First Time in OKW Studio - LOUD

[*NikkiBell*]

I've stayed at OKW before in both a 1 and 2 BR without issue. However, I'm in a studio this trip. The room is very nice, but the noise is ridiculous. You hear every little conversation from the adjoining room and sometimes above. Is this normal?

 

[dp911]

No carpets was a horrible idea because no sound will be absorbed now. I never stay okw but when I bought my third dvc they were telling me how nice it is now and I said yea maybe nice but a lit noisier and I guess I was right

 

[bobbiwoz]

I was in a studio in January, second floor, and I did hear a child crying next door. Other than that, nothing, no conversations. We wanted 2 queen beds.

 

[Woosterguy]

Same for us. Fairly quiet but heard a baby crying. Second floor and not near a bus turnaround point.

 

[amcnj]

Have heard chairs being dragged across the floor above, and the pitter patter of a young child running around, but I can't say I ever heard any conversations. Did it seem to be loud talking, or just normal conversational tones?

 

[staceymay00]

I've stayed at OKW before in both a 1 and 2 BR without issue. However, I'm in a studio this trip. The room is very nice, but the noise is ridiculous. You hear every little conversation from the adjoining room and sometimes above. Is this normal?

We've only stayed in dedicated 2BRs at OKW and have never heard noise from other units. I think adjoining doors can lead to noise problems. We've stayed in other WDW non-DVC hotel rooms with adjoining doors and heard a lot of noise from the room next door. The families next door to us weren't exactly quiet to begin with, but I think we heard much more because of the adjoining door rather than a solid wall.

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[ParkHoppers]

Are dedicated 2BR the only villas in DVC that have solid walls? that is except the Grand Villas which I don,t have enough points to stay in.

 

[Tiger926]

We love OKW, have been staying there for a couple of years, but after our August trip, we need a break.

Not only can you hear every little noise, walking, talking, etc., due to the curved location of the rooms, lights shine in (especially the outside balcony lights), and my kids could not sleep for nights in a row, as the light shone in on their sofa bed.

It's too bad about the noise level at OKW, as we find it very problematic, as we find we have to whisper as we don't want to disturb our neighbors, but that is not practical with young kids.

Tiger

 

[disneynutz]

We also find the bus noise objectionable if you are close to the road.

Bill

 

[stmize]

Man we must have been lucky. Stayed in studios near HH and millers rd. also 1 bdr near HH and turtle pond. No noise

 

[DebbieB]

One time my mom and I shared a 1 bedroom at OKW. She was already sleeping, I got into bed. A few minutes later you could hear a couple getting "busy" in the studio. I got up and shut the bedroom door! I've always said if you are that loud in a hotel, you want to be heard!

 

[bumbershoot]

One time we were in a 1 bedroom at OKW and we could hear lots of conversation, etc, coming from the studio.

But when sharing a 2 bedroom dedicated there, we NEVER heard our relatives once they closed their bedroom door. Quite a difference.

 

[Pirate Granny]

We've never heard a word!!! Lucky us...

 

[ABE4DISNEY]

We've never heard a word!!! Lucky us...

We have had three wonderful stays at OKW. Also, we have never heard a word for our neighbors. However, on our last stay we were in Building #29 and the bus noise was quite loud. We also had a problem with a dance party going on at Blizzard Beach until 2:00 am. The busses we could deal with, the music and dance beat though, not so much. It was awful.

 

[Chuck S]

The noise has gotten much worse since they took out the living room carpets in the one bedroom units. And I really wish they'd add some draperies to the living room similar to the master bedrooms to absorb the sound, block out light and help keep the heat/cold from dissipating through the windows.

 

[zeferjen]

We just got back from a studio at OKW. I didn't notice any particular noise, although I have to sleep with ear plugs in due to my husband's snoring

 

[lovin'fl]

We stayed at OKW twice...once with carpet and once post-carpet...and the post-carpet was noisy. We were 1st floor and an end unit 2BR...could hear every little sound above us...also was building 14 and could hear the buses a lot.

 

[bakerworld]

We stay in studios and always find them loud - can always tell when there are small kids next door. We thought SSR would be different because I read somewhere that they were sound prooffed but that didn't prove to be true. However, we stay in hotels everywhere else and the hotels are just as noisy so we figure it's part of vacationing.

 

[ParkHoppers]

If most of the noise is coming from the connecting door it would be cool if Disney could come up with some sort of sound proofing mat that could easily be attached to the four corners of the door you wanted to sound proof. Just thinking out loud.Might not work anyway.

 

[iluveeyore]

If most of the noise is coming from the connecting door it would be cool if Disney could come up with some sort of sound proofing mat that could easily be attached to the four corners of the door you wanted to sound proof. Just thinking out loud.Might not work anyway.

I agree with this - at any resort we've stayed at with the connecting doors, sound comes through - we stayed for a week at AKV in a studio, and the connecting door opens into the 1 bdrm kitchen beside us - every morning early (and we had no park passes, so tried to sleep in), we could hear the sounds of the family next to us clanging around in the kitchen getting breakfast, heard every word, the little girls singing and running - it was awful, but we did not want to move after getting settled - they arrived two days after us, and were still there when we left - not fun or relaxing. You would think with a double door you would hear nothing, but there is not a proper seal around the doors, so you might as well have it open - same thing with the doors into the units - hear everything going by outside all the time, and people do not realize (or they don't care) that when you are yelling at your kids who are 30 feet ahead of you, voices carry!
When we stay at OKW now, since we are still fairly mobile, we ask for top floor villas, because you do hear every scrape of the chairs and footsteps with the wood floors. We don't have small children anymore, but I am still mindful of how much noise we are making too, although I can't remember having to yell at my husband to stop running around our villa in his shoes