Best suite hotel?

[Kimkie]

If I can pursuade DH to take me to WDW again I was thinking a 'Suite Hotel' might be a good option now the kids are getting older. I like my privacy!!. Can anyone recomend a nice hotel near WDW , doesn't have to be right there as we are quite happy to drive a bit. It will be hard to not have those 'On site' privilidges like early entry, but I would like the extra space.

 

[vernon]

You could look at renting DVC points and booking a one bedroom DVC unit if your kids are of an age that sharing a sofabed is an option, if money's relatively free a 2 bedroom DVC unit would be a fantastic on site accommodation. Another on site option would be one of the Fort Wilderness trailers. I know some people feel that this is more like staying in a caravan, but IMHO that's an unfair judgement and usually from people who haven't seen the units. The reports I've heard from people who've actually tried these thought they were spacious and fun accommodation.

I think there is a Double Tree suites at DTD which is almost "on site" but I haven't stayed there. Just a little way from WDW there is Buenna Vista suites, I have stayed at the I-Drive branch ofthis chain and thought they were good units, a reasonable pool (although on I-Drive it was in the middle of the building so much of the pool area is in shade in the later afternoon) and seemed well organised. From the outside the I-Drive and Crossroads Buenna Vista suites look the same design.

I have friends who stayed at the Vistana resort and the brief view I had of those units they looked very nice with plenty of space. I didn't see the pool areas, but the photos look good and the reports mostly seem to be good ones.

Final option is renting a private villa, this option will give you the most space, privacy and is likely to be the quietest (my only slight complaint from the BV suites was the bedroom windows went onto the corridors and you could hear anyone walk past). The downside of a private pool is that the kids don't have the chance to "buddy up" with other holiday makers in the wway they can at a communal/hotel pool. But at a hotel pool you don't have the option of a little late night adult "skinny dipping"

 

[Kimkie]

Thanks Vernon, there is plenty there for me to look into!