Updated Beach Club Review (Plus a Couple of Suite Images)
By Dave Shute
Yesterday I published an updated version of my review of Disney’s Beach Club Resort, based on my most recent stays there in November and December.
The biggest difference is that the floor plan and photo tour now reflect the newly refurbed rooms.
These rooms were already quite livable, but the fixtures, fittings and coverings were pretty beat up.
The refurb has made all fresh, and also made some minor improvements in livability–e.g. centralizing the drawers more, and adding more power points.
I do think, as noted in the new review, that these rooms have lost some of their charm–although we did like the new Mickey and Minnie print enough for it to have made its way onto our Christmas Card, along with puppy Belle:
Most of the rest of the changes to the review were structural, although I did add some new photos.
More specifically,
The Beach Club overview page has some added content summarizing other pages in the review that makes it work better as one page introduction to the resort, so that many won’t need to delve any deeper into the review. I’ve been doing this with my updated reviews lately to help save people time.
The overview page has also of course the updated floor plan and a photo or two of the new rooms, plus a bit of a comparison to the old rooms.
The second page, a photo tour of a Beach Club room, now has all new images of a refurbed room.
The third page that summarizes Accommodations and Theming at the Beach Club is mostly the same as the old page, other than the obvious changes from the refurb.
Incidentally, for somewhat comic reasons I was “stuck” with an upgrade to a one-bedroom suite in November, and have not added photos from that trip to the Accommodations page yet, as I was already far enough behind on reporting on the refurb to the standard rooms that I wanted to get this new review out.
Most of those one bedroom suite photos will get added to the Accommodations page later–or perhaps I’ll do a photo tour of the suite…but here’s a couple to whet your appetite until then:
The sitting room in a one bedroom suite:
The couch side of the king bedroom in a one bedroom suite:
The bed side of the king bedroom in a one bedroom suite:
I’ve lately been separating out dining from the “Amenities” page–just as last year I separated out main pools–both for improved findability.
So there’s a new Dining at the Beach Club page, mostly similar to before, but with
–Updated reviews from the 2016 edition of The easy Guide to Your First Walt Disney World Visit, and
–Some new Cape May Cafe images from my January 2015 dinner there with my dad and sister. (The blurry but gleeful older guy delighted with the crab legs is my dad!)
The Amenities at the Beach Club page is pretty much the same, except it now excludes dining, and the page on Stormalong Bay, the Beach Club’s main pool is also pretty much unchanged.
The updated review of Disney’s Beach Club Resort begins here! Check it out, and let me know if it is helpful–and what you think of the new look of the rooms!!!
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