We'reGoingToDisney
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- Feb 18, 2019
I am probably over thinking things, but I currently have a standard 2-queen room booked at RPR for 5 nights near the end of August 2023. We will be myself, DH, and twins DS17 and DD17. We did a previous trip in Aug 2019 when the kids were 13 and we stayed at PBH in a 2-queen bed room. We were ok on that trip, but the kids were smaller and I think the room at PBH was larger than the one at RPR will be. Now DS17 is nearly 5’11” and can easily take up the whole bed by himself.
i have played around with scenarios involving booking us into a family suite at Cabana Bay then adding a room at RPR for fewer nights to cover our park days so we still have EPs for all of our days (and even booking two separate one night stays (eg Sunday night then Tuesday night to cover Sunday-Wednesday for EP)) but with the Savvy Traveller rate offering increasingly better pricing the more nights you stay, it works out to make sense to book RPR for 5 nights and add a room somewhere else for a few nights to give us some extra space. And then we’d have two bathrooms, which we wouldn’t get with any of the family suite options.
my DH thinks we will be fine in one room at RPR, so tired from our park days that it doesn’t matter where we sleep. But I am worried we will all get cranky with each other, especially since we will be moving on to Disney for 7 nights afterwards, staying at YC and CR where we will all be in one room (but at least have a daybed for one of the kids to sleep on).
I can book another 2-queen bed room at either Aventura or Sapphire Falls, and would probably do it for 4 nights instead of 5 (the final 4) to save a bit of money but also to make sure on that first morning we are all together and know where to go, etc. SF would be a bit more than Aventura, but it seems more appealing design wise (and nicer pool. I know we can pool hop but it would be a lot easier to just have a room key already that works for the SF pool). Then we could split up, maybe DH and DS sleeping in one room and DD and myself in the other (obviously all registered guests at RPR for the EPs).
But how hard is it to walk between the those hotels? Are they sufficiently far apart that this is a terrible idea? Or is it feasible? Would you do it? Would one be more convenient, between Aventura and SF?
For context, we’re looking at rates of about $350 at RPR and $170 at Aventura and $215 at SF. Two rooms at RPR is just too much extra money, I couldn‘t justify it! I’m having a hard time convincing myself to even consider SF over Aventura, price wise. (a deluxe room at HRH with 2-queens and a sofa bed is $630 on our nights, so either of the 2nd room options works out to be cheaper than that, too, and gives us real beds and 2 bathrooms)
i have played around with scenarios involving booking us into a family suite at Cabana Bay then adding a room at RPR for fewer nights to cover our park days so we still have EPs for all of our days (and even booking two separate one night stays (eg Sunday night then Tuesday night to cover Sunday-Wednesday for EP)) but with the Savvy Traveller rate offering increasingly better pricing the more nights you stay, it works out to make sense to book RPR for 5 nights and add a room somewhere else for a few nights to give us some extra space. And then we’d have two bathrooms, which we wouldn’t get with any of the family suite options.
my DH thinks we will be fine in one room at RPR, so tired from our park days that it doesn’t matter where we sleep. But I am worried we will all get cranky with each other, especially since we will be moving on to Disney for 7 nights afterwards, staying at YC and CR where we will all be in one room (but at least have a daybed for one of the kids to sleep on).
I can book another 2-queen bed room at either Aventura or Sapphire Falls, and would probably do it for 4 nights instead of 5 (the final 4) to save a bit of money but also to make sure on that first morning we are all together and know where to go, etc. SF would be a bit more than Aventura, but it seems more appealing design wise (and nicer pool. I know we can pool hop but it would be a lot easier to just have a room key already that works for the SF pool). Then we could split up, maybe DH and DS sleeping in one room and DD and myself in the other (obviously all registered guests at RPR for the EPs).
But how hard is it to walk between the those hotels? Are they sufficiently far apart that this is a terrible idea? Or is it feasible? Would you do it? Would one be more convenient, between Aventura and SF?
For context, we’re looking at rates of about $350 at RPR and $170 at Aventura and $215 at SF. Two rooms at RPR is just too much extra money, I couldn‘t justify it! I’m having a hard time convincing myself to even consider SF over Aventura, price wise. (a deluxe room at HRH with 2-queens and a sofa bed is $630 on our nights, so either of the 2nd room options works out to be cheaper than that, too, and gives us real beds and 2 bathrooms)
