The BC double charged me

[TeenaS]

I don't see how that can happen, unless they replace the two doubles with one king. I've stayed in a room with two doubles traveling solo or with one other adult, and we slept just fine. The room was smaller than the two queen room (it was the same width, but it was shorter hall door to patio) but it didn't feel smaller, because the available floor space was virtually identical due to the narrower beds. If you look at a floor plan for BC (there's one floating around here somewhere) you can see all the odd shaped rooms that just aren't laid out for the typical queen/queen/daybed configuration.

That's what I was thinking ... maybe replace the two doubles with a king. I agree with you that the rooms with doubles in them are virtually identical. The design of the entire building that made some rooms odd shaped pretty much made it impossible to put in two queens in those rooms. Another idea would be to convert them to having one queen and one daybed. I know there are one or two rooms like that right now. They work for a family of 3 and the actual floor space is great!! A friend of mine (mother, father and a 6 year old) stayed in one of them and loved it ... especially all the floor space.

 

[sandym718]

At the BC and YC you can't reserve a room with a king bed - there's no category for a king and there are kings in standard views, water views, concierge standard views and concierge water views. You can request it but as everyone knows, no request is guaranteed. They try to give the few kings they have to people who have requested them.

I see, thanks for that info!! I guess their wording DOES make sense then, and it's just luck of the draw. I'm with many others who feel it kind of stinks pay the same amount and get smaller beds, but as long as they state that up front, which they do, then it's fair. I guess the same could be said of the Poly - some rooms are larger than others, and they cost the same. Thanks!

Oh, and I wonder if Disney ever messes up and gives those Kings to a party that can't use them. I say this only b/c of our experience this past spring at the Comfort Inn Lake Buena Vista. We stayed there the night before checking in at the Poly, knowing we'd be arriving late (we drove from OH). It was Grad night, lots of groups there. I had booked a standard room, which right on my confirmation sheet said 2 doubles. We had a total of 4 people - 2 adults, 2 children. They gave us a handicapped-accessible room with 1 double and 1 twin bed. For 4 people!! Luckily, my kids are small and we brought our own bed rails, so they were able to share the twin, but with larger children (or older, since it's boy/girl and we'd have to do girls in one bed, boys in another) we would have had a REAL problem. They had nowhere to move us to, so they would have been paying to put us up at another resort. After 19 hours of driving, not something anyone wants to deal with. Also, the toilet and sinks were so high, DH and I had to help the kids with everything (DD was only 2, but potty trained). I had a good rate at the hotel, but I only ended up paying half of that. It scares me that hotels/resorts can screw up to the extent of providing a room with not even enough bed space!! Plus, I'd bet that room was only fire code approved for 3 people max. I mentioned this to them, they ignored it, and with no other rooms available, we just made do.

Sorry to be go so off-topic. I know an earlier poster mentioned being given a King mistakenly but on a complimentary upgrade. Wonder if it's happened to someone with their regular room assignment -then what?