Wilderness Lodge Unfavorable Courtyard Views

[UBSHANG]

Are there any courtyard views/rooms at Wilderness Lodge that you considered better or worse than others?

 

[OKW Lover]

Most of the top floor units have a half wall around their balcony that restricts your view (when sitting down) to mostly just the sky. Some may consider this a good thing.

 

[fla4fun]

Keep in mind that some of the rooms that face the quiet pool and VWL are also considered "courtyard view", so if it's important that you face the main courtyard, you may want to request main courtyard. Also, some of the rooms that are on the sides, but close to the lobby are more difficult to get the full courtyard effect (it's kind of a side view).

 

[Kimberle]

Our room overlooked the quiet pool. While it was lovely, I'd prefer to overlook the main pool area.

The main pool can get a bit noisey, the quiet pool area is quiet. So it's a matter of personal preferance.

 

[UBSHANG]

fla4fun,

Your response is exactly the type of useful advice I was looking for. Thanks very much for the information.

 

[rmoore7]

The main pool can get a bit noisey, the quiet pool area is quiet. So it's a matter of personal preferance.[/QUOTE]

My daughter and I were there a couple of summers ago and were fortunate (or so I thought) to be upgraded from a woods view to a courtyard view. We were on the corner of the 5th floor, adjacent to the geyser, and a view of the lake. We were smiling from ear to ear when we walked into that room. Well, let me tell you that that pool stays open until (at that time) way after midnight, and the sound seems amplified up there. I know it didn't bother DD, since she is usually exhausted by the end of the day, but it really bothered me...the old curmudgeon. So, if you can live with yelling and screaming below your room into the early hours of the morning. Go for it.

Amazingly, when we stay at the Beach Club, the best pool at WDW, closes at 10:00pm.
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[cdrn1]

As Fla4fun stated, the WL villas-view rooms are also considered "courtyard" but in my opinion they SO are not. We got a comp upgrade to one of those once and didn't consider it an upgrade. After arriving at the room and seeing the view we called and asked for our originally-booked woods view and got a room at the end of the building overlooking the lake and boat dock and it was SO great!!!!

 

[HugsForEeyore]

As Fla4fun stated, the WL villas-view rooms are also considered "courtyard" but in my opinion they SO are not. We got a comp upgrade to one of those once and didn't consider it an upgrade. After arriving at the room and seeing the view we called and asked for our originally-booked woods view and got a room at the end of the building overlooking the lake and boat dock and it was SO great!!!!

I had a similiar problem! I booked a standard room at WL, and was "upgraded" to woods. My woods-view room was ground floor across from the otter pond, and directly next to the fence surrounding the very close loading dock. It was an awful, dark claustrophobic room, felt like I was in the "dungeon". I almost thought of returning to the front desk and demanding the standard room that I booked! How could any standard room be worse than what I got.

In January, I am staying at WL again, and this time booked a courtyard view! I mainly booked it since I just can't risk getting such an awful woods view room again! But even so, it seems I will be checking in very late (like 11:00 pm!), so I expect I won't get a very good WL courtyard room. So if there are bad courtyard views, I will probably get one! Oh well! It's got to beat the loading dock room!

 

[jlmarr]

As Fla4fun stated, the WL villas-view rooms are also considered "courtyard" but in my opinion they SO are not. We got a comp upgrade to one of those once and didn't consider it an upgrade. ...

Ditto on the villas-view rooms not feeling at all like "Courtyard". After getting back last time we watched the Samantha Brown/Travel Channel tour of Wilderness Lodge, and the view from her suite is exactly the view we had, although it from a different floor. Although there is a small pool, it's mainly woods and the villas, and not what most everyone thinks of as the Courtyard.

Congrats on the retrograde, btw. I'm guessing you got one of the 000-003 rooms identified as Woods on this page: http://users.hartwick.edu/heydukr/wlrooms.htm

 

[wildernesslodgelover]

Yes, the 6th floors and up have a solid wall around the balcony, so you must be standing up at the edge to see over it. I do not like this and always ask to be on 3-5 floors. I like the slatted balconies.

Also, we usually are upgraded to balcony rooms, but the first time we ever paid for one, we were on the 3 floor, right by the ice machine (which was awful) and had a view of a ROCK. It was tucked into a corner, I wish I remembered the number. We actually checked out a day early due to the room. It was not worth the price, in our opinion.

And yes, you do need to specify INNER courtyard view.

have fun, it is a great resort!