The we loooooove Bonnet Creek thread part2

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I thought You could catch a bus from park to park. The only possible exceptions being (obviously) MK to EPCOT because of the monorail, and all other MK to park busses being located at the TTC instead of the main bus depot at the park entrance. I think I've also seen EPCOT to MGM buses, but those may not be as prevalent because of the Friendship to the International Gateway.

Nope -- zero park to park buses. The buses go only between the theme parks and Disney resorts or DTD.

Actually, there are direct buses for EP <-> AK, DHS <-> AK, EP <-> DHS. I have personally ridden all of these buses. There are also buses from these parks to the TTC to connect to MK.

You can also consult the OLP Disney Transportation Wizard, which lists all of these direct routes:

http://www.ourlaughingplace.com/aspx/twiz.aspx
 
I do know however that there are no Park-to-DTD buses. That's pretty much been confirmed in every "Can I park at DTD to avoid paying for parking?!" thread. :rotfl:
Ooops, you're right! Can you tell we drive to WDW?
 
Ooops, you're right! Can you tell we drive to WDW?

And after all of those buses, we're renting a car next time!:) the buses are actually great, but I'm tired of waiting for them all the time.

Wow! That is great .... I've never seen it before! :worship:

The OLP is great resource, although I don't really think they're times are necessarily up to date. I love being able to see the options that are available.
 

Nope -- zero park to park buses. The buses go only between the theme parks and Disney resorts or DTD.
Actually, there *are* park<->park buses (excepting MK, where it's park<->TTC), but there are *not* park<->DTD buses.

Here is the Transportation Sticky with the details.
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2573200

FWIW, I would not trust the OLP Wizard any farther than I could throw it. Several errors. It is much safer just to ask a Transportation Cast Member how to get where you want to go (assuming the signs don't make things clear).
 
We just got back from a week at WBC and we really liked the place. We have always stayed ON-site so we were a little unsure of this trip. As for the buses, there are good points and bad points. Be sure to take a bus schedule with you when you head out in the morning to the parks and don't worry if you miss the last bus at HS or Epcot, just take a bus or monorail to TTC and catch the bus there. I LOVE the fact that the buses can be counted on to be at a certain spot at a certain time.....we have spent much time sitting on benches at a Disney Resort straining to read the destination of a bus as it showed up. Security was good and it felt like we were at a Disney resort. The rooms were large and clean and the elevators were very quick. The calls to the room from sales people were headed off by unplugging the phones before we went to bed. Internet was free and you had the option of hardwire or wireless though the wireless was sluggish. They are almost through with a new hotel between buildings 6 and 3 which we were told will have a few restaurants which was our only complaint....no places to sit down and enjoy a nice meal. We were on the 7th floor of bdg 4 and it was a little of a trek to the bus stop at 6 or 1 but no more than at CSR or POR or OKW.

Moral to the story: if you are nervous about staying off-site and staying here instead, don't be.
 
We just got back from a week at WBC and we really liked the place. We have always stayed ON-site so we were a little unsure of this trip. As for the buses, there are good points and bad points. Be sure to take a bus schedule with you when you head out in the morning to the parks and don't worry if you miss the last bus at HS or Epcot, just take a bus or monorail to TTC and catch the bus there. I LOVE the fact that the buses can be counted on to be at a certain spot at a certain time.....we have spent much time sitting on benches at a Disney Resort straining to read the destination of a bus as it showed up. Security was good and it felt like we were at a Disney resort. The rooms were large and clean and the elevators were very quick. The calls to the room from sales people were headed off by unplugging the phones before we went to bed. Internet was free and you had the option of hardwire or wireless though the wireless was sluggish. They are almost through with a new hotel between buildings 6 and 3 which we were told will have a few restaurants which was our only complaint....no places to sit down and enjoy a nice meal. We were on the 7th floor of bdg 4 and it was a little of a trek to the bus stop at 6 or 1 but no more than at CSR or POR or OKW.

Moral to the story: if you are nervous about staying off-site and staying here instead, don't be.

Im glad you enjoyed the hotel. We are leaving for WBC in 6 days. We also stay on property and this is a first for us. We are looking foward to trying the hotel out. We are 6 adults and 2 toddlers. Are the buses the same as disney buses? We are afraid they will be vans and can't bring the kids on those without carseats.
 
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If you bring your laptop to WBC, where do you keep it when you are out of the room? I don't remember using the safe on our last trip for anything ... would it fit a laptop?
 
It won't fit in the safe. There is no regular housekeeping so no one should be coming into your room.:thumbsup2
 
where do you keep it when you are out of the room?
On the counter. Hasn't gone walking yet. It could, and I would be bummed, but not devastated---I have a very regular backup system in place.
 
Im glad you enjoyed the hotel. We are leaving for WBC in 6 days. We also stay on property and this is a first for us. We are looking foward to trying the hotel out. We are 6 adults and 2 toddlers. Are the buses the same as disney buses? We are afraid they will be vans and can't bring the kids on those without carseats.

No, they're not vans but buses. We did not experience them being crowded either....lot's of times it was just us and another family or two. Very nice drivers as well. Be SURE to get a couple of bus schedules when you check in and remember that IF you miss the last bus from HS or Epcot you can just take a bus or monorail to TTC and catch a bus there. There are two bus stops, one at bldg 1 and one at 6 so you might want to ask for one of those buildings if you can.
 
Thank you I will pick them up as soon as we arrive!

IN 6 DAYS!!!!! :cool1:
 
We just got back from WDW on Sunday. Overall we had a great trip. We were in building 5.

We had two issues perhaps people should be aware of as they may or may not be an issue for you. Let me say up front this is our second trip and we really like WBC and would stay again, though next time we may look harder at alternatives. For the cost, it is a great bargain and hard to beat being on property.

On our last trip, the pirate slide by building 5 was open to anyone, no restrictions, while the blue slide by building 3 required riders to be 48" or higher and/or be able to swim a length of the pool. So when we were given an option between a fireworks view in building 3 and a non-view in building 5 we took the option that would give our 6 year old son the most access to a pool slide he could use. This was 6:30pm on Sunday after a two day drive. What we discovered the next morning was that there was now a 48" or higher restriction on the pirate slide as well, and no swimming requirement to get a round it. Fortunately my son had been taking swimming lessons, so he and I were able to walk around the long way (walkway still closed at building 6) and he got a bunch of slide time in on the blue slide. But if we had only known this in advance we would have known to take the room in building 3 and get some fireworks viewing as well.

The first room they put us in in building 5 was on the third floor. Overall it was okay, but the carpet was filthy and my wife stepped on a carpet tack sticking up through the carpet and that was unacceptable with our 9 month old son now crawling all over the place. We also noticed the pile of dirt outside the door here, but my wife eventually figured out that this was not from previous guests but from the cleaning crew using the carpet sweeper previously mentioned, and that eventually the hallway carpet gets vacuumed.

I found this out when I arrived with all our stuff, fortunately on a cart. So I and the 6 year old walked back over to the main building to get new room keys for a room on the fifth floor. Unfortunately this room also turned out to have a filthy carpet, as well as a footprint on the sheets in the bed (we always do a bedbug check before unpacking into a hotel room). By now my wife was upset, we'd spent an hour plus and still didn't have an acceptable room.

She called and requested a vacuum cleaner and sheets for the bed. The on-shift night manager sent his head of maintenance and housekeeping to check out two possible replacement rooms, and they asked if we would like to move to a room on the 14th floor. We waited 15 minutes for them to check the rooms, and then 15 minutes for them to send new room keys over. My wife went up to check and came down nearly in tears as the carpet in this new room was still filthy and there were long hairs in the bed. My wife is not a super clean freak or what not, but she's read enough about hotel cleanliness that she Lysol wipes down all surfaces where ever we go. So the dirt was definitely making her unhappy. I put my foot down as I knew continuing to move would just be worse and the fifth floor room was the best of the three. So the housekeeper brought us a vacuum cleaner after we indicated we'd stay, and a maid also came up with new sheets for the bed and the pull-out bed and made the bed. So we arrived at 6:30pm and after 10pm we were finally able to start unpacking into our room.

Someone at the resort told us that Wyndham had switched from having a staff of housekeepers to clean rooms to using a contract service, and that the contractor's crews did not do as good a job. This most certainly was our experience having looked at three rooms in the same building. When someone's been living in a place for a week you need to use more than that push carpet sweeper (very weak, I tried it myself and it can't get into corners etc) to clean the carpet. And your staff should not be dumping the sweeper in the hallway as all guests see that area.

