Those of you who use the Room Finder a lot: we have a new version coming out and we’d like you to help test it. Keep reading if you’re interested.
Accessing The Test System
Here’s the Hotel Room Views page on our test server.
You might see this dialog box pop up:
Use ‘staging’ and ‘swgalaxysedge’ there.
Testing A Hotel
Next, select a resort. Any resort should work, including DVC. I chose Animal Kingdom Lodge for this example.
Here’s the new look for the Room Views:
The first big changes are these:
- Filters are applied as you select them. You no longer need to click a ‘Show Matching Rooms’ button.
- The filters will automatically update to show you only the remaining valid options to choose.
We made these changes to save you time and avoid frustration. In the old version, it was possible to select filters that returned 0 matching rooms. And since we’ve added more filters, we didn’t want that to happen even more. Dynamic filters prevents that.
Changing a filter above another filter will cause all lower filters to change. For example, if you change the Room Type filter from “Resort View” to “Water View”, all of the filter options beow that will be updated to reflect only what’s available in “Water View” rooms. This is to ensure the only choices you see are the ones that make sense.
Other changes we’ve made:
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All 29,000+ hotel rooms are updated to match Disney’s room type descriptions and other data.
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Added a new “Go back to building” link for resorts with multiple buildings. In the old version you had to go back to the resort itself.
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“Connecting Rooms” is now a yes/no/any filter
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All resorts have at least 50 “TouringPlans Picks” best rooms
And we’ve added these new filters:
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Additional View - For broad categories like “Resort View”, this tells you a bit more about what part of the resort you’re going to see
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Location Preference 1 - “Near Lobby”, “Near Elevator”, “Near Skyliner”, etc.
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Location Preference 2 - If there are any other options like that, they’re listed here
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Building Theme - From things like “Touchdown!” to “Giraffe Trail”, this is that.
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Features - Things like “Shower Only”, “Corner Room”, and more
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Pet-Friendly - For hotels with pet-friendly rooms, this is a yes/no/any drop-down
Providing Feedback
Post feedback in this thread, please.
The first thing I’m interested in is if something breaks. If that happens, let us know the steps needed to reproduce the problem.
After that I’m interested in whether the filter behavior makes sense. Specifically, are you able to find the rooms you want faster than before?
Thanks very much for your help!
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