dyingtodisney
<font color="#2f639d">Can't wait to swim in the si
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Encountered strange situation during SSR stay ( will post more on stay later) and wondered if this was common construction?
Do all Dvc units that are lock offs have the breaker box in the one bedroom side that also controls studio portion?
During our trip around 11:00 we plugged in our cell phone near the bed in our studio and the electricity went out for that portion of the room. THe bathroom, hall and kitchenette are still had electricity. We called the front desk and they sent someone from maintenance (after my husband looked for the breaker box themselves) He then informed my husband the breaker box was next door in someone's 1 bdr villa and the front desk would have to get permission with those guests. First of all the front desk called our room to see if they could have maintenance enter and I told them we were in the room with no electricity, after much (over 30 minutes) waiting for a response the maintenance guy told my husband they also called another wrong room (by this time it was midnight) Finally they got in touch with our neighbors who graciously let them in to flip the breaker box. I felt so bad! Are all the units arranged like this? And what if the room the breaker box was in had guests that would be gone all day would that mean no electricity? This seems like it could be a very sticky situation...Anyone else been down this road?
Do all Dvc units that are lock offs have the breaker box in the one bedroom side that also controls studio portion?
During our trip around 11:00 we plugged in our cell phone near the bed in our studio and the electricity went out for that portion of the room. THe bathroom, hall and kitchenette are still had electricity. We called the front desk and they sent someone from maintenance (after my husband looked for the breaker box themselves) He then informed my husband the breaker box was next door in someone's 1 bdr villa and the front desk would have to get permission with those guests. First of all the front desk called our room to see if they could have maintenance enter and I told them we were in the room with no electricity, after much (over 30 minutes) waiting for a response the maintenance guy told my husband they also called another wrong room (by this time it was midnight) Finally they got in touch with our neighbors who graciously let them in to flip the breaker box. I felt so bad! Are all the units arranged like this? And what if the room the breaker box was in had guests that would be gone all day would that mean no electricity? This seems like it could be a very sticky situation...Anyone else been down this road?
I posted about this in my trip report! Which room were you in? We were one of the rooms they called when they were trying to figure out which breaker box needed to be reset! This was Wednesday or Thursday night if I remember correctly...they called us around 11:30pm. 
Then we had a little craziness verifying that it was actually the front desk calling and not some kook wanting to get in our room... we waited for the maintenance guy to show up at our door (and prayed that he didn't wake the kids sleeping on the couch). We waited 20 minutes or so (turned on Leno by that point) and no one ever showed! DH finally called back and had a hard time getting someone at the actual front desk. He was looking for the female night manager he'd spoken to earlier...which caused some confusion because it turns out that the manager's name is actually *John* 
(oops). 
Actually Lucy and I were laughing about it. I told her I was going to negotiate the deal next time. See what we could get from the front desk AND the studio! "Give us breakfast or you have to stay in the dark". 
It could backfire on you!