Every Wyndham employee we interacted with at the resort was friendly and helpful and did everything they could. We had no complaints with the staff or any other aspect of the resort. My wife submitted a formal complaint through Wyndham's website and was amazed that at no point including the next day when she called and talked to the regular day manager about it were we comped in any way for our troubles, not even say $10 worth of free drinks at the pool or something more tangible than a verbal apology.

we most certainly hope that enough people are complaining about the carpets etc for Wyndham to realize its an issue they need to fix. I wouldn't discourage anyone from still trying Bonnet Creek, if you're someone who is bugged by dirty carpets just know to insist on a vacuum cleaner if the carpets are dirty. 30 minutes of vacuuming is worth a week's peace of mind on vacation. Otherwise it's a great resort and we echo all the good things said here about it. Hopefully we can save someone else some time and effort at the beginning of their vacation by what we learned.
 
WOW, I hate that you had such problems. We were in building 4 and our room was spotless.....and my Wife IS a clean-freak. I guess on our next stay we'll leave our luggage in the car until we check out the room.
 
We just got back from WDW on Sunday. Overall we had a great trip. We were in building 5.

We had two issues perhaps people should be aware of as they may or may not be an issue for you. Let me say up front this is our second trip and we really like WBC and would stay again, though next time we may look harder at alternatives. For the cost, it is a great bargain and hard to beat being on property.

On our last trip, the pirate slide by building 5 was open to anyone, no restrictions, while the blue slide by building 3 required riders to be 48" or higher and/or be able to swim a length of the pool. So when we were given an option between a fireworks view in building 3 and a non-view in building 5 we took the option that would give our 6 year old son the most access to a pool slide he could use. This was 6:30pm on Sunday after a two day drive. What we discovered the next morning was that there was now a 48" or higher restriction on the pirate slide as well, and no swimming requirement to get a round it. Fortunately my son had been taking swimming lessons, so he and I were able to walk around the long way (walkway still closed at building 6) and he got a bunch of slide time in on the blue slide. But if we had only known this in advance we would have known to take the room in building 3 and get some fireworks viewing as well.

The first room they put us in in building 5 was on the third floor. Overall it was okay, but the carpet was filthy and my wife stepped on a carpet tack sticking up through the carpet and that was unacceptable with our 9 month old son now crawling all over the place. We also noticed the pile of dirt outside the door here, but my wife eventually figured out that this was not from previous guests but from the cleaning crew using the carpet sweeper previously mentioned, and that eventually the hallway carpet gets vacuumed.

I found this out when I arrived with all our stuff, fortunately on a cart. So I and the 6 year old walked back over to the main building to get new room keys for a room on the fifth floor. Unfortunately this room also turned out to have a filthy carpet, as well as a footprint on the sheets in the bed (we always do a bedbug check before unpacking into a hotel room). By now my wife was upset, we'd spent an hour plus and still didn't have an acceptable room.

She called and requested a vacuum cleaner and sheets for the bed. The on-shift night manager sent his head of maintenance and housekeeping to check out two possible replacement rooms, and they asked if we would like to move to a room on the 14th floor. We waited 15 minutes for them to check the rooms, and then 15 minutes for them to send new room keys over. My wife went up to check and came down nearly in tears as the carpet in this new room was still filthy and there were long hairs in the bed. My wife is not a super clean freak or what not, but she's read enough about hotel cleanliness that she Lysol wipes down all surfaces where ever we go. So the dirt was definitely making her unhappy. I put my foot down as I knew continuing to move would just be worse and the fifth floor room was the best of the three. So the housekeeper brought us a vacuum cleaner after we indicated we'd stay, and a maid also came up with new sheets for the bed and the pull-out bed and made the bed. So we arrived at 6:30pm and after 10pm we were finally able to start unpacking into our room.

Someone at the resort told us that Wyndham had switched from having a staff of housekeepers to clean rooms to using a contract service, and that the contractor's crews did not do as good a job. This most certainly was our experience having looked at three rooms in the same building. When someone's been living in a place for a week you need to use more than that push carpet sweeper (very weak, I tried it myself and it can't get into corners etc) to clean the carpet. And your staff should not be dumping the sweeper in the hallway as all guests see that area.

