Wyndham Palms resort or Sheraton Vistana

[caspersmom83]

Finaly found room at the vistiana but through travel agent but my husband thinks Wyndham Pals looks nicer. Any opinions?

 

[swilshire]

We are owners at both. Vistana was our second timeshare and will always be our favorite. It's slightly more convenient to Disney.

Wyndham Palms is all relatively new and you don't have to be concerned about being in one of the older sections, as you would at Vistana.

There is more to do at Vistana, but the mini-golf and breakfast are free at Wyndham Palms.

The furnishings are a little more high end at WP.

You really can't go wrong with either, but I might choose Vistana with kids, Wyndham Palms if it's mostly adults or if you golf.

Sheila

 

[marshallandcartersmo]

swilshire--Can you tell me how far Wyndham is from the parks? I know they say "close to the parks", but I mean........resort to park entrances---about how long? We're staying at Wyndham the last week of April, so hopefully the Spring Breakers will be gone by then and traffic will be ok.

Also, does everyone that stays there qualify for the free breakfast?? We traded our week through II and got a 3 bedroom.

Is the mini-golf "kid-friendly". I noticed you said you would have chosen Vistana if you had kids, but we choose Wyndham because it was available for our week. We have 3 little boys, 2,3, & 5. thanks for your help!!

 

[swilshire]

I'm not real good with distances, but I would guess about seven minutes to MGM, 10 to Magic Kingdom, 12 to Epcot and five or less to Animal Kingdom ... depending on lights and traffic. There really isn't a lot of difference in distance between WP and Vistana, but 192 tends to crowd up a bit more than the Vistana routes. Basically you turn left out of the resort, take a brief drive to 192, go through one or two lights on 192 and you're right on the road to Disney. For AK, go left a light and turn on Sherbeth. We also came around that way any time we thought traffic on 192 would be heavy.

The breakfast is for all and is weekdays only I think. It's just danish, juice, milk and yogurt, but my 6yo loved the Trix yogurt every day. Probably coffee too, though I don't drink it so I can't recall. We'd usually just drive by on the way to the parks and grab a couple of things. They said not to take food out of the area, but it was too cold when we were there in December to sit by the pool and eat.

The mini golf is fine for kids. I was thinking in terms of more planned activities at Vistana. That being said, we seldom take advantage of them, though it's nice to know they're there. Also, the area we were in at WP didn't have a pool close by, but they were supposed to build one soon right across the lot from our door. It might be done by now.

We only stayed in the 2br side and it was plenty big for six of us. The 3br will be great for you. Good trade.

Sheila

 

[marshallandcartersmo]

Shelia-

Perfect response, you answered all my questions!! thanks so much.