Kidani and Beach Club villas review

[DisReno]

Hello everyone,

I'm here now and thought I would post a quick review of the villas at Kidani and Beach Club.

We are doing a split stay and first stayed 3 nights at Kidani, and are now at Beach Club-We had a one bedroom villa in both places.

For Kidani, we requested Sunset Savannah, and I even saw on this board that room 7720 was a great room, so I went ahead and requested it. And guess what? I got room 7720. First time I've ever requested a specific room and received it.

It was a great room-the perfect Savannah view, on the 3rd floor, close to the elevators. I loved the villas at Kidani and thought everything that was wrong with the floor plans on the older villas, they fixed at Kidani.

We loved having two bathrooms and the shower had THE BEST SHOWER HEAD EVER. It was a spacious bathroom, and the entire villa just felt roomy and well thought out.

My only regret was planning Kidani for the start of our stay-We are always gung ho in the beginning and we relax and unwind at the end of our stay. So, at Kidani we were barely in our room-that's my fault.

I wasn't crazy about how far Kidani is from Jambo house-it's almost like a separate hotel, and while I loved the room, I missed being at Jambo house.

I talked to a CM and there are a lot of talks about adding a full service breakfast at Sanaa, which I think they need.

So, onto Beach Club-no real complaints, the room is fine, it's all just getting a little shabby, and really does feel like Grandma's beloved beach house that hasn't been remodeled in ages, but you still love it.

I forgot how crazy the bathroom is-Our first night at BCV, I got lost in the bathroom in the middle of the night-I couldn't find a light switch and all the doors were confusing. Then I heard my husband get up, and knew he didn't know I was in the bathroom, and I scared the **** out of him. LOL. Totally worth it. We eventually found a light switch, but it's not such a great bathroom.

We also got all of our requests-I am overlooking the canal, and can see the Epcot ball and fireworks. I also have the road outside our balcony, but it doesn't bother me.

I do keep making comparisons to our villa at Animal kIngom, which my husband doesn't like to hear because he loves Beach Club. But I thought they outdid themselves on the new layout of the villas and I loved our Savannah view.

Thanks for reading. Let me know if you have any questions.

 

[lynrip]

Thanks for the review. We have our first three nights book at Kildani for May and are hoping to get a few nights at the BC as well. I was concerned about the poor reviews on the BC but we will give it a try.

 

[DVCTigger]

Nice to hear your thoughts on these resorts. We own at both, but Kidani is our "go-to" resort, we absolutely love it there!! We have spent this year trying many new/almost new- to us resorts. However, we are excited to have a 10 night stay booked at Kidani in February! We love the space, location and atmosphere. We really enjoy BCV as well, but many of our stays are non park stays, and for the points difference, we prefer AKV.

 

[Off to Neverland 7]

Great review! We recently stayed at Kidani and LOVED it! We plan on staying at Beach Club in september and hopefully it's okay.

 

[GOOFY D]

Loved Kidani last time we stayed. However, we just returned from Kidani yesterday and was less than pleased. I requested a specific room, close to lobby. We ended up in what seemed like a different area code it was so far away (7674). We got in late and spent nearly an hour at the desk getting the magic bands to work. They still could not get one to work and told us to pick up in the morning. Next morning, it was not even looked at and still had issues. We had to switch rooms for our last night to a studio on the top floor (really did not like that view at all). I specifically asked whether Magical Express would follow to our new room and was assured it would. In an abundance of caution, I called a ME rep and was assured we had a reservation and was good to go. When we tried to leave, we found out that our ME got linked to our old room and showed us leaving a day early (and therefore cancelled our ME for our check out date). Luckily the AKL manager put us in a cab to the airport so that we would not miss our flight. I just found the desk personnel to be very uniformed and not very helpful.

 

[Sammie]

All the resorts are completely sold out, so room requests are hit or miss, as they really can only give you what comes open.