Disney's CARIBBEAN BEACH RESORT Information & Questions

RJstanis said:

I heard you could not use the gift cards for this??? I was told that you had to upgrade dining 72 hours prior to arrival, thus not being able to use the gift cards for this. Did I receive or see bad information? I saw this multiple times when booking Free Dining.

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Grace1987 said:

Does anyone know if the king rooms are on second floor in Jamaica? I want to stay on the top floor and we have booked a king room and just trying to figure out where we might be put
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Grace1987 said:

Does anyone know if the king rooms are on second floor in Jamaica? I want to stay on the top floor and we have booked a king room and just trying to figure out where we might be put
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The Sunrise Student said:

We also booked a King room and I would be interested to hearing this answer as well.

When are you arriving? We arrive in 18 days.

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Grace1987 said:

Does anyone know if the king rooms are on second floor in Jamaica? I want to stay on the top floor and we have booked a king room and just trying to figure out where we might be put
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rotlex said:

Posting some quick impressions for a during construction stay.

Checked in yesterday for a 13 night stay on a free dining bounce back. Check in went very smooth. Very friendly and very Disney. We received our gift card, $975, whoohoo!, and hit the pool until the room was ready.

Overall, while major, the construction is not bad at all. We are in Jamaica 43 and frankly, from here, you can't even see any of it. We spent our first afternoon at the main pool and other than the walls/skrims and anything you can see over them, it feels the same as CBR always has. (It's our favorite mod). The food trucks and dining area are off to the side and not even noticeable when in the pool area. Food choices are ok and the folks working them pleasant enough.

Back to the room. The room is in good shape, clean, and we wound
Up with a court yard view but paid for standard. Now, the one thing SPOILING us already is the fact that our building houses the food station and has the Coca Cola free style machine right below us. This makes a world of difference during the morning coffee and snack run! Really nice to have this and would love to have it stick around post construction.

Anyway, like I said, we have only been here a day, but so far we are loving it. No difference in our experience at this point and convenient food and drinks to boot! (Ok, the gift card is a really nice addition too)!

Oh, we also received the pins as the in room gift.

More later. Now it's time to hit the parks!!!!

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kmc8826 said:

D8 and I just back from 5 night stay in a King bedroom. We did have the AP discount and the gift card, so despite the construction staying at CBR again was by far the best deal. We were in Jamaica 46. I originally had requested second floor, Jamaica or Trinidad North. Morning received email with room assignment and it was for the first floor. I called the number on the email and asked about second floor. I was on hold for about 10 minutes and they came back and had moved us up. I know Jamaica 46 is not as frequently requested as 45 but from my perspective it was just as good. Advantage was there was a freestyle machine close by. It was also close to transportation.

We did swim and at the 2:00 dance party characters were out.

Busses were pretty good but we did wait about 45 minutes for Epcot one day early evening.

We were there in May and it is amazing the progress they have done. Barbados is definitely history. No new building yet but lot of big equipment moving dirt.

We received the pins and a flyer about the gondola system.

If you are a frequent visitor and just want a room and resort much nicer than the values I still recommend CBR. If you are a not as frequent and are looking for more of a resort experience I might look elsewhere. I will say as stated above that there is a lot of construction at WDW right now so the construction at CBR is not at all abnormal.

I can try to answer if any questions.

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ALegrande said:

. Seeing lots of posts of people with gift cards and just hoping I didn't miss out on a second round!

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ALegrande said:

Did you get the gift card because you booked before a certain date? I'm really confused cause I've seen several people say they got gift cards, but I was under the impression it was a much smaller amount and you had to book before a certain date. We stayed in June of this year (2017) and booked in April, and I fought tooth and nail with them to get a gift card to absolutely no avail. We even begged guest services when we were on property and got nothing. So I was just wondering how that worked out for you

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dansdad said:

You are correct, you have to upgrade/add dining 72 hours prior to arrival. I missed the "want to upgrade when we check in". I was thinking OP wanted to upgrade dining on a future trip by using the Gift Cards which would work. Thanks for the correction.

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oj01 said:

I've seen a few reports saying that the Pirate Rooms are small. Are they actually smaller than the rest of the villages or is it just the beds that are smaller?

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dansdad said:

Nope, same exact size.

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ALegrande said:

Did you get the gift card because you booked before a certain date? I'm really confused cause I've seen several people say they got gift cards, but I was under the impression it was a much smaller amount and you had to book before a certain date. We stayed in June of this year (2017) and booked in April, and I fought tooth and nail with them to get a gift card to absolutely no avail. We even begged guest services when we were on property and got nothing. So I was just wondering how that worked out for you

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oj01 said:

Thanks. That's what I'd assumed . So, in effect, there's actually more floor space with the beds being smaller?

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cassidy57 said:

Hello kmc8826 We are staying there in December. Do you know what the bus route for the parks are. I am trying to decide which building I would like to request and I prefer one of the first stops on the way to the park. Also did you ever have to wait very long for any of the buses on the way to the park. I don't mind waiting at all on the way back to the hotel, I just like to get there in the morning. If this was asked recently and I missed the answer my apologies and thank you.

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