Room for 5!!

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saz331

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Hi

Very excited but we have just booked our flight for 2007!!! and we need a disney hotel for 3 days, we usually stay at the value we have been to Movies 3 times and pop 2, but our sons are now 11,7,5 so we need 2 rooms, what is Port Orleans Riverside like? would we all fit in 1 room? also will the deluxe resorts sleep 5 in one room too?

thanks!!
Sarah xx
 
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Nansafan

Nansafan

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Yes the deluxe's sleep 5. The Contemporary and the Poly being the resorts with the biggest standard rooms on property and we have stayed at both with 5 and our kids our now 19, 18 and 15. They have 2 queen beds and a day bed. In fact in the newly remodeled beds in the Contemporary and Poly, the daybeds are even nicer.

Yacht and Beach also sleep 5. The Wilderness Lodge has rooms with bunk beds. POR has rooms with a trundle bed which could accomodate your 5 or 7 year old. I believe they say you can have 5 in their rooms if the one in the trundle bed is 9 and under. We've stayed at POR before but had 2 rooms since our kids were all too tall for the trundle bed.
 
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tigsmom

tigsmom

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Nansafan said:
Yes the deluxe's sleep 5. The Contemporary and the Poly being the resorts with the biggest standard rooms on property and we have stayed at both with 5 and our kids our now 19, 18 and 15. They have 2 queen beds and a day bed. In fact in the newly remodeled beds in the Contemporary and Poly, the daybeds are even nicer.

Yacht and Beach also sleep 5. The Wilderness Lodge has rooms with bunk beds. POR has rooms with a trundle bed which could accomodate your 5 or 7 year old. I believe they say you can have 5 in their rooms if the one in the trundle bed is 9 and under. We've stayed at POR before but had 2 rooms since our kids were all too tall for the trundle bed.
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Yes, but they are in limited supply and the WL rooms only sleep 4 unless you get a Jr Suite (they have been renamed though...maybe Deluxe room?). There you get 2 queen sized beds and a sleeper sofa in the little sitting room. We loved the rooms at the Polynesian. Haven't been to the Contemporary in years, but those were nice and big too. The Boardwalk Inn had nice rooms and it was nice to walk to EPCOT.
 
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LouDisney

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I called Disney to ask them about 5 in a room and the lady told me PO Riverside and then also suggested All Star Suites. I have yet to book, but I think I am going to go with Riverside.
 
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Master Yoda

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I am in the same boat as you with 3 girls (15/13/5). Here are your options pretty much in order from lowest to highest cost.

PO will almost always be your lowest cost option. The nice thing is that PO is one of the best resorts on property. The rooms are by no means huge but they are big enough to make it work. With 3 boys only one bathroom should not be too big of an issue.

The next option is 2 rooms at a Value. This will give you a bunch more space as well as a second bathroom. Cost can be about $40-$50 more per night.

If you can get an AP rate nearly all of the Deluxe resorts will be your next option. Contemporary will have the largest standard rooms of all the deluxe resorts.

The value suites will be your next option. The only problem with the suites is the cost and the fact that Disney does not discount suites. In many cases 2 rooms at a value will be the same or less than a suite.

Your last reasonably priced option would be the cabins at Ft Wilderness.

We have found PORS to be the best out of all those options. Price is good, room is just big enough and the resort is great. If money is not too tight or PORS is booked up and an AP rate is available the Contemporary or AKL would be the next option for us.
 
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tikiman

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Not all deluxe resorts sleep 5 in a standard room. AKL and WL standard rooms do not sleep 5. Yacht Club, Beach Club and Boardwalk have smaller rooms than the Polynesian and Contemporary. The new room design in the Polynesian and Contemporary allow for 5 adults to sleep comfortably with two queen beds and a fold out futon style day bed that will fit an adult and the rooms leave plenty of room left over since they are the largest on property.

Aloha

Steve
 
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Here is the run down of all the resorts that you can get 5 in a room.


All STar Music Suites
Port Orleans Riverside with trundle
Coronado Springs jr. suite or 1 bedroom suite double
Animal Kingdom Lodge deluxe bunk bed, concierge or 2 bedroom suite
Wilderness Lodge deluxe room
Boardwalk Inn
Yacht Club
Beach Club
Contemporary
Polynesian
Grand Floridian
Any of the Villas (2 bedroom)
Ft. Wilderness Cabins

I would recommend either POR, the All Star Suites or a standard view garden wing room at the Contemp. I think these will be the most economical choices. If you go with the Ft. Wilderness Cabin it is a little cheaper (around $10-$15 per night) but then you have to rent a golf cart at the price of about $46 per night on top of it.

If you need help with your reservations please contact me.

Pam
 
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minnie61650

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Nemo14 said:
You might want to check out the all-star suites now too...:)
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DH and I were very impressed with the Suites.

