The Villas at Disney's Grand Californian Owners & Lovers Group - 2.0

[Longhairbear]

We'll be there just a bit after you, also really bummed about Blue Bayou closing since we only go once every 2-3 years and this year my girlfriend and I had a ditch-the-DH's-night planned around it.
If you want upscale, Napa Rose is stellar but a bit too fine dining for my girl date, so we're currently debating between Steakhouse 55 (I'd had my heart set on the filet mignon at BB) and Wine Country Trattoria since its delicious and the wines there will get us nice and giggly quickly.
I'm also hoping for a GRR view as my first choice but I think there's only one 2 bedroom on that side of the wing, just asked for park view since we got a perfect view of World of Color last year and would love to have that again as a very close second. Nothing like having the Mickey wheel blink you to sleep.

Trattoria also has the WOC dining package.

 

[marts35]

Goofy4Pooh

We have both agreed that we want to try a room overlooking GRR. Has anyone had this view from the 4th or 5th floor? I'd love to hear about it.

Here is a Panoramic view from the fifth floor early July.
It was lovely.

 

[Goofy4Pooh]

GRR is the view we had...we loved it. We could see the pool, GRR and still see part of WoC. One night DH and I watched the moon rise over the mountains. We were on the 5th floor. I loved the woods too...watched a hummingbird one afternoon on one of the pines.

We don't have mountains around here so it was cool

We all loved the Jazz Kitchen...went back again after the first night. I have a lot of allergies and can eat almost nothing anymore and they made me a wonderful meal. DH, DS and DD loved it as well. Excellent.

Although we were not alone and we were there for DD's HS graduation...it was our 25th as well.
Maybe for the 30th we will be alone!!

Thanks for the input! The closest thing South Florida has to a mountain is the local landfill so we are really looking forward to this!!

Congratulations on your 25th and your DD's graduation

 

[EEyorelover22]

I am not the best for food recommendations.

I am allergic to all dairy, eggs, soy, fish, seafood, peanuts, tree nuts, and wheat...not to mention others...like no wines. So, many of the places I just didn't even consider because of my very limited diet.

The chefs treated me very well, but there were no desserts I could eat.

Congrats on the 30th. 25 didn't seem very long, but when checking in the CM said "congrats to the 1/4 century couple." Seemed longer.

 

[Goofy4Pooh]

Steakhoese 55 or Napa Rose. We love both.

Jack

We all loved the Jazz Kitchen...went back again after the first night. I have a lot of allergies and can eat almost nothing anymore and they made me a wonderful meal. DH, DS and DD loved it as well. Excellent.

We'll be there just a bit after you, also really bummed about Blue Bayou closing since we only go once every 2-3 years and this year my girlfriend and I had a ditch-the-DH's-night planned around it.
If you want upscale, Napa Rose is stellar but a bit too fine dining for my girl date, so we're currently debating between Steakhouse 55 (I'd had my heart set on the filet mignon at BB) and Wine Country Trattoria since its delicious and the wines there will get us nice and giggly quickly.

Goofy4Pooh


Here is a Panoramic view from the fifth floor early July.
It was lovely.

DH is not very interested in Napa Rose. I think we have it down to either Steackhouse 55 or Jazz Kitchen.

And I am definately putting in a request for the 5th floor GRR view!! Our fav WDW resort is VWL and DH loves the picture you posted. Thanks

 

[wbl2745]

Also we were going to go to Blue Bayou for our anniversary dinner but just found out it will be closed for renovations. Does anyone have any suggestions?

The Napa Rose is wonderful! I ate at the Chef's Counter which was a lot of fun, but I'd think that for a nice romantic dinner just having a table would be great. If you're there when the sun is still up, the windows look out on GRR through the trees.

 

[franandaj]

Wow, no posts for a few days....everybody must be on Vacation.......at Disneyland or something....probably staying at GCV,,,,hope you are having fun!

