Wilderness Lodge Question

[mittmee mouse]

Last Nov we stayed 1 night at the WL, and this Oct we're staying 5 nights. I'm really excited to spend some real time there as we loved it!

I'm wondering what kind of room I had last year. I'm not sure if anyone knows the layout enough to tell me. Our trip was a very last minute thing, so we got a "standard" type room, but it was located on the ground level on a pathway near the Villa's pool/small pool. It had a walk-out patio, and while it was a little backwards to get to (walking left of the general store, down the hallway, down an elevator and left to our room.) but we really liked how quiet it was! And reading another post got me thinking that maybe I want a ground floor again so that my DH and I can sit outside with the monitor while the kids fall asleep.

We booked a wooded view this time.

Also, any downsides to the ground floor from experience?

Thanks!

 

[Tigger's ally]

we had ground floor inside the courtyard right by the pool bar. Great location. Loved the stay. Even had one duck that was bound determined to share our room. After keeping him out the whole time, on check out day I opened the sliding door and let him in. Fella quacked a bit, nosed around (that is when I determined it was a lady, not a fella) and then went back outside. I think she just wanted to scope out the rooms for a future trip!

 

[mittmee mouse]

we had ground floor inside the courtyard right by the pool bar. Great location. Loved the stay. Even had one duck that was bound determined to share our room. After keeping him out the whole time, on check out day I opened the sliding door and let him in. Fella quacked a bit, nosed around (that is when I determined it was a lady, not a fella) and then went back outside. I think she just wanted to scope out the rooms for a future trip!

Funny about the duck!

Was it noisy by the pool?

 

[erinm]

we had ground floor inside the courtyard right by the pool bar. Great location. Loved the stay. Even had one duck that was bound determined to share our room. After keeping him out the whole time, on check out day I opened the sliding door and let him in. Fella quacked a bit, nosed around (that is when I determined it was a lady, not a fella) and then went back outside. I think she just wanted to scope out the rooms for a future trip!

I think we had the same room. It was the last room at the end of the hall and we could walk out from the patio to the pool and took advantage of being so close to the bar . The pool was a bit noisy during the day but not too bad at night. We loved the location and would request this room again

 

[grimley1968]

I'm wondering what kind of room I had last year. I'm not sure if anyone knows the layout enough to tell me. Our trip was a very last minute thing, so we got a "standard" type room, but it was located on the ground level on a pathway near the Villa's pool/small pool. It had a walk-out patio, and while it was a little backwards to get to (walking left of the general store, down the hallway, down an elevator and left to our room.) but we really liked how quiet it was! And reading another post got me thinking that maybe I want a ground floor again so that my DH and I can sit outside with the monitor while the kids fall asleep.

We booked a wooded view this time.

Also, any downsides to the ground floor from experience?

Thanks!

It reads as though you had a courtyard view room. Rooms that look out over the villas pool are considered courtyard view now, which is in addition to the rooms which look out over the feature pool, geyser, etc. (these were the original courtyard view rooms). All courtyard view, standard type rooms cost the same, unless they have bunk beds in them, which adds to the price.

I think it's a little deceptive for WL to call that a courtyard view room, nice as it may have been, because it's just not a courtyard, no matter how you slice it. But that's WL's categorization, and we have to live with it.

I booked courtyard view for our upcoming October trip to WL. I requested "main courtyard" view, overlooking geyser, feature pool, etc. to make it as likely as possible we view the original courtyard.

I like woods view rooms, and we've done that a couple of times at WL. I think the view you're describing would be more properly categorized as woods view, but WL sees it differently.

I see no downsides at all from being on ground floor. You can request that, but I'd say they go pretty quick.

 

[mittmee mouse]

I would have guessed it was a woods view, too! How strange. So where are the woods views? (That's why I requested a woods view this time. I thought it would be similar.)

 

[Gary M]

http://users.hartwick.edu/heydukr/wlrooms.htm

The above site is a room map of WL. This may give you an idea where the room was.

 

[grimley1968]

I would have guessed it was a woods view, too! How strange. So where are the woods views? (That's why I requested a woods view this time. I thought it would be similar.)