We just returned from a fabulous stay at All Star Music.
Wow! Mid September is a great time to experience Disney. Most rides were walk ons and even Soarin was only a 10 minute wait!

All Star Music is looking great. We stayed in Calypso building 10.

We stayed in room 0618 (for 8 nights) which is a HA room with a roll in shower.
It was just refurbished and had a totally new look.

It was decorated with the same decor as the new suites and even had a privacy curtain between the bedroom area and the area by the sink!

We had reserved a Family Suite for our last 2 nights. When I reserved them in April I had requested a HA room and was told HA Family Suites would not be available until 2007 so I asked about a raised toilet seat and CRO told me that would not be a problem.
Turned out it was a problem. There are not any Family Suites with raised toilet seats yet so we opted to stay at the Suites just 1 night.

Let me tell you I loved the Suites and once they have HA Family Suites available I would book my whole stay there in the future!

We stayed in 0416 which is on the ground floor. Room 0418 which was next door was not a Suites so the Suites are not all grouped together.
The living area was the best. There was a small table with 2 blue modern looking chairs by the window area.

The chairs had a small amount of cushioning and curved backs and seemed more conformable (to me) than the old straight back chairs they had in the old All Star Music rooms. The table top was wood grain and there were silhouettes of Mickey all abound the edge in a darker wood color.



The living room area is very roomy when the furniture is the closed position.

When you first enter the room you get a feeling that you can take time to relax and spread out in these rooms. The cramped feeling is not there. there is a sofa, chair and ottoman which fold out into beds. There are two small end tables and soft foot stool for the sofa.


The TV was a 27 inch flat screen and the cabinet had three drawers under the TV area. There were two shelves next to the TV and a cabinet door which opened to reveal 2 more shelves.

I opened up the chair bed and it was very conformable to lay down on. The back of the chair actually rests on the floor supporting the chair bed when it is folded out into the bed. It was pretty amazing the way they designed the pull out furniture!
The frame of the bed is metal so when I went to get of the chair bed I did feel the metal bars at the edge of the bed.

I tried to get the ottoman into the master bedroom area but I am sorry to say the ottoman is just too wide and will not fit through the door jam.

The sink and closet areas in the suites also have privacy curtains.
The sink areas have 2 shelf cubbies under them for storage and a Kleenex tissue area under them. There are wall mounted hair dryers with the built in amber night lights on the walls by the sinks.



Each dressing area has a privacy curtain, closet area, iron, ironing board and wall safe. The wall safes are the standard size which will hold a wallet a cell phone a small DVD player, a personal CD player, or a few CDs but it is not large enough for a lap top or anything that is more than a couple of inches wide.

Remember the Suites have 2 bathrooms, 2 dressing areas with privacy curtains, 2 safes, 2 hairdryers, 2 closets, 2 TVs, 2 separate sleeping, areas and 2 TVs.

The kitchenette has a lot storage area also.
There was an ice bucket with 6 plastic cups on the countor and a coffeepot with 6 of the throw away foam hot cups.
There were 6 paper plates, 6 paper bowls, Paper towels and a silverware tray on an upper shelf.
The silverware container had 6 sets of plastic ware and a can opener in it.


The kitchenette has a nice size microwave, and the fridge is the larger under the counter dorm fridge. The fridge has small freezer on the top which was big enough to freeze my 3 small ice pacs for my meds. The area for the freezer is not very high. You might be able to put a couple of small water bottles in it to freeze them but a larger water bottle would not be able to fit in the freezer area.


The Master room was nice size and it was nice to have a desk area with a mirror over it so it also sure as a make up area if one chose to it as such.
The TV cabinet had 3 nice size storage drawers. The easy chair next to the bed was nice addition. I enjoyed being able to sit there instead of using a table chair or bed to sit.

The queen size bed was conformable. The AC at newly refurbished has been updated to Cental air style instead of the old under the window style. It worked fine while we were there. Our room was very quiet.

Mousekeeping was great.

Mousekeeping left plenty of towels and we were pleasantly surprised by a pair of love bird towel animals when we returned to our room on evening midway through our stay!

The Calypso pool was never crowded even though the Fantasia pool at Movies was closed during the time we stayed Music.

We never waited more than 5-10 minutes for bus and only shared buses on the way back from some of the parks. Music always had its own bus back from MK.

Any questions? Just ask and I will try to answer them.
 
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Kadee

Kadee

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Kingdom Konsultant said:
...I would recommend either POR, the All Star Suites or a standard view garden wing room at the Contemp. I think these will be the most economical choices. If you go with the Ft. Wilderness Cabin it is a little cheaper (around $10-$15 per night) but then you have to rent a golf cart at the price of about $46 per night on top of it.

If you need help with your reservations please contact me.

Pam
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I'm just curious....why do you have to rent a golf cart? Are the cabins THAT far out? We have considered staying there, so that is why I am asking. I've never been to the cabins, so I only know what is on Disney's site and what people have posted on here.
 
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