Wyndham View From the Balcony

[Rolltydr]

How did you like Ocean Walk? We’ve been debating trying it but the reviews on TripAdvisor are mixed.

Pro’s -
1. It’s on the beach. Well, mostly. All standard 2 bedroom lockoffs and 3 bedroom units are oceanfront and I believe they have one 4 bedroom Presidential (I may be wrong on that).
2. it’s only an hour drive for me so it’s great to get away to the beach for a few days.

Cons-
1. The other units have a “city view” and some may have partial ocean views. The balconies are very small. Just enough room for a couple of cheap plastic strap chairs.
2. The buildings are old and not the best maintained.
3. There isn’t much to do in the area. The race track is about a15-20 minute drive. The area around the track has some shopping and decent, not great, restaurants. There’s also an outlet mall a couple miles from that area.

If it wasn’t so close and on the beach, we’d probably never come here.

 

[dioxide45]

Club Wyndham Desert Blue, Las Vegas from an 11th floor Margaritaville Vacation Club unit. The views from this property all have a blue tint to them as it seems the windows have a blue tint. Perhaps how the property gets its name?

 

[Fido Chuckwagon]

Club Wyndham Desert Blue, Las Vegas from an 11th floor Margaritaville Vacation Club unit. The views from this property all have a blue tint to them as it seems the windows have a blue tint. Perhaps how the property gets its name?
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Where is it in relation to the strip? Walkable, or no?

 

[dioxide45]

Where is it in relation to the strip? Walkable, or no?

West of the strip but not really walkable to the strip. Not really walkable to much of anything as there isn't much close to it. They do have an hourly shuttle to Treasure Island. Though the shuttle only runs till 9pm on weeknights and 1am on Saturday and Sunday.

 

[Sandi Bo]

West of the strip but not really walkable to the strip. Not really walkable to much of anything as there isn't much close to it. They do have an hourly shuttle to Treasure Island. Though the shuttle only runs till 9pm on weeknights and 1am on Saturday and Sunday.

We chuckled about that, when my daughter (was in her 20's) went with friends (to Grand Desert) she said the shuttle was ending at about the time they were ready to go out.

 

[dioxide45]

We chuckled about that, when my daughter (was in her 20's) went with friends (to Grand Desert) she said the shuttle was ending at about the time they were ready to go out.

We are actually at Grand Desert now and it seems their shuttle ends at 9pm every day. No extended hours on the weekends. Grand Desert is a little more accessible to the strip with good sidewalks between the property and the strip. Still about half a mile though.

 

[Mowogo]

Desert Rose, and if not for the tree I would have the perfect view for Tuesday night.

 

[Eric B]

Wyndham Austin, 7th floor studio deluxe.

... friendly neighbors!

 

[chapjim]

Wyndham Austin, 7th floor studio deluxe.
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... friendly neighbors!

Is that supposed to be the balcony for a unit? Rather spartan, no? Maybe it's one of those blind squirrels, but no acorn there.

 

[Eric B]

Is that supposed to be the balcony for a unit? Rather spartan, no? Maybe it's one of those blind squirrels, but no acorn there.

The balconies are a bit spartan. The one with the squirrel is for a 2 BR Presidential, I believe. Here's the furniture on our studio deluxe:

The one next door wraps around and probably has a similar set of furniture around the corner where we couldn't see it. This is actually a WorldMark floor; we are here on a Club Wyndham reservation but got here early (checked in at 8:30) and they shifted us to this one rather than a Wyndham room. Think I like this one a bit better despite getting Folgers instead of Lavazza.

The squirrel was chewing on something and seemed quite proud of it.

 

[Fido Chuckwagon]

Deleted I figured out the issue.

 

[Fido Chuckwagon]

Club Wyndham Midtown 45, room 1702, 1 bedroom deluxe (got a surprise upgrade from a hotel room double to a 1 bedroom at check-in). We loved this hotel, 3 blocks from grand central station, you could see the Chrysler building from our window, the rooftop lounge was great, got hot chocolate for the kids up there at night. Really, I can’t say enough positive things about this one, we were sad it was only a 2 night stay and will definitely be back:

 

[Deb from NC]

Wyndham Flagstaff. We had a 2 bedroom loft, which was huge and had a very nice private hot tub on the deck! Deer would walk right by our deck every morning. We thoroughly enjoyed this resort….a short drive to several national monuments and 40 minutes to Williams, where we took the train to the Grand Canyon. Great vacation!

 

[swditz]

Pro’s -
1. It’s on the beach. Well, mostly. All standard 2 bedroom lockoffs and 3 bedroom units are oceanfront and I believe they have one 4 bedroom Presidential (I may be wrong on that).
2. it’s only an hour drive for me so it’s great to get away to the beach for a few days.

Cons-
1. The other units have a “city view” and some may have partial ocean views. The balconies are very small. Just enough room for a couple of cheap plastic strap chairs.
2. The buildings are old and not the best maintained.
3. There isn’t much to do in the area. The race track is about a15-20 minute drive. The area around the track has some shopping and decent, not great, restaurants. There’s also an outlet mall a couple miles from that area.

If it wasn’t so close and on the beach, we’d probably never come here.

are the three bedroom balconies the same size?

 

[Rolltydr]

are the three bedroom balconies the same size?

At Ocean Walk? Yes, I think so.

 

[chapjim]

Here's the 3BR floor plan. Very cozy balcony.

 

[swditz]

Here's the 3BR floor plan. Very cozy balcony.

Thanks for the floor plan. Just the two of us so it looks plenty big enough.

 

[chapjim]

Thanks for the floor plan. Just the two of us so it looks plenty big enough.

For sure! It sleeps up to ten but a balcony party would have to be two or three at a time.

We haven't stayed at Ocean Walk for a number of years. Our complaints have never been with the units or facilities. Rather, staff which used to be very snippy, like you're bothering them trying to check in or ask a question. We're booked there for a few nights next May, just before two weeks at The Resort on Cocoa Beach. We're trying to get to ROCB earlier than last May and maybe get a unit on a higher floor. Here's the view we had from the balcony the first week at ROCB.

 

[lwan]

Where is it in relation to the strip? Walkable, or no?

Desert Blue 13th floor looking northeast.

(Depending on your ability) it's walkable or not. We're here this week and walked to Harrah's the night we arrived for food (1 mile, cutting through the Forum Shops).

Walked the 0.9 miles to Chinatown the next morning and then (2 miles) to Resorts World later. Yesterday we ate at the Bacchanal buffet and then had to walk off the food (all the way down to Excalibur).

We prefer Desert Blue over Grand Desert because it's "closer" to the sites we would frequent.

Lester

 

[swditz]

For sure! It sleeps up to ten but a balcony party would have to be two or three at a time.

We haven't stayed at Ocean Walk for a number of years. Our complaints have never been with the units or facilities. Rather, staff which used to be very snippy, like you're bothering them trying to check in or ask a question. We're booked there for a few nights next May, just before two weeks at The Resort on Cocoa Beach. We're trying to get to ROCB earlier than last May and maybe get a unit on a higher floor. Here's the view we had from the balcony the first week at ROCB.

We love cocoa beach. We own week 7 at discovery beach resort (sister to ROCB) and then on to ocean walk for a week. It will be interesting to see the difference between the two.

 

[HitchHiker71]

Wyndham Shawnee - Depuy Worldmark unit


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