The earlier the better is the saying.
Well checkout is at 11 (11-4 is not a lot of time to clean) with the enhanced cleaning it does take longer on an average day. It also can vary due to the number of checkouts on a given day vs number of guests checking in on that specific day.
That's exactly what I thought! We ended up having contact with the front desk several times dealing with the luggage, when it just seemed like we could have easily avoided all of it by being sent directly to a room (if one was available, which we simply don't know). I know that 4:00 is the official check-in time and that room cleaning is a much bigger deal now than in the past, but I also know that the resort wasn't full, including in our room category, so it just didn't quite all add up. The first time we had contact, the CM looked up our reservation, said our room wasn't ready, and that was that. No offer to try to find another room that would be ready sooner or anything like that. I also originally thought the wait might be because we had made some room requests (high floor overlooking a pool), but the room we ultimately were given and waited for was ground floor woods view
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Idk if this helps but we stayed at CCV Studio last December and got the room ready close to 4, if not 4. Did online check in with early arrival marked and no room requests.
It's very confusing to me - since we requested both early check-in and a specific room location, I was a bit baffled to end up with neither one. If we had gotten our ground floor/woods view room early, I would have been happy enough just to have a room right away, and if we had gotten our room at the later time we did, but it had the location we wanted, I also would have been happy thinking that the wait was for a great room. Getting neither was a bit of a letdown. Not a big deal, just a little disappointing.
No, studios are on all floors. The connect to one bedroom villas to make lockoff two bedroom villas.
The alternate studio is an odd shaped studio located where the corners of the building make for an odd shaped villa. It's usually larger than the regular (tub or shower) studios.
Definitely will vary. We also checked in to a 2BR Saturday and did not get the room ready text until 4:30. We had arrived at 4 and asked at the front desk and were told it wasn’t ready yet so it wasn’t just a late text. No big deal though! Love the room.
They were converted from the Deluxe rooms and are L shaped rooms, 6 are located on then inside corner of the main building just before the south wing section that runs toward Bay Lake overlooking the courtyard. They are a little larger than the other Deluxe Studios. I think all of the alternate studios have shower / tubs; they do not have the walk-in showers. Alternate studios are not a booking category, however studios with shower / tubs and studios with walk-in showers are separate booking categories.
