Resort advice, please! First-timers plus scooters

[VandVsmama]

Hi all. We are WDW regulars, DVC and on/off AP depending on travel cycle. I feel like we know the place pretty well, and we do things how we do things.

However, we are considering a trip next April with my parents (who have come with us before) and my brother and his family. Their kids, a bit older than ours, have never been to DW. My dad (and maybe my mom) will need scooters. So, we're talking four kids (age 6-13), six adults (including the grandparents).

I see resort choice as one of the first key decision points. My mom will likely prefer somewhere we could all stay together, ideally in one room. I'm not quite in that head space, and would be happy to just be at the same resort. Left to my own devices, I'd pick something with direct scooter access to at least one park (so, Crescent Lake area, BLT/VGF, etc). Dad navigated the monorail and bus just fine on the scooter last time, though we didn't try the skyliner with it. My brother and SIL know Disney is expensive, but I don't think they really have looked at the numbers.

Any suggestions on resort? What am I not thinking of? Am I over-thinking ride-in scooter access?

I should probably just flip all this over to a Disney planner and let them sort it, but I trust in the wisdom of the Dis. Thanks in advance!

Some things to consider:

1. Ask your mom what she would prefer. Don't assume.
2. IF your mom wants everybody to stay at the same resort, prepare her now for the realistic possibility that everybody will NOT be able to stay in the same room, depending on what your extended family's budget is for the trip.
3. Remember that if you're short on points, you can buy up to 24 one-time-use points for $22.50/point. That might help if you're just on the edge.
4. If you had a group of 6, then a family suite at All Star Music would be a cheap(er) option. OR you could fit 6 people in a family suite at Art of Animation.
5. Your immediate family could get a DVC room at Riviera (assuming you don't have a resale contract which restricts you from booking at Riviera) and then 6 people could stay in an AoA family suite. And when you want to eat together for breakfast or whatever, they could Skyliner to Riviera and you guys all have breakfast together at Primo Piatto.
6. BUT always follow the rule of thumb to book a room at your home resort 11 months ahead of time.
7. If you opt to go the Riviera route, be aware that booking low-points studios (i.e., the tower studios) there at the 11 month window is hard, so finding one at the 7 month window will be harder.
8. There's a website called DVC Field Guide which has several years' worth of room availability data and you can look up the info. That might help you figure out where you'll have better odds of getting a DVC room that you can 'afford' based on the # of points you have.
9. Figure out what everybody's budget is for the trip.
10. Figure out what dates the trip is going to be. That will be the biggest limiting factor. Give everybody some rough #s of how much the park tickets will cost them, for example.
11. staying at a Skyliner resort is ideal, in my opinion, if you have somebody in a scooter. This gets you Skyliner access to 2 parks, with bus access to the other 2.
12. Your extended family could always rent DVC points through some place like the DVC Rental Store.

Here's a screenshot of what part of the Riviera tower studio availability tables look like: