I love CBR. We stayed twice last year and both stays were wonderful. We spent much of our vacations wandering the resort. Caribbean Cay is a wonderful little area that really makes you feel you are somewhere tropical. I love being in the parks from open to close, but we found ourselves not rushing to the parks all of the time because we felt the resort had a lot to offer us. And at night if you sit behind Old Port Royale on the deck or by the Marina, you can get a pretty decent view of Illuminations.
The rooms are a great size. The transportation was never an issue. The busses were always there within 10 - 15 minutes. Whether we were leaving the resort or a park, on either stay did we have to wait very long. Often times at park closing one bus would pull up and 2 minutes later so would another. It is a very large resort, and there are several internal stops before you leave the CBR property and head to the park depending on what stop you get on. Normally we would head to Old Port Royale for breakfast and leave from that bus stop. Just allow yourself extra time for internal stops depending on where you choose to be picked up.
I actually prefer the food court at CBR. Yes, it gets hectic at the prime meal times, but I find it to be a better layout than that of some of the other resorts. Rather than being in a semi circle layout where everyone gathers in the middle, it is spread out (and the detail is great too!). There did seem to be a bit less choices than at the Value resorts, but I found that to be with POR as well. My husband and I both find the layout of the food court to be good.
The staff has always been very good to us as well. Rooms are always clean. We opted not to have our room cleaned for 2 days, but needed toilet paper. We were heading out to a park so we told them to just leave it on the door in a bag, but as we opened the door to leave, Mousekeeping was standing there with a bag of tp and towels for us
I love CBR. We're going back to WDW next month and I really wanted to stay at CBR but decided to try POFQ as I haven't stayed there yet. I'm hoping I don't miss CBR too much lol!