The we loooooove Bonnet Creek thread Part 3

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Hello - I've read in a few places that people don't think it is necessary to stop at the parking pass desk. It seems to just be the first stop in the time share drill.

We will have a rental car. Can we skip the desk or is the pass really necessary to park?
 
I think I had to pay balance 45 days out but could be wrong. I have not received anything with my name on it or a confirmation # which is precisely my concern. I received a confirmation # last time and as able to contact the resort to make sure everything was good. Since my last post I have attempted to contact VS several times. This evening I received another receipt of final payment with no note to explain. I must say I am surprised at the lack of customer service in comparison with the last time we booked through VS. Hopefully all is well.:confused3

I thought I read somewhere that the person who normally does this is on maternity leave. Don't quote me on that.. but I recall seeing it somewhere.

I did speak to the person in the office as well this week. I agree with the earlier opinions.. he's not rude, but not exactly friendly or chatty.
I was told that I would need to pay my reservation in full anywhere from 60 to 30 days. I can only imagine it has something to do with the way they book but I really don't have the particulars. Nobody has been coming back saying they don't have a reservation so I am not too concerned.
Have you tried calling on weekdays as well? I only ask because I spoke to someone right away when I called last Monday morning.
 
I will have to call Bonnett Creek tomorrow to check. I am assuming from your post that you did not do so? I am a compulsive planner and can't imagine leaving for FL without confirming my reservation with the resort. Thank you for posting your experience. It does make me a little less nervous.:worried:
I completely understand your apprehension but given that there were no reports of any problems with VS I was not too worried. I have rented DVC points several times. Even though I always had a reservation with my name on it, I also knew that the DVC owner controlled the reservation and could cancel it any time. There is definitely a certain nerve racking trust that is involved with these transactions. I do my best to check out the person I am renting from and then realize that worse case scenario is that we have to find a room when we get there. That is very unlikely and the risk is worth the value I am getting.

Good luck, and I am sorry if this is causing you stress.:grouphug:
 
Hello - I've read in a few places that people don't think it is necessary to stop at the parking pass desk. It seems to just be the first stop in the time share drill.

We will have a rental car. Can we skip the desk or is the pass really necessary to park?

We got the parking pass but never put it out pass the first night. No one ever asked for it. There was a rather annoying push to attend a meeting at the parking desk and I had to say no 3-4 times.

Interestingly, the woman at the parking desk asked me twice if it was a friend or family member that booked the room for me. I was not sure why the question was relevant and basically told the woman in a friendly way that it was none of her business.
 

The telephone in the kitchen ... has a ethernet plug-in the base of phone ...

(as per my WBC visit 05/2012 ... in which I used my own router ... successfully).

Sorry to sound stupid but if i bring an English router can i just plug it in as above says n get better wireless I'm wanting to FaceTime my parents while on holiday so will need a good speed internet connection. Thanks
 
Sorry to sound stupid but if i bring an English router can i just plug it in as above says n get better wireless I'm wanting to FaceTime my parents while on holiday so will need a good speed internet connection. Thanks

Should not be a problem ...

As long as you know how to setup the router to work with your computer.

The process is same as you would do at your own home.
 
Out of curiosity, I'd be interested to hear what you do for meals. Do you find you eat mostly in the unit? Or a combination of meals cooked in and some restaurants?
I am trying to decide what will work best for us. We plan to eat breakfasts and some lunches in the unit because we usually come back for a mid-day break. What I am trying to decide is if we'll eat dinners onsite at Disney or try a bunch off offsite places.
 
Here now. We have eaten breakfast here every day. No lunches, but could have. Almost wish we had eaten dinner here a few times, but we have eaten more on site. I will say our food quality this trip has gone downhill for all disney owned restaurants. Be our guest has been our best meal. But it gets old to spend $100 plus on a meal worth less than half that!!!!
 
Hello,

Out of curiosity, I'd be interested to hear what you do for meals. Do you find you eat mostly in the unit? Or a combination of meals cooked in and some restaurants?
I am trying to decide what will work best for us. We plan to eat breakfasts and some lunches in the unit because we usually come back for a mid-day break. What I am trying to decide is if we'll eat dinners onsite at Disney or try a bunch off offsite places.

