Best 2 Bedroom for Large Group

[JDOrlando]

I recently purchased DVC and am looking for some advice for booking my first trip. We have enough points for most 2 bedroom room types (not PVB). Our travel group will be 6 adults (3 pairs of 2) and 2 kids (ages 2 and 5). It would probably be best for everyone's sleep if the kids were not in the same room. What resorts do you think would have the best layouts/bathrooms/bed options for a group like this?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Donna M]

OKW has the most square footage and largest living room of the 2 bd. It is also the fewest points. You will get a king, 2 queens in the second bedroom, a queen sleeper sofa and single sleeper chair in the living room. There is also a Pack n Play, but I don't know if a 2yo still fits in them.

 

[TPBChick]

I agree with OKW being great for a large group as it has the most square footage. Kidani is not as large but also nice because there are 3 bathrooms. That could be good with 6 adults. Not sure what your home resort is but there is a good chance for booking Kidani at 7 months.

 

[_auroraborealis_]

Consider a THV, unless you mean the kids should not be in a room together, as I was thinking you meant kids not with everyone else. Stick 'em in the bunks.

 

[hakepb]

Kidani and BLT have 3 full bathrooms.

From there it depends on sleeping arrangement priority. Dedicated 2BR at any DVC would have (2) real queen beds in the 2nd BR (nice if 4 adults want to share that bedroom). OKW lockoff also have (2) queen beds.

Or is one couple wanting the living room (pull out queen)?

A GFV lockoff 2BR would have an extra Murphy bed in the Living room and 2nd bedroom, and an extra shower.

 

[Granny]

I agree with @hakepb that AKV-Kidani and BLT extra full bathroom would be HUGE if we were considering that many adults in a 2BR. In addition, BLT has an extra sleeper chair that provides some more sleeping options. And the 2 year old could sleep in a pack n play in one of the bedrooms.

OKW is definitely larger and has the sleeper chair also, but it doesn't have the extra bathroom. That would be my choice if BLT and AKV-Kidani were not available.

Also, you sound like you will be booking at the 7 month window, so depending on the time of year you are considering, your options may be limited anyway.

 

[BillPA]

If you have enough points, I would go for an OKW GV, 3 bedrooms, 4 bath rooms, LR with a queen sofa bed and a twin sleeper chair.

 

[Sleepy Sheep]

Call me crazy, but with 3 pairs of adults and 2 kids I'd be getting 3 Studios. Depending on the season, it can be close to the same number of points as a 2 bdr. Unless you're planning on hanging out in the living room together. Even that sounds a little too cozy for me.

 

[Dean]

I recently purchased DVC and am looking for some advice for booking my first trip. We have enough points for most 2 bedroom room types (not PVB). Our travel group will be 6 adults (3 pairs of 2) and 2 kids (ages 2 and 5). It would probably be best for everyone's sleep if the kids were not in the same room. What resorts do you think would have the best layouts/bathrooms/bed options for a group like this?

Thanks in advance.

My first preference in this situation is a 2 BR plus a studio or a 3 BR (more points) so you don't have adult couples sharing a BR. For just a 2 BR I'd do AKV dedicated 2 BR Kidani or BLT dedicated 2 BR for the 2 regular beds in the second and the extra Bath. If you do the extra studio, the other items become less important so it gives more options of resorts that will work well. Cheapest likely available would be SSR standard, AKV standard and OKW. For AKV you could also potentially do a combination of standard and savannah view.

 

[JDOrlando]

Thanks for the suggestions. I think I'm leaning towards the extra bathrooms idea over the extra square footage. Home resort is SSR, we're going in February though so I figure I would have a fairly good chance to get the room I wanted if I book at 8 am 7 months out. I actually tried to pitch the 3 studios idea but the rest of the group did not like that. The group will be myself, wife, her parents, her sister and brother-in-law and their 2 kids. This is their first Disney trip and they want to stay together. I don't have enough points for a grand villa unless I pull from another use year, and I was trying to avoid doing that. Are the pull out sleepers in the living areas of Kidani and BLT comfortable enough for adults? I am getting a feeling that may be where I end up.

 

[han22735]

We stayed in a 2bd at Kidani and it was great. Same grouping to your situation...Myself, wife, her parents and her brother and sister-in-law. We only had 1 child though. Plenty of space and we all had a great time being in the same villa.

Edited to add---My father in law slept on the pull out and thought it was great the whole time.

 

[crisi]

Thanks for the suggestions. I think I'm leaning towards the extra bathrooms idea over the extra square footage. Home resort is SSR, we're going in February though so I figure I would have a fairly good chance to get the room I wanted if I book at 8 am 7 months out. I actually tried to pitch the 3 studios idea but the rest of the group did not like that. The group will be myself, wife, her parents, her sister and brother-in-law and their 2 kids. This is their first Disney trip and they want to stay together. I don't have enough points for a grand villa unless I pull from another use year, and I was trying to avoid doing that. Are the pull out sleepers in the living areas of Kidani and BLT comfortable enough for adults? I am getting a feeling that may be where I end up.