Not me We've been working on an Estate Sale all week. I have a lot to catch up on!

We've just passed the 60 day mark for our October Stay. I've already made our Saturday dining arrangements, but I'm on the Fence for Friday night. We're looking between the Jazz Kitchen, Steakhouse 55 and Catal. I've eaten at all of them before, but Catal was a long time ago.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Today I booked for my birthday next June. One of my favorite places to be on that day!!!

 

[TLPL]

Can someone post pictures of the gift shops at GC? and do they have DVC logo stuffs for sale there??

 

[Goofy4Pooh]

Can someone post pictures of the gift shops at GC? and do they have DVC logo stuffs for sale there??

I haven't been there yet myself ~ DH and I are going Sept 17th for the first time ~ but I found a picture of the gift shop while doing some research for our trip. Check out the link below. Hope it helps you

http://www.mouseplanet.com/more/mm031218lp.htm

About a third of the way down the page there is a picture of the Acorn Gifts and Goods Gift Shop in the lobby of the Grand Californian that was take by Lisa Perkis for mouseplanet. The caption says the gift shop has beautiful, pricey pieces of pottery, lighting and artwork, as well as a great selection of hotel logo souvenirs. It also has the standard sunscreen, candy, and lanyards that the other hotel shops carry.

I am guessing that includes DVC logo stuff since I have seen t'shirts and hats being worn by people at WDW and can't think of where else they would have bought DGC DVC stuff from.

 

[Nonsuch]

Can someone post pictures of the gift shops at GC? and do they have DVC logo stuffs for sale there??

Accorn Gifts is the only gift shop. The selection of DVC merchandise is very small. There are also a few GC specific items, robes and books about the hotel design.

I always hope there will be some cool DVC or GC items, but have always been disappointed. I hope some items with the new DVC logo will be available

 

[franandaj]

Can someone post pictures of the gift shops at GC? and do they have DVC logo stuffs for sale there??

I've only seen generic DVC stuff there, no VGC specific merchandise. They do have GCH stuff though.

 

[Pete W.]

Can someone tell me if there is a store at the hotel which sells groceries, similar to the Screen Door at the Boardwalk in WDW? If not, where do folks go to purchase groceries?

 

[Disney Princess]

Can someone tell me if there is a store at the hotel which sells groceries, similar to the Screen Door at the Boardwalk in WDW? If not, where do folks go to purchase groceries?

I think that White Water Snacks has some items, but I really don't remember what they had. Acorn Gifts had more toiletry type items.

Having said that, we ordered our groceries from Vons. They deliver to the hotel, and your first order over $50 is free of delivery charges. With breakfast items, water, pop, and snacks we easily got there. It was a wonderful service.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Can someone tell me if there is a store at the hotel which sells groceries, similar to the Screen Door at the Boardwalk in WDW? If not, where do folks go to purchase groceries?

Whitewater Snacks carries the minimal grocery products that you find at other DVC's.

 

[blackjackdelta]

Whitewater Snacks carries the minimal grocery products that you find at other DVC's.

They have the most grocery items of any place on site, a lttle pricey but when we run out of the Vons order that is where we go.

Jack

 

[PoohNFriends]

Can someone post pictures of the gift shops at GC? and do they have DVC logo stuffs for sale there??

This was the DVC section at Acorn in May, I am fairly sure there were no VGC-DVC specific items

 

[TLPL]

This was the DVC section at Acorn in May, I am fairly sure there were no VGC-DVC specific items

That is too bad!! We fly all the way to California and all they have are the same exactly stuffs for Florida?

 

[franandaj]

That is too bad!! We fly all the way to California and all they have are the same exactly stuffs for Florida?

They have plenty of DLR specific merchandise, and even GCH items, just no VGC stuff.

 

[Pete W.]

Can anyone tell me how big are the living room pull-down beds? Can they accomodate an adult or even an older child? They sure look small in the picture on the DVC website.