This fellow Minnesotan agrees that it sounds lovely!!
I would definitely check water view. There are definitely water view rooms in the preferred sections of CBR and I would definitely use the TP room request. We used it last year for POP, and it worked perfectly! We clicked and added our first choice room to the fax and then edited and added several other choices in the "example" section of the fax (the area that lists several room #'s). We got our 2nd choice which turned out perfect! Just remember, you can edit the portion of the fax that gives examples of rooms so it only includes rooms that you would like to have. Of course the TP room fax isn't guaranteed but it worked for us
Good luck on getting a perfect room for your family!
On the TP room finder, when you find the room view that you like, up in the top right hand corner you will see where it says "Click here to make a request for this room during your upcoming trip". Click on the word "here" and it will take you back to your dashboard and you will see that they have captured your room choice and you will see a button that says "configure fax" click on that button and you will see 2 sections to fill out. The first one says "For our upcoming stay, we'd like to request this type of room:", here you will list other rooms that you like and then a section for "additional special requests". The first box, you can copy the information on the page that shows the picture of the room your chose (look for "To request this room, provide Disney with the following text" right under the picture) or you can list 3-4 more rooms that you like better, even in another village.
I know it is a small thing, but the sounds of Christmas carols on steel drums played on the speakers really was nice.
On the TP room finder, when you find the room view that you like, up in the top right hand corner you will see where it says "Click here to make a request for this room during your upcoming trip". Click on the word "here" and it will take you back to your dashboard and you will see that they have captured your room choice and you will see a button that says "configure fax" click on that button and you will see 2 sections to fill out. The first one says "For our upcoming stay, we'd like to request this type of room:", here you will list other rooms that you like and then a section for "additional special requests". The first box, you can copy the information on the page that shows the picture of the room your chose (look for "To request this room, provide Disney with the following text" right under the picture) or you can list 3-4 more rooms that you like better, even in another village.
In the large box that says "additional special requests" You can add brief explanations of any special issues that you feel that the room assigner would need to know to be able to pick you the perfect room if one of your choices were available.
In my special requests, I have explained that I have a special request of a ground floor since my mom will be with us and she can't do stairs and it would be great to be close to a bus stop since she will be in a wheelchair to get around the resort and parks.
These are my 2 most important requests and even though these are choices in the on line check in, I want the room assigner to know why these requests are important so if my room choices aren't available or if none of the rooms I listed have a murphy bed since we are a party of 5. I listed 4 additional rooms in the section that says "For our upcoming stay, we'd like to request this type of room:". Don't overdo it and make the explanation short and sweet so it doesn't overwhelm the room assigners. End with a special thank you.
5 days prior to your check in date, TP will fax your request and send you a confirmation
Enjoy.
You will get answers on this board. Just waiting on your questions.
Thanks so much for the pics! I have been looking through the pages for a couple of hours for pics of the beaches.
