Which hotels have adjoining rooms?

[MickeyP]

Just wondering. I would prefer adjoining to 2 separate rooms.

 

[canron]

allstar resorts and pop have joining rooms..

 

[pilferk]

Just wondering. I would prefer adjoining to 2 separate rooms.

Keep in mind: In hotel terminology, adjoining simply means "next to". So with adjoining rooms, you'll simply get two rooms right next to each other.

What I think you might really want (and to make sure to request) is CONNECTING ROOMS...rooms that have an interior connecting door between them.

Keep in mind, Disney, no matter what CRO tells you, will not guarantee connecting rooms unless there are very big extenuating circumstances (1 adult with 5 kids over the age of 3, for example). It's a request, only.

 

[bosox57]

Don't all hotels have connecting rooms?

 

[CDSTapisRouge]

Don't all hotels have connecting rooms?

Yes all Disney hotels have connecting rooms available... BUT... not all room categories within the hotels have connecting rooms. Some hotels have connecting rooms in all categories, other do not. For example a paticular hotel may not have connecting rooms in the standard view category, so for connecting you would need to get a woods/garden or Courtyard/water view.

Also as mentioned be very careful with that at Disney "Adjoining" means the rooms are side by side or near (you must exit your room into the main hallway to enter the other room)... "Connecting" means there is a door within the room that would allow you access to both without leaving the rooms. And they are not guaranteed. While the hotel will do their best to accomodate the request it is just a request. When you book your reservation they are booking you space and time, they are not assigning you a room, so they have no way of knowing what will be available when you actually arrive so they can not guarantee that this configuration will be available. Your actual reservation stay in the Central booking system until about 10 days prior to your arrival, so the hotel does not even have access to it until then. And they do not block connecting room requests until about 3-5 days prior to your arrival at the hotel.

 

[MickeyP]

Yes, thank you! I meant "connecting". I would never have thought to ask if adjoining were connecting. Thanks again.

 

[babymay]

I am staying at CBR and have already requested Jamaica 45. Should I call back and request a room that can not be connected?

 

[wdwluver]

I made the mistake of making a reservation for 2 rooms at a hotel and asking for adjoining rooms not realizing adjoining and connecting were two separate things. I got what I asked for.

 

[CDSTapisRouge]

I am staying at CBR and have already requested Jamaica 45. Should I call back and request a room that can not be connected?

If it is that important to you, I would. And then just mention it again at check in. It is just as easy for the CM to locate rooms that do not connect to other rooms as it is to look up non smoking or smoking. It is notated in the room avaliablity rack.

 

[simonkodousek]

You can request connecting rooms, but it is quite rare that you will actually get them unless you have lots of kids.

~Simon

 

[zurgswife]

Most Disney hotels you can request a connecting room for a family of 2 adults with 3 or more kids and your reservation will state guaranteed connecting for family. Not that this an absolute but I have gotten it written down a number of times. I have been fortunate never to not have gotten the connecting rooms I requested.

 

[rodkenrich]

Just wondering. I would prefer adjoining to 2 separate rooms.

Almost every resort has at least 30-40 percent adjoining rooms.

 

[Buzz2001]

CSR has 50% connecting rooms

 

[minnie61650]

CSR has 50% connecting rooms

Good info Buzz2001.

The value resorts also have 50% of the rooms that connect.

I think that is true of most of the newer resorts.

Have fun at Disney!

 

[Barb D]

We have two adults and 3 kids, and were told that we have guaranteed connecting rooms at All Star Sports because we have more kids than adults. I hope this is true! We'll be checking in early since we're transferring from another resort, so I hope this will give us a better shot.

 

[minnie61650]

Most Disney hotels you can request a connecting room for a family of 2 adults with 3 or more kids and your reservation will state guaranteed connecting for family. Not that this an absolute but I have gotten it written down a number of times. I have been fortunate never to not have gotten the connecting rooms I requested.

You are correct you have been fortunate.

Disney may say they guarantee connecting rooms but in reality .....

As a mother of 4 (All grown now. My oldest is in her 30's and my youngest is 22) I often wished Disney had more options for larger families.
When the children were younger and we would go to Disney they did not have DVC or the family suites. In fact Disney did not have a Moderate until CBR opened in the late 1980's so if we wanted to stay onsite we either rented 2 rooms at a deluxe or stayed in the cabins.

I wrote to Disney many times over the years asking for more options for families so when I heard they were building the New Family Suites at All Star Music it just made me so happy!

In the late 80's I booked 2 connecting rooms at CBR for my family.
When we checked in there were no connecting rooms left but we were able to get rooms next to each other on the second floor.
Our two oldest were teens so I put them in one room and the 2 little ones who were 5 and 7 stayed with us. It worked for us because our older children were able to stay in a room without us but if they were younger DH and I would have had to split up.

Disney may say they guarantee connecting rooms but in reality Disney does not guarantee connecting rooms.

If there are 2 adults Disney can split the adults and children into two rooms that are not connecting. They try hard not to do this but it can and does happen sometimes. If however it is one adult with 5 children Disney should try harder to find connecting rooms since some of the children cannot be left in a room without an adult. But if you look at the threads posted below you will see that sometimes even Disney mixes up.


