All in all, would you say you are enjoying the treehouses?? My husband is sooo excited, like a kid about staying there. I am excited but I am just worried it won't feel like disney. I really LOVE AKV and BC/BW so I hope this will be just as nice for us.
Well, I should start by saying that I really don't "love" any single resort. Those closest to my heart tend to be the BoardWalk, SSR (two resorts we own) and OKW (first one we stayed at.) But I would never want to be stuck staying any any of those over and over again. We've stayed at BWV probably 3 of the last 4 years and have another trip scheduled for October. And as much as I enjoy it, I'm getting a little restless and ready to try something new.
So I tend to take something of an intellectual approach to bookings. For us the THVs worked out great this time because our party consists of DW and I, kids 6 and 8, my parents and a 14-year old niece.
If we had booked any other Two Bedroom villa, my wife and I probably would have had to take the second bedroom and sleep with the kids all week, giving my parents the master suite. But at the THV, we kept the privacy of our own master suite, parents get the second queen room and the kids get to enjoy the bunk beds.
So from that perspective THV was the absolute best option available.
But you do lose some of that pampered feeling of being in a full-service hotel. There's no room service...no restaurant or gift shop within easy walking distance. Bus transportation can be a challenge.
However for our situation I still think this was the best option available. I'll gladly trade easy access to Artist's Palette (or Spoodles, or Boma, etc.) for the ability to put the kids to bed (or nap) in their bunks and still go on about our lives for a few more hours. And as I've illustrated, Disney appeared to spare no expense with these rooms so the actual living experience is probably bettre than anything we would have gotten at BWV or other SSR rooms.
Will we book the THVs every time? No way. But when it "fits" our traveling party, I wouldn't hesitate to do it again. Our 40+ years of ownership is too much for us to pass-up trying new resort experiences.