Here's my take on it. My family just returned from Beach Club Concierge about 2 weeks ago. We stayed there for 8 days.
Beach Club caters to families with real young kids. That concierge floor was loaded with whining disobedient children with parents that had no control over the children. It was clear that many parents were merely acting as friends giving guidelines to their children, instead of parents enforcing rules. As a result, the small cramped Concierge lounge always had misbehaving children inside of it and was always in a messy state. Spilt milk and cereal all over the carpet in the mornings and shattered dishes and more yelling in the evenings. The overall feel of the Resort has also gone more childish with garish Disney characters adorning the hallway carpeting. The concierge staff confirmed that Disney encourages Beach Club as a deluxe the kids will love, while making Yacht Club and BoardWalk more young adult and adult oriented. We always have stayed at Yacht Club and much prefer that side of the Resort.
Because it is a honeymoon, I'd expect you'd potentially want more peace and quiet and something extra special. I say try for a BoardWalk Lagoon view concierge (instead of Beach Club Lagoon View). This Resort is spectacular as well. The big difference is that the Concierge here is much, much nicer. There is an enormous lounge and seating area with a large outdoor balcony that overlooks manicured gardens and Epcot's Eiffel Tower. Very romantic. The layout is well thought out. Beach Club Concierge Lounge is extremely claustrophobic and their balcony/window overlooks the front driveway and parking lot. It left much to be desired.
My parents have stayed at both BoardWalk and Beach Club concierges and highly reccommend the BoardWalk. If you are not keen on staying across the lake at BoardWalk, may I suggest switching over to Yacht Club from Beach Club. Yacht Club is not child-centered.
I myself wanted to really love the Beach Club concierge experience, but the concierge layout itself actually felt like an after thought when designing the Resort. The lounge was just a small cramped room in the corner. Like I said earlier, BoardWalk's lounge is HUGE and views are really nice.
Beach Club is a great Resort, I just hope that if you decide to vacation here that your experience is much better than ours. The amount of mannerless parents and children running rampant throughout the Resort hallways was too much to bear and really ruined the overall feel of the Resort. We will always choose Yacht Club side from now on. But in your case, I'd say go with BoardWalk Concierge.
But to answer a question you posed, this was in the concierge lounge at Beach Club when we were there August 19-26, 2008.
Breakfast: Cereals, whole fruits, krispy kreme donuts, assorted juices, milk, and bagels with coffees and jams
Lunch: Lemonade, iced tea, canned sodas, and perrier water. Chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies, goldfish, pretzel rods, and crustable peanut butter and jelly
Dinner: "Soup of the day" and one main entree per day (we saw: smoked salmon, bbq ribs, duck quesidillas, marinated chicken on a stick, and mussels) with assorted cheeses, vegetables and dip, more crustable sandwiches, and pasta salad. Drinks were the iced tea, lemonade, perrier, canned sodas, Heineken, Amstel Light, and Michelob. Red and white wines too.
After dinner: assorted desserts, carrot cakes, cookies, more wine and beer, Kahluha, Bailey's, and some other cocktails and more crustables
We were given a free upgrade to the concierge b/c they had the extra rooms as a result of cancellations from TS Fay. We wouldn't pay to do Beach Club Concierge, but are willing to pay for it at others (BoardWalk, Yacht, and Polynesian)
I also am hoping that I did not come across as negative. I just wanted to give an honest gut reaction of our experience. The Concierge staff was outstanding. Friendly, knew our names, and were always cleaning up mess after mess after mess in that Concierge Lounge! Ha ha the poor CMs.
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