Villa categories

[Pinnochio]

can anyone tell me what the difference is between a 2 bdr villa & a 2 bdr lock-off villa?

 

[S22]

A 2 bedroom villa, also known as a Dedicated 2 bedroom villa, will have 2 queen beds in the second bedroom. A lock off 2 bedroom is a 1 bedroom and a studio with a queen and sleeper sofa in the second bedroom.

 

[bobbiwoz]

Some of the lock offs, like at BCV and BWV also have a bed in the cabinet where the table is in that studio part. The dedicated two bedrooms don’t have that.

 

[Pinnochio]

thank you!!

 

[Deb & Bill]

A 2 bedroom villa, also known as a Dedicated 2 bedroom villa, will have 2 queen beds in the second bedroom. A lock off 2 bedroom is a 1 bedroom and a studio with a queen and sleeper sofa in the second bedroom.

OKW lockoff and dedicated both have two queen beds in the second bedroom. The only sleeper sofa is in the living room. It's the only two bedroom with two real beds in the second bedroom all the time.

In the resorts where there is a lockoff bedroom with a sleeper sofa, it might have a queen or double sleeper sofa. It depends on the resort.

 

[Geomom]

Lockoffs work well when traveling with extended family or friends as they have their own entrance and a kitchenette on the studio side. When we've done that, we open the connecting door when we're ready to share the living room/kitchen with our guests during the day as our kids sleep on the sleeper sofa at night. Our 2016 BLT trip worked the best as the connecting door is near the entrance-- our friends have a boy and a girl, the girl slept on the sleeper chair in the living room with my girls on the sofa bed (slumber party!) and all the girls shared the bathroom in that area (and DH and I had the one connected to the master suite), while our friends and the son used the studio side, but could leave the connector ajar to let their daughter in as needed.

 

[Simba's Mom]

My experience is that the lockouts, as mentioned earlier, have a separate door in the second bedroom/studio part, yet the regular (dedicated) 2 BRs don't. Depending on the ages of the people staying in that second bedroom, sometimes you don't want a door in there. When we were taking our grandchildren, for example, they'd be sleeping in the second bedroom, so we definitely did not want a lock-off.

 

[crisi]

So if you book a lockoff, you get a studio attached to a one bedroom. That means that in the second bedroom you get a pullout (except at OKW) instead of two beds, you get a kitchenette (with a coffee maker), and you get a seperate door to the outside. You can see where that can be a plus when traveling with other adults (who might want to make coffee when the kids still sleep in the living room, or want to stroll in from drinking at 1 am when the kids went to sleep in the living room at 9pm.) But you lose a second real bed (except at OKW) and that second door might be an issue if you have teens sneaking out or young kids who are escape artists. (We always had our kids in a two bedroom lockoff - BW is our home resort and that's the option there, and I don't think it ever occurred to them to either escape or sneak out - and by the time they were ten or twelve, they loved having the kitchenette, and would stock the mini fridge with their own juice and soda and breakfast stuff and play "grownup").

 

[DebLovesPooh]

There may also be differences in availability. In resorts that only have 2-bedroom lockoffs, they will be gone as soon as the studios are gone because they are made up of the studios. In resorts with dedicated 2-bedrooms, you can book them independently of studio availability.