SSR Lovers and/or Owners Thread!

[my3princes]

Were you including the day you checked in as the first day? Sometimes people don't realize it is day #1 especially if they check in late. Interested if they did move it up a day though and if so, why?

We checked in on Sunday and expected T & T on Wednesday, but received it on Tuesday. We never asked why, but thought that it was odd.

 

[kikiq]

We just got back from WDW. Toured both SSR and AKL to pick our home resort...SSR seemed like a natural choice for our family. Just finished signing the papers at the DLR DVC office yesterday. How wonderful to hear the CMs say "Welcome Home" as we left. Hopefully we will be bringing the extended family next July to either SSR, OKW or AKL.

When I told my neighbor that is a SSR DVC owner that i was also her neighbor in WDW, she started laughing and crying. Her daughter is my youngest's BF, so she said that now their families will be going to WDW together. Yep, it was the right decision for us. I can't wait to be eating my ice cream on my couch watching a dvd instead of propping myself up on a hotel room bed trying to eat my melting ice cream from the resort store.

 

[RachelTori]

We just got back from WDW. Toured both SSR and AKL to pick our home resort...SSR seemed like a natural choice for our family. Just finished signing the papers at the DLR DVC office yesterday. How wonderful to hear the CMs say "Welcome Home" as we left. Hopefully we will be bringing the extended family next July to either SSR, OKW or AKL.

When I told my neighbor that is a SSR DVC owner that i was also her neighbor in WDW, she started laughing and crying. Her daughter is my youngest's BF, so she said that now their families will be going to WDW together. Yep, it was the right decision for us. I can't wait to be eating my ice cream on my couch watching a dvd instead of propping myself up on a hotel room bed trying to eat my melting ice cream from the resort store.

Congratulations and "Welcome Home!" Maybe we'll see you there in July!

 

[Disney_Mama]

Only 30 more days

 

[TenThousandVolts]

We checked in on Sunday and expected T & T on Wednesday, but received it on Tuesday. We never asked why, but thought that it was odd.

I am checking in on Sunday and I just got my confirmation letter from MS and it states that my trash and towel day will be on Wednesday, so I think you are right- it came a day early.

 

[kikiq]

Congratulations and "Welcome Home!" Maybe we'll see you there in July!

Thank you...now the extended family is making the "let's do the Disney Cruise" song and dance. Geeze, for a bunch of folks that weren't sure, they sure got on board quickly

 

[edk35]

I posted this as a trip report but thought I would add it to this thread too. We bought into SSR the last day of Jan. this year and this was our first trip as DVC members. We did a split stay at SSR for 5 nights and then 3 at BWV. When we first got to BWV we thought WOW..this is awesome..but within one day we were missing SSR and now know we like SSR better than BWV. We had fun at BWV but SSR is totally different in our minds. Anyway.....here is a report and although it was not a perfect stay...we did love the atmosphere there, the main pool was great, the walk and view to DTD wonderful. We can't wait to go back in Nov.



WE checked in on Wed. Aug. 15th into a dedicated two bedroom and moved to BWV on Monday Aug. 20th. We loved the resort but we did have a few problems but not enough to ruin our stay or make us NOT want to stay at our home resort. My only requests were Grandstand and not to be put into a handicapped room and she offered us Paddocks room ready at 2:15 when we arrived. I told her I would rather wait for something else and she had a room in Grandstand but the bldg. was the one furthest away or she had a room in Congress Park. I told her Congress Park was fine and I asked her.... if it was a handicapped room and she said no. Well we checked in about 4 and when we first got into our room I thought the kitchen counters looked low and it looked like it was modified for someone with a wheelchair and then I noticed the bathroom in the master bedroom was different and no sink vanity either. The guest room was not modified at all.It had the nice large vanity at the sink for my kids to put their toiletries. I just felt really disappointed on our very first stay especially when I asked her at check in "is the room in Congress Park a handicapped room". We would have stayed in Paddocks if I could have had a non handicapped room. I called back to the front desk and they assured me that I didn't have a handicapped room and that all the rooms were like this now. Being new to DVC I said okay. Well the next day (Thursday) I just kept thinking..."I thought we would have a separate shower and the vanity for us to put our stuff...I remember the models from Jan. having that but we also looked at a lock off and 3 bedroom villa so maybe I was wrong in thinking that..... so I called from MK that day and she looked it up and said we did not have a full handicapped room but a modified one. She said she would/could move us the next day on Friday without charging us, but we would have to have bell services take our things and wait until the room across the hall was ready probably 4:00. SO we packed up that Friday morning before heading to AK. We went to the desk to get new room keys and move into that room after 4 and all that was done were the beds were changed and there were fresh towels and liners in the trash cans. The PLACE WAS FILTHY. The carpet was dirty.....BIG TIME, the one shower had tons of hair stuck to the walls, the floors had visible YUCK on them in the bathroom and kitchen. The fridge was filthy...looked like someone took a bunch of poppy seeds from bagels and threw them in the fridge. My dh started vacuuming up gold fish crumbs, a dead roach and just filth on the rugs. I started clorox wiping the bathrooms down when finally I called housekeeping and they sent a lady up to look at it..SHE WAS SO UPSET and kept apologizing. SHe said WE SHOULD NEVER EVER HAVE TO CLEAN when we move into a room that has been cleared and turned over as cleaned. She took about 3 hours and cleaned that 2 bedroom villa from top to bottom...... she even changed the beds again. She was so apologetic. Okay.....now when we were packing up on Friday morning we were rushing around and we left a couple of items by accident.... stuffed animal in my youngest son's bed and my brand new (never worn) bathing suit in the room we moved out of. I called the same day we moved and noticed they were missing AND THEY WERE NO WHERE TO BE FOUND. Lost and Found called me 2 times while we were at SSR and another after we left and moved to BWV and still no luck. So I am guessing.....they were taken my house keeping. I can't imagine anyone wanting my bathing suit either.So that was 80 bucks down the drain. LOL

