disney hotels or offsite

[Darcy03231]

We've done both and like both for different reasons. The one thing I will say is that if you decide to stay off-site I would rent a car. The hotels with off-site shuttles tend to run a couple of times in the morning and a couple of times in the evening. They really aren't convenient.

Off-site: We rent a house. Last time I rented a 5 bedroom, 3 bath private pool home for $600/wk. There was plenty of room for everyone to spread out. Kids could be put to bed and the adults could stay up. We also saved quite a bit of money by eating some meals in. I also loved that I had a washer/dryer.

On-site: We only stay on-site now if there are two people traveling. Perks are magical express, WDW transportation and magic hours.

 

[lauradis]

If your husband is anything like mine he loves onsite for the pure fact that he doesnt have to drive or look at "the car" for a week..

Last time we stayed in value, packed everything in car to go home, got in car, he turns to me and says "hope it starts" car had less then 30k miles on it

 

[BUSYMAOF4]

well with only 2 kids onsite is best, I have 4 kids so I would need a villa and it is just too costly at disney so we r going to regal palms, where there have a slide lazy river and 4 bedrooms. We always get a offsite villa , we have done orange lake,the fountains, silver lake, we always have a awesome time....with lots and lots of space