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Well, I guess we haven't heard back from them so it must have worked.
Here now and absolutely in LOVE with this resort! Our room was ready when we checked in at 11:30 and the room we are in is a perfect match to our wants/needs
Quiet : well the darned boats on the canal can interrupt a guy's nap on the balcony according to the hubby
Removed from any hustle & bustle : those pesky little birds flying around can be a tad perky first thing in the morning!
Comfortable space to spread out: there's nothing wrong with turning your bed into a home office is there???
Feels like "Florida" : well D'UH it's in the name right?
The staff here seems to be top notch and have all been on point with what we consider "Disney magic" without being forced. They all seem to love their work and it really feels like being a part of a family. Thanks for all the help with picking the best place for our "sanity break"!
I'll be more than happy to share the info as well as some pictures of the views once we get home --- early February!Please tell me which building and room number! This sounds exactly what we're looking for![]()
I always bring mine from home and give Bill all of them. He piles them up or lies on them or whatever he wants to use them for. Basically, they are all bad.Quick question from 2 very stiff necked peeps, do all the pillows at OKW suck or did we get every single one of them??? we have 7 very thin hard foam pillows that bring to mind the quote "10,000 years will give you such a crick in the neck" Would it do us any good to request new ones or are they all this bad?
When we had an attached studio we put towels between the adjoining doors. It muffled some of the noise.
While we love this resort and are so happy we are staying here after the last 3 nights we have decided unless we can afford a 1 bedroom NEVER AGAIN! 2 nights ago a family arrived around 11:30 and i'd have to venture they were staying in a few units and after checking them all out decided the one bedroom joining this studio was the perfect place for the communal party. Ok, no biggie everyone's excited when they get to Disney, we can deal... until the phone starts ringing at 6:30 and you yell from the other room for someone else to answer and they don't ... phone rings a LOT until it stops! No problem they can't be that noisy every night can they? 2nd night pretty quiet and they checked out yesterday morning bright and early but it was a park day for us so no biggie.
Came back from the Studios around 11 last night (now that was COOL, last family in the park and they sent 3 buses to get us to our different resorts! late night ADR at Sci-Fi and a problem with cashing out the cheques) to discover a new family with a young child who has a very croupy cough checked in. I'm thinking the kid also wears lead lined shoes and brought some bowling pins and balls to play with! The kid never stopped coughing (poor family!) and they took turns trying to entertain him so the rest of the family could sleep (and yes i KNOW that's exactly what they said... urgh) We're going to be heading home more tired than when we got here if they are that noisy the rest of the week.
The concept of a studio attached to a one bedroom is great if you have BOTH rooms but if you're in the studio on one side of a very thin door when a noisy family is on the other side not so much. We won't be saying anything to anyone here because it's not our place to tell someone else how to enjoy themselves while on holiday in a room they are paying for, not our job to be the noise police over what is just basic day-to-day sounds from a young family. Just a head's up to others who are choosing this resort using the same criteria we did :quiet, removed from the parks & other resorts, serene, lack of amenities that would draw people who aren't staying here ... if you are staying in a studio, the walls & adjoining door are VERY THIN and the lack of floor coverings in the main room allow every sound to echo.
While we love this resort and are so happy we are staying here after the last 3 nights we have decided unless we can afford a 1 bedroom NEVER AGAIN! 2 nights ago a family arrived around 11:30 and i'd have to venture they were staying in a few units and after checking them all out decided the one bedroom joining this studio was the perfect place for the communal party. Ok, no biggie everyone's excited when they get to Disney, we can deal... until the phone starts ringing at 6:30 and you yell from the other room for someone else to answer and they don't ... phone rings a LOT until it stops! No problem they can't be that noisy every night can they? 2nd night pretty quiet and they checked out yesterday morning bright and early but it was a park day for us so no biggie.
Came back from the Studios around 11 last night (now that was COOL, last family in the park and they sent 3 buses to get us to our different resorts! late night ADR at Sci-Fi and a problem with cashing out the cheques) to discover a new family with a young child who has a very croupy cough checked in. I'm thinking the kid also wears lead lined shoes and brought some bowling pins and balls to play with! The kid never stopped coughing (poor family!) and they took turns trying to entertain him so the rest of the family could sleep (and yes i KNOW that's exactly what they said... urgh) We're going to be heading home more tired than when we got here if they are that noisy the rest of the week.
The concept of a studio attached to a one bedroom is great if you have BOTH rooms but if you're in the studio on one side of a very thin door when a noisy family is on the other side not so much. We won't be saying anything to anyone here because it's not our place to tell someone else how to enjoy themselves while on holiday in a room they are paying for, not our job to be the noise police over what is just basic day-to-day sounds from a young family. Just a head's up to others who are choosing this resort using the same criteria we did :quiet, removed from the parks & other resorts, serene, lack of amenities that would draw people who aren't staying here ... if you are staying in a studio, the walls & adjoining door are VERY THIN and the lack of floor coverings in the main room allow every sound to echo.
