Hi friends, it's Jacqueline for Pixie Dust PhD. We are wrapping up our three-night
stay at the BoardWalk Villas in a standard view studio and I thought I would take you
on a quick room tour before we fully check out, so be sure to stay tuned!
We were assigned room 1044, so that's on the first floor and it faces the pool.
So here's your front door; very standard. This is sort of the section of the BoardWalk that we
are in and the evacuation plan. And then as you're turning around from entering the front
door you have this cute mirror. There's no real shelf or hanging space or anything, but there's
plenty of floor space in this entryway. You can see we've got our luggage lined up here.
This wall opposite of me is where your light switch is for your overhead light
in this sort of entry area. Then moving further into the room directly on your left will be
the kitchenette. So you have a sink, you get your little dish soap, dish towel, small sponge,
which we've used a bit. Pretty standard Mr. coffee machine, microwave, toaster, and ice bucket are
all visible. And then underneath the sink actually is where you're gonna have your paper towel roll,
so if you're looking for that it's under the sink. And as per usual you do have trash and recycling.
Fun little crystally door knobs and some paneling on these doors. And then you
have your oversized mini fridge; so it's bigger than like a college dorm fridge,
but it's definitely not a full fridge. Tiny little freezer space that, you know,
will keep things cold but I don't think I would count on like ice cream staying hard in there.
But quite a lot of shelving space for various drinks, leftovers, etc.
Then in your upper cabinets this is where you will have your
studio level dishes--so you don't get actual dishware and utensils when you stay in a studio,
but you do get disposables which is great. So it comes with disposable; these are I think Styrofoam
cups for coffee and lids, plastic cups. And then you get bowls and plates; they're all
wrapped and sealed and definitely clean. And then on this other side, these cabinets,
this is where your extra paper towels are. And then this will be cutlery and a couple of tools
such as a can opener. I’ve just pulled the cutlery thing down and onto the counter and you can see
this is also where your coffee supplies are going to be. There is some coffee by the coffee maker,
but creamer, sugars and stuff are up here with your utensils and your can opener.
Corkscrew, very important in case you grab a bottle of wine. All right. So turning around
from the kitchenette here's your bathroom. You get this super fun mirror. I’m actually really
into it. I don't know if it screams BoardWalk to me, but it definitely is like fun and kitschy so
that feels BoardWalk-ish. Then you have one sink; a pretty good amount of counter space.
And then it did come with body lotion and dish soap; I’ve stashed the body lotion away.
You have a makeup mirror and again it's lighted, and one side is 5x mag and the other side is
normal magnification. So you've got those options. And it moves around pretty well, so that's nice.
In one of these drawers is where our hair dryer was. So sometimes… that's another thing sometimes
it's in a drawer; you'll just have to look around. These are just functional storage spaces.
Nothing special under the sink, but again a really large storage space if you want to store
anything down here. And then same on the other side. You do have this functional top drawer
and the storage space where there's extra toilet paper and extra tissues.
It's a really functional sink setup, it worked well for us
anyway. To the left you'll have this door. This pocket door leads into your closet.
So here you will have your extra pillows and blankets if you have more guests than are going
to be sleeping on the bed. And then quite a lot of hangers; way more than we've had in the past,
so plenty of hangers. And way back in the closet you have your iron and ironing board.
And then here we have our luggage rack; ours is a little--a little sad, a little broken.
I’m definitely looking forward to how these rooms turn out after they get a little refresh.
And then on the wall you'll have your wall safe in the closet. So it's a really functional closet.
I hung up a lot of things since we were here for many days; it worked very well. And then
on this side of the sink is your door into the bathroom. The fan is quite loud,
so I apologize in advance--there's no way to turn the light on without also turning the fan on.
Pretty standard setup; you have your toilet, some nice tile floor, and then a combo [*tub]/shower.
There's that one shelf in the corner, and there is a clothesline for hanging stuff if you want.
It did come with the individual H2O products--so shampoo, conditioner, body wash, and there also
was a bar soap in here too. So no wall mounted H2O products in here. And then we did get five towels.
This room does officially sleep five people;
even though there were only two of us on the reservation, we did get all five towels.
Another nice thing I wanted to note was that on our day two and day three they actually came
and emptied our trash and recycling, which they absolutely don't have to do. And it's
not standard for DVC. So thank you so much to the wonderful people the BoardWalk--that
was so nice! So yeah, that's your entry area with the door, and then your kitchenette,
sink space, closet space, and then separate from the bathroom. Moving into the main living space…
you walk in and there's the proper bed here along with a very large mirror--again this is opposite
of your window or door out to your balcony or patio, so it lets in a lot of light. This side
of the bed doesn't have any outlets, so whoever's sleeping over here gets a little bit short-changed
potentially. And there's no bedside table, so I just put my water on the ground for example.
This side of the bed does have your bedside table, and then two outlets with proper plugs
as well as two USB outlets. And, I mean, the side table is functional for sure,
but it's definitely small. If you're gonna store anything in here would have to be
little stuff; you're not gonna be able to stash a backpack down there I don't think.
