Large Families Looking for Value Pricing at Walt Disney World
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This page recommends Walt Disney World accommodations for large families seeking lower prices, sorted by family size. See this page for an introduction to Large Families at Walt Disney World.
Click on the thumbnail above (when open, click again once or twice to enlarge) to see the recommendations below in chart form; the chart also includes additional information—for example, number of bathrooms, kitchen facilities, total square feet.
As always, when more than one similar option is available, recommendations are made based on appeal to kids and transportation convenience.
All prices are for the 2010 Value Season, the season when this site suggest you go–see this for when to go to Walt Disney World. Prices will be higher during other parts of the year, but in similar proportions. See this for price seasons at Walt Disney World.
RECOMMENDATIONS BY FAMILY/PARTY SIZE
Basic Recommendation: Families with 4 people of fewer: Disney’s Pop Century Resort. For 4 people, you will pay $23 per person per night.
5 people: Best choice=All-Star Music Family Suite$42/person/night. A few buildings at Disney’s All Star Music have had two 4 person rooms converted into a combined 6 person space. See floor plan. You get two baths, a private bedroom with a queen-sized bed, a microwave and mini-fridge, and a dayroom with couches and chairs that convert into sleeping space for 4 more people.
The next best choice is the Alligator Bayou section of Disney’s Port Orleans Riverside Resort, which hold four in two double beds plus a fifth person in a 67” trundle bed, for $34/person/night. This option is not recommended for first-time visitors, as the resort not nearly as kid-appealing as All Star Music.
The final option is a 6-person cabin at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Campground and Resort. This option is not recommended for first-time visitors, as it is very inconvenient, and not nearly as kid-appealing as All Star Music. The cost is $60/person/night. You get a full kitchen and two sleeping spaces. One sleeps 4 in a full bed and bunks beds–the bunk beds are 70″ long. The second sleeping space is in the combined living room/dining room/kitchen, where a full bed folds down from the wall.
6 people: Best Choice: All Star Music Family Suite $35/person/night. See above for details.
Next best choice–a cabin at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort, for $50/person/per night. See above–not recommended for first time visitors.
7 people: there are no good options for value pricing at this family or party size—or for 8 people either. You can try for connecting rooms at Pop Century, with no guarantees. Your cost for these will be $23/person/night.
Your best choice to guarantee you will all be in the same space is harder to pull off. It requires eliminating one night from your trip—the second Sunday (see this for an itinerary that excludes the Second Sunday)—and renting enough points (NOT reserving this villa from the WDW website—this will cost MUCH more) from a current Disney Vacation Club owner to get a Two Bedroom Villa for 7 nights at Disney’s Old Key West Resort. See this page for how to do so.
Success will get you a great space for $53/person/night. Disney’s Old Key West Resort is neither kid appealing nor convenient, but is the cheapest of the DVC resorts, and thus, when paid for using rented points, the only one that comes even close to the Value pricing range.
For your money you will get two bedrooms, one with a king that sleeps two, and one with two queens that sleeps 4. In addition, you get a huge (compared to other DVC resorts) kitchen/dining/living room combination with a sleeper sofa that sleeps two more.
LINKS FOR WHERE TO STAY AT DISNEY WORLD
- For where to stay, see this
- For your next best choices, in order, see this
- For picking your resort based on appeal to kids, see this
- For picking your resort based on convenience, see this
- For where not to stay, see this
- For what you get in each resort price category, see this
- For Walt Disney World resort price seasons, see this
- For differences among value resorts, see this
- For the moderate resorts, see this
- For differences among moderate resorts, see this
- For differences among deluxe resorts, see this
- For the Disney Vacation Club (“DVC”) Resorts, see this
- For suites at the deluxe resorts, see this
- For a (geeky) overview of comparative room size, see this
- Large families should look at this, and also at
- Military/DOD families should look at this
- Tightwads should look at this
- Families seeking the most comfortable place to stay should see this
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