Too much for a room request??

[cel_disney]

We are going 'home' for the first time in December. We will have an infant and a 4 year old plus DH (the birthday boy) and myself..

We have a 1 bedroom LV at BLT..

Is this too much to ask for in a request? I would like to have a partial MK view and not a HC Accessible room...

- Non-Accessible room (the little kiddo factor)
- North Wing
- Even Number

Thanks!!

 

[Silver Queen]

Not sure what your need for an even number is, but if it's not that important I'd drop it and focus on your other requests. I try to limit my requests to one or two at the most. I would hate to have the requests get so involved that DVC starts to cut back on honoring them.

 

[RobDoc]

Be sure to list your requests in their order of importance to you - so if the non-HCA is most critical your list should be fine. You may find that you get the first two but not the 3rd ( 2-out-of-3 and not too bad) , but you wouldn't have the MK view then. If you get #1 and #3 but not the second (also 2-out-of-3 and not bad) you'd still be in the same situation.

If that possibility is acceptable, then your list is great. While the resort does try to meet requests and you might get all three, from the resorts viewpoint getting 2 out of 3 is pretty good but would still not accomplish what you really want. In this case your requests may fall behind all of those who have request North Wing, even numbered as their requests.

Good luck!

 

[crisi]

The little kiddo factor in a HA one bedroom is much less than the little kiddo factor in a studio. In a studio there is usually no bath in a HA room. In a one bedroom - except for one room at AKL, you still have the jacuzzi tub. If little is "still need to hold them in the tub" the jacuzzi means you pretty much need to get in there with them because its deep, but its at least workable and there is a tub. We had our little kids in an HA room and it really wasn't a big deal at all.

ETA: With my own kids I would avoid a MK view. When my kids were little, we wouldn't even go near MK unless we were ready to spend time IN MK. It was better that they had no idea that MK was a possibility when we wanted to spend a day at Epcot or Animal Kingdom. It led to too much whining - once they saw the castle, they thought they needed to be in the park. All children are, of course, different, and parents have different amounts of tolerance as well. For us, a MK view would be magical for five minutes, and then become a burden on mom and dad.

They are older now - we avoid looking at the Tower of Terror......

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

I agree with Crisi that the non-accessible part isn't that critical for a 1BR but I am also assuming it is b/c you want a tub. Actually, at BLT all the studios I've seen have both a tub and shower as well so it's not as critical there either if the tub is your reason. There also have been quite a few reports of people requesting non-accessible and then they get the accessible. It's been speculated if the assigner sees the word accessible in the request that they sometimes miss the non part and think you want the HA room. I'd give greater consideration to this request and if it's b/c you want a tub then either skip this or request a room with a tub.

Otherwise the number of requests seems reasonable but I'd not count on them all and make certain they're in the order of most importance.

 

[DenLo]

We are going 'home' for the first time in December. We will have an infant and a 4 year old plus DH (the birthday boy) and myself..

We have a 1 bedroom LV at BLT..

Is this too much to ask for in a request? I would like to have a partial MK view and not a HC Accessible room...

- Non-Accessible room (the little kiddo factor)
- North Wing
- Even Number

Thanks!!

I'd leave the non HC accessible room off because I think that often people only get one of their requests. I think at the front desk you can say you do not want a HA room.

It sounds like you are trying for one of the north crescent LV rooms has a MK view. So I'd ask for North wing, even number. Good luck.

 

[Lost in Neverland]

We had the same request for a partial MK View. We asked for the North FacingTower as high as possible. We had both a LV and MK view for LV points.

 

[cel_disney]

Thanks everyone. I appreciate the input on the possible mix ups regarding accessible rooms...

I am a bit concerned about having to give the kids a bath in the jacuzzi...it seems like the side will be a little too tall for me to reach my 4 month old? But I'm also concerned about under the sinks not having cabinets and not having a breakfast bar. I thought i had seen this in some of the pictures - anyone know if its true?

 

[dianeschlicht]

What do you mean you wont have a breakfast bar? If you mean there wont be seating for eating, you are wrong. A 1 bedroom will have a full kitchen and seating for at least 4 people to eat.

 

[crisi]

With a four month old you'd either get in the tub with her or wash her in the kitchen sink (even in a regular tub, my kids at that age got all their baths in the kitchen sink - way better for my back).

There aren't cupboards below the sink. It isn't a huge deal. We moved the trash to the front hall closet so the kids stayed out of it.

It isn't the BEST possible room, but it isn't a request I'd waste a request on.

 

[ccsmith312]

We stayed in a HA room at Kidani recently and it did not contain the kitchen island. Perhaps that is what the OP meant by the breakfast bar? It was a little weird being in a HA room. The kitchen looked kind of cheap with the sink and no cabinets underneath. Also I missed the island and the bathroom shower was not glass enclosed. It had this terrible shower curtain that would blow around and stick to you. Also there was no lip on the shower floor so the water just flowed all out into the bathroom floor. I don't know if it's worth wasting one of your requests on to avoid, but it really did take some of the niceness out of our room experience.