Hey everyone, it's Jacqueline for Pixie Dust PhD.
Today I’ll be showing you a brief room tour of a king of suite at the Hilton
Buena Vista Palace in Disney Springs near Walt Disney World resort--stay tuned!
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bit of background about this room, which is a king bedroom suite: Adam and I actually did not book
this room. We booked a king room with a Disney Springs view through MouseSavers for about $270.
This rate came with free parking as well as two complimentary tickets to the Disney water parks.
Part of the reason we did this is we are Hilton Diamond members via the Hilton Aspire AmEx. One
of the perks of this highest AmEx, which does have a $450 annual fee so you want to make sure
you're getting good use out of it, is a $250 Hilton resort credit. Most Hilton hotels are not
Hilton resorts, but most of the ones in the Disney Springs area are actually resorts. And your room
rate does apply to this credit; it doesn't have to be extra things like food, beverages, spa
services, etc. For us it makes a lot of sense to spend that $250 annual credit at a resort in the
Disney Springs area. It's a use it or lose it kind of situation. With this MouseSavers rate obviously
we ended up paying about $20 cash after that $250 credit, but hey, with free parking and those two
free water tickets we figured it was worth it. We could have booked a different room rate and come
in under $250 and gotten it completely free. Or if we wanted to stretch it to two nights honestly the
DoubleTree down the road, usually you can get two nights for around $250. But we decided to
splurge a little to get those waterpark tickets, as well as have a nice view. Much to my surprise,
Hilton contacted me a couple days ago and let me know they had upgraded our room! Instead of
that king room with the Disney Springs view, we are now in a king suite. All of the suites are
in their own building actually. So you have the main building, and then the pool complex area,
and this secondary building called the islands building that contains all the suites as well
as a few conference rooms. So we are pretty secluded away from the rest of the hotel. In fact,
because you can check in online and have a digital key on your phone, I haven't even been into the
lobby yet. But let's get to the room tour. When you walk in the front door to the left is a wall.
I think there's probably supposed to be a piece of artwork here? But absent from this room. We are in
four one zero four. Directly on the right you have an en suite bathroom, which is super nice.
So you've got a sink with an okay amount of counter space, and then a toilet, toilet paper,
hand towels, and this very fun fancy mirror that you can turn the lights on and off.
And when they're on you can also choose the color of the light; so it has sort of a bluer light,
a whiter light, and a more yellow light. Completely unnecessary, but very fun.
Back here towards the door and this wall, then next to the en suite you have a little wet bar. So
you have your own microwave, a sink here, there's a mirror here for some reason in case you want to
look at yourself while you're making drinks. And then in this cabinet underneath the microwave is
where you'll have your safe, which is actually pretty decently sized. And then the mini fridge.
This cabinet is just under sink storage; nothing special here really.
Moving into the main space. This is your living room. There's this huge sectional,
and this fun blue ottoman. We've got some pool vibe art on the walls. Apparently you can adjoin
this to another suite if you want, because there's this door here. And then we have a
nice working area with the table. Adam’s doing some work while we're on vacation. Phone.
Got this lamp that does have some outlets, which is fantastic. Your coffee maker, ice bucket,
another big mirror, and these two really nice chairs. Actually, they're super comfortable.
Then you have your own little patio space with a small table and four chairs.
I’m not really sure what it's overlooking, just some really nicely kept grass.
That road way out there--you can see the cars a little bit--I think that's Buena Vista Drive?
I could be wrong. And then that is the covered walkway between the main building
and the islands building where all of the suites are. Then, of course, no living room is complete
without a TV. So you've got your nice big TV here, and just a boat--boatload of drawers.
Lots of storage space for you here. And this is also where you can control the air conditioning.
Moving away from the living room. You have double doors into the bedroom. This is a king sized bed.
It has a really nice headboard. Unfortunately, there's virtually no outlets. So the little side
tables don't have outlets. The room does come with this one clock; it does have one USB plug, but
that's it. That's all you get. There are these two plugs on this wall on the one side of the bed, but
they're a little bit far away. In general, lacking in outlets. But it is a really comfy bed. I took
a nap earlier. I’m excited to go to sleep on it tonight. You have this fun artwork above the bed.
Turning around, you have a decently sized TV. And then again, a bunch of drawers. These are also
quite large. You really could unpack a lot of your life into here.
Then you have all this space still past the bed, where you get this nice lounge chair and
a little side table that you can move practically anywhere, which I really love the convenience of.
There's this nice piece of artwork; kind of plays well with the throw pillow. And then
this large lamp which does have one USB outlet and one plug, which is nice for if you do want
to lounge and charge at the same time. And then off of the bedroom you also have a little patio.
