Riviera or Four Seasons (or similar)

[Maryrachel713]

Y'all are so helpful!

My sisters and I are fine in one room, but I'm sure stepmom doesn't want to share a bed and would prefer her own room. If it's a helpful frame of reference, this is a COO for a large hospital system. Our family has a "rustic" cabin (thats code for "we have spiders") and she stays in the Ritz an hour away instead of there. She wants to see HP and Star Wars but is generally not excited for the parks. I'll have to ask my dad what kind of amenities

 

[Cfabar1]

Y'all are so helpful!

My sisters and I are fine in one room, but I'm sure stepmom doesn't want to share a bed and would prefer her own room. If it's a helpful frame of reference, this is a COO for a large hospital system. Our family has a "rustic" cabin (thats code for "we have spiders") and she stays in the Ritz an hour away instead of there. She wants to see HP and Star Wars but is generally not excited for the parks. I'll have to ask my dad what kind of amenities

sounds to me like a 2 or 3 bedroom villa is what you are going to need....

 

[Anthony1971]

Excluding DVC Disney does offer suites in the deluxe hotels. The suites are on a completely different level then DVC rooms some would easily be more comparable to the Four seasons rooms. The four season at Disney is a resort with a gold course and water park and you are therefore paying for those amenities. In all honesty the starting retail price of those rooms is grossly overpriced as well. You can easily find a Ritz or Four seasons in other parts of Florida to San Deigo with similar grounds for half that. Both Ritz and Four seasons are very corporate heavy and if you having a meeting in Disney it will be booked in the same they always have a corporate discount rate.
The better question is what will be used? If you are going to the parks a non DVC suite at one of the MK resorts will offer more. I would not rule out the suites at AKL Jambo as well. In the same a paltry DVC room is just as acceptable to most as they are in fact clean well maintained spacious rooms with the grounds and amenities as suites although the suites certainly offer a more tailored personal luxury.
We own DVC and have the pleasure of one of the companies paying for the Ritz in multiple cities for Business travel.
Personally I have no complaint about the DVC rooms they are far more family oriented then above which in itself is a different type of luxury. To add have been offered towels when getting off a boat and it was raining when we did not have an umbrella to almost always greeted at DVC resorts (although in recent this has been cut back in all but the GF which has a CM in every building) to very responsive staff should there be an issue. There is just nothing offensive about DVC nor anything that would put it in non luxury category.