Hey SteveH I love your avatar pic.... from Trader Sam?
And just chiming in regarding costco room requests.... when I was there in May with a Costco pkg I had used the email link to request our two rooms be: adjoining if possible or very close together (last trip we were on separate floors before I put up a fuss
) and in the west wing. I mentioned that we planned to spend time at the pool so anything close to the pool would be helpful. Well we had wonderful rooms, connecting on the first floor with patios that faced the pool. We were told these were "upgrade fireworks view" rooms but we were not charged anything extra. We were not in our room any night to see fireworks but we guessed they would have been the HS fireworks and being first floor not sure how much you would actually have seen. But we loved our room location, so close to pool, Picabu and bus transport.