Hi Slo!
Just back from our Sept Contemporary Tower stay and the trip was great!!!! The lines really weren't long for a holiday weekend and yesterday there were almost NO lines at all at MK. The weather was HOT and HUMID-- pack extra shirts!!! It rained almost every evening except one.
Our reveiw of the CR is mixed. We stayed on the 8th floor with a MK view, we watched the fireworks every night from the balcony!!! The CR has two things that can't be beat: the location and the view. Everything else was not up to disney standards in our opinion. We found the rooms to be old, rundown, dirty and beat up-- thank goodness they are remolding! I went down twice to the front desk to complain about housekeeping (we are not complainers- we have never complained before, we don't even send food back when we go out to eat- so this was a big thing for us to complain once let alone twice) This was our 5th stay at a disney resort (we've stay at value, mod and deluxe) and it was our least favorite resort by far. After staying at other disney resorts we were let down by the lack of themeing at the CR and we didn't realize what a busy street it is outside. We found the pool to be not very young kid friendly-- we have a 1 and 4 year old-- our 4yo is a great swimmer but he couldn't go anywhere because the pool was too deep for him to touch bottom and the kids fountain area was exciting for about 2 minutes for the both of them. And the pool was NOT busy at all and it was very dirty-- both the fountain area and main pool bottom were full of sand and leaves everyday. My son did love the slide though!!
Hope our experience was an unusual one and everyone has better luck!
Let me know if you have any questions!