We can agree to disagree on point 1. Many people (like me and my husband) have a queen bed at home and manage to sleep on it every single night.
It is, of course, entirely subjective. I do the math every time we go shopping for a bed or mattress at home and can't quite figure out how or why a 60" wide matress feels so cramped but a 76" wide mattress feels so commodious.
While extra floor space is nice, it isn’t a make or break.
I go to WDW for nice.
There isn’t a reason to pack bedrails when Disney provides them for free. ... A Disney bed with bedrails hardly looks or feels like a hospital bed.
I've seen them, and you're right; they don't make it look like a hospital bed. They make it look like a crib.
Does she sleep between the 2 of you at home? If not, what is her sleeping situation at home, and is there a way you can replicate it in a hotel room?
She lives alone and does well at it. She has a specialized bed with a five or so inch recess in the middle that raises to the level of the perimeter when she gets in and out. She also has a powered assist arm to lift and steady her into her chair when she needs it and room decor that is rounded and fitted with fiddles and handholds. It's an environment that would not be easy to bring along with us in any form and really... it's largely unnecessary.
There's a quite common practice of placing pillows, several, under the sheets to create a dam to prevent kids falling out of beds. There's no reason this method wouldn't work for an adult. ... Nothing like a hospital bed either
There's reasons this method doesn't work for us but it's largely irrelevant. If the only room available has two queen beds, the option of installing hard bed rails works perfectly well for keeping her safe in bed. It's just unpalatable. A diet of rice, beans and broccoli every day will keep one alive and reasonably healthy, so why eat anything else?
Bottom line, you are making things more difficult than need be. 1 king bed is not your only option. Being flexible with your choices would make things so much easier
I absolutely agree, and have said so from the beginning. There are cheaper options if we wish to settle for a less comfortable arrangement, and rooms with a king bed + sofa bed can be booked in the deluxe resorts for twice or more the rate.
As in most things, being a flexible consumer makes things easier. In this case, my flexibility equates to getting a less comfortable and convenient room or paying much more. It certainly seems like my being more flexible is a good deal for Disney.
I'm sorry to who I offend, but it seems glaringly obvious that the pull downs are meant for a child to sleep on, and not an adult. Just looking at them indicates that.
Agreed. It's just a few inches wider and only a foot longer than a crib mattress. Really the whole reason for this train of thought, and maybe practical experiment, is this notion that adding a child bed to a room makes it suitable for an extra adult.
Moving forward, they are not going to allow people to book that category of room unless they have a child 9 or under on the reservation as they are not intending that it be for an adult. ... For the OP, I would just do 2 queens and add bedrails. This is going to be your least expensive option.
I figured this would be on the way... Yeah, two queens isn't an option. It would be nice to pay a little over $300 a night at POR vs the $700 room at Boardwalk we're taking instead. I know it's sorta 'boo hoo' for me or 1st world problems and all that.
Then don't stay where the company policy prohibits it. Hilton Disney Springs list of amenities for the king room begins, "Relax in a modern guest room ... perfect for couples and individual travelers looking for a convenient location steps from the Disney Springs area." (bolding mine).
To be sure, I never reserve a room for fewer people then actually staying in the room. No one is 'breaking any rules' to get me the room I prefer. Including Hilton Disney Springs, which had no problem booking us into a standard king room, can do so on the standard reservation webpage. But who really wants to stay outside the resort bubble? (Fine, that's a whole different debate.)
Don't stay in their properties. Or stay in their properties following their policies.
It would be easier to settle. It's much easier to simply book a "King bed + sofa bed" room at a deluxe resort. That's what we usually do and we always have a pleasant stay. I just find it a little galling though to be pushed into a resort category we don't really want because it's the only one that has room types that feature an amenity we don't need and do not use.
That's the gist of it I suppose. There is a policy that makes me choose a less comfortable or much more expensive room based on a preferred bed arrangement. It happens that this preference is an uncommon one so there is little need to accommodate it, I don't really expect sympathy from a corporation, and I doubt I'll find any here. But... The policy
is arbitrary. It is a rule put in place simply because they can and because the people affected by it are few or because it is seen as (and in many other instances probably is) a kink they would wish to distance themselves from.
But their reasons are their own and if they can make it about the number of adults in one bed they can make it about the number of children in a bed or the type of coffee maker in the room or just about anything. A policy stating that children 11+ yrs old shouldn't share beds so families of 4+ are required to book the more expensive rooms with bunk-beds, or sofa beds, or book a suite is not any more arbitrary or intrusive into the choices a family planning a vacation make. Yet such a rule would affect many (most?) families and a shocked and offended outcry would be heard.