We did enjoy the stay and enjoyed Congress Park.....loved the pool and the ease of walking to DTD. We enjoyed BWV for our 3 nights but we all said we preferred SSR. We saw our guide on Sunday...he asked us to stop in and say hi to him on our first stay and we did. HE asked us how the stay had been thus far and we mentioned about the room not being clean and about a group of 14 of us not being picked up until almost an hour after closing at Typhoon Lagoon on their evening EMH on Sat. HE said that was not good and he apologized. He gave us three 15 dollar Disney Gift cards for the kids and he gave us 5 fast pass cards with 3 fast passes on each card. He wanted to make the wrongs right so to speak. He also asked me to please email him when we arrived back home with the problems we experienced so that he could forward them to the powers that be because if DVC members don't let them know what problems we encounter they can't be fixed. So he said "please send me a bullet email with what went wrong along with the what went right" LOL I told him that Jane from House Keeping did a wonderful job on our room when we moved and he would like to mention that to the House Keeping Dept. I also called them and the front desk to commend her for doing such a great job. Plus I tipped her while she was cleaning that room for us. Anyway......just wanted to give our impression on our first ever DVC stay at SSR and let others know that DVC wants to know when things don't go right or we have problems. They really do.

Oh and one more thing.....the only thing wrong with the 2nd unit was the doors to the washer/dryer were off the track on one side so we reported that, in the first unit at SSR the bathroom light in the guest room was flashing like a strobe light so they fixed that. Then at BWV our dryer took forever (like 3 cycles on high)...so I called about that so they could get that looked at before the next visitors arrived. But all in all....a great trip.....we liked both resorts but prefer SSR.

 

[TenThousandVolts]

Welcome back to Maryland EdK! I am glad you had a good trip but sorry about the problems you had. It sounds like they gave you some options as far as room location (as long as you were willing to wait) which is good, but I wonder if the rooms in CP are in the worst shape- I think that is the oldest section.

 

[DisneyBride'03]

Hi everyone...I have been lurking since mid March, made a few posts over here..and I am so excited to announce our DVC tour is Saturday morning...lol
Got the dream book in March after last trip to WDW..DH was like, "How Much?"..Then I had to get him down for a trip to DO the tour! Was able to do that with a great room discount code....I even did my own DVC presentation wearing YOMD Mickey Ears wearing the 'DVC Secret" button.....with visual aids...(DVD) lol
ANyway...mission accomplished!
SSR will be our home as soon as we sign the paperwork!!!
SSR looks amazing, beautiful....a spa? What more can you want at your "home" resort?!@
Thanks for "listening"

 

[tomandrobin]

Hi everyone...I have been lurking since mid March, made a few posts over here..and I am so excited to announce our DVC tour is Saturday morning...lol
Got the dream book in March after last trip to WDW..DH was like, "How Much?"..Then I had to get him down for a trip to DO the tour! Was able to do that with a great room discount code....I even did my own DVC presentation wearing YOMD Mickey Ears wearing the 'DVC Secret" button.....with visual aids...(DVD) lol
ANyway...mission accomplished!
SSR will be our home as soon as we sign the paperwork!!!
SSR looks amazing, beautiful....a spa? What more can you want at your "home" resort?!@
Thanks for "listening"

Congratulations!!!! SSR is a beautiful resort. The spa and gym truly are amazing! We have two months and 2 days before our next trip home and our first MNSSHP and second F&W Festival!

