AKV units 31 & 34: what is this? (LisaS?)

[dvc_john]

Looking at the Orange county records for AKV units 31 and 34, they both look to be a 4-bedroom grand villa. Is there such a thing? Sorry I couldn't post the schematic, but it's from the May 9 AKV document.

If anyone can answer this, it'll be LisaS for sure!

 

[hellerjw]

The Kidani Village Grand Villas will have 3 bedrooms plus 2 queen sleeper sofas (one on each level) and 4 bathrooms. I don't know what floorplan you saw but ones I've seen either show the Jambo House ones which will be all one level or the proposed Kidani ones, with the extra sitting area upstairs (with the 2nd sleeper sofa). Having the extra bathroom is unique to AKV I believe so that may be throwing things off?

 

[dvc_john]

Units 31 and 34 are in Jambo house. They each take the space of 6 hotel rooms, and are on a single floor. The 2 middle 'hotel' rooms are used for living room, dining room, and kitchen. The 2 'hotel' rooms on each side are labeled bedrooms. However, the 'bedroom' between the living room and the master bedroom appears to be less private and has two openings into the living room apparently without doors. To get to the master bedroom, you have to walk thru this 'bedroom'. So maybe even though is labeled a 'bedroom', it might be more of a sitting room or den (or equivalent to the loft at Kidani Village) with a sofa bed.

If possible, I'll post the schematic. But I'm currently not having any success with that.

 

[wildernessDad]

I know. They are calling that extra space a bedroom, but it has two openings into the living room. If you look at the drawing of the GV on the DVC website, it appears to be a sitting area with two tables and some chairs around it, not another bedroom. It faked me out as well at first.

 

[LisaS]

Here is the floor plan for Unit 34 from the document on the Orange County website. I have seen another version of the floor plan for this particular unit and in that one, the walk through "bedroom" is labeled "Game Room". The GV floor plan on the AKV Accommodations page on the public DVC website is for the Jambo House GVs and it shows that room furnished with tables and chairs in keeping with it being a game room, not a bedroom, so my guess is that the GVs in Jambo House are 3 bedrooms plus a living room, a dining room and a game room.

AKV Unit 34:

Jambo House GV Floor plan from public DVC website:

 

[dianeschlicht]

So why a game room? It looks to me like they took part of the wall out between that "bedroom/game room" and the living room, and that it is kind of an open or floating wall. I doubt I'll ever have enough AKV points to get a GV there though.

 

[wildernessDad]

So why a game room?

I wonder why as well. Is that something that people want to do on their vacation? Do they want to sit in their hotel room playing games?

 

[owensjro]

I wonder why as well. Is that something that people want to do on their vacation? Do they want to sit in their hotel room playing games?

This sounds perfect for our family. When we take our extended family vacation we have 4 families staying together. With 6 fairly young children who don't get to see eachother all the time we do enjoy spending time together in the room. It's also nice downtime during the heat of the day to play for a bit inside.

Jim

 

[spiceycat]

since this has 2 queen bed sofas will it sleep 14 instead of 12 or more?

 

[salmoneous]

I wonder why as well. Is that something that people want to do on their vacation? Do they want to sit in their hotel room playing games?

Keep in mind the GV's only make sense if you intend to spend time hanging out in the common areas of the GV. From a point/person standpoint, they are extremely pricy to just use as a nice place to sleep.

 

[castleri]

With the two extra table that each seem to sit 4 it could be considered a second dining area also since the big table only seats 8. At OKW you have the big table and then a second table in the living room but there is no such table in the AKV living room. I don't know how the other GV's are laid out as far as dining seating goes so maybe having dining tables and seating for the max occupancy of the unit is not an issue but I thought it might be one of the considerations.