Resort recommendations for a family of 5-6?

[AmandaIola]

We have four kids, but my husband will not be traveling with us all of the time due to work commitments. However, I am a teacher so I have the same breaks as our kids. Our kids are 12, 9, and 3 year old twins.

 

[MICKIMINI]

I would say BLT 2 BR for proximity to MK. Kitchen and laundry will make life much easier. When the kids are older, an EPCOT resort such as BWV will be an option, but for now I would stay close to MK and be on the monorail! Enjoy!

 

[Matty B13]

VGF or BLT for access to MK, if at VGF you can walk to the transportation center and hop the monorail to Epcot. But we are walkers and don't mind distance.

 

[dvc lover 1970]

If resale I would buy BLT or GF but I like BLT better for the extra bathroom in the 1 bedroom and lower point chart.
If direct RIV for epcot proximity.

 

[Nabas]

We have four kids, but my husband will not be traveling with us all of the time due to work commitments. However, I am a teacher so I have the same breaks as our kids. Our kids are 12, 9, and 3 year old twins.

A one-bedroom at either Bay Lake Tower or Kidani Village might work.

Bring along sleeping bags and the 3 year olds can sleep on the floor in the Master Bedroom with you.

Then the 12 and 9 year olds can have their own foldout beds in the living room.

BLT and Kidani one bedrooms give you a second bathroom without having to pay the extra points of a two bedroom.

As the 3 year olds get older, you’ll have to switch to a two bedroom but you can bank a lot of points before then.

 

[laserpastry]

We are a family of 5. I would also suggest either Bay Lake Tower or Animal Kingdom Kidani. That extra bathroom in the 1 bedrooms is so helpful.

 

[RoseGold]

I have an air mattress in my owner's locker that would allow us to do a 1BR for a configuration like this.

However, you are about to have a teenager, so whatever plan you make might just fail in a couple years.

With this kind of age spread and uncertainty, an option is to just rent points for what you need for this particular trip, depending on who is coming. The Kidani 1BR isn't hard to get, even at 7 months, and should work for a while. The VGF 1BR is also luxuriously huge, and someone can sleep on an air mattress next to the tub. Both are high priced in the system, so they aren't terribly hard to get.

Allow me to present another idea. Poly. If your oldest is responsible, you don't plan to do much cooking, and you don't mind the laundry room downstairs, two poly studios might be just the trick for now and also longer term. Or one poly studio if you're a person or two short. Poly also isn't too hard to book and can be done with rental points at 7 months. My five year old happily slept on a crib mattress in the extra Poly bathroom. The renovated rooms have a double Murphy sofa bed that's NICE, plus the single Murphy. So they comfortably sleep 5, maybe the fifth needs to be a child for the single bed.