ACCOMMODATIONS
General Resort Information
- Accessible Room Photo
Gallery - Basic Info
- Concierge Service
- Extra Magic Hour
- Internet Access
- Kennels
- Magical Express
- Online Check-in
- On-Site vs Off-Site
- Overlooked Attractions - Deluxe Resorts
- Overlooked Attractions - Moderate
Resorts - Overlooked Attractions - Value Resorts
- Packages
(Magic Your Way) - Pet Friendly Disney Resorts
- Rapid Fill Mugs
- Refurbishments and
Closings - Rent Disney Vacation Club Points
- Reservations Policies
- Resort Activity - Recreation Flyers
- Resort Fact Sheets
- Resort Phone Charges
- Resort Phone/Fax Numbers
- Resort Reader Reviews
- Searchable TIPS database
- Television Channels
- Valet Parking
ON-SITE ACCOMMODATIONS
Value Resorts
All Star Movies All Star Music All Star Sports Art of Animation Pop CenturyModerate Resorts
Caribbean Beach Coronado Springs Fort WildernessResort &
Campground Port Orleans - French Quarter Port Orleans - Riverside
Deluxe Resorts
Animal Kingdom Lodge Beach Club Boardwalk Inn Contemporary Dolphin Grand Floridian Polynesian Village Resort Shades of GreenStar Wars Immersive Luxury Resort
Swan
Wilderness Lodge Yacht ClubDisney Vacation Club Resorts
- Disney Vacation Club
- Studio Villa Kitchen List
- 1+2 Bedroom Supply List
- Purchase a DVC Resale
- Rent Disney Vacation Club Points
Disney Riviera Resort - Opening Fall 2019
Old Key West
Polynesian Villas and Bungalows
Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa
Treehouse Villas at Saratoga Springs Resort and SpaVillas at Grand Floridian
Disney Vacation Club at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge
FEATURED NON-DISNEY ACCOMMODATIONS
Sheraton's Vistana Resort
One - Two Bedroom Villas
One - Two Bedroom Villas
DoubleTree Guest Suites
Downtown Disney Resort Hotel
OTHER LOCATIONS
Aulani - Disney's Resort and Spaw/DVC Villas - Hawaii Disney's Vero Beach Resort
Telephone Information
Some Do's and Don'ts
gardenia worked for Vista United (Disney's telephone service) answering
407-824-2222, 407-824-4321, Resort phones, CM 4500 calls, Alpha Paging
system, "0" phones from all over property, and about 10 other smaller
lines.
- Please
use a corded phone. Cell phones pick up almost every other noise *but*
your voice and hearing every 5th syllable gets rather annoying.
- Know
that the SWITCHBOARD answers your calls to the Hotels, NOT the Front
Desk or Guest Services... please don't scream at us that you only
have 4 towels instead of 5... we are the peons.
- Please
spell difficult names for us. Invariably, people will say, "Hall...
H-A-L-L" but when it comes to Chernovehski, there is silence, leaving
us to guess the spelling.
- We do
not EVER sit and not answer calls. Calls come in right after another,
we answer as soon as it comes in. I take around 600 calls a day and
my average call is about 35 seconds long. Some calls, Info Phone calls,
can be 10-20 minutes long (these are my favorite, btw!). There are
anywhere between 100-140 operators on duty at a time, we are answering
as fast as we can.
- PLEASE
do not call the Hotel to confirm your reservation or to modify it.
Until the DAY you check in, you have to call CRO at 407-WDISNEY.
- PLEASE
do not call the Hotel to MAKE a reservation unless you want it for
that night. Hotels do not have access to reservation lists until about
4 days before the date you are in their hotel... and if you call for
two days from now, they will send you through CRO.
- Asking
for a refrigerator, crib, hair dryer, coffee maker, or bed rails before
check-in does you no good. Wait until you check in to do that, please.
- Call
FOUR DAYS before you are supposed to be in the room to ask for your
preference on room location... room assignment is not done until then.
- THERE
IS NO 800 NUMBER TO CALL! I know some of you have seen some number from
time to time, but *generally*, there is no 800 number. Disney doesn't *need*
an 800 number (which costs them every time it is called) because people
call anyway. Call it arrogance, call it whatever, they don't have
an 800 number. (Can you tell I am asked that about 100 times a day?)
- Your
hotel phone works this way:
Every call will cost you at least 75ยข
Calling local, dial a 9 first
Calling long distance, dial an 8 first (and yes, Kissimmee is long distance, sorry, we didn't draw the line)
Calling an 800 number, dial 8 first, then the 1-800 and the rest from there (and yes, this costs 75¢, too)To dial from your computer, local access, dial 9 then comma, comma then the number... long distance access, dial 8 then comma, comma then the number (pick Orlando numbers, not Kissimmee ones for your access numbers).
Collect? Dial 8, then 0, then the area code and number you are dialing
Calling card with 800 number? See above.
Calling card with no 800 number? 8, then 0, then area code and number you are dialing, operator will assist.
Blinking red light? There is a button on your phone that has a picture of an envelope... press that and you will get your voice mail.
Other mail? Did it say you have "other mail'? We at the switchboard will retrieve the mail from a different system and read it to you. Please be patient while we look for it.
Let us dial Mears, Pizza Hut, Dominos, Centra Care, a taxi, another Hotel on property, and anything Disney for you... save yourself that 75¢ (can you tell that people ask about the phones more than any other thing?!)
- When
you hit 0 on your hotel phone, that is ME! I LOVE answering questions
about WDW and directing your call to wherever it needs to go. You
don't always have to go to the front desk or Guest services to get
your questions answered... getting hooked up to them can take loooooooong
minutes (ask anyone who's stayed at Dixie Landings or Caribbean Beach)
when we can just as easily help you with your needs.
- You
do not need to go to Guest Relations at one of the parks to find out
park hours, when Off Kilter is playing, if the fireworks were canceled,
or if Typhoon Lagoon is closed. We have ALL that information and a
LOT more... each location calls us and lets us know the status of
parks, shows, etc. We have a HUGE database available to us including
partial menus at restaurants, minutely detailed trivia, and so much
more.
- For
CMs... when you hit 0 for a Guest needing to get hooked up to their
room, just ask us to do it, that is what we are there for... to "connect
calls"... you don't need to ask for the Front Desk of the Hotel...
that just keeps the Guest waiting on the phone needlessly.
- Hmmm... I think that might be it for now. I'm sure I will think of more helpful hints! Thanks for listening... I feel MUCH better now! (especially about how the phones work!)