Gold Dorm Questions

My sister and I are definitely going to live on point this summer. I've seached this site and have leaned a lot about on point housing, but I still have a few specificquestions. Thanks for your help!

1. Are curtains provided, or do you need to bring your own?

2. Can you hang anything from the walls with nails or tacks?

3. How do you go about having an air conditioner installed and how much does it cost?

4. What do you do if you lock yourself out of your room?

5. Can you replace the phone provided in the room with your own cordless one?

6. Can you pick which floor you want to live on? If so, which is the best floor in your opinion?

7. Is it bad if your room is located near the bathroom?

1. I'm not sure about curtains in Gold. They have them in Commons, so i'm sure they already have them there too.

2. The walls are made of cement. Use sticky stuff.

3. As far as I know, you DONT go about getting an air conditioner installed. That's why they have the commons dorms. If you want air conditioning, you have to pay extra for it like the rest of us.

4. If you lock yourself out of your room, go down to the housing person and they'll lend you the spare key.

5. You're not supposed to replace the phone, but everyone does it. So bring a cordless.

6. Usually, they put you where there is room. You can request a floor and if there's an opening, they'll give it to you. Otherwise, it's first come first serve.

7. I think you answered your own question. I wouldn't want to live near a community bathroom. Some people really stink those things up, and I wouldn't want the smell of crap creeping under my door. haha

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'02 Merchandise
'03 Thunder Canyon
'04 Gemini

I lived in Gold in 2000 and it wasn't bad I had a great view of Breakers and the Lake and I loved to hear the coasters and all the guests having fun on the midway.

1. Yest Gold has curtains but they are sheere thin ones, so if you want good ones bring your own.

2. You can hang things on the wall to make yourself feel at home during the summer, just use nails or poster putty.

3. A/C can be installed, you have to buy a window unit and have maintance install it for you. I'm not sure on the price so you'll have to ask housing when you move in.

4. Like IheartTC said, if you get locked out go see your housing unit.

5. You can bring your own phone and believe me you'll want it because the phones they have are the old rotary ones. As long as you put the old one back on the wall when you leave you'll be fine.

6. Depending on when ypu process in you can choose your floor. If you want a good view of either the park or the lake then the top floor is the best and the most quiet. However if you don't feel like climbing lots of stairs then the lower floors are for you.

7. As far as living by the bathroom goes that's up to you, living across the hall is better than right next door to it.

If you have any more questions about living in Gold or any questions about CP in general feel free to IM me at Melisslamb or email me at my address below.

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Melissa
Magnum 00'
Pet Farm AATL 02'
Melslambs@hotmail.com

One thing I've always wondered about the Gold dorms (I've never lived there, and never knew anyone who did...) What sort of appliances do they allow you to bring in there? Can you have a minifridge or your own microwave?

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~Lee~

Group Sales ATL '01
Group Sales TL '02
Park Admissions Zone 5 Supervisor '03
Park Admissions Supervisor '04
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"The greatest leaders don't take credit for their actions; they don't have to."

Minifridge's are ok and I also think microwaves are allowed, but they have 2 of them on the 1st floor and 2 in the picnic shelter between the 2 buildings to use and they keep them clean. As long as there is no exposed coil and you don't set off the fire alarms you'll be ok.

Almost all the girls that have lived there before take a firdge with them, tust me you'll want one I didn't have one but wish I did.

Hey what houseing doesn't know won't hurt you as long as your careful afterall that building is about as old as Breakers.

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Melissa
Magnum 00'
Pet Farm AATL 02'
Melslambs@hotmail.com

I live on the first floor of building #1. I loved the convenience of living on point and the price. And supprisingly, it was alot quieter than off-point. I would definitely recommend it over off-point. The day they open, most of the first floor rooms get taken up pretty quick.

1) They have these ugly light-blue thick curtains.

2) You could try to nail in things, but like they said, it's cement and would be kinda hard. The doors though are wood, so you could nail in that.

3) You have to buy an AC unit first (about $100), then your supposed to call maintanence and have them install it (I think it was $20-40), then you have to pay an energy fee per day (I think about $0.50). Whatever it costs, it is well worth it!

4) Ditto, that's what the check-in desk is for.

5) Yup, definitely go cordless!

6) They will give you the option to pick of whatever rooms are available to pick from in whichever buildings are open at the time. Building #1 will open first in the season till it's filled, then building #2. Since #1 is used more, it's a little more worn down. Also, the higher up you get in the building, the less worn down it is b/c it has gotten less use. My room faced Hotel Breakers, it was pretty quiet except for the occasional garbage truck or street sweeper going by at night.

7) I lived a few doors down and it was perfect. I didn't have to go too far to get to it, but I never smelled it or had to deal with possible noise of hair dryers and such in the morning.


Lee: You can bring 1 fridge that goes up to your waist or smaller. Your not supposed to have microwaves or any other type of heating devices. There are 2 microwaves for both buildings (porch and courtyard). You usually have to wait a really long time to get to use it though. Those foreigners really love to heat up some water for tea! I've heard of people sneeking them in though and hiding them in their own rooms.
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Guest Service's Host, '03
CP & LE Train Crew, '04


Caroline said:
You can bring 1 fridge that goes up to your waist or smaller.

Good thing I'm close to six feet tall! ^_~
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~Lee~

Group Sales ATL '01
Group Sales TL '02
Park Admissions Zone 5 Supervisor '03
Park Admissions Supervisor '04
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"The greatest leaders don't take credit for their actions; they don't have to."

Microwaves are not okay to bring -- it will be confiscated (and yes, they do come into rooms once or twice a season to check fire alarms and all). If it's confiscated, I'm pretty sure you don't get it back either.

About choosing your room -- if you are there earlier in the season, you can ask for a floor and they'll do what they can. The gals working the desk are pretty nice and of course they want you to be happy so that they don't have to do all the extra paperwork to move you if you're not.

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'96 Merchandise Raptor Cart... '97 Zone 1 Sweep Crew / Disaster Transport Crew... '98 Iron Dragon Crew / Zone 1 Sweep Crew... '02 White Water Landing Crew... '03 White Water Landing TL...

When they check your room and they find a microwave they write you out this yellow slip and take your microwave with them. And for the first offence they will give it back to you but the check rooms more frequently that have had one in it and if they find you put it back in your room you will not get it back till your last day.
is checking rooms a gold specific thing? In 2 years (1 at cedars, 1 at 1500s) they have never checked my room.

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:james
magnum crew 2002
johnny rockets 2003, 2004

well atleast when i was in there.

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:james
magnum crew 2002
johnny rockets 2003, 2004

checks only happen if housing has been informed of something or if the police notice something while visiting you.

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June 11th, 2001 - Gemini 100
VertiGo Rides - 82

I was only in my room once when they checked. All they did was walk in, check the smoke detector, then walk out. They didn't even really look around

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Guest Service's Host, '03
CP & LE Train Crew, '04

Not sure what's it like now, but in 97 we managed to put our own AC unit in the window at Cedars and kept hidden even during an inspection, they knocked all our clothes off the pipe onto the floor but never noticed the strange blanket covering part of the window...

My first season me and my roommate did the same thing, we bought an ac unit, we even talked to the carpenter to see if he could put it in for us at the time we bought it, but we needed $25 cash to give him and neither of us did. We ended up just sitting it in the window, it sayed in there fine! We were never charged extra for the electricity, we never had the carpenter contact us again, and we never had an inspection. It was nice! :)

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Hotel Breakers Desk staff - 2002
Hotel Breakers FOM - 2003
I wish I could come back for another season...:(

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