Tell me a BWV PV room is okay!

[SuzanneSLO]

We own at BWV but because we are booking a trip for next May using transferred SSR points, we could not really book most of the nights until the 7 month window opened today. Unfortunately, SV studios were not available and BW view studios were only available for the first 4 nights (out of a total of 11; BW view was only available for Mother's Day weekend, go figure). I booked the BW view nights and 4 PV nights and need to call back to book the last 3 nights when the 7 month widow opens for those days (which right now would all be in PV).

My DH hates to move and told me to just book all the nights in PV. We have only stayed BW view or SV in the past. We just came back from the Swan and survived a Dophin view room but I am not sure I could survive a view of the Clown!

So, wwyd, go with a 7 night waitlist, but risk moving if we don't get it or book everything PV and hope for 11 BWV nights to come thru on the WL?

Any other options out there? Any room request that will let us book PV and make it more likely we will avoid the Clown?

Thanks for your help-- Suzanne

 

[toocherie]

We own at BWV but because we are booking a trip for next May using transferred SSR points, we could not really book most of the nights until the 7 month window opened today. Unfortunately, SV studios were not available and BW view studios were only available for the first 4 nights (out of a total of 11; BW view was only available for Mother's Day weekend, go figure). I booked the BW view nights and 4 PV nights and need to call back to book the last 3 nights when the 7 month widow opens for those days (which right now would all be in PV).

My DH hates to move and told me to just book all the nights in PV. We have only stayed BW view or SV in the past. We just came back from the Swan and survived a Dophin view room but I am not sure I could survive a view of the Clown!

So, wwyd, go with a 7 night waitlist, but risk moving if we don't get it or book everything PV and hope for 11 BWV nights to come thru on the WL?

Any other options out there? Any room request that will let us book PV and make it more likely we will avoid the Clown?

Thanks for your help-- Suzanne

I would be interested in this too--I just booked BW Garden/Pool View for 6 nights next March/April.

 

[mickeywho?]

The last two trips we booked a studio at BWV - Preferred View. Both times we we overlooking the garden area alongside the boardwalk. Had a great view of the boat, boardwalk, bakery and managed to see some of the higher illuminations!

 

[DisneyHumbug]

DD just checked in this afternoon to a PV and has a view of the quiet pool. She said it was very nice.

 

[crisi]

Ask for the quiet pool or the croquet lawn. My preference would be the croquet lawn.....

 

[n2mm]

Ask for the quiet pool or the croquet lawn. My preference would be the croquet lawn.....

To the OP, I hate moving, so I would opt to stay the entire time in one room. As for crisi's comment, yes make a request. I did for my May 2008 stay in a PV at the BWV. I requested to be near one of the 2 pools and hopefully near my daughter and family. Well I got none of my request. I was so far away I was next to the loading dock at the end of the resort and the only pool I saw was the one at the Swan and Dolphin. As for being near my daughter. Well we were at one end, near the loading dock and Atlantic dance and she was one of the last rooms near the tennis court (anyone familiar with the BWV knows how far apart these two are). So please certainly make a request, and hopefully you'll have much better luck than I did. I figured someone has to get the less desirable rooms and I paid my dues in May 2008. Of course, making request, doesn't really mean you'll get them. Yes, I did go back to the front desk and asked if there was any other room, anywhere that I could change to and was told NO. I think my track record for BWV and request is about 10% successful now. And strangely I keep going back.....We'll see how I do in less than 2 weeks.

 

[Granny]

I agree to put in a request. We had a quiet pool view once and it was excellent with a view of the quiet pool, Community Hall, the canal and Tower of Terror.

Here's a view of BWV with the view classifications marked. The rooms you are looking at are marked in red.

 

[crisi]

The croquet lawn is that red backwards L.

I've never had any luck getting requests met either - but if your request is "far from the elevator - and you get it - you are likely to be overlooking the clown.

 

[DebbieB]

I would keep what you have and waitlist for boardwalk view for the remaining dates. May isn't busy, you may get it. If not, you would only have to move once. Or book preferred for all and waitlist for boardwalk for the entire time. I'm going in a little over a week, I love, love, love the boardwalk view! If they would have not guaranteed boardwalk view, I would have probably sold DVC after my mom died. But I just can't give that up!

 

[DisKimberly]

We have had PV twice, the first time we had a quiet pool view, and we were on the ground floor so we actually could walk out to the pool. We loved it.
The second time we had a view of the garden/water, It was nice.
But I would request the quiet pool again given the choice.

 

[Belle & Ariel]

We are going the same time and have been waitlisted nearly a month. We have 7 nights std. and 4 nights preferred right now. I hoped when the 7 month window opened, some would book elsewhere and free up either a std or bdwk view. I don't like paying the same amount for a pool/garden view as the boardwalk. It just doesn't make sense.

