How to Squeeze 2 Parents & 3 Kiddos into AKL Double Queen Room

[My Grandpa]

Anyone with AKL experience of getting a folding cot for a child ~ 2 Parents and 3 Kiddos?

OK ,,,, we're a little over 8 months out and finally agreed between 4 families on a date range. April 2022 destination: AKL, double queen room with a savannah view. Running the reservation details through WDW gets me a lot of information about pricing variables. Furget that. I cannot get a reservation query response on the World website with 2 parents and 3 kiddos. Yes I said 4 families ~ BUT only this one is staying at AKL. I'm projecting that WDW's calculation and probably the health department's regulation is occupancy by 4 in a 2 queen bed unit. And that's just fine.

I'm thinking I need to move to a phone conversation with a WDW Travel Rep and make the direct request for a cot. Any help, ideas, encouragements, or cash contributions are most welcome.

 

[tinkerjo]

Is the youngest small enough for a crib or pack n play? Not sure they will let you have 5 in a room unless the smallest is 3 or under. Lodging can be hard for larger families at WDW. You may have to either splurge for a villa or change hotels. Some of the moderates have rooms for 5 using a trundle bed and fort wilderness cabins sleep 6. Art of animation also has family suites.

 

[Betty Rohrer]

Anyone with AKL experience of getting a folding cot for a child ~ 2 Parents and 3 Kiddos?

OK ,,,, we're a little over 8 months out and finally agreed between 4 families on a date range. April 2022 destination: AKL, double queen room with a savannah view. Running the reservation details through WDW gets me a lot of information about pricing variables. Furget that. I cannot get a reservation query response on the World website with 2 parents and 3 kiddos. Yes I said 4 families ~ BUT only this one is staying at AKL. I'm projecting that WDW's calculation and probably the health department's regulation is occupancy by 4 in a 2 queen bed unit. And that's just fine.

I'm thinking I need to move to a phone conversation with a WDW Travel Rep and make the direct request for a cot. Any help, ideas, encouragements, or cash contributions are most welcome.

only way this happens is if the youngest is under 3 years of age

 

[HopperFan]

Anyone with AKL experience of getting a folding cot for a child ~ 2 Parents and 3 Kiddos?

I cannot get a reservation query response on the World website with 2 parents and 3 kiddos. Yes I said 4 families ~ BUT only this one is staying at AKL. I'm projecting that WDW's calculation and probably the health department's regulation is occupancy by 4 in a 2 queen bed unit. And that's just fine.

I'm thinking I need to move to a phone conversation with a WDW Travel Rep and make the direct request for a cot. Any help, ideas, encouragements, or cash contributions are most welcome.

We are a family of 5 and have only been able to stay at AKL when we go with other family and they take one of our kids. (But they always gave them back )

As others have said room will not hold 5 unless there is a wee one. I would save yourself HOURS on the phone because you can't get a cot and you can't put the 5th in the room. It has been that way since the resort opened.

SO if the youngest is 3 or over, you will need to find a new resort or pay big time for a suite. Disney is pretty strict on this, they want you to book a place that holds 5. Whatever the rooms say on the website that is their maximum.

 

[DLgal]

There are no cots. The rooms hold a max of 4 or 4 plus a child under 3 who will have to sleep in a pack and play or in bed with you. They will not provide bedding or a room key for a 5th person at AKL.

 

[NYCgrrl]

... (But they always gave them back )…

Thank you! I needed a good laugh today.

 

[lanejudy]

They will not provide bedding or a room key for a 5th person at AKL.

Not only the bedding and room key, but a 5th person would not be eligible for anything requiring resort reservation -- early-entry to parks, evening EMH for deluxe, different bucket for theme park reservations, possibly later FP booking if that resumes, etc. And if caught with 5 in a 4-person room, they could all be asked to leave with no refund.

OP - unless your youngest is under age 3, you are going to have to pick a different resort. Or shift one of the kids to stay with relatives at their resort.

 

[Wendysofftoneverland]

If you are talking about one kid under 3, we would put our oldest in bed with us until he was 4. We couldn't get our kids to sleep in a pack n play past 8 months, and I would imagine 3 kids in one bed might lead to no one getting any sleep.

Interesting thing about occupancy rules, hotels in Orlando area have different policies on kids under 3. Disney would have let us have the kids' grandma stay in the same room with us at All-Star Movies (since one of my kids is 2.5, that would have been 3 adults, 1 kid, and 1 "infant"), but elsewhere in Orlando, we would have been over capacity for a one bedroom bigger than many of the DVC 1 bedroom villas because of having 5 people.