alabamagirl said:
I just called Buena Vista Palace Suites. A suite which will fit 6 people is $309 per night with my Sam's club discount. I work for the government but they didn't have any government rates available. I am still thinking about this because as it turns out we are going to have five people staying Thurs-Sun. It will just be me and one other girl Tues. and Wed. We could get a regular room at this resort then switch to a suite on Thurs. that will accomodate everyone. I should call back to get a price quote on a regular room for the first two nights.
This is just another option to consider.
The All Star Famil,y Suites at All Star Music are $265 a night for your dates in March and they also sleep 6.
*** They are 520 square feet.
*** The Family suites are located in the Jazz and Calypso buildings at All Star Music.(these are the closet buildings to the food court and the bus stop.
*** They cost less than a standard room at AKL or WL.
*** They have a QUEEN size bed (the other values and even the mods do not have a queen bed.
***the fridge is included (if you booked 2 connecting value rooms you would need to pay $10 extra for a night for a fridge if you wanted one.
*** They come with a microwave and coffeepot (If you booked 2 connecting value rooms you would not even be be able to rent a microwave and coffeepot.
***They have 2 TV's (if you book POR or a Deluxe room which sleeps 5 you will have 1 TV)
THey have 2 bathrooms (if you book POR or a Deluxe room which sleeps 5 you will have 1 Bathroom.
For more info and photos please see my FAQ thread and feel free to PM me with any questions.
Here is the FAQ thread:*Note you can also find it on the resort stickey
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1072409
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Here is some info about the Family Suites:
Disney has started booking these New Family Suites!
The Family Suites will be located in the Calypso and Jazz Inn Buildings. When complete:
Calypso Building 1 will have 32 suites
Calypso Building 10 will have 54 suites
Jazz Inn Building 2 will have 52 suites
Jazz Inn Building 9 will have 54 suites
The suites are located on all three floors, and will be near each other, but none will offer connecting suites. There is no price difference between the buildings.
2006 pricing will be:
$169 plus tax - Value Season (Aug 27 - Oct 4; Nov 26 - Dec 19)
$209 plus tax - Regular Season (Apr 23 - Aug 26; Oct 5 - Nov 25)
$239 plus tax - Peak Season (Mar 6* - Apr 22)
$259 plus tax Holiday Season (Dec 20 - 31)
(* once available)
Check here for the 2007 rates:
http://www.wdwinfo.com/wdwinfo/disney-rates-2007.htm#VALUE
For comparison, the price of a Family Suite is $9-11 more then 2 Standard Rooms, or $13-15 less the 2 Preferred Rooms, depending on season.
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Here is my review:
Dh and I stayed at new Family Suites at All Star Music September 21,2006.
We stayed in 0416 which is on the ground floor. Room 0418 which was next door was not a Suites so the Suites are not all grouped together.
The living area was the best. There was a small table with 2 blue modern looking chairs by the window area.
The chairs had a small amount of cushioning and curved backs and seemed more conformable (to me) than the old straight back chairs they had in the old All Star Music rooms. The table top was wood grain and there were silhouettes of Mickey all abound the edge in a darker wood color.
The living room area is very roomy when the furniture is the closed position.
When you first enter the room you get a feeling that you can take time to relax and spread out in these rooms. The cramped feeling is not there. there is a sofa, chair and ottoman which fold out into beds. There are two small end tables and soft foot stool for the sofa.
The TV was a 27 inch flat screen and the cabinet had three drawers under the TV area. There were two shelves next to the TV and a cabinet door which opened to reveal 2 more shelves.
I opened up the chair bed and it was very comfortable to lay down on. The back of the chair actually rests on the floor supporting the chair bed when it is folded out into the bed. It was pretty amazing the way they designed the pull out furniture!
The frame of the bed is metal so when I went to get of the chair bed I did feel the metal bars at the edge of the bed.
I tried to get the ottoman into the master bedroom area but I am sorry to say the ottoman is just too wide and will not fit through the door jam.
The sink and closet areas in the suites also have privacy curtains.
The sink areas have 2 shelf cubbies under them for storage and a Kleenex tissue area under them. There are wall mounted hair dryers with the built in amber night lights on the walls by the sinks.
Each dressing area has a privacy curtain, closet area, iron, ironing board and wall safe. The wall safes are the standard size which will hold a wallet a cell phone a small DVD player, a personal CD player, or a few CDs but it is not large enough for a lap top or anything that is more than a couple of inches wide.
Remember the Suites have 2 bathrooms, 2 dressing areas with privacy curtains, 2 safes, 2 hairdryers, 2 closets, 2 TVs, 2 separate sleeping, areas and 2 TVs.
Here is the layout of the Suite:
The kitchenette has a lot storage area also.
There was an ice bucket with 6 plastic cups on the countor and a coffeepot with 6 of the throw away foam hot cups.
There were 6 paper plates, 6 paper bowls, Paper towels and a silverware tray on an upper shelf.
The silverware container had 6 sets of plastic ware and a can opener in it.
The kitchenette has a nice size microwave, and the fridge is the larger under the counter dorm fridge. The fridge has small freezer on the top which was big enough to freeze my 3 small ice pacs for my meds. The area for the freezer is not very high. You might be able to put a couple of small water bottles in it to freeze them but a larger water bottle would not be able to fit in the freezer area.
The Master room was nice size and it was nice to have a desk area with a mirror over it so it also sure as a make up area if one chose to it as such.
The TV cabinet had 3 nice size storage drawers. The easy chair next to the bed was nice addition. I enjoyed being able to sit there instead of using a table chair or bed to sit.
The queen size bed was conformable. The AC at newly refurbished has been updated to Cental air style instead of the old under the window style. It worked fine while we were there. Our room was very quiet.
The Master area had enough room for a twin size aero bed if you placed the bed with one end by the window and had it running between the desk and the foot of bed. (You would need to move the desk chair out of the way. )The aero bed would block the access of the Queen size bed from the far side, however. The bed was a Queen.
There were only a few things in our Suite that were different from those pictured on the DIS resorts homepage.
1) The headboard was smaller than the one pictured here taken from the DIS resorts homepage.
2) The tile on the kitchen floor and bathroom floor was tan and navy blue instead of the tan and white in the pictured room.
3) Ironing boards and iron were in each closet area.
Mousekeeping was great.
Mousekeeping left plenty of towels and we were pleasantly surprised by a pair of love bird towel animals when we returned to our room on evening midway through our stay!
The Calypso pool was never crowded even though the Fantasia pool at Movies was closed during the time we stayed Music.
We never waited more than 5-10 minutes for bus and only shared buses on the way back from some of the parks. Music always had its own bus back from MK.
Any questions? Just ask and I will try to answer them.
