Just checked out of RPC. Mixed thoughts. We were at Epcot after checking out of YC Friday & came over around 2:30. We hadn’t gotten the room ready text yet. Went to the front desk. CM was pleasant, checked us in there. Said housekeeping was in the room at the time, fixed our bands & said we could go up to the lounge to wait. No offer of an escort “you’ve been here before, you know your way around”. I didn’t think much about it till the next afternoon. I needed to go to the CM desk on the 3rd floor & saw 3 families getting checked in there. Being shown around & up to lounge, given welcome gifts, generally being made welcome. By contrast, I felt like nobody even knows we’re here. And we don’t need a lot of attention. It was just a strange contrast.
We had Room 4419, ready almost as soon as we sat down. Love the view, for a standard it was very nice. We could see most of the Electric Water Parade at Poly & fireworks from MK. Very convenient to the lounge & pretty quiet. The beds were so comfortable.
The bad: First thing I noticed was a few pieces of plastic wrapping still in the trash can. Not enough to complain about, but still shouldn’t have been there. There is some kind of drain pipe in the ceiling of the balcony. Water poured down from there when it rained heavy Saturday. And the balcony was unusable for much of the time because there was definite cigarette smoking close by. I couldn’t see anyone smoking so I couldn’t really complain about it. But after just a few minutes out there my throat was burning & I was getting congested. And yesterday our room wasn’t serviced when we came back at 3, housekeeping didn’t come til about 4:40. We just had him do towels & trash, we didn’t need anything else at that point.
Much of the food wasn’t to our taste. I loved the tomato basil soup. And the bruschetta was delicious. The 2 nights they had pasta & sauce that we would have liked, we had ADRs at Citricos & California Grill.
Oh well. They had the jars of candy so that was a good bonus! And the cheesecake at dessert time was yummy. I’d love be the tea & scones to be brought back & I missed the orchestra too.
The lovely bellman, Witt, who came for our luggage this morning asked if we heard about the remodel & showed us pictures of the new lobbies in the other buildings. He encouraged us to go over & see a model vacation club room too. He was a doll. But I felt so bad he is doing that work at his age.
All in all it was a good week. We have plans for a week in late January but I think we’re skipping club level. We do so many table service meals we usually only do breakfast in the lounge. And I really liked our CR garden wing stay for Oct 1st. So planning a few nights there & of course YC.