If I may make a suggestion....with your very first trip, put your foot down. They are your points. We ALWAYS take the master bedroom, no matter who we bring. If they aren't going to be happy with the kids on the couch in the living room (so everyone else can hang out while the kids sleep), that means you are going to have adults on the sleeper sofa. That's either your in laws, your bil and sil (who will want to be with their darling children) or you and your wife. So you are paying to take her family to Disney so you can sleep on a "not quite comfortable" sofabed in a living room?

Have grandma and grandpa sleep with the kids. Put your BIL and SIL on the sofabed. Take the master. And tell people if they aren't happy, they could have picked studios and gotten privacy, or bought their own points.

If you don't do this now, every trip will be you giving up the luxuries of what you bought to optimize the trip for someone else. And you'll discover that your friends and relatives talk to each other, and therefore all start feeling entitled to dictate the terms of your gift - because you've let people do it before.

 

[tjkraz]

If I may make a suggestion....with your very first trip, put your foot down. They are your points. We ALWAYS take the master bedroom, no matter who we bring.

Amen. Look, I get it...we've treated countless relatives using our DVC points without taking a penny from them. People who never would have enjoyed WDW if not for our hospitality. But I draw the line at having a private bedroom for my wife and I. We work too hard for our DVC points...and have too little vacation time...to spend a week sleeping on a sofa bed in the common living space of a room shared with 2 other families.

 

[bbn1122]

MHOP- OKW biggest and best use of points. I found SSR living room space small, but being walking distance to DS is a plus.

BLT is a great villa, but points are much higher. Location is great!

We have also stayed in Kidani, spacious, but not like OKW. Beautiful resort, but off the beaten path.

Good luck with your decision. And definitely the Master is yours!

 

[Sleepy Sheep]

I actually tried to pitch the 3 studios idea but the rest of the group did not like that. The group will be myself, wife, her parents, her sister and brother-in-law and their 2 kids. This is their first Disney trip and they want to stay together.

And this is why the DW and I will never be nominated for grandparents of the year. At bedtime we give the grandkids hugs, tell 'em we love 'em and head off to our own room.

 

[Deb & Bill]

And if you decide on OKW (and it would be my choice also), make sure everyone is aware that most of the buildings do not have elevators. So someone will be hauling a stroller up and down the stairs.

 

[Minniesgal]

If I may make a suggestion....with your very first trip, put your foot down. They are your points. We ALWAYS take the master bedroom, no matter who we bring. If they aren't going to be happy with the kids on the couch in the living room (so everyone else can hang out while the kids sleep), that means you are going to have adults on the sleeper sofa. That's either your in laws, your bil and sil (who will want to be with their darling children) or you and your wife. So you are paying to take her family to Disney so you can sleep on a "not quite comfortable" sofabed in a living room?

Have grandma and grandpa sleep with the kids. Put your BIL and SIL on the sofabed. Take the master. And tell people if they aren't happy, they could have picked studios and gotten privacy, or bought their own points.

If you don't do this now, every trip will be you giving up the luxuries of what you bought to optimize the trip for someone else. And you'll discover that your friends and relatives talk to each other, and therefore all start feeling entitled to dictate the terms of your gift - because you've let people do it before.

This my points my King Master.

 

[crisi]

This my points my King Master.

I bought DVC so my husband and I could have some "alone time" - that isn't happening if we share a room or are sleeping on a sofa bed in the living room. Otherwise, we'd be in a regular deluxe hotel room with our kids. Its expensive nookie, but I darn well paid for it, I'm darn well going to get some.

 

[clayfolks]

The two most important things I have learned from these boards are:
#1- Buy where you will be happy staying.
#2- MY POINTS, MY MASTER!!

Thanks y'all!

 

[mdelano4]

Having travelled with the in-laws several times before FIL passed, I may feel a little differently. Let me preface this by saying they always gave us the master bedroom. We are SSR owners and have stayed at AKV as well. Take the 2BR at AKV for the extra bathroom. Put your bro/sis in law and their kids in the room with 2 queen beds. You can either take the master or give it to DW's parents. Your choice.

Now all that being said, if I wanted privacy with my DW I'd tell them you are getting 3 studios in SSR in the same building (request it and if DVC doesn't come through, oops). You must do it that way because with that many adults 2 bathrooms are not enough and you booked SSR at 11 months because you want to be sure you got all the rooms. There are no guarantees at 7 months. Tell them sorry, that's the best you can do and hope that they don't read this post.

Good luck!!