SSR Lovers and/or Owners Thread!

[RachelTori]

Great pictures, abk96! Thanks for sharing! Now you've made me homesick!!

 

[lyzziesmom]

Beautiful, beautiful pictures. I love that first one, it makes me feel like I'm right there walking the grounds. I can't wait until next month when I'll be adding my own pictures to this thread!

 

[lyzziesmom]

Please help me, now that my trip is getting close I'm drawing a blank on something. I know that the SSR 1-br units have a coffeemaker, but do they supply the coffee too or should we bring our own? I am not a coffee drinker but my dad is MUCH more pleasant the earlier he can have his coffee.

Thanks!

 

[kritter]

Please help me, now that my trip is getting close I'm drawing a blank on something. I know that the SSR 1-br units have a coffeemaker, but do they supply the coffee too or should we bring our own? I am not a coffee drinker but my dad is MUCH more pleasant the earlier he can have his coffee.

Thanks!

They have coffee in the room. According to DH it is not very good we usually bring a small bag of our own.........

 

[TenThousandVolts]

Please help me, now that my trip is getting close I'm drawing a blank on something. I know that the SSR 1-br units have a coffeemaker, but do they supply the coffee too or should we bring our own? I am not a coffee drinker but my dad is MUCH more pleasant the earlier he can have his coffee.

Thanks!

I think there is only enough for 1 or 2 days, but if you are getting daily housekeeping I think they replenish.

 

[RachelTori]

Please help me, now that my trip is getting close I'm drawing a blank on something. I know that the SSR 1-br units have a coffeemaker, but do they supply the coffee too or should we bring our own? I am not a coffee drinker but my dad is MUCH more pleasant the earlier he can have his coffee.

Thanks!

To be on the safe side, pack some coffee and paper filters for your dad! (or you can buy it @ AP, but I think they only had Folgers)

 

[lyzziesmom]

Thanks for all the quick answers, you guys are good! I'll pass the info along to Dad and let him decide. I think he prefers free coffee over good coffee!

 

[my3princes]

We just got back. We spent 7 days in the Paddock area of SSR. It was wonderful. So quiet and beautiful. It is nice to park right in front of your unit as opposed to BWV where you park a great distance away. We will definitely stay there on future trips. The food at the Turf Club was delicious and you must try the Saratoga potatoes, very yummy. We did find the service there a bit slow especially if you have children with you. The counter service was made to order and that was very slow too. There is no place to get a quick bite to eat. SSR is our home resort and we are very happy with our purchase. Make sure to take the tour of the new AK Villas. They have complete units set up at Saratoga and they are beautiful although a bit dark, darker than the WL Villas in my opinion.

As to the coffee question. We were given a one day supply upon arrival and it was not replenished during our stay. They do sell filters and coffee in the little store and it was resonable priced though we picked some up at the SuperWalmart.

 

[kritter]

Just a reminder if you want water while you are at WDW. You can have it delivered from Staples.com right to SSR they also have snacks and water that you can have delivered. We had water, and coffee delivered to SSR and it was delivered to our room upon check in great easy and resonably priced tooo!!!!!

 

[disney_fan1972]

We just came back from 6 days at SSR, our first trip there. We bought our DVC site unseen with the feeling that if we didn't like it we would just stay elsewhere. WE LOVED IT!!! We stayed in the Paddock and walked out our bldg right to the bus stop. Disney really should work on the bus service however... we had a number of hour waits for AK while we would watch 4 Epcot busses stop. That said we are looking forward to going home again in the spring.

I will post pics in a few days

 

[aclov]

I'll be staying at SSR for the first time next month. I've eaten at Artist Palette before but I don't remember seeing refillable mugs.

Can someone tell me if they're available at SSR and the cost if you know.

 

[Holly]

We just came back from 6 days at SSR, our first trip there. We bought our DVC site unseen with the feeling that if we didn't like it we would just stay elsewhere. WE LOVED IT!!! We stayed in the Paddock and walked out our bldg right to the bus stop. Disney really should work on the bus service however... we had a number of hour waits for AK while we would watch 4 Epcot busses stop. That said we are looking forward to going home again in the spring.

I will post pics in a few days

I was there last week, as well, and have the same complaint. The bus service left alot to be desired (it could be described as horrible, actually), and the fact that the resort was filled to capacity didn't help matters.

The only other issue that I had was not being able to check into my room until 5:45 pm.

Other than that, the resort was beautiful and we had a great time.

