Great tour! I'm really excited for my welcome home trip to SSR, although it's not till December. This resort has very impressive pools--well themed to the resort, but distinct from each other. I know they probably need four pools given the resort's size, but I'm still impressed with the choice. Do you have a favorite?
Hi 👋 nycp! A few thoughts here. We’ve stayed in a few different areas so just went to the closest pool and enjoyed ourselves. Yet …. you knew there was a ‘yet’ from me, right 😉 …. the paddock pool seemed to be full of kids because of the great kids area there. The Grandstand area has a kids area but not to the extent as that as the Paddockarea pool …. but if your staying in the Grandstand area with kids you’re not going to take your kids and walk all the way to the Paddock pool. The Congress Park pool is really nice … there’s a kids play area there but it’s right next to the pool not a water play area. Yet there’s (I don’t think) a bar / fast food facility at the Congress Park pool … and it’s one of the preferred’ areas of SSR so it costs more points to stay there. What we do now is ask to stay in the Grandstand area but go to the High Rocks Spring pool. A tad more adult pool, large shaded area for us to ‘camp’ in and we can pick up dinner at The Artist’s Palette on our way back to our unit in the Grandstand area. Lastly, I prefer staying in the Grandstand area also because we can use the Grandstand Disney bus stop which is the first stop into SSR. I have had to wait during busy times (eg, in the early morning to rope drop) as more than one bus was full from already picking up SSR guests from all the other bus stops in SSR. Won’t go that again. Well worth taking the Disney bus ride through the rest of SSR by using the Grandstand bus stop to not be stood up if that makes sense. If you haven’t already you can see what the 1 bedroom SSR unit looks like in our SSR Playlist … it’s the video with “Disney, I’m Sorry” in the thumbnail!
@@NanDanTravel Yes, I did see your other SSR video. A lot of people are giving SSR a second look since the refurb. I think I'll most likely use my car for transportation when I'm at SSR. I'm a bit wary of the confusing bus situation at this resort.
Great tour! I'm really excited for my welcome home trip to SSR, although it's not till December. This resort has very impressive pools--well themed to the resort, but distinct from each other. I know they probably need four pools given the resort's size, but I'm still impressed with the choice. Do you have a favorite?
Hi 👋 nycp! A few thoughts here. We’ve stayed in a few different areas so just went to the closest pool and enjoyed ourselves.
Yet …. you knew there was a ‘yet’ from me, right 😉 …. the paddock pool seemed to be full of kids because of the great kids area there. The Grandstand area has a kids area but not to the extent as that as the Paddockarea pool …. but if your staying in the Grandstand area with kids you’re not going to take your kids and walk all the way to the Paddock pool.
The Congress Park pool is really nice … there’s a kids play area there but it’s right next to the pool not a water play area. Yet there’s (I don’t think) a bar / fast food facility at the Congress Park pool … and it’s one of the preferred’ areas of SSR so it costs more points to stay there.
What we do now is ask to stay in the Grandstand area but go to the High Rocks Spring pool. A tad more adult pool, large shaded area for us to ‘camp’ in and we can pick up dinner at The Artist’s Palette on our way back to our unit in the Grandstand area.
Lastly, I prefer staying in the Grandstand area also because we can use the Grandstand Disney bus stop which is the first stop into SSR. I have had to wait during busy times (eg, in the early morning to rope drop) as more than one bus was full from already picking up SSR guests from all the other bus stops in SSR. Won’t go that again. Well worth taking the Disney bus ride through the rest of SSR by using the Grandstand bus stop to not be stood up if that makes sense.
If you haven’t already you can see what the 1 bedroom SSR unit looks like in our SSR Playlist … it’s the video with “Disney, I’m Sorry” in the thumbnail!
@@NanDanTravel Yes, I did see your other SSR video. A lot of people are giving SSR a second look since the refurb. I think I'll most likely use my car for transportation when I'm at SSR. I'm a bit wary of the confusing bus situation at this resort.