 

[pcparamedics01]

Hi everyone...I have been lurking since mid March, made a few posts over here..and I am so excited to announce our DVC tour is Saturday morning...lol
Got the dream book in March after last trip to WDW..DH was like, "How Much?"..Then I had to get him down for a trip to DO the tour! Was able to do that with a great room discount code....I even did my own DVC presentation wearing YOMD Mickey Ears wearing the 'DVC Secret" button.....with visual aids...(DVD) lol
ANyway...mission accomplished!
SSR will be our home as soon as we sign the paperwork!!!
SSR looks amazing, beautiful....a spa? What more can you want at your "home" resort?!@
Thanks for "listening"

Great! You will love being a DVC'er and Soon to be Welcomed Home!! SSR is Beautiful. Congress park has a fab view. Tip. Get on the DVC website when you get your paperwork and start the vacation countdown. It counts down the days for you! We own a computer repair store and my husband has the countdown on all the computers. Our tech's hate that he does it! He doesn't care . We work so hard that it keeps him going most days! Soo happy for you!

 

[allaboutmm]

We can't wait to have SSR be our "home"!!!!! Just waiting for all the paper work to be completed (the sellers paperwork and ROFR), the seller has one last trip planned in December (if you are the seller, we are a nice family who loves WDW, and DVC has been a dream for so-o long, PLEASE don't back out ), then on 12/22/07 it will become ours!! We are buying sight un-seen, but I am lucky enough to be going there in October with a group of friends(no DH or DKs )so I can't wait to see it(and maybe the spa) !!!!!!

 

[pcparamedics01]

We can't wait to have SSR be our "home"!!!!! Just waiting for all the paper work to be completed (the sellers paperwork and ROFR), the seller has one last trip planned in December (if you are the seller, we are a nice family who loves WDW, and DVC has been a dream for so-o long, PLEASE don't back out ), then on 12/22/07 it will become ours!! We are buying sight un-seen, but I am lucky enough to be going there in October with a group of friends(no DH or DKs )so I can't wait to see it(and maybe the spa) !!!!!!

We bought ours sight un-seen too! We bought it through the mail!!! You will love it!!! Good Luck!!

 

[popstar7867]

Congrats to all the new DVCers!!! I had a quick question about the rooms at SSR. We are making our first trip home this October and requested to stay in Congress Park for convenience to the main area of the resort and hoping for a nice view of DTD. I thought i read somewhere on here though that the rooms weren't as nice. If you've stayed in Congress Park could you let me know? Thanks so much everyone!

 

[lyzziesmom]

I have a question about the spa. If I decide next week that I want a massage or something on my day that we're not going to a park, what are the chances that I can get a walk-in appointment or just book it that morning? I've actually never been to a spa and would love to try it, but I don't know what we're doing that day so I don't know if we will have time, and I don't want to make an appointment ahead of time. How does the whole spa thing work at SSR?

Thanks!

 

[pcparamedics01]

Congrats to all the new DVCers!!! I had a quick question about the rooms at SSR. We are making our first trip home this October and requested to stay in Congress Park for convenience to the main area of the resort and hoping for a nice view of DTD. I thought i read somewhere on here though that the rooms weren't as nice. If you've stayed in Congress Park could you let me know? Thanks so much everyone!

I stayed in Congress Park in July and would not stay anywhere else. The 4th floor is the best. I was directly looking at Fulton's Crab. At night on the balcony you can here all the disney music from DTD.

 

[popstar7867]

I stayed in Congress Park in July and would not stay anywhere else. The 4th floor is the best. I was directly looking at Fulton's Crab. At night on the balcony you can here all the disney music from DTD.

That's great! I'm so excited! Did you request a DTD view or just put in a request for the congress park area?

 

[tomandrobin]

That's great! I'm so excited! Did you request a DTD view or just put in a request for the congress park area?

Just an FYI, not all Congress Park rooms have a view of DTD. So when you do make a request for Congress Park, specificly ask from DTD view and a higher floor. Ground floor views are not that great.

 

[tomandrobin]

I have a question about the spa. If I decide next week that I want a massage or something on my day that we're not going to a park, what are the chances that I can get a walk-in appointment or just book it that morning? I've actually never been to a spa and would love to try it, but I don't know what we're doing that day so I don't know if we will have time, and I don't want to make an appointment ahead of time. How does the whole spa thing work at SSR?

Thanks!

If you are calling them early in the morning, they will probably work you in to the schedule. But I woulld suggest you call the SPA when you get there to inquire about availabilty during your stay. Also, don't forget your DVC discount!

 

[tomandrobin]

I had a quick question about the rooms at SSR. We are making our first trip home this October and requested to stay in Congress Park for convenience to the main area of the resort and hoping for a nice view of DTD. I thought i read somewhere on here though that the rooms weren't as nice. If you've stayed in Congress Park could you let me know? Thanks so much everyone!

All of the rooms are the same throughout the resort. Does not matter what section you are staying.

Also, Springs and Grand Stand are the closest to the main area of the resort. Congress Park is a long section and the far building is not so convient to the main building. I personally don't think the walk is bad, but I was not sure of your definition of convient is.