It does happen. Far too often IMHO.

From this thread;

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1145289

Just wanted to re-iterate what others have said:

We requesting connecting rooms at CBR in January--not really a busy time & we were early for check-in. They did not have us in connecting rooms. They said they could accommodate us, but it would be smoking rooms--which was our #1 request non-smoking.

We were side-by-side, so we just went outside to go next door, so it wasn't a huge deal for us. But if you definitely want to be together--I would go with a suite. You could also look into renting DVC points for a villa.

Here are a couple more threads about guests not getting connecting rooms:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1095679

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=785797&page=1&pp=15

From this thread:

http://disboards.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=13528958

One of the threads that Linda posted a link to was my experience last March. I had many conversations with the higher-ups at Guest Services and was told that even if it says "guaranteed" it is not truly "guaranteed." It just has higher priority over the "requests." Because on a given day, there might only be 25 connecting room sets opening up, but 27 "guaranteed connecting rooms for families" ressies checking in. 2 of those families are not going to get their "guarantee."

I know, I was shocked that we had to fight so hard to get put in rooms that had just been fumigated for lice (they were taken out of the inventory, but re-opened because we insisted we needed rooms.) I sort of assumed that if they didn't have the rooms for us, they'd find rooms elsewhere on Disney property. For that stay, we were sometimes 2 adults and sometimes only 1. Now we will book offsite if we need to do that again. If there are 2 of us adults, we book connecting and hope for the best. Otherwise, we'll split the kids.

My point is to make backup plans if you are depending on connecting rooms.

That is one of the main reasons if my family were young I would choose a Suite over 2 connecting rooms or I would be prepared that I may need to split the family up and sleep in a different room than DH.

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From this thread posted in Feb. 2007

http://disboards.com/forumdisplay.php?f=12

Thanks for all your fast replies, I won't leave you hanging any longer, I just needed to cool out a bit before writing my rant.....

We arrived on Feb 22 (thursday) early ---plane landed at 9 am-----we used the magical express bus, so they had our luggage, we stored whatever we needed to at baggage claim and went right to epcot for the day. With the new system of check-in, the gave me a card with a number to call after 3 pm to find out where our rooms would be . I didn't call, we came back at about 9 pm exhausted and went to the front desk, we had rooms 3214 and 3215----we always get two rooms due to our family size-----let me add this was never a problem before, we have stayed at pop the last three years........we get all the carry-on stuff and go to our room( which is in the 50's section facing the bowling pin pool) and I open one room door. That's when the nightmare started-----no connecting door inside so I call down to the front desk and tell them I requested connecting rooms and this was not them-------there was nothing they could do for me that night, but they did put someone on the case, and they would call back. So we proceed to dig through the luggage for jammies and get the kids washed and brushed for bed in one room, the phone rings------The front desk----they can not obviously find anything for tonight, but they offer to move me for tomorrow--to adjoining rooms in the 70's section......ok so I ask how this works........and this is where the story gets hairy..........we would need to check out by 11 am and not get back to the other room until after 3 pm

Doesn't sound too bad.....but I do have a fridge to re pack from the swap, and 9 luggage cases and various other bags, and we had the pirates and princess party on the 23, so I told the kids we could swim in am then come back to the room early and get dressed for the party(I had a Pan, Snow, and cindy to dress-up)so i explained all this to them that I would need a room to dress all the wet kids, and you can't have a room if you checked out-----and this was the only way they would change the room situation for me.......the guy I talked to on the phone even told me families travelling together are guaranteed to get adjoing rooms, he was going to go back and find out who made this mistake, but they really couldn't help me any further......

so.........after much crying on my part, I decided to keep the rooms we had and make the best of it.....the kids were really looking forward to the party, and I didn't want to ruin it for them................but this really killed my vacation. I have 5 kids , only the oldest two I trust with a room card, so we put the boys in one room , and we were (the girls ) in the other. I think I talked to my husband more on the phone this trip!!!!!!!and then the knocking began..........to tell each other what channel to watch, to get a drink from the fridge in the other room, what are you wearing today, can I borrow your comic book.....and they were just being excited kids and I can't blame them, but someone was running to the door to let someone in all the time........and then alot of time we were all cramped in one area....and I kept thinking I'm paying for two rooms here.... sooooo

Long-long story short----I think they could have let us use the rooms we were in and saved the other for the pm when we got pack-----I would have gladly gone thru the hassel of packing it back up, if they would transfer all of it over across the way , but it was really cut and dry from the two people I talked to over the phone, even though they admitted that they made the mistake......

We transferred to POFQ for the last three days of our trip, and yes, we had a connecting door inside, and yes it was pure bliss for me , and yes I called over there twice and talked to two seperate people who assured me that the rooms had a connecting door even before we left pop!!!!

I guess I was more angry that they didn't seem to care how put out I was going to be, anyone can make a mistake, but I always felt before that disney did everything in their power to even over-rectify bad situations.......it just left me with a bad feeling

thanks for listening

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I am just passing on the info so others are not as dissappointed as we were.