Hi - Arriving next week and I wanted to see if it was worth making a loop request for our cabin. Which cabin loops are open? We are not going to the parks or the pool and we just want a nice loop with some grass since we are bringing the dog (last time we backed up on some swamp land which was not ideal). We rented a golf cart so it really does not matter to us where we are within the grounds.
Which cabin loops are open?
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Gator29,
I don't know about specific loops being open but wanted to make a comment about grass and suggestions where to request.
Since you've been there and had the swamp, you know that there is a lot of tree cover over the cabins. They are also fairly close together IMO so there is not a lot of grassy spots or space for such.
This is a typical cabin from Google with about as much grass as I've ever seen at a cabin:
It is more common to have lots of pine straw and maybe a few brambles and palmetto bushes around with little grass. Something like this:
What I would suggest to you is the far ends of 2200, 2400, and 2600 (the right hand ends of the loops on this map):
The outside of these loops back up against the big grassy/open field that would be an easy walk from your cabin porch to a grassy open place where you could play with the dog or throw the ball. Cabin 2222 in this article is an example:
https://wildernessprincess.net/2020/09/05/the-8-best-cabins-in-fort-wilderness-and-how-to-get-them/
See the big open grassy field in the back of this picture?
That's out by the hitch/un-hitch area and it's easily accessible from the cabin porch.
So my advice would be to get to the Fort as early as you can on your check-in day, walk into the lobby (or in your pull-thru check-in lane) and negotiate an outside cabin site in one of those 3 loops that backs up to the field. Disney will pre-assign a cabin site to you but they will try to swap you to an available one if it is available and if you ask. That's kind of a hard request to make in a few words in a reservation note in advance.
But if you're polite, patient, and flexible, the CM will try to meet your request.
Just my two cents.
Bama Ed
I don't know about specific loops being open but wanted to make a comment about grass and suggestions where to request.
Since you've been there and had the swamp, you know that there is a lot of tree cover over the cabins. They are also fairly close together IMO so there is not a lot of grassy spots or space for such.
This is a typical cabin from Google with about as much grass as I've ever seen at a cabin:
It is more common to have lots of pine straw and maybe a few brambles and palmetto bushes around with little grass. Something like this:
What I would suggest to you is the far ends of 2200, 2400, and 2600 (the right hand ends of the loops on this map):
The outside of these loops back up against the big grassy/open field that would be an easy walk from your cabin porch to a grassy open place where you could play with the dog or throw the ball. Cabin 2222 in this article is an example:
https://wildernessprincess.net/2020/09/05/the-8-best-cabins-in-fort-wilderness-and-how-to-get-them/
See the big open grassy field in the back of this picture?
That's out by the hitch/un-hitch area and it's easily accessible from the cabin porch.
So my advice would be to get to the Fort as early as you can on your check-in day, walk into the lobby (or in your pull-thru check-in lane) and negotiate an outside cabin site in one of those 3 loops that backs up to the field. Disney will pre-assign a cabin site to you but they will try to swap you to an available one if it is available and if you ask. That's kind of a hard request to make in a few words in a reservation note in advance.
But if you're polite, patient, and flexible, the CM will try to meet your request.
Just my two cents.
Bama Ed
We are here now. 2300 is open, 2500 is closed. Not sure about the others, though based on holiday decorations and cars/golf carts it looks like most of them are open. We'll probably take a golf cart drive through the loops on sunday night so if i have more info I'll update.
2314 has a big open grassy area behind it similar to the pic above (with less dirt), though the road is just on the other side of the grass so idk if that would be ideal for a dog. We were there for a night before getting moved to a cabin backing on the canal, where we are now. Our current neighbors all have dogs and there seems to be a decent amount of room to run around the backyards.
As far as changing cabins, we had requested one backing to the canal, so when we got to 2314 we called the front desk, and they said 2314 was all they had that night but they could move us the next day. They were very accommodating of our schedules and our timing, and notified us promptly when the new cabin was ready. So, i'd definitely ask about moving if you don't like your location.
2314 has a big open grassy area behind it similar to the pic above (with less dirt), though the road is just on the other side of the grass so idk if that would be ideal for a dog. We were there for a night before getting moved to a cabin backing on the canal, where we are now. Our current neighbors all have dogs and there seems to be a decent amount of room to run around the backyards.
As far as changing cabins, we had requested one backing to the canal, so when we got to 2314 we called the front desk, and they said 2314 was all they had that night but they could move us the next day. They were very accommodating of our schedules and our timing, and notified us promptly when the new cabin was ready. So, i'd definitely ask about moving if you don't like your location.
Btw, we did drive around tonight in the golf cart (looked at the decorations and then hit the beach to watch the meteor shower) and i think 2500 is the only closed cabin loop. 2600 looked either closed or sparsely populated. The rest all had lots of cars in driveways, golf carts, and/or holiday decorations, so seem to be open.
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Wait, Disney didn’t cancel the meteor shower to prevent congregating on the beach? I assumed they had that in their power.
The dome that controls the weather malfunctioned today (we got poured on at AK), so maybe the problems started last night.
(Fwiw, the beach was a great place to watch for meteors. There was only one other couple out there, and we walked to the end of the beach far enough to block the parking lot lights so it was pretty dark. The only problem is now we're tracking sand everywhere... )
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