Stayed at WL CL last week for 4 nights. IT FELT SO GOOD TO BE BACK
My first post-reopening CL stay. I’ve done some trips to Disney and some local type trips over Covid and this was the first hotel I did not once get told “because of Covid we can’t X,Y,Z…” It was really, really nice.
As others have mentioned full housekeeping everyday. No turndown. Slippers and robes. Slippers were a nice touch since they switched to the hard floors. LOVE the remodel. They fixed everything I didn’t like about the old rooms. Still a tight fit if you have a fam of 4 I think, I was just 2. The shower was especially nicely done. Tile that looked like wood gave it a really elegant feel! The rain shower was pretty great too
On to CL stuff!
Staff were great. I was traveling with someone who has a non-serious allergy to gluten and dairy but she tried to ignore it this trip (it ultimately ended unfortunately for her
we all gotta learn the hard way sometimes) so I can’t comment much on their allergy friendly options. They had gluten free bread and bagels I know at least that much.
Previously I felt like a bother asking CMs for wine or water when they weren’t standing in the service area but after reporting that here on my 2019 trip people said I could just ask at the concierge desk. Did that this trip and had no issues at all, they were always happy to help!
Food was ok. I don’t like whatever they’re using for eggs. I’m a big fan of the bacon & smoked salmon at breakfast alas those was only 2/4 mornings. I found the evening dishes to be rather oily. Ribs were ok but bison chili and Mac and cheese are a couple really oily dishes that stick in my mind. I ate the chili but I passed on the Mac (went to get some and I could have spooned a serving spoon size spoonful of oil out of the middle, idk what was going on there!). So I found evening stuff to be a nice appetizer but definitely no dinners were made off it. Oh!! They had the DIY trail mix! So the most important snack of unlimited goldfish was covered
Mimosas are available on request in the morning. Mini water bottles are by request only but they are happy to get them for you.
Loved our CL room! We had booked standard but got a nice view of MK and the monorail and the MK fireworks. It was the most beautiful view I’ve ever had in a room (never done a theme park view). We even cancelled our rose and crown we liked the view so much, the idea of enjoying some fireworks and hitting the bed was far superior to EP fireworks and then fighting the crowds.
The concierge helped me book another night when United cancelled our flight home. I was able to sit there and sip my bubbly (I give the impression I was cool but I can assure you it was 9:40 pm and I was in a complete panic
) while she called whoever she needed to call to find if we could extend at WL and what the prices were. She gave me the prices for standard and CL. Told me we had CL access all day on checkout day so I appreciated she didn’t hide that fact and it made that call easy. Their policy is rack rate standard room price but they upgraded me to a nature view for that night so we had to change rooms but we even scored a nice views of the high fireworks and didn’t have to change resorts.
ETA: went back and skimmed Post 1 here of
@GADisneyDad14 ‘s 2019 review of WL CL. They are running fewer items. I thought three options made the DIY trail mix, wowza was I wrong! Offerings are definitely less than back in 2019 but still they did a good job with what they had.
