I stayed at CSR the 17-29th August. I've been meaning to come and write a little report but never got around to it, so here goes..
We arrived at 11pm and checked in. We were given Ranchos 7B second floor (had done online check in and requested Cabanas first floor).
We stopped by Bell services to pick up our garden grocer order (no charge) and as it was late and we didn't know how to get around the resort a CM took us to our room on one of those golf cart type things.
It seemed to take ages to get to ranchos and I was getting v.concerned that we would have a long walk each day!!
The next day we realised it was literally a 2 minute walk from our room to the dig site (and the quiet pool was literally 30 seconds!)
The walk to El Centro took maybe 5 minutes but it never felt long at all.
The resort is beautiful and we enjoyed the walk to the main building. We saw a baby aligator in the lake and a few large turtles. The kids stood on the bridge for ages looking at them
The Pepper Market was good! The kids preferred the food here to a lot of the TS meals. They loved the pizza!
The only complaint I have is it seems that you're waiting a long time for your food, but it wasn't a big issue.
Cafe Rix was fine. We filled our mugs up there most days and used a few snack credits. We actually had 21 QS credits left and they let us change some of them for 3 snacks, so we got milk and fruit mostly.
Housekeeping was good. Always clean and enough towels etc left. No complaints
Busses! They were good. We were closest to bus stop 4, but the first day or 2 we would get the bus from stop 3 and get off at stop 4..but we realised they still weren't crowded at stop 4, so we just got on there instead. The only times we had to stand was coming back from the parks at closing.
The last day of our trip a lot of sport teams came to the resort and although they weren't rude, they were very loud and made the place seem a lot busier than it was. Busses were more crowded and the pools.
We had a few kids in the room next to is and they were still noisy at midnight. My mum went outside so they would get the hint (their door was open) and they did in the end and quietened down. I was glad that they had only came on our last day and not earlier!!
Overall I really enjoyed the resort and wouldn't hesitate to stay in Ranchos again