Disney Resort with 3 Bedrooms?

[drusba]

I cannot tell if your total is six or if there are more (like some kids). If six, but two of them each wants her own bedroom, mom and dad also want their own bedroom, and they all want to get inexpensive, then as noted above you might want to start looking off-site for a rentable condo because getting a place with three bedrooms or enough rooms otherwise is not going to be "inexpensive" even if you go for a suite and a couple rooms at a value resort.

DVC is a possibility. Understand first that you would have to find an owner to rent from. There are rental brokers, such as dvcrequest.com, that are in the business of hooking up owners who want to rent with persons who want rooms. If you try for DVC, you should understand the issues. First, DVC rooms come with no daily cleaning service; you just get a change of towels and, soaps and other small items at day 4. You can order daily service for any one or more days but it is not cheap. Second, rentals typically have rental provisions that require full payment up front and often you cannot get your money back if you cancel. The reason for that is that owners can easily lose any reasonable use of the points they use to rent a room if they allowed you to cancel at, for example, four months out

Third, the owners of a given resort can book starting 11 months out. Then an owner of any DVC resort can book another one starting 7 months out. One result is that certain classes of highly desirable rooms can book full quickly at 11 months out, the rest at 7 months out, and if you are unable to book at least 7 months out, you may be out in the cold. The fourth issue is time of year. You say September. If you mean Sep any time before about the last five days, you will still be in DVC's low to moderate demand season and much will be avaialble at 7 months out, including the three bedroom Grand Villas ("GVs") at Bay Lake Tower (BLT), Villas at Grand Floridian (VGF) , Animal Kingdom Villas (AKV), Saratoga Springs Resort (SSR) and Old Key West (OKW). (Contrary to what is stated above the GVs at many of the resorts are often open even after studios and 2BRs are gone. The exception is Boardwalk Grand Villas which can often go fairly quickly after the 11 month window opens.) If your intent is go late Sep, you will be hitting the start of DVC's 3 1/2 month high to extremely high demand season when some rooms at the resorts can be full within 15 seconds after the 11 month window opens and rooms at near park resorts can all be gone before 7 months out.

GVs are the most expensive DVC rooms at any particular resort, typically costing more than getting two 2BRs. DVC is a point system, rental prices are quoted per point, and they take a lot of points to book each night. Despite availability, they can often be difficult to rent from a DVC owner simply because it can be difficult to find an owner who has enough points available to rent to get a GV. The least expensive GV is Old Key West, near Doiwntown Disney, a large spread out resort partly on a golf course, and a week in Sep would likely run near $5,000 (I am estimating), a standard GV at nearby SSR, also a large spread resort, would be about $6500, an AKV GV $7600, Boardwalk about $8,400, Bay Lake Tower $10-12,000, and Grand Floridian about $13,000. If any of those prices are considered "inexpensive" by your group you might want to try for a GV.

A more realistic option is for everyone to realize that having their own bedroom may not be the best option. In that case you could look for a DVC 2BR for less than half the price of that GV. The ones at OKW, BLT and AKV are ideal because they are extra large and have an extra pull out sleeping chair, twin size, in the llving room in addition to a queen pull out couch. And the ones at AKV and BLT have three bathrooms. You could go more expensive and also get a studio.

Other options would include just getting three hotel rooms and ask for them to be close to each other, a non-guaranteed request.

 

[DaisyDuck001]

As some other posters suggested, Treehouse Villas came to mind first. If this is not convenient, I agree that some offsite options would be more affordable.

 

[Deb & Bill]

As some other posters suggested, Treehouse Villas came to mind first. If this is not convenient, I agree that some offsite options would be more affordable.

THV have three bedrooms, but two have one queen bed. The third has a set of bunk beds. There are only two bathrooms, one in the master and one for everyone to share. Many of the DVC Grand Villas are two floors (a few have the entire villa on one floor). Grandma might need the one on the main floor which is usually the master bedroom. Most of the GV at OKW, which would be the least expensive, are on the second floor (with the second floor of the GV on the third floor of the building). Most of the buildings at OKW don't have elevators. You might want to consider Bonnet Creek, which is technically offsite, but very close. they do have some four bedroom villas.