We usually do it the way I'm going to explain it right now. I highly recommend for you to follow this meal way. Stop at the Walmart Supercenter nearby or wherever and buy breakfast for each morning your staying at WBC. You can also buy some snacks for your break or for a night snack. For lunch if your going to Disney World there are a lot of dining options. Since you said you stop for a mid-break you might want to consider buying something at the supermarket or at the resort. At WBC there is La Cocina or Escudos which serve mostly pizza or I think subs and salads. You can also have pizza delivered to your room from off-site places. On your room phone there will be a list of pizza places that can deliver to your room if I remember correctly. The new Wyndham Grand Orlando Bonnet Creek has some dining options and a great bar outside next to their pool. For dinner you can choose whether you want at the Disney parks if your staying until night. If your not staying until night then you can head to Disney's Boardwalk or Downtown Disney to eat which is really close to Bonnet Creek. Or off-site if you don't mind driving a little farther. Hope this helped!:)
 
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We usually do it the way I'm going to explain it right now. I highly recommend for you to follow this meal way. Stop at the Walmart Supercenter nearby or wherever and buy breakfast for each morning your staying at WBC. You can also buy some snacks for your break or for a night snack. For lunch if your going to Disney World there are a lot of dining options. Since you said you stop for a mid-break you might want to consider buying something at the supermarket or at the resort. At WBC there is La Cocina or Escudos which serve mostly pizza or I think subs and salads. You can also have pizza delivered to your room from off-site places. On your room phone there will be a list of pizza places that can deliver to your room if I remember correctly. The new Wyndham Grand Orlando Bonnet Creek has some dining options and a great bar outside next to their pool. For dinner you can choose whether you want at the Disney parks if your staying until night. If your not staying until night then you can head to Disney's Boardwalk or Downtown Disney to eat which is really close to Bonnet Creek. Or off-site if you don't mind driving a little farther. Hope this helped!:)

Thank you it does help:). I have planned to stock groceries and we will have a car. I think eating dinner out is one of the treats of being on vacation so we'll still do that. And you're right, if we're in a park, we should probably eat there and if not we can go offsite or DTD or the Boardwalk.
I don't want to make a bunch of ADR's for this trip or be tied to a schedule so I think we'll just plan as we go. I realize this will mean we won't always get a reservation at the most popular places but we've been to Disney enough that we're fine with that.
I really want to try the Ale House and maybe Steak and Shake on this trip.
 
My sister just checked out this morning, and sent me three texts in the middle of the night last night LOL! she got up to use the bathroom and found cockroaches on the tile. She got her flashlight and checked the kitchen and the kids bathroom and found them in both places as well. She said they were the small fast moving kind, not the big Palmetto bug type.

She and I had discussed the bed bug issue and were glad to find none in her suite but she did have these. Ugh. She told them at the front desk (at 2am) so that they could spray before the next reservation arrived.

We are checking in on Friday. Maybe we'll leave the lights on in the bathrooms and kitchen LOL!
 
Should not be a problem ...

As long as you know how to setup the router to work with your computer.

The process is same as you would do at your own home.

That's great thanks my router is locked to our ISP so I'm going to buy an unlocked one to bring with us then hopefully FaceTime or Skype should be easier lol
 
Out of curiosity, I'd be interested to hear what you do for meals. Do you find you eat mostly in the unit? Or a combination of meals cooked in and some restaurants?
I am trying to decide what will work best for us. We plan to eat breakfasts and some lunches in the unit because we usually come back for a mid-day break. What I am trying to decide is if we'll eat dinners onsite at Disney or try a bunch off offsite places.

