Vistana Resort - ADA rooms

[seidelhd]

New forum member but long-time lurker. I cross-posted this to another forum, but wanted to see if anyone on here had any input.

We stayed at Vistana Resort July 2006 in the Lakes section (room backed up to the pond) and loved it. 2BR was clean, well stocked, and huge. It was perfect for our family of 4 and the allears.net rate couldn't be beat.

We are planning on going back next month (now with family of 5). My 6yo daughter is in a wheelchair and I'm curious about the ADA accessible rooms. We didn't think to request one last year and it wasn't that big a deal, but we also had an oversized stroller then. Does anyone here have any experience with them? What section are these rooms in? How are they different from the standard rooms?

Thanks,
David

 

[Michigan]

If you were able to do it last year you probably will be fine this year. An accessible room usually isn't any bigger just the bathrooms and door openings into them. If you think you will need a roll in shower for her then you need to call and explain your situation to the hotel's special needs staff.

 

[BillSears]

I stayed at the Vistana resorts in 2004 in a wheelchair accessible room. I've never stayed in a non HC room there so I'm not really sure how it compares but overall I was happy with the room. The only problems I had were with the bathroom. The Accessible bathroom was connected to the room with 2 double beds in it so I had to sleep there instead of the master bedroom(my daughter loved this) Also the bed arrangement in the 2 bed bedroom made it very hard to get my wheelchair into the bathroom from that side, I had to move the bed and TV over to enter and exit the bathroom and I once I did that the only way for me to enter the bedroom was from the bathroom since the normal door was now blocked.

Here's a picture of the bathroom with a roll in shower and the view from the bathroom into the 2 bed bedroom.