Thanks for coming...now sleep on the couch

[DanenRox]

Help me to feel better about myself...for the first time in a long time ALL the kids (in various ages of grown upism) will be joining us for a WDW trip. I've booked a couple of rooms, one of which is a 2 bedroom at BWV. I would have to utilize the pull out couch in the 2nd bedroom to use as a bed for our son. I'm feeling kind of guilty about the whole pull out bed thing and am really hoping that these pull outs are very, very comfortable. What do you think?

 

[Deb & Bill]

I thought they replaced all the sleeper sofas at the BWV last year with newer ones. My son slept on one of the newer ones at BCV last summer and he thought it wasn't bad. You can't feel bars underneath and the mattress is fairly comfortable.

 

[ROIE01581]

When we go we have my parents come for a few days. They get the bed room and we take the pullout. It was fine. We got good sleep and no back pain.

 

[kimberh]

My 22 yr old son didn't complain in Dec. We were at BCV.

 

[Buckeye Fan]

DS (12) is a little wimp! He complains and asks why DH and I are too cheap to spend the points on a 2-BR because he'd like a 'real' bed. Last time I checked, he wasn't pitching in on the costs!!!

On our previous visit, I slept with DD on the pull-out and it was just fine. Slept like a baby!

 

[OnMedic]

LOL... who is paying!?!?!? No guilt should be felt and he should be appreciative even if he has to sleep on the floor.

 

[Chic]

We stayed in a one bedroom at Old Key West last October during the Food & Wine Festival. My wife and I took a friend who is 34 years old and has back problems. He slept on the fold out sofa every night for 5 days and never complained once. Of course, we drank enough beer in EPCOT each night where he probably could have slept on a bed of nails and been comfortable!

 

[beccasmom]

More often than not, DH and I use the sofa bed when we have guests. It doesn't bother us....we are early risers anyway.

 

[Chester's Mum]

I was just thinking about this myself. I'm considering taking my mom on a trip to Boardwalk next year. She's kind of controlling and complains a lot, but she's always asking me to go away with her. I could never share the king size with her, and I wouldn't make her sleep on the sofa bed.

My DS 14 slept on it this year during March break, and said it was comfortable. However, he's 14 and not the sensitive type, the proverbial "Bull in a china shop". I'm glad to hear some grown ups say its comfortable.

I feel a little better about that potential trip now, still mulling it over.

 

[DisDaydreamer]

It is a son's job to sleep on a pullout or aerobed or sleeping bag. And frankly, once he falls asleep he could be on cold concrete and it wouldn't matter.

Don't worry about it.

 

[DeeCee735]

My kids have slept TOGETHER on the sleeper sofa's both in BW and in HH. No complaints, except the hogging the covers thing

The old ones were VERY uncomfortable, but the new ones are much better.

I even bring a blow up mattress when we drive and the "extra" kid sleeps on that, no complaints there either. They are so happy to be on vacation in Disney with a friend they don't care where (or if) they sleep I talking teens here

 

[crisi]

Anyone else grow up in a family where you'd pack fourteen cousins in your house for a week? The grownups got the kids twin beds, and the cousins all slept on - if you were lucky - the pullout. Otherwise we slept on the floor, in recliners. And the "kids" could be as old as 30. And the house would only have one bathroom? Somehow, we all survived and had a great time.

I went on a short vacation years ago with my mother and two sisters - and my two sisters wouldn't share a queen bed - we ended up paying for a second hotel room because four grown women were too spoiled to share beds.

(This is not a suggestion that anyone stuff their DVC room over the occupancy, just a thought on how our expectations seem to have changed. We now want a real bed for everyone and the number of people/2 bathrooms to be comfortable.)

 

[shortypots]

My opinion is that they are getting a free place to stay for a trip to Disney. My friends stayed on the sofa bed at OKW and were thrilled because they were in disney. They didn't care it was a sofa bed!

Although, on our last trip this past week, we brought an aerobed for a friend of ours, but mainly so we didn't use the limited space in the living room. The aerobed we left standing in the master bedroom during the day and only brought it out at night for him to sleep on.

 

[shortypots]

Anyone else grow up in a family where you'd pack fourteen cousins in your house for a week? The grownups got the kids twin beds, and the cousins all slept on - if you were lucky - the pullout. Otherwise we slept on the floor, in recliners. And the "kids" could be as old as 30. And the house would only have one bathroom? Somehow, we all survived and had a great time.

Funny you should mention this. I remember stuffing 26 people into a 3bd place with only 1 bathroom! We were always the youngest staying there so we always ended up with the floor, but we didn't care cause we were on vacation!

