Mainebound
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We are just thinking about our March 2009 vacation. Honestly, I am not sure whether we will return to WDW, go someplace else, or skip a trip and get some kitchen appliances (I must be getting old!). But I wanted to start getting some quotes, so I did an inquiry at windsorhillsrent.com for 6 bedroom pool homes for one week in March. The quotes were virtually all for around $1200. This includes pool heat, taxes, etc.
Then I decided to get quotes for 5 bed homes in WH, but I accidentally hit the send button, and ended up asking for every owner on that site to send me a quote, from 2 bed condos up to 6 bed homes. I have read every reply and sorted them into subfolders.
Here's what my "research" indicates: by far the cheapest places to stay in WH are the condos. Quotes ranged from $400 to $800 for the week. (FYI My mother stayed in a 2 bed condo last year after we moved to the Portofino Bay and I did not care for the cramped size of the living area. There were some other problems unique to that unit, also.)
But then, from 3 bedroom townhomes (the units with the splash pools) all the way up to 6 bed homes, the price is the same... about $1200, give or take a hundred, including pool heat, taxes, cleaning. Several of the three bedroom townhomes quotes were higher than the 6 bedroom quotes.
Before someone chimes in to say that the 6 bed quotes I am getting must be from really awful homes with termites and cockroaches and lumpy mattresses and cheapo furnishings ... two of them are from the homes I stayed in March 2008 and March 2007 which I know for a fact are lovely. And a third is from an owner my neighbors stayed with in April of 2008, also lovely. (Some of them probably are rotten, but some of the townhomes are probably stinkers, too.)
My point is, I don't know why anyone would pay virtually the same amount of money for a small 3 bed townhome as a 4, 5 or 6 bed home in Windsor Hills unless space makes them nervous or they don't know any better. That's why I decided to write this post.
Personally, I prefer the homes, since many of the pool homes in WH have games rooms (converted garages with TVs, pool tables, foosball, and darts), and the 6 bed homes have two living rooms. The pool areas are large with both pool and "hot spa", and have lots of room for chaise lounges and dining a la carte. And you don't share a wall with another family.
I know you can have a very nice stay where ever you choose, in a 2 bed condo all the way up to a 6 bed home, at Windsor Hills or the many other lovely developments around WDW. But I thought I'd post about this because it seemed so odd to me, and I hoped it might be helpful to someone who wants a larger home in WH but thinks they can only afford a townhome.
Then I decided to get quotes for 5 bed homes in WH, but I accidentally hit the send button, and ended up asking for every owner on that site to send me a quote, from 2 bed condos up to 6 bed homes. I have read every reply and sorted them into subfolders.
Here's what my "research" indicates: by far the cheapest places to stay in WH are the condos. Quotes ranged from $400 to $800 for the week. (FYI My mother stayed in a 2 bed condo last year after we moved to the Portofino Bay and I did not care for the cramped size of the living area. There were some other problems unique to that unit, also.)
But then, from 3 bedroom townhomes (the units with the splash pools) all the way up to 6 bed homes, the price is the same... about $1200, give or take a hundred, including pool heat, taxes, cleaning. Several of the three bedroom townhomes quotes were higher than the 6 bedroom quotes.
Before someone chimes in to say that the 6 bed quotes I am getting must be from really awful homes with termites and cockroaches and lumpy mattresses and cheapo furnishings ... two of them are from the homes I stayed in March 2008 and March 2007 which I know for a fact are lovely. And a third is from an owner my neighbors stayed with in April of 2008, also lovely. (Some of them probably are rotten, but some of the townhomes are probably stinkers, too.)
My point is, I don't know why anyone would pay virtually the same amount of money for a small 3 bed townhome as a 4, 5 or 6 bed home in Windsor Hills unless space makes them nervous or they don't know any better. That's why I decided to write this post.
Personally, I prefer the homes, since many of the pool homes in WH have games rooms (converted garages with TVs, pool tables, foosball, and darts), and the 6 bed homes have two living rooms. The pool areas are large with both pool and "hot spa", and have lots of room for chaise lounges and dining a la carte. And you don't share a wall with another family.
I know you can have a very nice stay where ever you choose, in a 2 bed condo all the way up to a 6 bed home, at Windsor Hills or the many other lovely developments around WDW. But I thought I'd post about this because it seemed so odd to me, and I hoped it might be helpful to someone who wants a larger home in WH but thinks they can only afford a townhome.