We are here now, we ordered pizza from La Cocina and had it delivered to our room. The pizza was really good and very nice and convenient to not have to cook :) We had groceries delivered by Doorside Delivery the day that we arrived. It was SO nice to not have to go to the grocery store and then haul all of it to the room. We simply called the bell boy and he brought it all up for us. It had been delivered before we checked in and stored in a freezer/refrigerator in labeled grocery bags. The kitchen here is STOCKED, lasagna casserole dish, pizza pan, sauce pans, frying pans, etc. I could easily cook a nice meal if needed. Cuisinart coffee maker & blender too :) I could move in! haha
 
Out of curiosity, I'd be interested to hear what you do for meals. Do you find you eat mostly in the unit? Or a combination of meals cooked in and some restaurants?
I am trying to decide what will work best for us. We plan to eat breakfasts and some lunches in the unit because we usually come back for a mid-day break. What I am trying to decide is if we'll eat dinners onsite at Disney or try a bunch off offsite places.

A couple of mornings, the girls had cereal and we had snack foods in the room. Other than that, we ate in the parks.
 
My sister just checked out this morning, and sent me three texts in the middle of the night last night LOL! she got up to use the bathroom and found cockroaches on the tile. She got her flashlight and checked the kitchen and the kids bathroom and found them in both places as well. She said they were the small fast moving kind, not the big Palmetto bug type.

She and I had discussed the bed bug issue and were glad to find none in her suite but she did have these. Ugh. She told them at the front desk (at 2am) so that they could spray before the next reservation arrived.

We are checking in on Friday. Maybe we'll leave the lights on in the bathrooms and kitchen LOL!

Any chance you could ask what tower/floor she was on? Gross....
 
My sister just checked out this morning, and sent me three texts in the middle of the night last night LOL! she got up to use the bathroom and found cockroaches on the tile. She got her flashlight and checked the kitchen and the kids bathroom and found them in both places as well. She said they were the small fast moving kind, not the big Palmetto bug type.

She and I had discussed the bed bug issue and were glad to find none in her suite but she did have these. Ugh. She told them at the front desk (at 2am) so that they could spray before the next reservation arrived.

We are checking in on Friday. Maybe we'll leave the lights on in the bathrooms and kitchen LOL!
Welcome to Florida! Bug capital of the world! As a Florida resident, I can tell you that no amount of spray will every get them all.
 
Welcome to Florida! Bug capital of the world! As a Florida resident, I can tell you that no amount of spray will every get them all.

I don't know what floor / tower she was in but as stated above I'm sure they are everywhere. We've stayed at a different timeshare every year and we usually see one or two bugs. Just hoping that's all.

We don't have so many bugs up here in Maine so it takes some getting used to.....
 
My sister just checked out this morning, and sent me three texts in the middle of the night last night LOL! she got up to use the bathroom and found cockroaches on the tile. She got her flashlight and checked the kitchen and the kids bathroom and found them in both places as well. She said they were the small fast moving kind, not the big Palmetto bug type.

She and I had discussed the bed bug issue and were glad to find none in her suite but she did have these. Ugh. She told them at the front desk (at 2am) so that they could spray before the next reservation arrived.

We are checking in on Friday. Maybe we'll leave the lights on in the bathrooms and kitchen LOL!

Happy to report we had no roaches in our Tower 3 room. We were up at all hours of the night too-usually until 3 and sometimes 4 am.
 
We've seen some pretty nasty looking bugs in Disney rooms too. A few bugs I can handle.. it is Florida afterall. A whole bunch of bugs would not be cool. Since this is not a complaint I have seen often in this thread I am just going to hope it was an isolated incident.:worried:

Sorry to hear your sister had to deal with that. Blech.
 
I was contacted by a man at VS by phone quite a few times and told to call him anytime to discuss my concerns. This was in March when I was trying to get info and decide about booking in April. He seemed keen to talk at length and was very persuasive and friendly about having us book. He was very honest that they always drop the booking at 60 days out and fish for cheaper bookings and since we are booking for 8 days, he will be using points for multiple owners to get the best price to actually make a profit off our booking. I am worried as I have heard of folks losing their reservations that way because there are no rebookings available. However, since we are going the last week of September and it's low season, I decided to take the risk.
It does concern me to hear that once they get your deposit, none of the other policies have been folliwed. I was assured full payment of the balance wasn'tdue until I got a confirmation with my name on it, that I could call anytime with questions and concerns and basically assuaged of all my concerns. What I am reading here of the reality is very different.
 
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