smoking room. Just wondering what our chances are of getting that.

Also, what time of day did you check in, and what time did you get into your room? There have been some comments made about rooms not being ready until 5:00. :sad2:

I am so excited and can't wait to stay here! :cheer2: :banana: :cool1: :yay:
 
minnie61650 said:
I just returned from a fabulous stay at All Star Music.
Wow! Mid September is a great time to experience Disney. Most rides were walk ons and even Soarin was only a 10 minute wait!

All Star Music is looking great. We stayed in Calypso building 10.

We stayed in room 0618 (for 8 nights) which is a HA room with a roll in shower.
It was just refurbished and had a totally new look.

It was decorated with the same decor as the new suites and even had a privacy curtain between the bedroom area and the area by the sink!

We had reserved a Family Suite for our last 2 nights. When I reserved them in April I had requested a HA room and was told HA Family Suites would not be available until 2007 so I asked about a raised toilet seat and CRO told me that would not be a problem.
Turned out it was a problem. There are not any Family Suites with raised toilet seats yet so we opted to stay at the Suites just 1 night.

Let me tell you I loved the Suites and once they have HA Family Suites available I would book my whole stay there in the future!

We stayed in 0416 which is on the ground floor. Room 0418 which was next door was not a Suites so the Suites are not all grouped together.
The living area was the best. There was a small table with 2 blue modern looking chairs by the window area.

The chairs had a small amount of cushioning and curved backs and seemed more conformable (to me) than the old straight back chairs they had in the old All Star Music rooms. The table top was wood grain and there were silhouettes of Mickey all abound the edge in a darker wood color.

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The living room area is very roomy when the furniture is the closed position.

When you first enter the room you get a feeling that you can take time to relax and spread out in these rooms. The cramped feeling is not there. there is a sofa, chair and ottoman which fold out into beds. There are two small end tables and soft foot stool for the sofa.

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The TV was a 27 inch flat screen and the cabinet had three drawers under the TV area. There were two shelves next to the TV and a cabinet door which opened to reveal 2 more shelves.

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I opened up the chair bed and it was very conformable to lay down on. The back of the chair actually rests on the floor supporting the chair bed when it is folded out into the bed. I took a picture and if it turns out I will post it. It was pretty amazing the way they designed the pull out furniture!
The frame of the bed is metal so when I went to get of the chair bed I did feel the metal bars at the edge of the bed.

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I tried to get the ottoman into the master bedroom area but I am sorry to say the ottoman is just too wide and will not fit through the door jam.

The sink and closet areas in the suites also have privacy curtains.
The sink areas have 2 shelf cubbies under them for storage and a Kleenex tissue area under them. There are wall mounted hair dryers with the built in amber night lights on the walls by the sinks.

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Each dressing area has a privacy curtain, closet area, iron, ironing board and wall safe. The wall safes are the standard size which will hold a wallet a cell phone a small DVD player, a personal CD player, or a few CDs but it is not large enough for a lap top or anything that is more than a couple of inches wide.

Remember the Suites have 2 bathrooms, 2 dressing areas with privacy curtains, 2 safes, 2 hairdryers, 2 closets, 2 TVs, 2 separate sleeping, areas and 2 TVs.

The kitchenette has a lot storage area also.
There was an ice bucket with 6 plastic cups on the countor and a coffeepot with 6 of the throw away foam hot cups.
There were 6 paper plates, 6 paper bowls, Paper towels and a silverware tray on an upper shelf.
The silverware container had 6 sets of plastic ware and a can opener in it.

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The kitchenette has a nice size microwave, and the fridge is the larger under the counter dorm fridge. The fridge has small freezer on the top which was big enough to freeze my 3 small ice pacs for my meds. The area for the freezer is not very high. You might be able to put a couple of small water bottles in it to freeze them but a larger water bottle would not be able to fit in the freezer area.

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The Master room was nice size and it was nice to have a desk area with a mirror over it so it also sure as a make up area if one chose to it as such.
The TV cabinet had 3 nice size storage drawers. The easy chair next to the bed was nice addition. I enjoyed being able to sit there instead of using a table chair or bed to sit.

The queen size bed was conformable. The AC at newly refurbished has been updated to Cental air style instead of the old under the window style. It worked fine while we were there. Our room was very quiet.

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The Master area had enough room for a twin size aero bed if you placed the bed with one end by the window and had it running between the desk and the foot of bed. (You would need to move the desk chair out of the way. )The aero bed would block the access of the Queen size bed from the far side, however. The bed was a Queen.

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There were only a few things in our Suite that were different from those pictured on the DIS resorts homepage.

1) The headboard was smaller than the one pictured here taken from the DIS resorts homepage.

