I have heard WDW is so different with the bands ??
I don't think so. You don't even need a band.
Now I think that price will double ?
All you can do is price it out. Assuming doesn't help, and we can't tell you what it will be.
If I just check in after planning trip ,can I have someone walk me thru(hold my hand) entire new process ?
Why not use a TA? I'm the last person to suggest a
travel agent, but in your case you might conider it. In fact I'd send you to the sponsors of the boards,
Dreams Unlimited. They won't charge you more than Disney will, and they should be of assistance to you.
The hand-holding should really be in booking, and then you can read and read and read here to get more info as you need it.
I would love to rent Villas at grand Floridian but , mom is 90 and wont even consider it !Loves Bocha Chica at Grand Floridian, but good thing everyone can rent their own rooms now, bad thing is we all like to be close to each other !hehe
Well they are on the same big piece of land.
How close do you need to be? Has your mom looked at the pictures of the villas?
I totally agree with your "confusion" I've been reading articles on and off for weeks and getting totally confused! Last time hubs and I went we just went with the flow and had a wonderful trip - NO pre bookings. This time we are going with family and as our grandson has Special Needs I want to make things as smooth as possible so I am really stressing about not getting ADR's and Fast Passes!
Since your grandson has special needs, DO check out the Disabilities forum here. It could help you immensely in the planning especially with the FPs.
As for ADRs, what do you like to eat and when do people eat (taking time differences into account)? Check out menus on the WDW site, here on wwdinfo.com, and over at allears.net and go from there.
ETA: how did you manage no pre-bookings at all? Your sig shows that you've been just a couple years ago. Even for our first trip in 2010 we needed ADRs to make sure we could eat what we wanted at the time we wanted to.