Woods views would be rooms that don't view a pool, but also don't look out on the parking lot. The main part of WL is horseshoe-shaped, with the inside of the horseshoe all being courtyard view, since they all look out over the feature pool, geyser, or even possibly the lake (higher up floors). The right outside edge of the horseshoe is probably the section you were in, and is also considered courtyard view (I think), because it looks out toward the quiet pool, and a "courtyard" of sorts is formed by this wing and part of the villas. I won't defend the categorization, though. I think it's silly.

Most of the left outer edge of WL is woods view, since you look out and there is nothing but trees to see. It's definitely quiet there. The best of these, IMO, are in the left wing, as far down the hall as you can go.

A portion of that wing also looks out on the service road, and, well, dumpsters, etc. These are considered standard view, for the most part. I booked one of these once. Looking down wasn't much of a view, but I could see the tops of the Wishes fireworks show over the trees. These are located not as far down the left wing. Not a great view, but then they are a lot cheaper.

Standard view rooms, in addition to the rooms I mentioned above that look down into the service area, tend to be concentrated in the very small number of rooms that partially view the parking lot.

 

[Tigger's ally]

Funny about the duck!

Was it noisy by the pool?

Like the PP said, during the day it was a little noisy. Would have been hard to take a nap if you are a nappy person. At night, it was fine. And yes we had the last room by the hallway door and the room next to it which was a bunkbed room. We loved the location but my wifey prolly thinks I escaped to the pool bar once too many times. Because of the sliding door and the pool bar being that close, I don't think there was a more perfect room for this ol boy in all of Disney! On the map above, our rooms were 163 (wenches room) and 165 (pirates room).

 

[mittmee mouse]

Thanks for all the responses and for the map!

I was Room 138. I really actually liked this locale, depsite the roundabout way of getting there from the lobby. Like I said, it was only for 2 days, 1 night, and it wasn't until naptime of the 2nd day that I found the door near the pool entrance to our hallway. Until then we had been going up through Roaring Forks, then walking around, over, down, and over! Live and learn!

I wondering what I should request having paid for a Woods view this time?

 

[Tigger's ally]

Thanks for all the responses and for the map!

I was Room 138. I really actually liked this locale, depsite the roundabout way of getting there from the lobby. Like I said, it was only for 2 days, 1 night, and it wasn't until naptime of the 2nd day that I found the door near the pool entrance to our hallway. Until then we had been going up through Roaring Forks, then walking around, over, down, and over! Live and learn!

I wondering what I should request having paid for a Woods view this time?

If you liked where you stayed last time, then tell them that and basically request

1. room type (queens, King, Bunk Bed)
2. What floor you would like
3. Room between 100 and 120 (floor number would be first digit)

They do not have to honor your request, but that would put you on the same side of the resort as you were last time. It also puts you close to the busses. Now then if you wanted to stay on the other side of the resort just ask for a room between 004 and 030. That will put you closer to roaring forks, the pool, and the boat launch. Can't go wrong either way if you ask me. Enjoy the trip.

 

[grimley1968]

If you liked where you stayed last time, then tell them that and basically request

1. room type (queens, King, Bunk Bed)
2. What floor you would like
3. Room between 100 and 120 (floor number would be first digit)

They do not have to honor your request, but that would put you on the same side of the resort as you were last time. It also puts you close to the busses. Now then if you wanted to stay on the other side of the resort just ask for a room between 004 and 030. That will put you closer to roaring forks, the pool, and the boat launch. Can't go wrong either way if you ask me. Enjoy the trip.

The OP is paying for a woods view room this time, which is a different category of room than courtyard, which the OP had originally. Requests can only be granted for rooms within the same category.

 

[Tigger's ally]

The OP is paying for a woods view room this time, which is a different category of room than courtyard, which the OP had originally. Requests can only be granted for rooms within the same category.

I know this, the rooms I stated there are rooms that are in woods category, not the category she was in before.

 

[DBFLUKE]

anyne know what they conside a CL standard room? What type of view?