2) The tile on the kitchen floor and bathroom floor was tan and navy blue instead of the tan and white in the pictured room.

3) Also the far wall in the living area when you enter room was painted blue instead of the tan color the rest of the room was room is painted.

4) Ironing boards and iron were in each closet area.

Our Digital camera is not working so I took some photos on a disposable one.
I will post a fewof them in couple days if they turn out. Meanwhile I will post a few of the photos from the DIS Homepage to add to my descriptions.

Mousekeeping was great.

Mousekeeping left plenty of towels and we were pleasantly surprised by a pair of love bird towel animals when we returned to our room on evening midway through our stay!

The Calypso pool was never crowded even though the Fantasia pool at Movies was closed during the time we stayed Music.

We never waited more than 5-10 minutes for bus and only shared buses on the way back from some of the parks. Music always had its own bus back from MK.

Any questions? Just ask and I will try to answer them.

i just posted a question about this and i should of scrolled down more to see yours. we're going in dec w'3 adults and 2 kids. do you think this will be too crowded?
 
disnut1149 said:
Hi Linda,
Thanks for your review of these suites. They sound great. I'm glad you enjoyed your stay. I know you're the queen of the All Stars, but I was wondering if you got to look around CSR. I have to admit that I was thinking of staying here and was wondering what you think of it. You give such great, detailed reviews. Also, do you know how comfortable the pull out beds are? I'm thinking of taking my nieces DD and DGD here next August and was hoping that they are comfortable. I've been on some that you could feel springs,a metal bar or just a really thin mattress. These are new, so I thought they should be nice.Thanks again!!!
Joan

Hi Joan :wave2:

Sorry, I did not get a chance to look around CSR much.
When we went there to eat at the Pepper Market I did not have my electric mobility scooter. DH drove us to the CSR and I used my walker to walk to the Pepper Market from the lobby.

We really eating at the Pepper Market and we wandered outside by the Marina. We had talked during dinner about going to find the pool and I could see where the Dig Site Pool was located across the Lake but the
distance was just too far for me.

We did visit the gift shop at CSR and I was pleased with large size and the variety of items offered.

I tried the chair foldout at the Family suites and thought it was comfortable.
The mattress was thick and there are no bars under the mattress there is metal frame around the edge but not under the sleeper.
They are made in a way that when the chair is folded out the area that was the back of the chair rests on the floor and supports the bed and person lying on the sleeper. I was amazed and really intrigued by that concept.
I took some photos which I will pick up later today. If they turn out I will post one for you so you can get a better visualization.
 
aldisneygrl said:
Linda,

Thank you so much for your review. We will be sleeping in one of those Suites in 12 days!!! My kids have already decided which beds they are sleeping on in the living room thanks to your pictures. :)

Several Questions:

Did you ever hear construction noise? If so, what time of the morning did it start?

Did they replenish your plastic cups, silverware, & plates everyday or should I bring some from home?

Did you say that there was a curtain between the living room and the kitchenette area? I had actually thought about bringing a curtain from home. If DD sees any movement, it will be a reason to not go to sleep. :rotfl: Although I am hoping that all the walking she will be doing will tucker her out. :lmao:

I know that they couldn't honor your request for a HA room, but were all your other requests honored? We have asked for a top level non smoking room. Just wondering what our chances are of getting that.

Also, what time of day did you check in, and what time did you get into your room? There have been some comments made about rooms not being ready until 5:00. :sad2:

I am so excited and can't wait to stay here! :cheer2: :banana: :cool1: :yay:

We stayed in Calypso building #10.
I did not hear any construction noise. The Suites are supposed be finished by mid October so I think most of the construction is done and just the finish work--painting, new furnishings, etc., is being done now.
We did see a painter doing a little touch up work on the outside of our building
one day.

We only stayed one night so I don't know about if they replenish your plastic cups, silverware, & plates. I am sure you can request that they supplied each day.
We received 2 packets of Cafe Valet French roast coffee, 1 decafe and 1 regular, two packets of coffee condiments (Sugar, creamer, and coffee stirrers) and 2 tea bags (a breakfast tea bag and a green tea bag) when we arrived in our room. There 6 foam coffee cups and the coffeepot is the small one which makes 4 cups.

There is no curtain between the living room and kitchen area and the area between the walls is about 5 feet across so keep that in mind if you bring a tension rod and curtain from home.

There are privacy curtains by each of the sink areas.

We had a non smoking room that was only other request I had made.

We checked out of standard and into our Family Suite about 8:15 AM and our Suite was ready for us! They gave us our room keys right then.
I just think it depends on how busy they are and how many requests you have. The more requests you have makes the number of rooms that fulfill your requests less and so you made to wait to have your requests filled.

