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Marriott - View from the Balcony

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Cobia, 5th Floor, 3BR OF, South Facing
Rooms 5512 (Master) & 5511 (studio).

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Crystal Shores - Marco Island - 2BR Villa #1126 (Egret (new) tower, Westward facing room, Pool View High Floor 6-15th floors.) Our 11th floor villa is actually the top floor on the Westward facing wing. I have stayed in the original tower, Gulf Front before, and don't get me wrong, those views are beautiful during the day, but this view is not bad, has more to see in the evenings, and is a lot less points. Would likely book this view again for our next stay.

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I agree that the view from Egret facing West is really nice, but miss the large balconies in the Gulf front villas. The view from the 5th floor is also nice and requires fewer points, but we were lucky to get it.
 

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Ocean Pointe, Ocean Side, South facing 4th floor in Cobia building.

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And for comparison....check out this pic below, from post #1 in this thread, of basically the same view, but 5th floor, from back in 2015. The 2021 view is certainly improved because of the removal of trees along the edge of the parking lot.

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How do you continue to get the best Oceanside Villas at Ocean Pointe, although I actually like a similar location overlooking the pink (now white) building?
 

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How do you continue to get the best Oceanside Villas at Ocean Pointe, although I actually like a similar location overlooking the pink (now white) building?
Totally lucky I guess. This one was only booked about a month out with 120 day holding account points (grabbed a late cancellation that popped up), so it certainly was not due to an early time stamp.
 
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Not to be too repetitive, but our view from the 7th floor of the Cobia building, here at Ocean Pointe this week. This resort was designed so well with almost every unit 2nd floor and above with an ocean view.
We own here and when we checked in we had to “wait” a little longer for this unit as they wanted to give us this higher floor villa.


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We were only there for one night, to celebrate our daughter's graduation from University of Florida with a day at Epcot, but this was our view from a fourth floor studio unit in Building 84 at Marriott's Grande Vista. We also booked a 2BR for our daughter, our son, and two friends for the same single night. They had a fifth floor golf view in Building 86. Thanks to our 30% Presidential discount, both units only cost us 455 points total for that night. So two units for six adults for a direct usage cost (based on our own average per point MF cost) of only $250 or so. We used some Plus Points we had in our account, so the value was great.

After Friday's graduation, we drove down from Gainesville on Saturday morning, arriving at the property between 9:00 and 9:30am, and much to our surprise, both units were available for check-in. That allowed us to drop our luggage, leave our cars at Grande Vista, and grab a couple Ubers over to Disney's Contemporary for our 10:30 breakfast reservations before heading over to Epcot. We didn't get back on property until after 11 pm. We had breakfast on Sunday morning at The Grill.

This was our first time at MGV and we were impressed with the resort. We aren't frequent Orlando visitors anymore since both of our kids are in their 20s now, but if and when we do go back, MGV will likely be our top choice.

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Marriott Ocean Pointe Kingfish building 1st floor inlet view or what they consider oceanfront. We like it cause you get to watch the boats go by all day.


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Rule has been broken before, I'll break it again. :) It is a Marriott, just not a timeshare.

Many (most) of you like beaches and their views. For me, it's ok. But this is my Hawaii.

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And this is my most favorite view ever, though not a balcony:

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Angels Landing, "they" say arguably the toughest hike in the US, no idea if it's reasonable or not. Many people have died getting there.
 

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Rule has been broken before, I'll break it again. :) It is a Marriott, just not a timeshare.

Many (most) of you like beaches and their views. For me, it's ok. But this is my Hawaii.

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And this is my most favorite view ever, though not a balcony:

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Angels Landing, "they" say arguably the toughest hike in the US, no idea if it's reasonable or not. Many people have died getting there.

You ole rule-breaker, you :eek:.............. (Keep it up, I like it!!!!! :clap: Gorgeous views!)
 

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Where is the Marriott? It looks like some of the scenery we see from the Zephyr or Southwest Chief.
 

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Rule has been broken before, I'll break it again. :) It is a Marriott, just not a timeshare.

Many (most) of you like beaches and their views. For me, it's ok. But this is my Hawaii.

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And this is my most favorite view ever, though not a balcony:

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Angels Landing, "they" say arguably the toughest hike in the US, no idea if it's reasonable or not. Many people have died getting there.

Did you do that yourself?
I watched a YouTube of it, I could no more do that than fly to the moon.
Heights like that make me dizzy and even nauseous.
 

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Rule has been broken before, I'll break it again. :) It is a Marriott, just not a timeshare.

Many (most) of you like beaches and their views. For me, it's ok. But this is my Hawaii.

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And this is my most favorite view ever, though not a balcony:

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Angels Landing, "they" say arguably the toughest hike in the US, no idea if it's reasonable or not. Many people have died getting there.
Marriot courtyard..Sedona??
 

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You ole rule-breaker, you :eek:.............. (Keep it up, I like it!!!!! :clap: Gorgeous views!)

They really were. No water in sight! It's not always the ocean, doesn't do as much for me. You know me from previous trips! It was points from MVCI so sort of counts.

Here's what really made in special.... I've lost so much muscle the last few years due to various shoulder surgeries and replacement. I was getting medical massage for dystonia, and, the PT does classes to also strengthen joints. After she worked on me and saw me walk, she said something to the effect of I was in such terrible shape, and had such low balance, that I couldn't possibly be in her class for safety reasons. Hmmm.......

Where is the Marriott? It looks like some of the scenery we see from the Zephyr or Southwest Chief.

Springhill Suites, Zion National Park UTAH, still here. Used a cat6 7 night certificate. Going rate is over $700/night here due to summer demand, unreal for a Springhill. So, good use of cert! Got 1.35 cents value per Bonvoy point.

Did you do that yourself?
I watched a YouTube of it, I could no more do that than fly to the moon.
Heights like that make me dizzy and even nauseous.

Yes, 2 days ago. Am still sore and dehydrated! Not bad for 61 year old though, coming off a year of inactivity due to shoulder replacement. Hot tub helps a little at least. But yes, the youtube videos scared me too. I have lots of pictures from the climb but videos are better than pictures. Too many spots where some sort of camera attached to body would have been needed to take photo without perishing. One has to hold the chains else fall to death. But this photo below is typical, and it's a few hours of that. Bad step = 500 or 1000 ft sheer cliff.

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See above. Second time here.

This slope is steeper than it looks. Chains most of the way, spots where you must pull your body weight up. I'm sure a real pro rock climber wouldn't be bothered at all. But for normal folks...

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