 

[vandy]

I'll be staying at SSR for the first time next month. I've eaten at Artist Palette before but I don't remember seeing refillable mugs.

Can someone tell me if they're available at SSR and the cost if you know.

Back in June, they were in one of the cold cases to the far right at the counter service. I think they were $11 or $12 each, but as DVC members we received a discount. Again, I don't remember what it came to.

 

[lyzziesmom]

Oh my gosh, I certainly hope the bus service improves in the next couple of weeks! We will be there for 10 days without a car and with 7 of us. I hope the bus service is better when the resort isn't full to capacity. I've never really had any problems with buses other than DTD, but I've never been to SSR before either. Can anyone who was there recently tell me, did the long bus waits occur at any specific time of day? I would think there would be more buses in the mornings and less in the middle of the day? I thought the new system was supposed to help dispatch buses more on demand, I guess it's not working out too well.

 

[bpmorley]

Oh my gosh, I certainly hope the bus service improves in the next couple of weeks! We will be there for 10 days without a car and with 7 of us. I hope the bus service is better when the resort isn't full to capacity. I've never really had any problems with buses other than DTD, but I've never been to SSR before either. Can anyone who was there recently tell me, did the long bus waits occur at any specific time of day? I would think there would be more buses in the mornings and less in the middle of the day? I thought the new system was supposed to help dispatch buses more on demand, I guess it's not working out too well.

I was just there in June and we didn't have any problems with any buses. Overall we've never had a problem with the transportation system

 

[tomandrobin]

I was just there in June and we didn't have any problems with any buses. Overall we've never had a problem with the transportation system

I am a little surprised with the poor bus service. We have always had great bus service on all of our trips, even at Christmas and 4th of July.

 

[casper]

I'm also surprised that the bus service has been letting people down lately. I was there July 7 through 13 and we never had a problem with the buses. Well, not exactly true. Our problem seemed to be timing. We always arrived just in time to see the bus we wanted leaving the stop. So we would have to wait the "full" amount of time before the next bus arrived. Our max wait (after just missing the bus we wanted) was 25 minutes. I didn't think that was too bad.

We were staying at the Grandstand area (great place to stay) and they have horse shoe pits to pitch at while waiting for the bus.

 

[zumbergc]

whats the order of pick-up at SSR for the bus stops?

What size is te in room safe?

TIA

 

[kikiq]

Oh my gosh, I certainly hope the bus service improves in the next couple of weeks! We will be there for 10 days without a car and with 7 of us. I hope the bus service is better when the resort isn't full to capacity. I've never really had any problems with buses other than DTD, but I've never been to SSR before either. Can anyone who was there recently tell me, did the long bus waits occur at any specific time of day? I would think there would be more buses in the mornings and less in the middle of the day? I thought the new system was supposed to help dispatch buses more on demand, I guess it's not working out too well.

We went to SSR twice during our trip last week to decide where to call home...SSR or AKV. Didn't have any problems with buses going to the parks. We did pass through SSR from Epcot trying to get to DTD. The Epcot did try to take us to DTD but the dispatch told him that another bus was on it's way. There was another family on the bus with us and a mom with 2 DDs waiting at the last stop for the DTD bus. She said she had been waiting 40 minutes and had called the SSR front desk who called the dispatch. So we had to get off the Epcot bus as he was being sent somewhere else and waited about 10 minutes for the DTD bus. We thanked the bus driver for trying to get us to DTD himself. Of course, then on our next trip to SSR and looking at the models, we find out that we could have taken the boat or walked(if it hadn't been 102

 

[mommyrom]

New DVC owners checking in! We just returned from a fun (but HOT ) 8 day trip to WDW and I can't yet get over the fact that on one of our non-park days, we toured SSR and then bought into the DVC right then and there!!!! I think we are excited, but are still somewhat in shock that we took such a plunge and did this on the spot.

We toured both the AKL unit, as well as SSR units while there. AKL was beautiful, but the moment DH and I saw the SSR rooms, we fell in love! Well, then you all know how it goes from there, in the office, chit-chat, oh, alright!, sign the papers, get the kiddos from the clubhouse, have ice cream and we were on our way. DH and I are happy with our choice and we know it will make all our future trips to WDW that much better, but, I must admit, we honestly have to remind ourselves that we are DVC owners now!

Well, just wanted to say hello and looking forward to planning our next visit to our new home very soon (As long as we do not return that quickly to the 100+ degree temps and humidity that we had AAAALLLLLL this past week while there! I thought our kids were going to simply melt at one point!!! )