Yacht club v beach club - and garden view rooms!

[350chevy]

Hi all, we had recently pre-booked with virgin for August 2020 and had asked for water view room at yacht club, which the rep promised (100%!) would come with the free dining & gift card once it was officially released. Surprise (not) now it's gone live, our booking has been changed to beach club garden view room, with the dining & card.

We're going in to have a moan and see what happened (presumably just no availability for dining at YC despite all her assurances) BUT my question is, is there much difference between yacht and beach? And what are the garden view rooms generally like at Beach, as we really don't want to be overlooking the car park I know we can put in room requests etc so what/where would you request? We don't like noisy and we want a nice view. Thanks!

[Guest]

Our room last year was lovely and quiet

[350chevy]

Originally Posted by Scotsmomma

Our room last year was lovely and quiet

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Thank you, that's a nice one (almost a water view too!) Do you know what the location was? Is it labelled like east wing. west wing or anything?

[Apricota]

I had a garden room at the Beach Club and it was fab. Very quiet and easy to get to the pools and Epcot.

[Guest]

Originally Posted by 350chevy

Thank you, that's a nice one (almost a water view too!) Do you know what the location was? Is it labelled like east wing. west wing or anything?

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Ohhh I'm not sure..it was room 3623 though.

[SloanRangers]

I’ve just found my room allocation email from 2017 at BC.
Room 4579, 4th floor, full balcony, garden view
Sorry, picture not great but you get the idea! (Hope it shows, never uploaded pictures on here before)

[350chevy]

Originally Posted by SloanRangers

I’ve just found my room allocation email from 2017 at BC.
Room 4579, 4th floor, full balcony, garden view
Sorry, picture not great but you get the idea! (Hope it shows, never uploaded pictures on here before)

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Hi! That looks lovely, I'd be happy with that - I was reading up that lots of BC rooms don't have full balcony and I really do like a balcony. Can you remember if you had two queens or a king? And did you have a pull-out sofa/day bed? Jake and Charlie are refusing to share a bed

[Clare]

Just my opinion but BC garden view rooms are better than YC garden view which are one of the 'dog' category rooms. The BC rooms closer to the lobby tend to have nice lawn views over those further away which tend to include tree views. If a balcony is more important put that request on your booking. I loved the BC, whilst the lobby can be a bit manic at times there's quieter spots to retreat too.

[Yvemc]

Exactly the same thing happened with me this morning! I've stayed at the Beach Club before and I wasn't overly fussed to get YC or BC, happy to have BC and the dining plan. Through Virgin we have requested a full balcony room, fingers crossed we get one, but it's not a deal breaker!

[SloanRangers]

Originally Posted by 350chevy

Hi! That looks lovely, I'd be happy with that - I was reading up that lots of BC rooms don't have full balcony and I really do like a balcony. Can you remember if you had two queens or a king? And did you have a pull-out sofa/day bed? Jake and Charlie are refusing to share a bed

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I think we had 2 Queen beds but can’t be sure and we didn’t take any photos of the room for some reason? If you go on TouringPlans website you can look up the room by number or on a plan of the resort and see what photos they have stored. If I recall it also tells you if the room has King or 2 Queen beds and if it has full balcony or not. Very useful site - although not as useful as the DIBB of course 😉