Plus UK residents don't on the whole get room discount.
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Sad State of The Grand Floridian
- Thread starter monothingie
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mdcpr
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Not my style of hotel, but it is beautiful.
No, but it would be no trouble to install vents along the floor and ceiling to provide convection cooling. Apparently, that's all you need in Florida.
Only to the extent that the artificially inflated food prices make up the difference between the rack rate and the potential discount otherwise being offered.
lazyboy97o
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People built buildings and lived in Florida before air conditioning was invented.
Jon81uk
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Yes, but a discount is still a discount. UK offers are very different to the US ones, but I save significantly with free dining. If I mainly ate quick service then I estimate I would spend on average £40 a day (about $50 is my guess at average food costs). Over a 14 night trip that's £1100 for two of us, or pretty much a 30% discount on my last trip. Given that the dining plan gives more table service meals compared to my average guess of £40 a day the actual value of food we get is far higher.
For me it doesn't matter if someone gets a flat 25% off or a free dining offer, the bottom line is they are still saving money compared to buying two meals in park/resort a day and paying full price for the resort. Unless you bring sandwiches it is pretty hard to not even spend on two QS meals a day.
xdan0920
Think for yourselfer
True. True. People also built buildings before lumber was invented, or steel, or sheet rock or insulation or...you get the idea. Anyways, before AC it was much hotter in doors then it is now. AC rules.
ninjaprincesst
Well-Known Member
But you can stay at a four seasons anywhere, when I go to Disney. I want 100% Disney.
Have a good time. If you want more luxurious accommodations and 5 star discreet service , FS over GF hands down.
The_Jobu
Well-Known Member
That looks like the same stained couch that Pete Warner of Disunplugged complained about. Neat.
DisneyFreak
Well-Known Member
Location, location, location...
xdan0920
Think for yourselfer
Can’t see an amusement park from the Marriott, amiright?
ninjaprincesst
Well-Known Member
It's just a nice a hotel not Disney. Going to Disney is the whole Disney experience where you leave the outside world behind, and you are not spending that much time in the hotel anyway, and one of the best parts to a Disney trip is hearing that "welcome home" when the bus pulls into your resort.
No, you also need movement. Gondolas moving at 12MPH with open ventilation provides a nice cool airflow.
More importantly, do you have any idea how people stayed cool before air conditioning? Well-designed cross ventilation.
Club Cooloholic
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Discreet service...sounds very Vegas.
Not surprised. And clients check in under a different name..
Nice try....your first pics are of a 1 bedroom in the Villas. Which opened in 2013. @monothingie is talking about the non-DVC resort.
6, opened in October 2013. One of my home resorts, btw.
My first stay was in July 2014, right after the refurb. I'd like to find the designer who thought dresser drawers 8" x 8" were a great idea and give him/her a piece of my mind.....