Every Wyndham employee we interacted with at the resort was friendly and helpful and did everything they could. We had no complaints with the staff or any other aspect of the resort. My wife submitted a formal complaint through Wyndham's website and was amazed that at no point including the next day when she called and talked to the regular day manager about it were we comped in any way for our troubles, not even say $10 worth of free drinks at the pool or something more tangible than a verbal apology.

we most certainly hope that enough people are complaining about the carpets etc for Wyndham to realize its an issue they need to fix. I wouldn't discourage anyone from still trying Bonnet Creek, if you're someone who is bugged by dirty carpets just know to insist on a vacuum cleaner if the carpets are dirty. 30 minutes of vacuuming is worth a week's peace of mind on vacation. Otherwise it's a great resort and we echo all the good things said here about it. Hopefully we can save someone else some time and effort at the beginning of their vacation by what we learned.

Sorry u had some problems, i was in the same boat with shower head, A/C. and ant problems...it stinx wen u look forward to something and u walk into that.
 
Im glad you enjoyed the hotel. We are leaving for WBC in 6 days. We also stay on property and this is a first for us. We are looking foward to trying the hotel out. We are 6 adults and 2 toddlers. Are the buses the same as disney buses? We are afraid they will be vans and can't bring the kids on those without carseats.

First off... You need to keep in mind that this is NOT a hotel. It is a Timeshare resort. While to some it may seem like a pretty simple difference, there are a bunch of very big differences in the types of service you should expect from them. (the biggest and most obvious being the daily housekeeping)

If you bring your laptop to WBC, where do you keep it when you are out of the room? I don't remember using the safe on our last trip for anything ... would it fit a laptop?

Honestly, I always just leave it on the kitchen counter. The safe is pretty small, and since the only people who should be entering my room while I'm there is me (and my guests), i'm not too concerned about it.

I saw that they do not offer daily housekeeping, but can you get fresh towels daily?

You can call the front desk and request them..... Or you can just run your towels thru the washer/dryer while you are there. honestly, It doesn't take that long to throw the towels in the washer in the morning while everyone is finishing getting ready (or eating breakfast), and then throw them in the dryer as you head out for the day.

And they give you enough towels for the max occupancy of the room (for a 2bdrm you are looking at about 8 towels), so if you have fewer people you very likely won't be going thru all the towels in a single day.


We just got back from WDW on Sunday. Overall we had a great trip. We were in building 5.

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Someone at the resort told us that Wyndham had switched from having a staff of housekeepers to clean rooms to using a contract service, and that the contractor's crews did not do as good a job. This most certainly was our experience having looked at three rooms in the same building. When someone's been living in a place for a week you need to use more than that push carpet sweeper (very weak, I tried it myself and it can't get into corners etc) to clean the carpet. And your staff should not be dumping the sweeper in the hallway as all guests see that area.

Every Wyndham employee we interacted with at the resort was friendly and helpful and did everything they could. We had no complaints with the staff or any other aspect of the resort. My wife submitted a formal complaint through Wyndham's website and was amazed that at no point including the next day when she called and talked to the regular day manager about it were we comped in any way for our troubles, not even say $10 worth of free drinks at the pool or something more tangible than a verbal apology.

I'll have to make sure I check how things are when i'm there on my next 2 trips. If the quality of the housekeeping has seriously degraded, i may have to see what needs to be done to file a complaint with the owners association.


I'd have to say I'm not surprised you weren't comp'd at all. Remember, this is a timeshare resort, which means it's budget is actually paid for out of the annual fees paid for by the owners. Because of this, it's not like a regular hotel were Wyndham would have a budget it can fudge in order to comp a guest in order to try and maintain future business (and profit).
 
So, can someone confirm for me- there are no regular vacuums in any of the rooms? I thought I remembered someone saying in the old WBC thread that there were. I just can't imagine my 23 month old eating at least one meal a day and several snacks in the room over a 5 day period and us not needing an actual vacuum... maybe I can fit my little handvac in the suitcase if necessary... :confused3 Thanks for any info you can give! :goodvibes
 
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