When we had an attached studio we put towels between the adjoining doors. It muffled some of the noise.
There are refill stations at Good's Food To Go and at the Turtle Pond pool (limited hours at the pool). They have the same beverages at Good's as all other refill stations. Not sure if Turtle Pond has hot beverages - they aren't showing on the menu here: http://allears.net/dining/menu/turtle-shack/all-dayWhere can you refill your Mug? Is there soda, Coffee and Hot Chocolate at refill stations? thanks
View attachment 219181 View attachment 219182 View attachment 219183 Slowly getting back into some semblance of routine again after our almost 3-week long stay at OKW. here's the great, the good, the not so wonderful and the OMG what sort of fresh heck did we wake up in??
Our room location was wonderful, peaceful, quiet in respect to external noises -- rarely heard buses unless we were on the balcony or leaving the room, the boat to DS woke us some mornings but we never noticed it other than for my hubby to announce "BOAT" whenever he saw it float by
Room #4520 here's a couple of view shots (i have yet to figure out how to get pictures show up in the correct spot!!)
The meals we at Olivia's were all wonderful and they handled my dietary restrictions with ease and after the first meal knew us and had the chef at our table within minutes. Only had issue with one server who seemed more interested in larger groups to the point of forgetting the cream for hubby's coffee until the cup he poured (all over the table) AND the entire press pot had gone cold but that can happen anywhere and it was resolved once someone finally remembered we'd been seated in the room off to the side. Loved the one dinner when our kids joined us and they were on the dining plan -- server divided the bill so that they "paid" for the more $$ meals and we had the cheaper ones, nice touch.
Not once did we have issue with the transportation, never waited more than 10 minutes either going to a park or coming back. Once we realized that buses going to a park would take 20 minutes to leave the resort (South Point stop) and the bus back from DS took 20 minutes to get to our stop we simply adjusted our trip and took the DS OUT of the resort and park buses BACK (we didn't do many park days -- lots of resort hopping so we would just use a park bus as a transfer on the way there and DS on the way back) We found it quicker to get off the DS bus at the HH and walk back to our room. Took the boat a LOT, even though it took longer than bus, it fit our relaxed pace better
Our weather was spectacular, we went from days so hot i constantly complained to a few days so cold hubby whined and pouted (keeping the house a happy medium is hard) Only had one day of rain, it was torrential mind you and we found out when we got back to our room that we were under a tornado watch --
Not OKW related but nice none-the-less
The Pro-Bowl actually DID influence the crowd level around the entire resort, making DS a mad house at times and obviously caught the staffing at the parks off guard --- one day at MK there was one lone CM manning the Dole whip stand and the line was easily 20 deep. There were some tour groups from Brazil but they only bothered us at DS in the evenings, not unexpected when there are a lot of teens faces with an array of stores they don't normally see, they were easy to avoid.
I touched on the noise level we experienced the 2nd half of our stay and while we realize this is possible at ANY resort anywhere in the world by the end of the 3rd week it was truly unacceptable. We understand the general excited sounds generated by a young family and one with a small child who has a croupy cough -- been there, done that, have several t-shirts, so we just dealt with that by leaving the tv on the "park hours" channel very low so as to drown out the sound during the daytime hours (did NOT do this overnight for fear we might disturb them!) However, when the rest of their family eventually joined them in other rooms in the building and they chose THAT room as command central we were pushed to the end of our ropes. It got bad enough that when we checked out and in again for our final night we mentioned they might want to keep the studio empty if at all possible until that family checked out and asked if we would be able to call anyone if the noise was excessive that night, response was not sympathetic "oh well i see they're checking out soon so they won't bother anyone." Uhm and tonight? "i guess you could call if you feel the need" 6:30 the following morning their alarm went off to prepare for the 7 am birthday party that included easily 10 adults and a gaggle of young children. Party was in full swing until they left for who knows where at 9:45 -- we called the front desk at 7:30 and either no-one came or they did NOT care because the noise never stopped. When we checked out the on duty manager took one look at us when we wandered into the lobby and quickly pulled us aside to ask what was wrong .. ended up letting us use a room until 1:30 so i could nap.
Again i know the noise complaints are NOT specific to OKW and could happen anywhere, but it was excessive and other than the final reaction of the manager, we felt that none of the staff cared about how it was impacting OUR stay. We did not want nor expect any compensation, we made it clear to everyone we spoke to that we were staying on points and knew that meant it is a different type of stay without the safety net of a reservation thru Disney but it was clear that the other guests were either cash guests or were paying for daily housekeeping and we wondered if they were treated differently because of that? All we really wanted was some suggestions of how to deal with the noise or to perhaps ask them to tone down the noise?
Thanks for all the help leading up to this stay and for the suggestions when i reached out about the noise level -- the stuffing of the doors helped some until they began opening and closing said door ... We loved the resort but sadly will need some serious thought about staying there againSorry for the length of this post