So again, you have one of these tables and then two chairs overlooking the same
same exact direction--same view basically. You're a tiny bit further away from the road,
but yeah. You have the two patios. And of course because, you know, this is the bedroom--and I
think this is true in the living room as well--you do have your blackout curtains, and then a
decorative curtain that you can put in front of it too. And then you have the primary bathroom.
So walking in, you have your sink area. This mirror is not fancy like the en suite mirror;
you can't change the lights or turn the light on and off on the mirror. There's a switch--there's
a switch on the wall to turn the light on and off obviously. But a decent amount of counter
space. Not a huge amount, but decent. And once again you're getting bar soap, body lotion,
conditioner, and shampoo, but no body wash--no gel wash. So maybe that's just a Hilton thing?
To the right of the sink is your closet area; so pretty standard. Although I will say there
are less hangers here than at previous hotels, so I think there's seven or eight total instead of
ten seems to be pretty normal. You do have extra bedding, and I’ll show you why in a second.
This is also where your iron is, the ironing board is tucked away in the back. And you do
have one little place to put your luggage if you want. But this is a pretty deep storage area;
honestly, we could put all of our luggage in here if we wanted to, but we're only here
for one night so we're being lazy. And the closet doors have little mirrors inset on both sides,
so lots of mirrors around here. Although there is no makeup mirror, but you can get very close
to a few of these mirrors in order to do the fine movements that you need to do for makeup.
So then separate from the sink area you can go through this door,
and on the left you have your tub/shower combo, so your pretty standard
hotel situation. Here on the right though you also have a walk-in shower.
So Adam and I have already both showered in here. It is a little bit cramped. It's not like a cruise
or anything, it's a little on the small side. The water pressure is fantastic, temperature is really
good. So it's fun that you have both options. And then of course you've got your toilet. I will say
you can tell that the suite is a little bit old; there's definitely some age to it. Like the rubber
seal on the shower door doesn't work very well, so we had quite a lot of water that we had to sop up,
as you can tell by the difference in color there. This towel also is like completely wet from that
situation. And just, you know, little things like this part of the door handle is kind of broken.
Nothing serious, and nothing dangerous, but it's an older room. There's some wear and tear. I
think the lack of outlets also makes that very abundant. But those two patios and all of this
space--it's honestly it's got to be probably the biggest hotel room I’ve ever stayed in!
And then I believe that this part of the couch is actually a pull out;
so I think that's why you have spare linens in the closet, So yeah you can see that it seems
bigger than a full or twin; I think it might be a queen, but I’m not sure. I can check online
and see what the specs say. That's a brief overview of the suite itself. Again this is
a king bedroom suite at the Hilton Buena Vista Palace, room 4104 over in that islands building.
We have our own little courtyard area; super cute. So these, these--these are suites. Bench.
Here you can rent DVDs.
And then this is more of a common area I think for
conference goers because these are all conference rooms now.
And this is where you'll enter. This nice little seating area.
You've got--you can print out your boarding passes. Elevators looking very grand.
I really love the color schemes they chose. And then this double door--this one to get back in you
actually have to be staying here. You have to scan your room key to enter into that set of doors.
So here's the pool complex.
I don't think we're going to be using this
just because of time, but there are a lot of chairs and it looks pretty nice.
So here we're on a covered walkway; it's not enclosed, but it is covered.
This is gonna go and take us back to the main building--the lobby.
You can walk to Disney Springs from here; if you wanted to do that
this would be where you would get off. There are also shuttles to Disney;
it's part of the Disney Springs like super good neighbor program.
That way is the parking lot.
So the walkway over to the parking lot is covered, and you can take that all the way
up to probably the main part of the hotel. But this back way into the lobby is definitely faster
even though it's not covered. You got this nice big fountain feature.
Here's some more of the pool; they have this like lazy river
set up. When I walked by earlier it looked really popular; seems like it's died off a bit now.
You can see the inner tubes.
That's fun.
Another stinking fountain!
This is the main building; actually like really beautiful.
And going in to the main building.
That was a little bit of the lobby, a little bit of the walk, Citrus 28. I’m sure the hotel
has much more to offer that we're not going to explore because we just don't have time.
I hope this was a helpful look for you at the Hilton Buena Vista Palace!
We just have the one night here,
but so pleased with the upgrade. And I hope you have good luck if you stay here as well.
It's so fun to get an upgrade, and I’m a little bit sad we're only staying here for one night,
but we will definitely take advantage of it. I hope the rest of your day is magical,
and we'll see you real soon at Pixie Dust PhD!