Can someone please clarify this for me?
We're a family of 4: 2a 2c, with one of the kids classified as an adult by Disney standards. I'd booked a Standard View room at Jambo because I just wanted something basic for just one night. I was perfectly fine with views of the parking lot, or rooftop as described on WDW's website. I booked a Standard View also because it said, "2 Queen Beds or 1 Queen Bed and 1 Bunk Bed or 1 King Bed and 1 Day Bed." As a family of 4, we need either the 2 Queens or 1 Queen and 1 Bunk as described, so I'd called Disney reservations to put in a request that we get a room with 2 Queen Beds or 1 Queen and 1 Bunk. Either would've been just fine. I was in no way looking for an upgrade, nor did I ask for one at any point, just simply trying to ensure we get the appropriate beds for our family according to their website's description. All 4 members of my family were listed on our reservation and
MDE. When we got to our room, (got the text, completely bypassing the front desk) we discovered it had 1 king and 1 day bed, but it overlooked the Sunset Savanna. So my questions are: Did we get upgraded? Did I book the right category of room for our needs? Do Standard View rooms with 2 Queens really exist and they're just in short supply so they shuffled us around? In looking at the Jambo map, I'm not even sure where Standard View rooms overlooking parking lots or roof tops may be...are they the rooms along the Giraffe and Ostrich Trails? Or along the Zebra Trail overlooking Boma and the Mara?
We certainly appreciated the view, and are thankful for it, but I just want to know what went "wrong" with the bed situation, if it was my error, so that I can book correctly next time and not try to cram 3 people into a king or 2 people in a day bed. For the one night we were there, it was fine, but none of us really want to do that for more than night or two.
On our first night we were awoken at 10pm by a family in the next room. They were up and crazy loud u Gil 3am. We got no sleep and were up getting our two year old back to sleep all night. The whole night I was thinking about how on here everyone says there is no sound proofing at values and peop,e who stay deluxe can't stand the different (basically). Our last stay was at Pop and we never heard a single person. It was a really bad first night. After that we've heard nothing. I'm not sure if they quieted down next door or if we're just so exhausted after park days we sleep through it. We definitely hear their conversations and tv if were in the room at the same time during the day. Basically, I'm not impressed by the sound proofing.
Unfortunately, that was my experience at AKL as well. We only stayed one night, so we didn't make a fuss about it, but it was our first ever experience with a Deluxe, and I really wasn't expecting to know every time my neighbor went to the bathroom. We've stayed at Values and Moderates, and AKL made me come to the conclusion that there's no such thing as soundproofing at WDW resorts. I was kind of disappointed that at $300+ a night, I could hear my neighbors flush the toilet and shower. I was actually woken up by my neighbor...I think it was upstairs, we were on the 4th floor of Jambo, flushing the seemingly jet engine powered toilets. Then I heard them turning on the shower, and at some point, a dragging sound across the floor. I was so thankful that didn't continue all night long. It did cross my mind that maybe it was construction. I don't know if they're done with the refurb yet, but there's no mistaking that super sonic toilet flushing.
