I am at my 45 day out point and made a last minute change. We were booked in BLT, but with no pins or offers. As much as I hated to let that reservation go, CR had rooms open with the FD and it was too much savings to pass up!
We've stayed at Poly twice and it was work in planning which longhouse/room to request, but so happy we did. For Contemporary, we have a Bay view room- and after doing a little reading, I'm not sure there is any "good/bad" location at the Contemporary? I would have loved a MK view, but there weren't any available. Does anyone know if there are any BV rooms that you can "lean over a little" to see the fireworks?? LOL We had that with our Poly GV room once and it worked well enough! Trying to figure out what a good request might be (if it's even needed)!
Poly had a site (tikiman pages) that gave you reviews on pretty much every single room so you knew the pros/cons to each when requesting (You could only request a room, not a location from my experience). I haven't found such a site for Contemp. Does anyone know if one exists?
Thank you!!
I'm very excited to try something new!
OUCH! BLT at rack rate?! I think you definitely made the right call using some sort of discount and I don't think you'll be disappointed with the CR.
Tower/BLV is our favorite WDW resort view. We prefer it over MKV because we don't like seeing a parking lot below us and prefer the tranquility of Bay Lake and we like seeing the EWP. (And, it's less expensive and if you stay CL, you can see Wishes from the CL lounge anyway
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These are the only requests you would need to consider when booking a BLV room (or a MKV room):
~Might the "celebration song" at CM bother you? If so, ask to be "far away from Chef Mickey's".
~Do you prefer a high floor or do heights bother you?
~Would you like your beds (as you sit in them) to face toward Epcot/FW and away from BLT? If so, then request an odd numbered room.
~Would you prefer not to have a connecting door?
You can't see Wishes from the BLV rooms, however, you can see some of Epcot's Illuminations off to the right beyond FW and you can see the EWP every night at around 10:05.
There is no "bad" Tower room view. That's one of the great things about the CR is that when you book a Tower room, your view is guaranteed to be either MKV or BLV. And, unlike the Poly, you don't have to worry about trees obstructing your view or whether you'll have a balcony or two sinks
Now all you need is a nice CR ticker!
Did you request the 11th floor or just get lucky? I requested a high floor when I booked our March stay but I think I am going to call back and change that request to the 11th floor and cross my fingers. 
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