Hi, just got back from 6 days/5 nights staying at Beach Club Villa.
Room # 414.
I got what we requested..non smoking and facing the pool. I was thinking SAB pool, but it was the quiet pool (which is the only pool for the villas).
We checked in about 12:30 and our room was ready.
Our room was right across from the laundry room which was very convienent. It was also right off the elevators.
We got settled in on Sunday evening and I went downstairs and bought a 6 pack of coke ($6.00) and turned the refrig. on. Within a couple hours we had a god awful smell in our room. I couldn't quite figure out what the smell was. Finally I figured out that it was the frig. and called down to the front desk. It was about 10 pm by this time and housekeeping came up and pretty much just agreed that the smell was bad and she would get engineering up. Well I was to tired to wait up so I told her just to have them come in the morning. They did and they plugged something (not sure what it was, looked liked like a charger) and the smell eventually faded away...after about another 36 hours or so.
With DVC (I am not a member, just rented points) you only get housekeeping once, which was fine. But they didn't come until Thursday afternoon? We had been there since Sunday and were leaving on Friday. Thought that was a little weird.
Overall Beach Club was nice and SAB is very nice. My 3 and 5 year old loved the pool, but I would never ever pay that kind of price to stay there. We got a deal when we rented the points, otherwise we wouldn't have stayed there. I could never justify $350 + a night for there.
P.S. Beach and Cream is nice, but it is always PACKED. I was wondering why they don't take the arcade out next door and expanded.
Hope this helps