Crazy to do 3 split stay for a week stay? *another update I made a decision*

[FSU Girl]

All my rooms are two bedroom villas booked cash through Disney. I really wanted the Grand Floridian from the start it’s my favorite hotel and I’ve stayed in the villas there a couple times. When I booked my trip it was booked up and from my previous posts you saw me very conflicted about where to stay. Did eventually settle on Riviera for 3 nights and Copper Creek for 3 nights. Booked all our dining and parks and of course after all those plans got solidified Grand Floridian popped up for the first half of my trip when it really made no sense staying there since we put everything magic kingdom at the end because of copper creek. Was super sad but didn’t book it.

Well I was just playing around and noticed that there is a lake view 2 bedroom villa at grand Floridian available the last two nights of our trip, which has me so conflicted because I’m not thrilled of having to switch twice back to back and would rather it be for all 3 nights instead. But I also really really want to stay there. Like literally check the website every day to see if someone drops it.

So idk what to do. Our plans right now is Thursday we switch to Copper Creek and go to Magic Kingdom and if we do all three we switch to Grand Floridian on Friday and go to Magic Kingdom. We have a capture your moment booked at 10:30 and Cinderellas lunch at 12:30. Also going to Victoria and Alberts that night when my parents will babysit our kids.

We’ll have a car so we can go over to Grand Floridian and drop our bags off to the bellhop and then get on the monorail to Magic Kingdom. But now we’d basically be homeless for two days since have to check out by 11 and not check in until 4 and I’m assuming Friday is a popular check in day so an early room unlikely. My husband told me to do whatever makes me happy lol so idk is this plan insane?

 

[Dug720]

I travel solo and will not even do ONE change. I cannot imagine doing that with babies in tow.

 

[Nabas]

We’ll have a car so we can go over to Grand Floridian and drop our bags off to the bellhop and then get on the monorail to Magic Kingdom. But now we’d basically be homeless for two days since have to check out by 11 and not check in until 4 and I’m assuming Friday is a popular check in day so an early room unlikely. My husband told me to do whatever makes me happy lol so idk is this plan insane?

We've done 3 split stays on a few trips. Like you, we had a car, which makes transferring a lot easier. Also, as you suggest, we've used bell services each time, so we can just have the luggage brought to our rooms when we get to the room.

Honestly, being "homeless" from 11 AM to 4 PM is not a big deal. But this really depends on what you have planned that day. Being annual pass people, we are no longer opening-to-closing park people and like to spend the warmest part of the day at the pool.

Having stayed at all of them, we know that the Riviera, Copper Creek, and Grand Floridian all have changing areas for the pools. Therefore, we tend to sleep in, packed up, have lunch, head to the pool, get to the room as soon as we receive notification that its ready, and then head to a theme park on hotel transfer days. Still, this might not work for what you have in mind.

For us, the biggest pain on hotel transfer days is packing and unpacking. I can be packed in 10 minutes, but my spouse always takes a lot longer.

 

[Simba's Mom]

I also travel solo, and I have no trouble with split stays (I actually enjoy them), but that's too much! I did a 3-way split on one trip. It was 8 days, 4 at one resort, and 4 in another. But the second resort was 2 nights in one room type, and 2 nights in another. So it was a 3 way split, had to pack and unpack twice. After that, I decided I'd never move more than once if it was less than 12 days (the maximum I've stayed but split-once). More than 12 days I can't say yet.

 

[kanerf]

Nope, I do it every trip, though I do go for 10 days at a time. I split 3,3,4 or some variation of that. I did go at Christmas several years ago and only stayed 6 nights and did several one night stays to accomplish it, much of everything being booked.

 

[DisnEElove]

There was very limited availability during one of our last-minute short trips this year, so we had to change each day for a 3-day trip! I did not like it one bit and hope never to experience that again, but it all depends on your preference. Some people like moving around and being close to whatever park they're at for the day. I'd rather plant some roots at my resort so I can call it home.

 

[DVCjj]

Love split stays and yes, I would certainly go.

 

[Princess2R]

I travel solo and will not even do ONE change. I cannot imagine doing that with babies in tow.

Same. It takes me an hour to unpack, settle , and get everything laid out. I'm not wasting vacation time packing and unpacking more than once and using time switching to other resorts.
A split stay isn't appealing to me at all, let alone doing that more than once

 

[Rohi]

3 resorts in a week sound rough IMO and with kids too.

 

[OKW Lover]

Hate split stays - especially if only a week. Way too much interruption to my vacation.

 

[jo-jo]

3 resorts in a week sound rough IMO and with kids too.

I have to agree due to the kids. Just two adults, doable.

 

[tamitru32]

Totally depends on circumstances. I enjoyed it since we were usually going from budget to mod or mod to deluxe. I felt that the time it took to pack up a room mid-stay helped reduce the pack up time for our last day which I appreciated when the time came.

 

[Boopuff]

I’m like a tick, burrow in, and stay put. The thought of packing-unpacking over and over gives me hives!! But some folks love it!

 

[Willow Ufgood]

As far as I'm concerned, there's no way that I would move that many times in the amount of time you're staying. We have 2 Littles who are 3 and 1. The thought of packing all their stuff up plus all the food from the kitchen would just fill me with anxiety long before the actual move itself. The chance to stay at GF will happen again some time in the future.

 

[Dug720]

Is there no way to extend Riviera by one night so you avoid that weird lone night?

 

[MarkNC2Disney]

I once split stayed 3 resorts in 3 nights with 3 year old twins, soo… anything is possible if you put your mind to it

Do it.

 

[tom1944]

We tried it on our last trip. 9 days 5/4 split. I think two resorts is enough for us.

 

[FSU Girl]

Is there no way to extend Riviera by one night so you avoid that weird lone night?

I checked that also but all the hotels I have booked are currently sold out. I’m going to keep checking but I got a Florida resident discount room for riviera so I’d need that to pop up too.

 

[FSU Girl]

We've done 3 split stays on a few trips. Like you, we had a car, which makes transferring a lot easier. Also, as you suggest, we've used bell services each time, so we can just have the luggage brought to our rooms when we get to the room.

Honestly, being "homeless" from 11 AM to 4 PM is not a big deal. But this really depends on what you have planned that day. Being annual pass people, we are no longer opening-to-closing park people and like to spend the warmest part of the day at the pool.

Having stayed at all of them, we know that the Riviera, Copper Creek, and Grand Floridian all have changing areas for the pools. Therefore, we tend to sleep in, packed up, have lunch, head to the pool, get to the room as soon as we receive notification that its ready, and then head to a theme park on hotel transfer days. Still, this might not work for what you have in mind.

For us, the biggest pain on hotel transfer days is packing and unpacking. I can be packed in 10 minutes, but my spouse always takes a lot longer.

We aren’t big on unpacking we kind of live out of suitcases. I have packing cubes so we could organize the clothes by hotels to try and keep it a little less chaotic.

 

[Genie+]

To me the problem is not only being homeless for the afternoon, it’s cutting a resort stay so short you barely have time to tap the surface. So that parts makes the inconvenience of moving all our stuff and homeless afternoon pointless.

What about booking the 2 nights you see at VGF separate, then keep watch and if the other day you need pops up book it. Only cancel Copper Creek after getting all 3 days in the same room at VGF