Have fun at Disney and enjoy the Family Suite! :wizard:
 
dana1003 said:
i just posted a question about this and i should of scrolled down more to see yours. we're going in dec w'3 adults and 2 kids. do you think this will be too crowded?

I think 3 adults and 2 children will be fine in the Family Suite.

Room size Comparison:

Pop Century/All Stars-260 Square Feet
CS, POR/POFQ-314 SF
Caribbean Beach-340 SF
Wilderness Lodge-344 SF
AKL-344 SF
Yacht/Beach-381 SF
Boardwalk-385 SF
Polynesian-409 SF
Contemporary-436 SF
Grand Floridian-about 400-440SF
Ft Wilderness Cabins-504 SF
Family suites at All Star Music -520 SF
 
Hi Linda,
Thanks for your reply. It sounds really great. I might be asking you a few more questions at a later time about your scooter. I don't have any experience with one, but my sister has MS and if she decides to go with us next year, she'll definitely need one. I've talked to her about it and I think she's not too sure about using it there. We went to WDW in 2001 and had a great time, (we had always wanted to go together) and she wasn't diagnosed yet with MS, so we would really like to go again, since she is noticeably getting worse. I was wondering how you manage with your back condition. I'm glad you had a great time. You're so nice to spend so much time putting all that info in your reports. :goodvibes
 
disnut1149 said:
Hi Linda,
Thanks for your reply. It sounds really great. I might be asking you a few more questions at a later time about your scooter. I don't have any experience with one, but my sister has MS and if she decides to go with us next year, she'll definitely need one. I've talked to her about it and I think she's not too sure about using it there. We went to WDW in 2001 and had a great time, (we had always wanted to go together) and she wasn't diagnosed yet with MS, so we would really like to go again, since she is noticeably getting worse. I was wondering how you manage with your back condition. I'm glad you had a great time. You're so nice to spend so much time putting all that info in your reports. :goodvibes

Thanks.
I will be than happy to help you and others who have questions about scooters and scooter rentals. There are a few good places to rent to rent the mobility from list on the disABILITIES page. There is a lot of good info about getting around the parks, using the Disney buses on that board also.

Here is photo of the one I rented from Walker Mobility this month. This one came with a sunshade which was $15 extra for the week.

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We just returned from a fabulous stay at All Star Music.

Here are some of my photos of the new Family Suites at All Star Music:

Here are some photos from the living area:

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TV and storage dresser in living area.

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Table and chairs in living area.

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Living area.

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TV with view of kitchenette.

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Sitting in the red chair looking at the kitchenette.

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I love this art print in the living area.

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Chair folded out into bed. * note the seat and back cushion of chair support the bed.
 
Here are some photos of the kitchenette and bathroom areas:

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Fridge

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Coffee pot.

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Shelf with hooks on wall by bathroom

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Sink area outside bathroom


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Sink and bathroom.

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Iron & Ironing board in closet area
 
Here are some photos of the Master bedroom area.


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Desk and TV in master bedroom.

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Queensize bed, chair, and nightstand in master bedroom.

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Art Print in master bedroom.

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Master bedroom.

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TV in the master bedroom.
 
How many people does the Family suite sleep? I know the master bedroom has a Queen bed but is there something besides the chair that fold out? Thanks in advance.
 
84disney said:
How do the rooms sleep six? :confused3 It has a queen in MBR, a sleeper sofa for 2, and a chair bed for 1? I love looking at your pics, but have wondered for a while how it adds up to six. Does that ottoman fold out to a bed? I wish they would make some suites in ASMo. Anyway...your pics were great! :goodvibes

Yes, the Ottoman converts into a cot size bed.
 
Thanks Linda. Great report and wonderful pictures. We will be staying there for our Thanksgiving Trip. Can't wait. :thumbsup2
 
kaysmommie said:
How many people does the Family suite sleep? I know the master bedroom has a Queen bed but is there something besides the chair that fold out? Thanks in advance.

The Suites Sleep 6.
2 in the Queen bed.
2 on the double sleeper sofa
1 in the chair bed and
1 on the ottoman cot bed.

Here are a few photos of the sleepers from the DIS resort home page:




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Thanks Linda, I have really enjoyed reading your posts, they are so informative.

I am trying to find a room (suite) for just one night,we will be staying the rest of our trip at OKW in a two bedroom. There will be six adults, my two sons and their girlfriends (young adults) and DH and myself. Do you think the family suite would work for us? I would prefer to stay on property with a reasonable rate (Saturday night). The cost a OKW for a Saturday was way to much. Thanks
 















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