 

[kimberh]

Anyone else grow up in a family where you'd pack fourteen cousins in your house for a week? The grownups got the kids twin beds, and the cousins all slept on - if you were lucky - the pullout. Otherwise we slept on the floor, in recliners. And the "kids" could be as old as 30. And the house would only have one bathroom? Somehow, we all survived and had a great time.

I did!!!! We went to Tennessee every year in Aug and Dec, 26 people in one house. It was a blast! My kids still talk about it. Now, everyone is married, we are a huge crowd, no hotels around my Aunt's house, everyone still wants to go back, but we outgrew the house, no more floor space! We even had kids under the kitchen table, in the hallway, I mean we were Wall to Wall people and not one person complained. Made pallets on the floor with Quilts. Oh, We did have 2 bathrooms, but my brother would call the teenage girls, The Bathing Beauties because they would take so long and use all the hotwater.

Some of them would have given their eye teeth for a sleeper sofa!

 

[inloveindisney]

that bed HAS to be more comfortable than the pack and play that my daughter will be sleeping in when we go this year. It's pretty much just glorified cardboard.
He's a kid-he can sleep anywhere. I recall sleeping on the floor a lot as a kid and I thought it was "fun".

 

[photobob]

Help me to feel better about myself...for the first time in a long time ALL the kids (in various ages of grown upism) will be joining us for a WDW trip. I've booked a couple of rooms, one of which is a 2 bedroom at BWV. I would have to utilize the pull out couch in the 2nd bedroom to use as a bed for our son. I'm feeling kind of guilty about the whole pull out bed thing and am really hoping that these pull outs are very, very comfortable. What do you think?

We are doing the same thing ten days from now. We got a 2 bdr for me, DW, DD who is 15, DS 21 and DSGF who is 23. DD and DSGF will stay in the studio and my son will have the couch in the 1bdr side. DS and DSGF won't mind the pull out couches, she just graduated from college and he is still in college and have lived in dorm type rooms for a few years. They probably won't complain since I'm footing the bill for everything.

 

[dnoyes]

Help me to feel better about myself...for the first time in a long time ALL the kids (in various ages of grown upism) will be joining us for a WDW trip. I've booked a couple of rooms, one of which is a 2 bedroom at BWV. I would have to utilize the pull out couch in the 2nd bedroom to use as a bed for our son. I'm feeling kind of guilty about the whole pull out bed thing and am really hoping that these pull outs are very, very comfortable. What do you think?

I don't think it will be a problem. Heck, most kids would sleep under a bridge if that's what it took to get back to Disney.

 

[bobbiwoz]

Anyone else grow up in a family where you'd pack fourteen cousins in your house for a week? The grownups got the kids twin beds, and the cousins all slept on - if you were lucky - the pullout. Otherwise we slept on the floor, in recliners. And the "kids" could be as old as 30. And the house would only have one bathroom? Somehow, we all survived and had a great time.

I went on a short vacation years ago with my mother and two sisters - and my two sisters wouldn't share a queen bed - we ended up paying for a second hotel room because four grown women were too spoiled to share beds.

(This is not a suggestion that anyone stuff their DVC room over the occupancy, just a thought on how our expectations seem to have changed. We now want a real bed for everyone and the number of people/2 bathrooms to be comfortable.)

I am sure you had a great time growing up, but I really like my own space to sleep. Except for DH and my DSis, I do ask my guests to sleep on the sofa bed. I have offered to stay in OKW studios with friends so they can have a regular bed, but so far, the friends haven't taken me up on that. I do feel a bit "bad" enjoying the bed while they get the pull out, because a bed is more important to me than "location" but obviously for others it's not an issue.

One bathroom wouldn't be a hardship for me.

Bobbi

 

[crisi]

I am sure you had a great time growing up, but I really like my own space to sleep. Except for DH and my DSis, I do ask my guests to sleep on the sofa bed. I have offered to stay in OKW studios with friends so they can have a regular bed, but so far, the friends haven't taken me up on that. I do feel a bit "bad" enjoying the bed while they get the pull out, because a bed is more important to me than "location" but obviously for others it's not an issue.

One bathroom wouldn't be a hardship for me.

Bobbi

I do too now, which is why I often say "oh, we'll stay in a hotel" when we get these invites. But then, I'm willing to pay for the hotel if I'm going to turn up my nose at their sofabed. And when we do the inviting, we try and be clear on the bedding arrangements (the kids can sleep on the floor and you can have their beds) so that friends can do the same.