We got back from our wonderful girls only trip four weeks ago after which I promptly started a new job so I've been a very lax DIS boards contributor! It was my second stay at the Yacht Club (third stay in the Y&B resort) and my Mum's first stay. Although we worked out my 8th visit and my Mum's 9th
We had a lovely stay and I am going to be starting a full trip report either tonight or tomorrow but I thought I would do a quick brief on YC here!
The Good:
Loved the refurbished rooms.
The grab n go food options were really handy.
As usual the very easy walk to Epcot
Housekeeping, we asked for early room service every day and got it, they were also great at leaving extra tea (we're British after all
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Stormalong Bay - My Mum's first time in SAB and she loved it.
The Bad:
Sound proofing - we were very lucky with our room but Ic Ould see how noisy neighbours would be a nightmare in the new rooms.
Light - I used a towel every night to block the light coming into the room.
The Weird:
We were asked to move to the Beach Club on check in... I am sure many on the board would have jumped at the chance of an upgrade to Club level but I hadn't stayed at the YC since honeymoon and I wanted to see the refurbished rooms plus the room we would be moved to wouldn't have had a full balcony (MAJOR minus for me). Yes many of you think I am nuts but we refused the upgrade and actually ended up with an upgrade to a lagoon view on the gazebo wing of YC anyway.
The symposium. Oh my goodness were there a lot of delegates for this tech symposium but they did make the YC a bit manic. There were golf buggies everywhere when we were waiting for bus travel and the super stressed work ethic clashed a bit with our holiday vibe, it wasn't bad but was weird. I think the non-Disney knowledgable delegates were a bit bemused too when they saw two adult women wearing mouse ears and costumes on the way to
MNSSHP, we got some stares but we wanted to point out that it was them and their lanyards/stressed looks that were out of place at the YC!!
Transport - OK not weird but just not great, we had a couple of long waits for buses, especially on return from the parks at night, not bad enough to go on the bad list but...
Other notes:
Air con was absolutely perfect, even a bit too good at times. Brrr.
If anybody is interested in more of our trip I've started a
trip report here.
A few more pictures of the view from 2091 at Yacht Club. As I mentioned, the wedding gazebo is in front of our balcony sightly offset to the left. The view to the right say (at two o'clock) is the bridge to Boardwalk and further to the right is a view of the Boardwalk. Our room does not have a tub and we haven't had any problems with noise (though we did request a box fan). Still haven't seen any dogs in the resorts (though saw someone's pet dogs at Epcot yesterday in a stroller -- thought that wasn't allowed?).
