Jennifer48
Not a Disney bride but engaged and honeymooned at
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Hey all,
I just got back from staying at the Worldgate while at WDW and I just wanted to relay what a horrible experience it was. Now I'm sure that there are others that have had a wonderful time there but I just wanted to share my experience.
There were 2 sets of couples in my group. We each had separate rooms and hoping to get 2 joining rooms. I needed internet access for my class that I have been taking and that was the only request made. The only area that had wireless internet access was in the south tower. Of course, we were assigned rooms in the north tower. The staff at the front desk (who were all very nice), informed me that there were no available rooms in the south tower upon check-in but they would let me know when one became available. That was fine with me. We all had dinner plans at Boma's that night so we went upstairs to drop our bags off in our rooms and there was a housekeeper and another gentleman in my friend's room. There was a large water spot on the rug in front of the bathroom. Looked as if the tub or toilet overflowed into the hall. Not nice. So they let them know that they were going to get them another room. Meanwhile, I go into my room which was had 2 doubles and it was so small! The door in the bathroom hit the toilet when you opened it and the vanity was not big enough for 2 people. Well, we knew that we weren't staying there long so we went to dinner.
After dinner we all go back to our rooms and the keycards to my room don't work. We proceed to the front desk and it turns out, they checked us out of our room and checked in someone else without notifying us first! So we had to wait for security to escort us to the room to remove our bags and go to the new room in the south tower. We waited 10 minutes and security never came so one of the front desk girls (again very nice) walked us to our room, we removed our bags and she walked us to our next room and guess what? The keycards didn't work there either! So we waited there while she went down and got them activated again. FINALLY, she came back and we got in. Much bigger room, much bigger bathroom but wait, there were ants! We didn't feel like switching again so we just stayed there.
Other problems throughout the week, the ice machine across the hall was dumping ice through all hours of the night and woke us up. Then the ONLY day we are there in the afternoon after going to Typhoon Lagoon, there is NO WATER!!
None to shower. We had to sit in our freezing room in wet clothes. Last problem, there was no a/c unit in the room, just a thermostat and that didn't work!! 
I laugh about it now but thankfully we were only there to sleep but I would not stay there again even though it was convienently close to both WDW and MCO. 
Anyone else had problems there?
Btw, we found out too that most of the south tower was still under renovations from Hurricane Charley's wrath last year.
I just got back from staying at the Worldgate while at WDW and I just wanted to relay what a horrible experience it was. Now I'm sure that there are others that have had a wonderful time there but I just wanted to share my experience.
There were 2 sets of couples in my group. We each had separate rooms and hoping to get 2 joining rooms. I needed internet access for my class that I have been taking and that was the only request made. The only area that had wireless internet access was in the south tower. Of course, we were assigned rooms in the north tower. The staff at the front desk (who were all very nice), informed me that there were no available rooms in the south tower upon check-in but they would let me know when one became available. That was fine with me. We all had dinner plans at Boma's that night so we went upstairs to drop our bags off in our rooms and there was a housekeeper and another gentleman in my friend's room. There was a large water spot on the rug in front of the bathroom. Looked as if the tub or toilet overflowed into the hall. Not nice. So they let them know that they were going to get them another room. Meanwhile, I go into my room which was had 2 doubles and it was so small! The door in the bathroom hit the toilet when you opened it and the vanity was not big enough for 2 people. Well, we knew that we weren't staying there long so we went to dinner.
After dinner we all go back to our rooms and the keycards to my room don't work. We proceed to the front desk and it turns out, they checked us out of our room and checked in someone else without notifying us first! So we had to wait for security to escort us to the room to remove our bags and go to the new room in the south tower. We waited 10 minutes and security never came so one of the front desk girls (again very nice) walked us to our room, we removed our bags and she walked us to our next room and guess what? The keycards didn't work there either! So we waited there while she went down and got them activated again. FINALLY, she came back and we got in. Much bigger room, much bigger bathroom but wait, there were ants! We didn't feel like switching again so we just stayed there.
Other problems throughout the week, the ice machine across the hall was dumping ice through all hours of the night and woke us up. Then the ONLY day we are there in the afternoon after going to Typhoon Lagoon, there is NO WATER!!
None to shower. We had to sit in our freezing room in wet clothes. Last problem, there was no a/c unit in the room, just a thermostat and that didn't work!! I laugh about it now but thankfully we were only there to sleep but I would not stay there again even though it was convienently close to both WDW and MCO. Anyone else had problems there?
Btw, we found out too that most of the south tower was still under renovations from Hurricane Charley's wrath last year.
) We need a cheaper than AKL trip this march break. It's down on Hotwire as a customer favourite...I cross-checked it with Tripadvisor and some people there really like it too. Has it been renovated lately? Has anyone got any comments about the pool there?
