Now we really like Coronado Springs... it is my favorite of the moderates...though I've never stayed at CB. We honeymooned at POFQ and it was very nice...but kind of boring...too low key. The next year we stayed at POR/DXL and we loved it much better than POFQ... I would definitely stay at Riverside again...though as our kids are getting older...if we want to stay at a moderate we'll have to move to one with the trundle bed option...for now we still have one that will qualify as a baby and can get by in a pack-n-play crib for another year...two techincally, but I can't imagine having a 3 year old sleep in one of those little cribs. We may join vacation club in the near future anyway....so that will make the Deluxe Resorts more affordable, I think...
Why do I like CSR? I like the food court, the main pool, the bar, and the quiet pools... I like the theming... And I like that I can try out my Spanish on the CM that work there.
This will be our third time staying there... And we are going back there despite having a couple of bad nights last time...
Last year, because the rates were SO LOW... I think many of the school groups that would normally stay at Value resorts were at CSR instead... and there were just too many unsupervised minors... and perhaps a couple of groups of college students to boot...hard to know if they were in their mid teens or late teens... anyhow... the kids WERE a problem...yes...but more problematic were the white trash group of young adults staying next to us... I don't know what their deal was...but any time we returned to our hotel, they were outside sitting in front of their doors smoking... they'd drag their room chairs out there to smoke... one guy was in a wheelchair.. all of them were in their late 20s/early 30s... they took issue with the noise that a group of teenagers made as they were passing by...got into an altercation with the kids... I guess the kids started giving them trouble... our neighbors started cussing left and right. (BTW, this was at 11:30 AM...and again at 2AM)... I called security...security...I have small children (then ages 4 months, 2, and 4) that I would NOT want to have awakened--especially given the language... well...our neighbors started having it out with security...demanding that the kids be aprehended and put out on the street... our neighbors were more disruptive than the kids were by a great degree--the kids were just passing by...so their noise was transient... we were stuck with the cussing neighbors for far too long... This happened again the next night..so that morning I went down to guest relations and asked to have our rooms moved to the otherside of the complex... they took care of the move... and when we got our bill..we saw that they had credited us for the two rooms for two nights for which we had complaints (I did call both nights to guest relations to complain...so they had that on record, I'm sure). The weird thing is that they never told me that they were going to comp the rooms for those two nights... they should have told us that when we moved... It would've made us feel like things were taken care of better--we felt kind of annoyed by it until the last day when we checked out and found out it had been credited.
Still...we do enjoy Coronado Springs... swearing neighbors aside. They were the exception to the kind of people I usually encounter at Disney... I really don't know what they were doing there save for smoking outside their rooms 24/7... Sigh...
(DD is starting college in the fall and wants to spend her "final summer between HS and college at home with her friends).
