Are the BCV smaller than the BWV?

[stephcm]

I have been reading on the aol boards that if the sofa is pulled out into a bed in the living area of the 2 bedroom, that you have to climb over the sofa to get in or out of the 2nd bedroom.
Now, we have stayed in a 2 bedroom at the BWV several times, and have always used that sofa as a bed. I don't remember any of us having to climb over the sofa/bed to get anywhere. Did I just block this out of my mind?
And, as has been stated earlier, there is no way you can compare OKW to BWV for space. Hands down, OKW wins in the "square footage" column. There is NO comparison there. But...
if it's location you are looking for, as far as being "where the action is", then BWV and BCV win, hands down!
It's a trade-off - do you want space or location?
When we travel with my parents who are 76 and 82, we do OKW because there is so much space, and it is more serence and peaceful. But when it is my immediate family (dh, and 2 teen boys) the Boardwalk area is our "home of choice", simply because of location.

 

[Terry S]

Steph, here are the room sizes that I had copied and saved from another post. Hopefully, someone who has actually stayed at both will comment.

One Bedroom
BWV - 712
WLV - 727
OKW - 942
BCV - 726

Studios are:
BWV - 359
WLV - 356
OKW - 376
BCV - 356


2 Bedroom
BWV - 1,071
WLV - 1,080
OKW - 1,333
BCV - 1,083

 

[drusba]

Perhaps I am missing something. At BCV, the doorway between the living room and 2d bedroom is supposed to be near the foyer in front, meaning there would be no reason to go over or around the pull out bed to get to that 2d bedroom.

 

[stephcm]

Originally posted by drusba
Perhaps I am missing something. At BCV, the doorway between the living room and 2d bedroom is supposed to be near the foyer in front, meaning there would be no reason to go over or around the pull out bed to get to that 2d bedroom.

That is what we all thought, too. But, evidently, there are some units where the door is still up by the slider, like at BWV.
If you read earlier posts about BCV layout, etc, you will see.

 

[Disney Doll]

We've stayed at BWV and don't remember the room being so small that with the couch pulled open you had to climb over it to navigate the room. I can't imagine BCV will be much different.

 

[DeeP]

We have stayed many times at BWV and with the sofa bed open it is certainly NOT too small to navigate the room. BCV 1 BR are 14 square feet larger than BWV so if it is not too small at BWV it won't be too small at BCV.

 

[DVC1996]

We have stayed in a 2 BR lock-off at BWV and I recall that it was difficult to maneuver when the sofas were down.

 

[robinb]

We visited the display unit on the first floor at BCV yesterday (during one of the many rain storms on our trip) and my DH and I both thought it was smaller than the same unit at BWV. The CM assured me that it was the same size, but it still looked smaller to both of us. I think it might be the style of furniture ... the BCV stuff takes up more space either physically or visually.

 

[jk1]

We've stayed at BWV and don't remember the room being so small that with the couch pulled open you had to climb over it to navigate the room. I can't imagine BCV will be much different.

Last week I was in one of these 2 bedroom units at the BCV. My firend was straying in it. When the living room sofabed is opened, it goes right up to the "breakfast bar" ledge. There is absolutely no way around the bed when it is opened. And yes, she had the door to the 2nd bedroom up by the patio slider door. Anybody on the living room side of the sofabed needs to crawl over the opened bed to get out of the living room area.

 

[CarolMN]

Sounds like the furniture must be arranged differently in the BCV 2 bedrooms than in the BWV 2 bedrooms. In all three of the 2 bedroom units that we have been assigned at BWV, the sofa was perpendicular to the balcony sliders and directly across from the door to the second bedroom. When the sofa bed was open, there was enough room to navigate around the bed. You could get into the second bedroom without closing up the bed, and we never needed to crawl over the sofa bed.

 

[jk1]

You are right, Carol. In the BCV, the sofa is postioned across from the wall with the entertainment center/tv which is next to the door to the 2nd bedroom. This pushes the sofa farther up the wall and closer to the entrance to the kitchen, thus causing the problem. There is a lamp table alongside the sofa next to the slider patio door so you can't move the sofa closer to the patio door.