The Living/Dining/Kitchen Space at Disney’s Old Key West Resort

(For the first page of this review of Disney’s Old Key West Resort, see this.)

PHOTO TOUR OF THE LIVING/DINING/KITCHEN SPACE AT DISNEY’S OLD KEY WEST RESORT

The living/dining/kitchen space at Disney’s Old Key West Resort is the same in both the One and Two-Bedroom Villas.

These spaces are astonishingly large, much larger than at the other DVC resorts.

See the One Bedroom Villa floor plan.

The kitchen is full-sized, and the living room nearly as big as you’ll find in many homes.  The dining area, while not large, is much larger than at any other comparable DVC resort except the Treehouse Villas, and the Treehouses are also the only DVC resort with a comparably large balcony–big enough for another table

As you enter the Villa from outside, you’ll find an entry foyer, with a closet on one side with a high chair, vacuum, etc.

Down the entry hall you’ll find the entry to the master bedroom area on one side, and if in a Two-Bedroom Villa, to the second bedroom on the other.

As you enter the main kitchen/living/dining space, the five corner windows surrounding the living room space immediately attract your attention.

Most comparable DVC spaces have a small couch and a chair, and really seat only 4.  This space in contrast seats 6 comfortably, and eight of slender hips–and even more by grabbing the ottoman or chairs from the dining area.

The dining area is right next to the living area, and adds three more floor-to-ceiling windows (for a total of 8 large windows in this space) which also double as balcony access.

Here’s a closer view of the dining table and balcony beyond. Compared to almost all other DVC resorts this table and the space it occupies is huge.  It seats six easily, and more in a pinch (there’s four more chairs at the table on the balcony you can bring in, and, if you have a Two Bedroom Villa, two more chairs in the second bedroom).

In the back of the dining area there’s a counter and set of cabinets–extra storage space you don’t see in other DVC rooms, begging for a Monopoly or Axis and Allies boxed game…

Behind the window shades beyond the dining table are doors to the balcony, with a second table and four chairs.  This space is so large it really serves as another room–except during the hot summer months.

Balcony views vary–fairways, pools, woods.  Our last stay had a woods view.

Different people will have different favorite parts of these wonderful rooms–but I like the kitchen the most.

All the DVC One and Two Bedroom Villas have the basic kitchen stuff–fridges, ranges, microwaves, toaster, coffee pots, and all the pots, pans, utensils and service items needed to support it.

What distinguishes the Old Key West Kitchen is its large size and vast sweep of counter space, including over the TV. The most complicated things we’ve made here are frozen pizza,  scrambled eggs and grilled cheese…but in this kitchen, you really could put together a full meal for 9 without being cramped…

THE FOLD-OUT BEDS IN DISNEY’S OLD KEY WEST RESORT

Two-Bedroom Villas at Old Key West sleep 9, and One-Bedroom Villas sleep 5.  In each case, three of those are allocated to the fold-out couch and chair in the living room. (Your visual cortex has not just flipped–rather, this shot and several others among those that follow are from an earlier visit in a mirror-image room. So you’ll see a mix of geometry and fabrics…)

As always, I both slept on and carefully measured each of these beds.  The narrower bed comes from this chair.

It’s about is ~29 inches wide by ~78″ long (it sleeps a little shorter than that, because of the configuration of the head–see the shot above for it unfolded).

The biiger bed unfolds from the larger of the two sofas.

It’s ~59″ wide and ~70 inches long.

I wouldn’t put an adult on either of these.  The smaller bed would be the better choice–it has a better mattress, about 5 inches of foam, compared to 4 inches on the larger bed.  But what I will obfuscatingly call my hips were not sufficiently padded.

Note that while it doesn’t unfold or anything, you can also put a shorter kid on the second sofa.  I measured the cushioned area of this sofa as 48 inches long by 24 inches wide, with 4 inch thick cushions.

These living/kitchen/dining space at Old Key West are, by far, the most livable such among the DVC One and Two Bedroom Villas.

THE MASTER BEDROOM AND BATH AT DISNEY’S OLD KEY WEST RESORT

This review continues here.

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