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Category: Bay Lake Tower

• Bay Lake Tower 1 Bedroom Villa & Steakhouse 71 Dinner!

  Posted at 9:37 pm by taryngirl, on February 9, 2025

  12/14/24

  Continuing on with our arrival day, here is a tour of our room! This is a Bay Lake Tower 1 Bedroom Villa (803 sq. ft). This room features 1 king bed (separate bedroom), 1 queen size sleeper sofa, and 1 twin size sleeper chair, as well as 2 full bathrooms, a full kitchen, living room, washer and dryer.

  

  Here is a tour of our room:

  

  One of the bathrooms:

  

  

  The dining area:

  

  

  Full kitchen:

  

  Living room:

  

  The couch pulls out into a queen

  

  The chair pulls out into a twin

  

  Washer, dryer, closet:

  

  Bedroom:

  

  

  View from the bedroom:

  

  

  

  Master bathroom:

  

  

  

  

  We loved the room. It was super spacious for the four of us, and in a great location.

  After getting settled in, we were tired! We were going to try to go eat at Steakhouse 71, but saw that they had a Mobile Order option. I was so happy about this!

  

  

  

  

  

  I had eaten here one time for dinner before. It was very good! I knew that I wanted a steak. I opted for the steak from the kid menu. This popped up for my choices:

  

  Fork & Knife Caesar Salad:

  

  This was very good!

  Kid’s Grilled Steak (served with two sides and a drink):

  

  This was the perfect size and was delicious!

  Kid’s Chicken Breast (served with 2 sides and a drink):

  

  Fish of the Day:

  

  This was also very good!

  Overall, 10/10 from everyone! They also packaged silverware for us even though we had some in our villa. I LOVE the convenience of mobile ordering here since we had a villa and could eat in the kitchen!

  After dinner, we wanted to go to the Top of the World Lounge to watch the Magic Kingdom’s fireworks show. Disney Vacation Club members have exclusive access to this. They do offer a few paid experiences:

  

  We opted to just chance it and hope there was general space available for us.

  The view was amazing! They pipe in the music and dialogue from the show.

  Our view:

  

  

  After the fireworks, we just went back to the room. Here’s the pool at night from our balcony:

  

  We had a great, jam packed day!

  Up next…moving to Universal!

  Posted in Bay Lake Tower, Disney, Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged 1 Bedroom Villa, Bay Lake Tower, Contemporary Resort, Disney, Disney Resort, Walt Disney World

• Bay Lake Tower at Disney’s Contemporary Resort, Deluxe Studio

  Posted at 1:02 pm by taryngirl, on December 17, 2020

  11/14/2020

  We are DVC owners at Bay Lake Tower at Disney’s Contemporary Resort. When we were first deciding whether or not we wanted to buy in, this is where we toured. We love the location the most, which offers a quick walk to Magic Kingdom, and the monorail to Epcot. The views of Magic Kingdom and the lake are great!

  

  

  Since there were only two of us, I booked a Deluxe Studio, Standard View. The Deluxe Studio offers spacious accommodations including a kitchenette with small fridge, microwave, toaster, sink and a balcony. It features one queen bed and a double size sleeper sofa.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  For two people this Villa is perfect. It would also be fine for a family of 3 or 4. There are some other Villas that offer a split bath or 2 bathrooms which is better for a family of 4. Our room was clean, and everything was fine! I’d definitely stay here again.

  

  

  We also checked out some of the shops on the Contemporary side. Everything was decorated for Christmas!

  

  

  

  

  

  

  We absolutely love it here and would definitely stay again!

  Posted in Bay Lake Tower, Disney, Uncategorized, Walt Disney World Resort | 0 Comments | Tagged Bay Lake Tower, Contemporary Resort, Room Tour

• Bay Lake Tower at Disney’s Contemporary Resort

  Posted at 2:11 pm by taryngirl, on January 27, 2019

  August 15, 2018

  We arrived without incident about 4 p.m. using Lyft.  I had gotten the text around 11:30 a.m. that our room was ready!  So we headed immediately up the elevator to our room.  Scan my Magic Band…anddddd, the room was not clean.  The sofa bed was unmade, there were dirty towels on the floor in the bathroom, etc.  So we headed back down to the front desk.  I let them know the situation, and it was almost as if the girl didn’t believe me!  She offered us a FastPass.  Sure, why not!  It had to be for the next day though, which was our Magic Kingdom day.  She asked my daughter what she would like to ride, and Kinsey couldn’t decide between Splash Mountain or Space Mountain, so she gave us both!  We were so tired and hot and I just wanted to lay down.  But we had to sit.  And wait.  And wait.  For them to go clean it.  We sat outside for awhile in the back courtyard area:

  We were so hot, so we went back into the lobby to wait.  My phone rang and it was the front desk.  I told them I was sitting right there and could see them!  She came over again and apologized for the room not being ready and that they were crediting my account $125 for the trouble.  About 15 minutes later, she came back again and said, “It’s ready!”  She personally went up with us to our room.  Guess what…THEY WERE STILL CLEANING.  She was mortified!  I told her it was fine and we were just going to sit in the hall until it was ready.  It was after 5 p.m. now!

  The two housekeepers finally exited.  We FINALLY got into the room around 5:30 p.m.  At least we knew it was really clean!

  We were staying in a Deluxe Studio, Standard View.  Here’s our room tour:

  

   

  You can’t beat the location of this resort!  It’s a quick walk to the entrance of Magic Kingdom.  The security/bag check is on the walkway from here to the Magic Kingdom.  So you can avoid the longer lines at the monorail if you choose to walk.  It’s also faster than taking the monorail!  Contempt Cafe is one of my favorite resort quick service locations.  And the view of the fireworks from this resort is amazing.

  Now…we were laying down resting before the DVC Moonlight Magic Event at Epcot, and the phone rings.  I answer it and someone asked if we would be in the room because Private Dining had a delivery for us.  I told them I didn’t order anything, and they said they knew that.  5 seconds later there was a knock on the door.  He brought a tray in with 6 gigantic Mickey shaped chocolate chip cookies and a 12 inch tall (at least) white chocolate Tinker Bell along with a note.  I completely forgot to get a picture because I was stunned!  They went above and beyond any expectation I had as far as making things right.  I NEVER got nasty or complained and begged for things.  The Disney magic was just offered!

  This is our home DVC resort and I absolutely would book here again!

   

  Posted in Bay Lake Tower, Contemporary Resort, Deluxe Studio, Disney, Room Review, Uncategorized, Vacation, Walt Disney World Resort | 0 Comments | Tagged Bay Lake Tower, Contemporary Resort, Disney, Resort, Room Review, Walt Disney World

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