The we loooooove Bonnet Creek thread! (pics and reviews)

[Upatnoon]

How do people book a presidential unit? Also, are they only available in 4 bedroom units?

When booking (through Ken or someone else) how do you make a specific room request? i.e. would like a high floor, possible view of nightly fireworks?

How far is parking from your perspective unit?

Presidential Rooms are also available in 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms. You would have to find someone with enough points to secure a reservation. On ebay, they rent for roughly 20 percent more than a regular unit.

As for room requests, you can call the resort ahead of time, but my experience is that you get your room when you check in, so that is the time to make a request. The front desk has always offered me a few options.

Parking is not far, but when you return home from the parks will determine how close you get.

 

[Upatnoon]

Which pool(s) are saltwater?

1 pool, in the front where you check in.

 

[two*little*birds]

Is $1,195.00 a good rate for 10 nights in a 2-bedroom deluxe? Since we haven't been before I have no idea how to compare.

Thanks for any input.

 

[two*little*birds]

I've seen others mention redweek.com here, has anyone successfully used it to book their vacation for a good rate?

 

[PoppyGirl]

Can someone tell me about the check-in process? A friend gave us a week in her timeshare, so we are guests. What should I expect when we check in?

 

[Upatnoon]

Can someone tell me about the check-in process? A friend gave us a week in her timeshare, so we are guests. What should I expect when we check in?

When you arrive at the resort, you will enter through a guarded gate. There they will check your name on a list and then let you in.

You will then check in at the main registration building, just like any hotel. You can request where in the resort you would like to stay and they will go over your room options. You will get your room assignment and be given your key cards.

To get your parking pass, you will go to a second desk, where they will also attempt to get you to attend a presentation about becoming an owner. You can refuse, of course. It isn't too painful. They have balloons for your kids, too.

Now that you have your keys and parking pass, you can head to the tower with your room. I drive to the parking area in front of the tower, get a luggage cart, load up and take the stuff to our room. Then I move the car to a parking space.

If you don't have a car, I have seen workers giving guests rides on golf carts loaded with luggage, so that is how you will get your stuff from the main building to your room.

 

[Upatnoon]

Is $1,195.00 a good rate for 10 nights in a 2-bedroom deluxe? Since we haven't been before I have no idea how to compare.

Thanks for any input.

I have never paid more than $100 a night and usually less. I do not go during peak times, however, such as Christmas week or 4th of July week.

A simple way to see what rooms rent for is to look on ebay in the completed listings. There are several people on ebay who rent Bonnet Creek rooms like a business, so you can get a good idea of what the going rate is.

 

[two*little*birds]

I have never paid more than $100 a night and usually less. I do not go during peak times, however, such as Christmas week or 4th of July week.

A simple way to see what rooms rent for is to look on ebay in the completed listings. There are several people on ebay who rent Bonnet Creek rooms like a business, so you can get a good idea of what the going rate is.

Thanks, that rate is from someone on eBay... and it's not during a peak time. So I guess I should look around a little more then, or consider redweek.com?

 

[Jenny-momof3]

Anyone rely completely on the shuttles at BC? The main reason we stay onsite is because of the Disney transportation. Even though we drive down and have our van...we much prefer just to hop on a bus/monorai/boat.

My kids are very spaced out in age...therefore we don't all do the same thing everyday. I love everything I've seen about BC so far..but can't find much firsthand about people using the shuttles only.

Does anyone have any feedback? This is the one thing that is making me reluctant to book!

 

[MichaelColey]

Is $1,195.00 a good rate for 10 nights in a 2-bedroom deluxe? Since we haven't been before I have no idea how to compare.

It sounds a little high, but possibly reasonable depending on when you're going. We paid $600 for 7 nights off-season, but I know prime season takes about twice the points.

 

[MichaelColey]

Anyone rely completely on the shuttles at BC?

We drive, but the shuttles seemed convenient and regular. I did take the shuttle one day with two of the kids when we split up, and we didn't have to wait long and there was plenty of space on the shuttle. I think the shuttle runs every 20 minutes most of the time.

 

[Jenny-momof3]

Holy cow...every 20 minutes?! That's just as often as the Disney shuttles most the time!!

 

[cam&chris]

Help! Trying to decide which building to request. We have a 2 bedroom booked for May 2011.

Building 3 appeals to me because of the pool with the slide in front of it, could have a lake AND a fireworks view, close to the mini golf (which I know my boys are going to want to play often LOL)

Building 5 is newer but if I had to choose lake OR fireworks then I would have to choose lake view because we love to sit on the balcony and the lake view is always there whereas the fireworks are only for a few minutes. Lazy river at that pool also appeals to us.

Is the slide in front of building 3 an open or closed slide? Is the pool at the bottom deep? Are life jackets allowed to be worn when going down this slide?

 

[cam&chris]

Is there construction going on between building 3 and building 6? I thought that I saw somewhere that there was a hotel being constructed? Can you walk all the way around the lake or is the path blocked at some point due to construction?

 

[PoppyGirl]

When you arrive at the resort, you will enter through a guarded gate. There they will check your name on a list and then let you in.

You will then check in at the main registration building, just like any hotel. You can request where in the resort you would like to stay and they will go over your room options. You will get your room assignment and be given your key cards.

To get your parking pass, you will go to a second desk, where they will also attempt to get you to attend a presentation about becoming an owner. You can refuse, of course. It isn't too painful. They have balloons for your kids, too.

Now that you have your keys and parking pass, you can head to the tower with your room. I drive to the parking area in front of the tower, get a luggage cart, load up and take the stuff to our room. Then I move the car to a parking space.

If you don't have a car, I have seen workers giving guests rides on golf carts loaded with luggage, so that is how you will get your stuff from the main building to your room.

When my friend called to make the reservation the agent told her that we would be in building 6 so I sort of thought we wouldn't really have any choice in it.

 

[Cdn Gal]

When we were there in August construction was still going on and you could not walk all the way around the pond. I posted tons of pics on this thread showing everything- sorry I don't know the page #.

 

[Upatnoon]

When my friend called to make the reservation the agent told her that we would be in building 6 so I sort of thought we wouldn't really have any choice in it.

Some owners with certain VIP status can pick their rooms. Building 6 is the newest building and is all presidential units with its own check-in area, so that is likley your situation

 

[Upatnoon]

When we were there in August construction was still going on and you could not walk all the way around the pond. I posted tons of pics on this thread showing everything- sorry I don't know the page #.

When we were there in November you could walk all the way around the lake

 

[Upatnoon]

Help! Trying to decide which building to request. We have a 2 bedroom booked for May 2011.

Building 3 appeals to me because of the pool with the slide in front of it, could have a lake AND a fireworks view, close to the mini golf (which I know my boys are going to want to play often LOL)

Building 5 is newer but if I had to choose lake OR fireworks then I would have to choose lake view because we love to sit on the balcony and the lake view is always there whereas the fireworks are only for a few minutes. Lazy river at that pool also appeals to us.

Is the slide in front of building 3 an open or closed slide? Is the pool at the bottom deep? Are life jackets allowed to be worn when going down this slide?

It is an open silde and I do not recall any life jackets. I like building 5 because to play mini golf you have to stop at the main clubhouse to get your clubs, and its on the way to pick them up and drop them off. Also, there are several hot tubs at the bottom of building 5, which is very nice after a day of walking around the parks.

 

[Echo queen]

This thread is making me so excited about my August trip and I have vacationed at BC before The first time we were very busy with WDW and did not spend time enjoying it, this time we will be there for 7 days and then move on to WDW for 5 days so we will really get into the resort extras and fun.