 

[abner1776]

We just returned from a trip to BWV and stayed in a PV - luna pool view. We were on the 3rd floor and we had an ok view of the Swan. The trees have grown up to at least the 4th floor and the 5th floor in some cases, so they restrict the views for many of the rooms around the Luna pool. We could see some of the chairs around the pool but no view of the pool itself or anything beyond the pool.

Many people have commented on these boards about the view restrictions that the trees have put on PV Luna pool rooms and I concur.

I did not find a problem with kid noise around the Luna pool area (maybe the trees absorb some of it) and this is coming from and AARP couple celebrating their 30th.

If you want a view, insist on at least the 4th floor but the 5th floor would be better.

 

[ScottOKW2K]

Just came back from a two night stay in a one bedroom last Sat & Sun for Food and Wine. No requests - booked PV and was on the chech-in level 4 doors down from the elevator.

Almost bummed me out - a committed Old Key West'r than couldn't even complain about the long hallways. I had to settle for sitting on the balcony and reaching in the fridge for a cold one <sigh>.

 

[rashba9]

Interesting discussion but I'm confused,

1) is a studio-preferred view (garden or water) the same number of points as a studio boardwalk view?

2) where is the dreaded "clown" everyone is talking about? And why are they avoiding being near it?

3) I have not seen the quiet pool, is it nice?

Thanks,

Randy

 

[DebbieB]

1. Boardwalk and pool/garden are the same amount of points. They used to be one categoy, DVC split them for reservation purposes.
2. The "clown pool" is the main pool. Not sure why it freaks some people out.
3. The "quiet pool" is smaller and no slide.

 

[ScottOKW2K]

Interesting discussion but I'm confused,

1) is a studio-preferred view (garden or water) the same number of points as a studio boardwalk view?

Yes. Preferred View is a points booking category, Boardwalk View is PV with a guaranteed view of the Boardwalk.

2) where is the dreaded "clown" everyone is talking about? And why are they avoiding being near it?

In Granny's post, look at the pool in the large backwards "C". This is the Luna Park pool. You exit the water slide through the clowns mouth. It also reminds many people of Pennywise the clown in Stephen King's novel "IT".

3) I have not seen the quiet pool, is it nice?

Thanks,

Randy

It is located in the small backwards "C" . just below the other pool. It's as nice as any other quiet pool at the other deluxes.

 

[SuzanneSLO]

. . .In Granny's post, look at the pool in the large backwards "C". This is the Luna Park pool. You exit the water slide through the clowns mouth. It also reminds many people of Pennywise the clown in Stephen King's novel "IT"

And some of us just have those lingering fears of clowns from our childhood!

Seriously, thanks for all your help. We will probably just go ahead and book PV and waitlist for the unlikely-to-come-through-for-11-nights BW view. I will probably request the quiet pool view. -- Suzanne

 

[rashba9]

Thanks for your answers! I have heard the Boardwalk View rooms are really noisy? Has anyone experienced that?

Randy

 

[crisi]

Thanks for your answers! I have heard the Boardwalk View rooms are really noisy? Has anyone experienced that?

Randy

The whole resort is less than quiet. The way the building forms around Luna Park means that those rooms get a lot of noise as well. On the Standard View side, if you are close to the lobby, you can get a lot of arrival/departure traffic - Magical Express buses - and the luggage carts. We've never found it to be a "disturbing" level of noise, but if you really value a quiet resort, there are probably better choices. The whole Epcot area hears Illuminations every night, just about the time preschoolers go to bed.

For the Boardwalk View itself, we found the noise level, again, noticeable, but not disturbing. We could hear the bells from the games and the boats and the patter of entertainment. We could hear some of the louder guests down on the Boardwalk. With the patio doors open, obviously we would hear a lot more, with the doors closed, a low level of white noise for the most part. Some people say they don't hear it at all, other people say its loud enough to be disturbing. I'd look at your own family and what you are used to. My parents are going with us this trip, they live in the country and I'd expect my mother to find the noise noticeable - my father can't hear well enough to care. If you go with little kids who are trying to fall asleep during fireworks its more disturbing than if you are, yourself, out at ESPN until closing every night. Someone whose sleep patterns make them a light sleeper around bar closing is going to have a worse time with a Boardwalk View room than someone who puts their head on the pillow about eleven and sleeps like the dead.

 

[DebbieB]

Thanks for your answers! I have heard the Boardwalk View rooms are really noisy? Has anyone experienced that?

Randy

I only had problems one time when I was on the second floor above Big River. It was summer and people were out very late on the Boardwalk and talking loud.