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How to Use Our Reviews and Post Your Own

We've long felt that vacationer reviews are very valuable, which is why we include numerical ratings in our guidebooks and provide avenues for our readers to give us feedback. This special forum consolidates reviews in an easy-to-use and easy-to-sort place. Use the forum to learn about and research vacationer experiences before your trip! Here are some tips:

The Listings:
There is a review thread for each hotel on Disney property, default sorted by name (alphabetical). The introduction to each review gives an overview of the resort and information on where to find our official published review, feature articles, and photos of the resort. We also include a short personal review, as well as our numerical ratings (which correspond to those we publish in our guidebook).

Tip: Don't see the Orlando-area hotel you're interested in? Please contact the Guides for the forum (Jenny Pooh, Disneybine, CRCrazy, HiddenMickey) and request that the hotel review thread be created.

Sorting the Listings

The hotels are listed in alphabetical order by default. To re-sort, click the Review Tools button to reveal a menu (see image) -- choose the type of information you'd like to sort by and the page will re-load in your preferred order.

Tip: You can search the reviews, too! Click the Search These Reviews button on the far right, type in your search word(s), and click Go.

Mark Your Favorites

You can mark individual resorts as favorites to aid you in planning or just for fun. To do this, click the checkbox in the overview post at the start of each hotel review thread (see image). Checking this box will place the words LOVE IT! next to the name of the thread (for your eyes only), so you can see your favorites at a glance.

Tip: Use this Favorite feature to mark hotels you're considering for your vacation!

Post Your Own Review
The main purpose of this review forum is to gather YOUR reviews of the hotels you've stayed in, for the benefit of everyone. Writing a review is easy -- just click the Review button near the top of the listings and fill in both the numerical ratings and the text field with your written review. The more information, the better! Helpful information to include:
* How many times you've stayed at the hotel, including the date of your most recent stay.
* The type of room you stayed in (even the room number if you have it).
* Links to any trip reports or photos you have of the resort. You may include the images themselves, so long as they meet our image guidelines for size (640 x 480 or smaller) and are fewer than five in number.
* Explanations of any really low or high numerical ratings you gave.
* Pros and cons of the resort, in your personal opinion.

Things you should not do:
* Comment on other vacationer's reviews -- if you want to do this, please start a new thread in the Staying in Style forum to discuss the hotel.
* Leave a numerical rating without at least some text to explain WHY you rated it the way you did.
* Ask questions about the hotel. Please ask in the Staying in Style forum.
(Posts which do any of the above will either be moved or removed altogether.)

Once your review is posted, it will immediately appear in the review thread. Your ratings will be averaged with the other member ratings and this average will appear in the list view.

You may return to your review to edit it, and we encourage you to do this if you stay at the hotel again. IMPORTANT: Please note that you may need to re-enter your numerical ratings if you edit your review, so you may wish to note your ratings before you click the Edit button.

Questions? Comments?
Feel free to post questions and comments here in this thread so we can answer them for all to see.

Happy reviewing!