Hopefully the title says it all. We're headed back to Orlando in August, for a 6-night split stay. The second 3 nights will be in a Grand Floridian Resort Studio on rented DVC points. We wanted to do a Crescent Lake Resort for 3 nights first, but are torn between Yacht Club and Boardwalk. (*Swan/Dolphin is fully booked for a convention or something for part of those first 3 nights, so they're not even an option, and we've stayed at Beach Club before, so we'd rather try somewhere different this time.)
Here are the pros and cons as I see them. Please let me know what I'm missing, and what you would choose!
PRICE: Both stays would be at a 25-35% discount thanks to the VISA promo, but Boardwalk offers a slightly better price, with a total cost that will be $200 (~$65/night) less than Yacht Club.
LOCATION: Both resorts are in easy walking distance to HS and EPCOT.
ROOMS: We'd be in a garden view room at either resort. Same size and furniture. Boardwalk rooms are freshly refurbished with a light and airy turn-of-the-century feel, but Yacht Club rooms have a darker, masculine feel, which will be a bigger contrast to the GF resort studio we're moving to afterwards.
POOL: Stormalong Bay at Yacht Club is bigger and offers a bigger variety of experiences than the Boardwalk Inn pool, but we'll be there during the third week of August, when it's going to be very hot and humid, and rainy. We may visit the hotel pool once, if at all.
RESTAURANTS: Our meals are already planned and selected, and don't include TS at either hotel. We might have a CS lunch, for which YC/BC has the edge, given that its CS places have indoor seating (which is desirable in August) and Boardwalk doesn't.
CONSTRUCTION/NOISE: The construction of the new restaurant that's replacing ESPN at Boardwalk will presumably still be ongoing at the time of our visit, and additional "enhancements" to other areas may still be occurring. The refurb of the DVC side may or may not have begun. I hate not really knowing what may or may not be closed or disrupted (especially since we've already got that going on for the second half of our split stay at the GF, which will be undergoing a lobby refurb when we're there). On the other hand, there's no way to escape those sorts of things: for all I know, I could go with the Yacht Club instead, and then sometime within the next few months, Disney will decide it's going to tear that up too!
Are there any factors I'm not considering? If the choice was yours to make, which resort would you choose and why? Any help you can give me will be much appreciated: when polled, my own family members were ambivalent, with my son thinking we should go with whatever is cheapest, and my daughter thinking we should go with the resort with the theme that is most different from GF, but everybody saying in the end, "but I don't really care either way."
Here are the pros and cons as I see them. Please let me know what I'm missing, and what you would choose!
PRICE: Both stays would be at a 25-35% discount thanks to the VISA promo, but Boardwalk offers a slightly better price, with a total cost that will be $200 (~$65/night) less than Yacht Club.
LOCATION: Both resorts are in easy walking distance to HS and EPCOT.
ROOMS: We'd be in a garden view room at either resort. Same size and furniture. Boardwalk rooms are freshly refurbished with a light and airy turn-of-the-century feel, but Yacht Club rooms have a darker, masculine feel, which will be a bigger contrast to the GF resort studio we're moving to afterwards.
POOL: Stormalong Bay at Yacht Club is bigger and offers a bigger variety of experiences than the Boardwalk Inn pool, but we'll be there during the third week of August, when it's going to be very hot and humid, and rainy. We may visit the hotel pool once, if at all.
RESTAURANTS: Our meals are already planned and selected, and don't include TS at either hotel. We might have a CS lunch, for which YC/BC has the edge, given that its CS places have indoor seating (which is desirable in August) and Boardwalk doesn't.
CONSTRUCTION/NOISE: The construction of the new restaurant that's replacing ESPN at Boardwalk will presumably still be ongoing at the time of our visit, and additional "enhancements" to other areas may still be occurring. The refurb of the DVC side may or may not have begun. I hate not really knowing what may or may not be closed or disrupted (especially since we've already got that going on for the second half of our split stay at the GF, which will be undergoing a lobby refurb when we're there). On the other hand, there's no way to escape those sorts of things: for all I know, I could go with the Yacht Club instead, and then sometime within the next few months, Disney will decide it's going to tear that up too!
Are there any factors I'm not considering? If the choice was yours to make, which resort would you choose and why? Any help you can give me will be much appreciated: when polled, my own family members were ambivalent, with my son thinking we should go with whatever is cheapest, and my daughter thinking we should go with the resort with the theme that is most different from GF, but everybody saying in the end, "but I don't really care either way."
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