I'm currently in a room at the Dolphin - first stay here at the Swan/Dolphin.
There was a long queue at check in but it moved fairly quickly. Interestingly everyone was in the "elite" queue and no one was in the "regular" queue...
Room is fairly nice but definitely does feel slightly dated compared to the more recently refurbished rooms in Disney (for reference I also stayed at All Star Sports, BWI and Contemporary this trip - all of which were very recently refurbished).
Think the two main things that really make the room feel dated to me is the carpet and the lighting in the room. I always think of older hotel rooms as having less lighting and newer hotel rooms as having lots of lighting, and the lighting in this room is definiterly on the lower side. It's not so bad during the day when I can have natural light from the windows, but at night it feels very dark.
Besides the lighting the other major issue I'm finding is how small the bathroom is - just feels a bit difficult to navigate between the door/shower/toilet.
Otherwise the room is quite nice, and I do like having a nice large desk. Beds also quite comfortable. Also, I have a lovely view of the Swan, Boardwalk, and the Tower of Terror from my room!
I'm still confused by room charges, whatever is being charged to my card does not seem to match the balance after what I paid before as a deposit. It's off by a small amount (tens of dollars) but it just confuses me that it doesn't match. I really wish they could have a better accounting of room charges since this was also an issue when I first booked the room and I had to chase them for an invoice so I knew what I'd already paid. So I'm going to have to stop by the front desk later and ask about this I guess.
Went to both DHS and Epcot yesterday. I was about to walk but the boats came at just the right time so I took the boats! From here to DHS the boat is definitely faster than walking. But from here to Epcot I think walking is faster as the boat makes so many stops along the way - yesterday I took the boat from Epcot dock to the Boardwalk dock, got off at the Boardwalk to buy some stuff in the shop there, walked back to Dolphin, and still beat the boat getting to the Dolphin (because it also had to stop at Y&BC along the way)!