Oh, how I hate to hear this news. We will be staying there in a couple of weeks on rented points and I want this to be a great expierence for my girls. I will be so disappointed if the room is in deplorable condititons.
I am glad they bumped you up to a better room and that it was much better than the original one you had.
Why was the bus system so terrible if the resort was only at 65% compacity? That doesn't make any sense at all.
Our room is much nicer, just very worn by Disney Standards, the loud dryer isn't a deal breaker we just run it when we leave, they did the best they could for us I don't blame the CMs or Managers for the run down condition of the resort, they didn't theme it (or no theme it I should say) they didn't pick the materials and have no control of the craftmenship that went into building the place. As for the dust you could write your name in on top of TV stand as well as the dust that you could write your name in on the mouldings, that would be a Manager or Housekeeping supervisor I would say that dropped the ball, (we took pictures as I figured half the people on the boards would think we were just extreme complainers. We are not, we expect what we pay for. Almost 25000.00 invested in DVC) Also the fact that the bathroom door would close to within an inch of being closed tight couldnt have gone unoticed as well as the broken couch. We just can't figure why they tried to use the room, or let it slide in that condition. We have been told that Congress Park was open first that may be why it's so run down. I origionally forgot to mention that they asked us to vacate the disgusting room by 8:00am following day so they could fix it and then didn't have another room for us until almost 3:30, so we unpacked, then repacked, had no room almost all yesterday, had to go to bell services to get clothes as it got colder, this was a major inconvienece, this is what developer points got us a weeks stay in a Motel 6 type hotel, this is anything but a resort.
Can't quite figure why buses are so bad, they take a very long time to pick you up and lots of times they are full. We have noticed on our 3rd day now that the bulk of the buses go to Magic Kingdom, this morning they were so packed we decieded to walk to Downtown, then caught a bus to Contemporary and walked th MK. We will probobly do the same for Epcot, grab a downtown bus to Beach Club, then go the back way in Epcot, for Studios we will propbobly hit a Swan and Dolpin Bus then walk to studios, one thing is you will definately walk of the food calories you consume in Saratoga as there is NO QUICK WAY OR SHORT WALK TO ANYPLACE ON SARATOGA PROPERTY. Again we are spoiled with Beach Club, Saratoga definately shortens your trip substantially due to long walks and long waits for buses, I would bet we have lost 2 hours a day in the parks compared to when we stay at BCV, or Contemporary, therefore I guess as previous posters have said it can be relaxing if you don't plan to use the parks to its fullest as you will have plenty of time in Saratoga. (either by choice or not) If downtown Disney is your favorite place to be stay in Congress Park, you can't stay any closer than that. Again they were nice enough to upgrade us, we just know that they couldn't pay us anything to stay here again, I feel the develper point system is terrible, maybe they force you to use Saratoga cause they think it's the Motel 6 of the DVC Properties........(Notice I won't use the word resort, its a large gated community,) no where near the standards that DVC is suppose to live up to.
Weather update: starting to feel a little more like March 72 lots of Sun!
