ok wow where to start i guess first some basic details DVC member since 2010 and 5th trip on my points first time at BLT first time at a monorail resort since 1986. I have only stayed at BCV and BWV and AKL on points. also first time traveling on points with just my family of 3 and not with a large group.
ok here goes.....i apologize for grammar and my overall English
we had a studio lake view and i requested a higher floor to try and avoid the 5th floor i was afraid of noise from foot traffic.....so we arrive did the online check in and got an update at 1030 that the room was not ready and we arrived off the bus at 11 and put our carry on bags away and headed to the MK had to turn in the AP vouchers for passes before we could enter...line was long but moved ok. got a text at 1:00 room was ready and room number and WAIT FOR IT......5th floor i was like my god really....LUCKILY we were on the left side of the building so we did not get the foot traffic...ok so get to the room.......it was decent clean but very worn for a 5 year old building. there was damage in the bathroom and the safe was broken. i called about the safe it took 2 people to fix it and that was done with in a few hours....now the bathroom i did not call and complain about it but the TP holder looked like it was kicked and hanging on by a thread....why this was not fixed before we got there i don't know but on refresh day i came back to nap and and i noticed it looked like someone took it off the wall and jammed it in to the wall again.....so now a get a knock on the door its maintenance asking to fix it.....i was like ok we are just hanging my girls were napping.....well i thought they would just tighten it they did a whole new fix took 2 plus hours.....now the guys were SUPER NICE but i was not really happy this was going on when we were there.....if i knew how long it would take i would have told them to come back.......and the internet was useless 1000000%
places we ate
Columbia harbor house (impressed)
Cali grill
prime time
Mexico inside behind seating us 45 minutes bought our diner our before our app....food was good but its off the list after 2 so so times
Hambre market BEST QUICK SERVICE IN THE WHOLE PARK tried everything
ohana
BOG breakfast ok worth getting in at the 8am time and done and ready to hit rides at 845 walked on thunder and haunted all before 9:15
Coral reef a real nice time sat far away from the glass but enjoyed it
Via napoli food was slow but real good only place that checked my TIW for ID
narcosses our server had the blue badge and it was awesome
hambre market again loved it
canada my girls said it was the best meal they ate it was real good but i think narcosses was better
1900 park Breakfast decent....the madd hatter was amazing
BOG dinner and real good but had a bad location near the kitchen but food was ok...dont get the lamb real small and fatty.....
So things we loved about BLT tower the views, fireworks, walk to MK and easy access to Monorail resorts.
things we disliked there bus system we always were the first pick up before wilderness and the last drop off so it was like max pain at least BCV and YC you have an easier ride for one of them. bus service to DS was super suspect especially getting picked up. it just seemed to us that it was a major process getting anywhere getting to epcot via monorail was easy getting back not so much just took longer....we view MK as an all day destination at at least 6 plus hours we like to pop in and out of HWS and ecpot being at BLT you cant really do that bc its 30-40 minutes of travel time each way. the ride to AK seems forever esp stopping at the water park. i feel like Epcot area is just more centralized and i dont mind riding 30-40 to get to MK bc we are there for a longer time......so i guess the main dislike was that travel and for the time being i dont think we will be going back to BLT or any of the monorail resorts for a long time. Building was awesome but for my family we are more epcot people.
now we squeezed this trip into the last week before school started it was my first time being in Disney in august holy crap it crushed us we prepared ourselves as best we could but the heat beat us a few times.....i was like now my DD is going into 6th grade we should try and not pull her out we are OCT/May people.....but aftter august i am like F that she can miss lol.......the rain was not that fun either got caught in 2 big ones
again sorry if some of this does not make sense i tend to ramble......
ok here goes.....i apologize for grammar and my overall English
we had a studio lake view and i requested a higher floor to try and avoid the 5th floor i was afraid of noise from foot traffic.....so we arrive did the online check in and got an update at 1030 that the room was not ready and we arrived off the bus at 11 and put our carry on bags away and headed to the MK had to turn in the AP vouchers for passes before we could enter...line was long but moved ok. got a text at 1:00 room was ready and room number and WAIT FOR IT......5th floor i was like my god really....LUCKILY we were on the left side of the building so we did not get the foot traffic...ok so get to the room.......it was decent clean but very worn for a 5 year old building. there was damage in the bathroom and the safe was broken. i called about the safe it took 2 people to fix it and that was done with in a few hours....now the bathroom i did not call and complain about it but the TP holder looked like it was kicked and hanging on by a thread....why this was not fixed before we got there i don't know but on refresh day i came back to nap and and i noticed it looked like someone took it off the wall and jammed it in to the wall again.....so now a get a knock on the door its maintenance asking to fix it.....i was like ok we are just hanging my girls were napping.....well i thought they would just tighten it they did a whole new fix took 2 plus hours.....now the guys were SUPER NICE but i was not really happy this was going on when we were there.....if i knew how long it would take i would have told them to come back.......and the internet was useless 1000000%
places we ate
Columbia harbor house (impressed)
Cali grill
prime time
Mexico inside behind seating us 45 minutes bought our diner our before our app....food was good but its off the list after 2 so so times
Hambre market BEST QUICK SERVICE IN THE WHOLE PARK tried everything
ohana
BOG breakfast ok worth getting in at the 8am time and done and ready to hit rides at 845 walked on thunder and haunted all before 9:15
Coral reef a real nice time sat far away from the glass but enjoyed it
Via napoli food was slow but real good only place that checked my TIW for ID
narcosses our server had the blue badge and it was awesome
hambre market again loved it
canada my girls said it was the best meal they ate it was real good but i think narcosses was better
1900 park Breakfast decent....the madd hatter was amazing
BOG dinner and real good but had a bad location near the kitchen but food was ok...dont get the lamb real small and fatty.....
So things we loved about BLT tower the views, fireworks, walk to MK and easy access to Monorail resorts.
things we disliked there bus system we always were the first pick up before wilderness and the last drop off so it was like max pain at least BCV and YC you have an easier ride for one of them. bus service to DS was super suspect especially getting picked up. it just seemed to us that it was a major process getting anywhere getting to epcot via monorail was easy getting back not so much just took longer....we view MK as an all day destination at at least 6 plus hours we like to pop in and out of HWS and ecpot being at BLT you cant really do that bc its 30-40 minutes of travel time each way. the ride to AK seems forever esp stopping at the water park. i feel like Epcot area is just more centralized and i dont mind riding 30-40 to get to MK bc we are there for a longer time......so i guess the main dislike was that travel and for the time being i dont think we will be going back to BLT or any of the monorail resorts for a long time. Building was awesome but for my family we are more epcot people.
now we squeezed this trip into the last week before school started it was my first time being in Disney in august holy crap it crushed us we prepared ourselves as best we could but the heat beat us a few times.....i was like now my DD is going into 6th grade we should try and not pull her out we are OCT/May people.....but aftter august i am like F that she can miss lol.......the rain was not that fun either got caught in 2 big ones
again sorry if some of this does not make sense i tend to ramble......
