Switching rooms at GF vs Split stay with YC

[MamaJJ2018]

We have a trip booked this summer at GF and have decided we’d like to extend it by a day or preferably 2! Unfortunately, the lagoon view room we have booked at GF does not have any availability to extend our stay there. Our options are to switch entirely to a garden view room (I was looking forward to a water view), move to a garden view room for the extra nights, move to a theme park view room for the extra nights ($$$$$), or make a split stay. For the split stay we’d definitely do yacht/beach club. I like the idea of getting a couple days at stormalong bay and easy Epcot access, but the switch sounds cumbersome. If we are having to switch rooms anyway, how much more of an inconvenience is it to switch resorts all together? I will have a baby and preschooler. Can bell services bring our luggage from one resort to another for us?

 

[trishadono]

My last 2 we did yc/Cr split. We planned our parks around that. It was so much easier to walk to parks! We did MK and all from mono resort and HS and Epcot from boardwalk area.

With Covid and transportation it was so helpful. However who knows what summer would bring.

Also keep looking, often rooms pop up.

 

[Sandisw]

Bell services can transfer the luggage. We do split stays all the time. We make it a sleep in day. Check out at 11 am, drop luggage at bell services and then head to a sit down lunch, many times at Disney Springs.

Once we do all that, we head back to the new resort and most often our room is ready. Because the luggage doesn’t always arrive until after 3 pm, we do keep a bag with swimsuits with us.

 

[Nabas]

We have a trip booked this summer at GF and have decided we’d like to extend it by a day or preferably 2! Unfortunately, the lagoon view room we have booked at GF does not have any availability to extend our stay there. Our options are to switch entirely to a garden view room (I was looking forward to a water view), move to a garden view room for the extra nights, move to a theme park view room for the extra nights ($$$$$), or make a split stay. For the split stay we’d definitely do yacht/beach club. I like the idea of getting a couple days at stormalong bay and easy Epcot access, but the switch sounds cumbersome. If we are having to switch rooms anyway, how much more of an inconvenience is it to switch resorts all together? I will have a baby and preschooler. Can bell services bring our luggage from one resort to another for us?

Bell Services will transfer the luggage for you.

Definitely switch to the YC or BC! It will be a different (exciting!) experience than staying on the Monorail.

You also can jump on the Skyliner or take the boat to DHS.

 

[chasgeese]

It’s honestly no more difficult to switch resorts than it is to switch room types at the same hotel. In both cases, you are going to have to check out of your first room, leave your luggage with bell services, face the possibility of your second room not being available until after 3 pm, and probably have to schlep all your luggage off to the new room once it’s ready. Assuming you spend your switch day at a park, the only difference is what bus/monorail/Skyliner you get on when you leave. Depending on which park you choose for a switch day, it could arguably be easier to do the switch to the YC than to another GF room since you only have to get on the elevator to your new room once you get to the YC instead of walking to whatever lodge your new room at GF is in.

 

[Marthasor]

We have a trip booked this summer at GF and have decided we’d like to extend it by a day or preferably 2! Unfortunately, the lagoon view room we have booked at GF does not have any availability to extend our stay there. Our options are to switch entirely to a garden view room (I was looking forward to a water view), move to a garden view room for the extra nights, move to a theme park view room for the extra nights ($$$$$), or make a split stay. For the split stay we’d definitely do yacht/beach club. I like the idea of getting a couple days at stormalong bay and easy Epcot access, but the switch sounds cumbersome. If we are having to switch rooms anyway, how much more of an inconvenience is it to switch resorts all together? I will have a baby and preschooler. Can bell services bring our luggage from one resort to another for us?

I've done split stays with a toddler and, honestly, the packing and unpacking numerous times wasn't very fun. If you really want to do it, I would do the GF to YC/BC split, but, personally, I would downgrade to the GF garden view for the whole stay and then keep looking to see if GF lagoon view comes back into inventory for the whole trip and then modify again if it's available. The good news is, there really isn't a bad view at GF, IMHO - garden view is lovely.

 

[MamaJJ2018]

I've done split stays with a toddler and, honestly, the packing and unpacking numerous times wasn't very fun. If you really want to do it, I would do the GF to YC/BC split, but, personally, I would downgrade to the GF garden view for the whole stay and then keep looking to see if GF lagoon view comes back into inventory for the whole trip and then modify again if it's available. The good news is, there really isn't a bad view at GF, IMHO - garden view is lovely.

this was my concern! Taking apart a pack n play, packing up and unpacking all the feeding stuff, etc.... I may do this. Or may jusgg to leave this trip a little shorter!

 

[chasgeese]

this was my concern! Taking apart a pack n play, packing up and unpacking all the feeding stuff, etc.... I may do this. Or may jusgg to leave this trip a little shorter!

Yah that’s the main consideration here. Switching rooms itself is an annoying process, even if switching from GF to YC is no harder than switching rooms within the GF. I would either hold out hope a Lagoon view room opens up for your dates and bite the bullet and downgrade to the GV (the water view is nice, but a lot of GV rooms have nice views as well). I don’t think the TPV rooms at the GF are worth the huge upcharge for what you get.