Little E
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 3, 2016
I just booked Beach Club for our 2020 spring break trip. Our family is really excited about this trip, as it will likely be the last one for a bit. DS #1 will be a senior in high school, and DS #2 will be a freshman, and we assume that this spring break might be the last one that aligns, once our oldest goes to college.
We have stayed at a variety of values, mods, and deluxe resorts over the years, and we have enjoyed ALL of our WDW trips. However, this time, we knew we wanted to splurge and stay at a deluxe. When it comes to the deluxes we've experienced as a family, we have stayed at OKW, the Poly, and CR and loved them all. DH and I stayed for a long weekend at GF sans kids in 2016 and fell in LOVE with GF. The dream was always to take a trip with our kids to GF, so when packages came out a couple days ago, I had our TA price out a variety of deluxe resorts for us to compare. Naturally, GF was most expensive. Actually it was shockingly more expensive than CR and BC. Like almost $1500 more. And, there was only a $200 difference between CR and BC. While we tried to figure out ways to make GF work, in the end it just made more sense to book a less expensive deluxe.
As a family we went back and forth about the CR and BC. We love the CR, and had a great experience there. We liked being able to walk or monorail to MK, and we liked being able to monorail to Epcot. The Contempo Cafe is our fav QS, and it just felt SO Disney there. Our garden wing room was quiet and the walk to the pool and main tower were easy peasy.
Each trip we've taken (yearly since 2011) we've tried a new resort. That has been really fun for us to try something new each time, so I think that's ultimately why we chose BC. We've never stayed in the Boardwalk area, and on our last trip in 2017 (we went to Disneyland instead last summer) we explored that area for the very first time when we had a ressie at Beaches and Cream. We liked that area a lot and Stormalong Bay seemed very fun. My boys really like the idea of being able to walk to HS and Epcot, too.
So, I'm finding myself this morning feeling a little sad that we won't be at CR or GF, which seems so weird! We aren't spending as much not going to GF, and can use that $ for other aspects of our trip, and we'll be trying a new-to-us resort which is exciting and fun! So, I guess I'm looking for a little reassurance. For those Dis folks who love the BC, could you please tell me what you love about it, and what we should look for or do while we're staying there? If it helps, we're there for six nights/7days at the end of March/beginning of April, 2020 and we have a garden/wood view with DDP, and park hoppers. I know it will be a magical vacation, but I could sure use your advice about navigating BC.
Thank you so much!
We have stayed at a variety of values, mods, and deluxe resorts over the years, and we have enjoyed ALL of our WDW trips. However, this time, we knew we wanted to splurge and stay at a deluxe. When it comes to the deluxes we've experienced as a family, we have stayed at OKW, the Poly, and CR and loved them all. DH and I stayed for a long weekend at GF sans kids in 2016 and fell in LOVE with GF. The dream was always to take a trip with our kids to GF, so when packages came out a couple days ago, I had our TA price out a variety of deluxe resorts for us to compare. Naturally, GF was most expensive. Actually it was shockingly more expensive than CR and BC. Like almost $1500 more. And, there was only a $200 difference between CR and BC. While we tried to figure out ways to make GF work, in the end it just made more sense to book a less expensive deluxe.
As a family we went back and forth about the CR and BC. We love the CR, and had a great experience there. We liked being able to walk or monorail to MK, and we liked being able to monorail to Epcot. The Contempo Cafe is our fav QS, and it just felt SO Disney there. Our garden wing room was quiet and the walk to the pool and main tower were easy peasy.
Each trip we've taken (yearly since 2011) we've tried a new resort. That has been really fun for us to try something new each time, so I think that's ultimately why we chose BC. We've never stayed in the Boardwalk area, and on our last trip in 2017 (we went to Disneyland instead last summer) we explored that area for the very first time when we had a ressie at Beaches and Cream. We liked that area a lot and Stormalong Bay seemed very fun. My boys really like the idea of being able to walk to HS and Epcot, too.
So, I'm finding myself this morning feeling a little sad that we won't be at CR or GF, which seems so weird! We aren't spending as much not going to GF, and can use that $ for other aspects of our trip, and we'll be trying a new-to-us resort which is exciting and fun! So, I guess I'm looking for a little reassurance. For those Dis folks who love the BC, could you please tell me what you love about it, and what we should look for or do while we're staying there? If it helps, we're there for six nights/7days at the end of March/beginning of April, 2020 and we have a garden/wood view with DDP, and park hoppers. I know it will be a magical vacation, but I could sure use your advice about navigating BC.
Thank you so much!
Our kids are all in college..we’ve stayed at CR, Poly, OKW, POR, AkL, and never hit BC/YC. We are booked YC in 7 weeks! We are so excited! I do keep checking availability to save $400-500 downgrading from water view to garden- but, like you said- college schedules are crazy, and my kids are many states away...we loved MK resorts- but the pool is calling us- I even rented the cabana one afternoon- we’ll give you our honest opinion, out of our 12 stays- Poly and Poly Villas were our fave- Contemporary tower was our second fave.