The bed was very comfortable; we both got plenty of good sleep.
There's this light over the bed with just the one switch; so either it's on or it's off--it's
not like one per side. And then the pillows were comfy; they are pretty thick though,
and even when you're laying on them they don't become very thin. So if you sleep on a thinner
pillow these might not be the most comfortable for you. Across from the bed there is this cabinet,
and if you open it up it actually has four drawers for storage. So this is a really nice
functional touch. Pull the drawers out… they're decently big; you could fit a lot in here if you
really wanted to fully unpack and and act like you live here, act like you're home.
And then on top I’ve just stored some of my things. So this is what the temperature control
looks like. It's not a digital unit where you can pick like 72 degrees or 65 degrees.
You're going from cool to warm, and then how high the fan is on, and if the system's on heat, off,
or cool. So it's a little bit of an interesting quirk here, but that worked out well for us.
There's also no motion sensor in it, which means it stays on what you want the whole time, which is
great. Here's your one overhead light in the main space. It's very beautiful, but it is tucked away
in this corner. But you do have a ceiling fan, so that's a nice touch. And then you've got this good
sitting area--desk and some cute chairs. They have this fun red and white pattern; with the accents
it does kind of feel like the BoardWalk to me. This is also where your single pull-down bed is.
Oh, it's Dumbo!
So the pull-down single bed backdrop is Dumbo. That's so cute. He's sleepy. Wow, I love that.
And then of course you've got your TV, and on both sides you have that
same outlet set up where you have two proper plugs and then two USB plugs.
Of course, they're letting you know about enhanced cleaning. We also got this note when we arrived
that they had recently cleaned the carpet so it may be damp. I didn't notice that it was damp,
but just so you know that may happen to you. You do have carpet in the bedroom and living area
as opposed to this wood--I don't know if it's wood actual wood, probably not. Wood laminate
perhaps? It feels nice. It's not like a cheap laminate. And then tile in the bathroom of course.
Then you have your coffee table… it's pretty large actually. I was impressed with how much stuff we
could fit on it and under it. So there's not a drawer or anything, but quite a lot of space.
You could fit a suitcase down there. And then your couch that Adam’s hanging out on. This becomes a
pull-out bed. Got a little bit of artwork over the couch to give you some of those BoardWalk feels,
so I thought this was a nice touch. And then a lamp in the corner
painted this really pretty blue color. Then here will be your door to either your patio
or balcony. We are on the first floor so we have a patio. The curtains are really cute. There's some
not so hidden Mickey’s, but they're fun. And I think this might be a chrysanthemum? I’m not
really sure, but it's definitely ornate and pretty. And you do just get the one curtain
instead of having—oh, just kidding. The thick curtain is on the outside! So this is your light
blocking curtain, and then there's a really thin curtain on the inside I suppose if you want the
light to come through but to have a little bit of privacy. But in other rooms we've stayed in
recently it's opposite, where the thick light blocking curtain is in the back and then there's
like a pretty decorative curtain in front. So this is our patio, let's take a step out.
So here's the pool; like I said we're right at the pool complex. You can see, if I zoom in a
little bit, you can make out the keister coaster over there. That replaced the scary clown pool.
Pool opens at 10 a.m. I believe, so it's a little a little early for it to be crowded.
But this is our patio space. You've got the red walls, chair, table, and another chair.
Weirdly there's no divider. There's another patio right next to us that's not ours;
that's for somebody else's room. But I suppose if they're not out here and they don't mind you do
technically have a kind of a large patio in 1044. Since there's no official divider or anything
you might be able to sneak and use their chairs if they're not looking.
I guess it's possible that is our patio?
I just know that those aren't our doors; our doors are here. That's somebody else's room.
Yeah, so you've got this nice patio space. It is covered fully, and then there's this
cute awning as well, so no worries if it's raining unless it's really raining sideways.
So coming back inside from the patio: over here by the TV--this
is the door to make it an adjoining room. We obviously didn't use that.
That's where it's located. And you have quite a lot of floor space here if you do need to move
the chairs or this table to pull out a bed or to store your luggage in, which is what we did.
All right! That was the tour of our standard view studio at the BoardWalk Villas. We had a really
lovely three nights here. It's a great location. The room is perfectly serviceable. I think sort
of like Beach Club the room's a little bit bland, but to each their own. There definitely are a few
Disney touches, but not a ton if you compare the theming in the rooms like the theme in the lobby...
do you really know you’re at the BoardWalk? I don't know. But it was a very nice room. And I
mean other than the fact that you're at a Disney hotel so there's gonna be noise, there's--there's
gonna be suitcases down the hallways at pretty much all hours of the day, we're outside the pool
so of course there's pool noise, you'll probably have neighbors--who knows how loud they're going
to be, like you know once it's 7 a.m. you might be woken by some noise, but that's true everywhere I
think on Disney. So, you know, the BoardWalk was really good to us, and we really love the
location. And I hope that this room tour has been helpful for you! If you have any questions please
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