Originally Posted By GMouse I was on AllEarsNet.com and was reading reviews about the WL and several of them mentioned that the lodge rooms were undergoing renovations. I've been going to WDW since 1994 and this is the first time I'll actually be staying at a Deluxe Resort. Are all of the room updates now completed at the lodge, or do I need to make sure I request a renovated room when I book?
Originally Posted By MPierce They have all been completed. I guarantee you're going to love Wilderness Lodge. If you are paying for a CourtyardView room, make sure you request main courtyard 4th or 5th floor. If you are getting a Woodsview, request a room with a view of the otter pond. If you get high up overlooking the otter pond you can see the top of the Castle at MK, and watch the upper burst of the fireworks.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 The WL is wonderful and the new rooms are very well done ... but get there quickly as WDW isn't known for actually maintaining anything even after they spend tens (or hundreds) of millions of dollars. Also, make sure you check to see that there is no work outside your room. Because, as of last week, they were still doing work outside and scaffolding was in place in front of some balconies.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN WL is the best hotel on property IMHO... I love the lodge theme and the surrounding tree fields add greatly to that feel of being somewhere away from FL.
Originally Posted By MPierce I love to take a break at midday. I would grab a beer, and go out on the 5th floor deck over looking Bay Lake. No one usually goes out there in the middle of the day. When the Geyser goes off it's easy to imagine you are in a log retreat in the Pacifc Northwest.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Why does everything have to revolve around "beer" at WDW? Can anyone just enjoy their time there with a cup of soda or juice?? Sheesh!!
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Why does everything have to revolve around "beer" at WDW? Can anyone just enjoy their time there with a cup of soda or juice?? Sheesh!!>> I'd just take my refillable mug down to Roaring Fork, fill that baby up with icy cold Coca-Cola and find me a chair!
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom What about the Hot Chocolate!.... Or for a good Jolt.. fill your refillable mug up half way with coffee and the other half with Hot Chocolate.
Originally Posted By GMouse <<Because, as of last week, they were still doing work outside and scaffolding was in place in front of some balconies. >> What are they constructing?
Originally Posted By tonyanton I love the lodge too...I hope that new DVC tower at the Contemporary doesn't ruin the views. I like how currently the Contemporary is blocked from view behind one of the Bay Lake islands.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Why does everything have to revolve around "beer" at WDW? Can anyone just enjoy their time there with a cup of soda or juice?? Sheesh!! << I reread my post several times, and I never once found a reference to my trips to WDW revolving around beer. Can anyone just enjoy their time there with a cup of beer, without being chastised for it??? Sheesh!!! Hey, how about this, I will enjoy my lifestyle, and you enjoy yours. Do we have a deal?
Originally Posted By jmuboy Oh great.......now the new Contemporary tower is going to ruin Wilderness Lodge views....another reason to hate that new hotel tower!!!!!!!!!!!
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom If difficult to enjoy the "piped in" sound of crickets at the Wilderness Lodge over the noise of the Race Way making its way from the Disney Sports Complex. I'll take the view of the Contempo DVC Tower over the race car noise anyday!
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder <<Why does everything have to revolve around "beer" at WDW? Can anyone just enjoy their time there with a cup of soda or juice?? Sheesh!!>> What's wrong with BEER??!!?? More blasphemous words have never been written anywhere on LP, ever.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 Supposedly people at the Poly complained about racket from the RP raceway, I've never heard it. piped in crickets? love it.
Originally Posted By jmuboy The WDW race track ranks right up there with the Contemporary DVC and WWofSports as mistakes that should never have been built - but that's just my opinion.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <If difficult to enjoy the "piped in" sound of crickets at the Wilderness Lodge over the noise of the Race Way making its way from the Disney Sports Complex. I'll take the view of the Contempo DVC Tower over the race car noise anyday! < I haven't stayed there since the racetrack went in..but that noise would not be a nighttime thing would it ?
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 ^^that would be my guess, and in the daytime, people at the pools would be having enough fun to drown out the noise.
