Tell me about BWV bus service & room noise

[jennib5426]

Heading to BWV for first time in March. Please let me know about bus service. Do they share a bus with another resort? We will be going to MK 2 mornings and AK 1 day and will use the bus.
We have stayed at BCV many times and had no issues with bus service.

We booked a pool/garden 1bd what is the noise level like if we get a pool view?
Does the main pool close or is it open all night like the quiet pools?
We will have a baby with us and I don't want to hear people playing in the pool at 10pm at night.

 

[disneynutz]

Bus has been great, dedicated to BWV, main pool closes at 10 or 11.

 

[DebbieB]

Heading to BWV for first time in March. Please let me know about bus service. Do they share a bus with another resort? We will be going to MK 2 mornings and AK 1 day and will use the bus.
We have stayed at BCV many times and had no issues with bus service.

We booked a pool/garden 1bd what is the noise level like if we get a pool view?
Does the main pool close or is it open all night like the quiet pools?
We will have a baby with us and I don't want to hear people playing in the pool at 10pm at night.

I was there last week. MK and AK had a non-stop bus. Downtown Disney also stopped at Swan and Dolphin. As far as wait times, sometimes I was lucky, sometimes not. The longest wait was around a half hour for an AK bus. I had a safari fastpass for 10:10-11:10, got to the stop around 9:40, the bus did not show up until around 10:10. The times screen first said 9:58, then the times kept jumping around, at one point it said 10:16. I was starting to get nervous, I wasn't sure if it also stopped at Swan & Dolphin but it didn't. I made it to the safari by around 10:40. I wish they would put that times screen onto the TV in the room, that way you would know if you just missed one and didn't have to rush. Or hurry up, it's coming.

As far as the pool, I had a boardwalk view this time. I had a room over the main pool a couple of years ago and it was loud in the afternoon with pool games, cm on a microphone. I didn't notice people in the pool when I returned in the evenings when I walked by the pool to the elevator.

I would request quiet pool view.

 

[bluecruiser]

I would request quiet pool view.

Also be aware there is ongoing construction in part of the resort with very loud construction noise during the daytime. I had a 1 bedroom garden/pool view (quiet pool) at the end of November and it was quite noisy. No noise from the pool, it was all from the construction on the floor above me.

You may want to request "far from construction noise" or something to that effect.

To get a better idea about the BWV construction noise, here's one thread: Boardwalk noise...,

 

[chainkid]

I was at boardwalk last week and busses in the morning to magic kingdom were great. On the way back however it was a long wait and I saw two busses for Swan and Dolphin come and go before Boardwalk bus came. I started to take the Swan and dolphin bus on return as it was usually much faster than waiting. Overall a huge improvement with dedicated busses just remember to take Swan and Dolphin bus on return if its there first. We had a newly refurbished grand villa on third floor which was a vast improvement . I love the new décor and large LED flat screen TV's. I swear the one in the living room was at least 65" and the bedroom ones were 55". Noise on boardwalk is usually over by 10AM so never an issue for us. I thought Christmas decorations at Boardwalk were not that great this year. Lobby had the new store made of Chocolate but something was missing especially after seeing other resorts.

 

[2binak]

We've only ever had pool views at BWV. The main pool is very loud during the afternoon while games are being played. They use a microphone to talk & play music really loudly. Then every night at 11pm the lifeguard announces, pretty loudly, that the pool is closed and will re-open the next morning. We've never been bothered by noise from other guests using the pools in either location though and I'm a light sleeper. We only used the bus for MK this last trip and it was a direct to/from the park, no stops at other resorts.