Most Recent Reviews
Review of Tutto Italia Restaurant - Italy
Reviewed by TGropp Review Date: 01/08/2014
Rating: (6) Recommended
We are glad that we ate here (1'st time) but I do not think that it will be high on my list next time. The meal was OK but service and atmosphere was very good.
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NoneReviewed by TGropp Review Date: 01/08/2014
Rating: (9) Recommended
We dined here for our first time on Dec 19. This restaurant is sure a hidden secret as it was not busy but the meal was fantastic, From starting off with the seafood/salad buffet to the entrée was our best meal at WDW. Photo ops were great for our grandchild. We WILL be back!
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NoneReview of MagicBand
Reviewed by Fitzboyzmom Review Date: 01/08/2014
Rating: (10) Recommended
I was skeptical, but they worked every time for everything we had programmed, such as fast passes, magical express, etc. I am not sure how comfortable they will be in the heat of the summer, but in December they were fine.
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—Review of Be Our Guest Dinner
Reviewed by TGropp Review Date: 01/08/2014
Rating: (8) Recommended
We dined here on Christmas Eve Dec 24. It was quite the ordeal finding the restaurant as there were also many castmembers stopping people without reservations from going near there. We were very lucky and got the table for 7 at the rear of the hall beside the Christmas tree. The murals on the wall etc had backdrops of it snowing out. We all enjoyed our meals. My meal of the seafood pastry was very very good. Getting pictures taken with the Beast was also a nice touch. While we were waiting in line, our waitress found us and brought me my video camera. Thank you!!!!
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NoneReview of Carriage and Wagon Rides
Reviewed by Fitzboyzmom Review Date: 01/08/2014
Rating: (10) Recommended
We went on a sleigh ride in December. Loved the horses and "sleigh" all decked out for Christmas and the bells were really nice. Amazed at the decorating that the campers do. It was a really nice relaxing experience at a very affordable price. Was one of the highlights of the trip for us.
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—Review of Garden View Lounge Tea
Reviewed by Fitzboyzmom Review Date: 01/08/2014
Rating: (10) Recommended
I can't say enough nice things about this place. We arrived almost 45 minutes past our reservation, and past the time they were seating people. Long story short, it took us almost 90 minutes to get from Wilderness Lodge to the Grand Floridian. I had been emailing the manager at the restaurant to let them know we were coming, but her last note said that they could not take us it was too late. However, when we arrived, the hostess was very gracious and told us to relax and come right in and relax.
This was a special thing we were doing for my step mom and kind of a surprise, so I was so happy that they let us in.
The tea was very nice and the food as well. A really nice thing to do with the ladies, although my son enjoyed his Mrs. Potts tea (chocolate milk). I can't wait to go back.
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—Review of Pop Century Resort (Value Resort)
Reviewed by michelle032203 Review Date: 01/08/2014
Rating: (9) Recommended
We stayed there from December 26-31, Check in was very easy and simple, the lobby was decorated very nicely for the them. The kids found all the objects from the different decades very interesting. Our room was a nice size room for a Value resort. The bathroom shower was the worst part of the room. We only used the pools once during our stay and they were nice. No slides or hot tubs but that is what I expect out of a value resort. The bus service was nice, the stop for the bus was in the front of the resort. We never waited to long for a bus and they weren't to crowded even though the parks were the most crowded I had ever seen them.
The food court wasn't what I expected. We felt like it didn't have enough choices and the kids choices weren't very kid friendly. I thought for a Value resort they would have better selections since a lot of people would be eating there versus a deluxe resort. The food seemed a little fancy and expensive. We walked over to Art of Animation's food court one day to see if it was any better and it was worse on food selection. Overall we loved staying here and it has been our favorite Value Resort we have stayed at. If you are looking for one of the cheaper resorts I would recommend this over the All- Star Resorts.
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Bathroom shower was horribleReviewed by hussinpa Review Date: 01/08/2014
Rating: (3) Recommended
My family (disabled wife, 2-adult children) checked into a standard view 1-BR villa on January 1st. Besides villa not being available until after 4 PM, I was shocked to find the villa did NOT have the infinity tub. The villa had a regular tub next to the toilet in bathroom and a sink with roll in closet in single room where the sink and infinity tub with separate walk-in closet. After assisting wife around in parks, I look forward to relaxing in Jacuzzi tub in 1-br villas.
I immediately requested to get out and to another villa or location on property. The check-in manager looked for options locally (WLV and BLT) and was unable to locate anything suitable. I requested she expand her search as we raced out to try and make our dinner reservations. She said she would and that she would contact me with an update. When we returned after dinner and some park time there was no message regarding status of my request.
I returned to check-in/concierge desks speaking with a CM there and asked about my request for information. I was informed that manager had left early and had assigned my request to another CM. The check-in/concierge CM said he would have a manager contact us first thing in the morning.
I went down about 9:30 to check with manager and found they were running late and had the check-in/concierge CM call a manager over from the Grand Floridian. That manager showed me the accessible 1-BR villa with shower and a regular 1-BR villa. It appears that DVC elected to keep the villas the same size and reduce the amenities in their accessible villas to accommodate turning radius/access issues. I called DVC and was told that we paid points for location not amenities (silly me I thought it was both).
After waking up in a pool of sweat several times the second night (poor HVAC control), I found an accessible room at the Polynesian and arranged for my family to stay there the balance of the trip. They were very accommodating in getting us out of the villas but losing 1 1/2 - 2 days of a vacation to unnecessary stress is not what i expected from the Grand.
Now onto basic review, I noticed a sticky floor in the bathroom. I damp mopped the floor with a couple of wash clothes (that turned dark grey) and dried the floor with bath mat. Not sure why housekeeping was a con with all the reviews so far but I concur that is an issue.
Finally, these are beautiful villas for "normal" people (why I give it a 3 over a 1) and I would recommend them to you. But having a disabled wife it was very disheartening that DVC felt it was ok to provide substandard (less than in regular villas) amenities to accessible patrons.
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Substandard Accessible accomodations, management fgollow-up, housekeepingReviewed by slapps Review Date: 01/08/2014
Rating: (10) Recommended
We stayed at a wilderness lodge studio on December 26th and 27th. We requested a room close to thenbus stop and first floor. We received both and we loved the decor. We are DVC members and our home resort is Old Key West, which has very large studios. We had a family of four and we had plenty of room. We loved it. We had great bus service and we did not ever have to wait long. I loved Wilderness and will stay there again. Beautiful resort and theme.
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wonderfully decorated for the holidays and loved the studioCons:
noneReview of MagicBand
Reviewed by slapps Review Date: 01/08/2014
Rating: (1) Not Recommended
My family and friends have visited Disney World the past 10 out of eleven years. It has always been a very enjoyable time for my family and friends from upstate NY. This year we had 13 in our party and we rented a Grand Villa at Old Key West for 8 days and my family of 4 rented a studio at Wilderness Lodge.
We checked in on December 18 and out on December 28th. From day one, we had nothing but problems with our bands. Not just one but, all of us at one time or another. Everything from not being able to charge, not working to get in the parks, not opening our villa doors, not having the correct charges on each band and card assigned to that band. You name it and it went wrong. I spent hours and I mean hours at the front desk trying to get it fixed. Between the 13 of us we received 53 bands, we had several reservations and everyone of us got bands sent to us and had bands waiting at the counter, what a waste of money. I have never been so disappointed and upset with Disney. I rate our band experience a -40.
