Welcome to the thread and the DIS! Thank you for posting where The Mercantile photos are located for the OP. Additionally, within POST 14, I have a hyperlink to new Mercantile photos.
Congratulations on booking the OFC. There aren't many king rooms in the resort that aren't HA rooms. You have to book a Honeymoon Suite to guarantee a non-HA king CL room. There might be a non-suite CL room with a king that isn't HA so you could request one. But, you might end up with an HA room.
Congrats on booking! Santa was in the lobby Christmas Eve last year. I also saw Mickey and Minnie at the GF by the tree posing for photos, but I missed them at WL. You're going to love your first stay at WL!
Hi all! I'm new here but DH, our DD (aka Zazu) and myself will be at WL on Sept 7-9. My first stay on Disney Property, DD's first trip to Disney and hubby's first time at Disney since he was 17 (he's been to WL before). I can't wait!
to the thread and the DIS! I'll log your dates, too. So many fantastic firsts!How was your trip and your room? I hear that it's super hot there right now
I hope you have a great trip!
Picture the Wilderness Lodge in five sections. The main lobby building is roughly a big square and the lobby is on the second floor. There are service areas and such underneath it. The rooms in the lobby building are on the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh floor.
The next section would be on the south, near the bus stop, the mercantile, and the exit to the villas building. There are rooms on the 2nd through 7th floor. The next section of building is the south wing and has rooms on the ground floor, which is the 1st floor. The top floor of this section is the 6th floor. Ground floor rooms in this section either face the quiet pool or the main pool, depending on which side of the building you are in.
Then there is a section of building on the north side that has the Territory Lounge and Artist Point on the second floor and Roaring Forks located below Artist Point on the ground floor. Courtyard view guest rooms start on the fourth floor in this section that has the restaurants in it. Woods view rooms start on a lower floor in this section, I think. This section has seven floors.
And then the section of the north wing that is closest to the boat dock has rooms that start on the ground floor (1st floor) and go to the 6th floor.
The place is a bit of a puzzle.
Good luckAll this talk about WDW and the WL at Christmas has me looking at prices and trying to convince DH to spend Christmas there. He has been promising me a Christmas WDW vacation.... And I know we would be there 3 weeks later for a longer vacation, but this would be more of "lets go look at all the pretty decorations at the resorts and parks rather than our typical visit"
I know DH will saw no, but all I can do is ask
Sounds like a great holiday trip and I'll log your dates in POST 2.
Yes, a split level is a great way to describe it. The split level starts in the North Wing in front of TL and AP and in the South Wing in front of The Mercantile. See photos below.
This is going to be a FUN trip and don't feel guilty or bummed - you're going to Disney World!
There is an early ADR bus available to resorts and parks. The MK area early ADR bus starts operating around 6:30. EARLY ADR INFO. LOCATED HERE
Good luck
The bounce back offer was in the Be Our Guest folder in your resort room. The folder is a welcome package, full of information about your resort. It most likely was on the desk. If you haven't left the resort yet and your Be Our Guest packet doesn't have the offer, then you can dial ext 8844 from your room phone to get the latest offer - which is free dining from Aug 20th to Sept 28th, 2015, I think. If you have already checked out of the resort then it is too late to book the bounce back.
I wouldn't be surprised if a prior guest removed the bounce back offer from the packet and the housekeeper didn't replace it.
