DizptchrAJ
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- Jan 19, 2017
Hello everyone. Just an introduction. My family owns points at Kidani and love it. So unique! Cant wait til our next stay... just waiting to see when my vacation will be for work.
The Jambo House GVs are larger (2340 sq ft vs. 2201 sq ft) and are a single story.I'm not an owner, but definitely an AKL lover, so hopefully I can chat here. I'm retiring in 2018, and plan to take my extended family of 9 to a GV at AKL on rented points in June 2018 (already have an owner lined up for the rental points). We are 4 couples, ages 60, 57, 32, 32, 27, 27, 27, 27, plus one 4YO granddaughter. I'm leaning towards a Jambo GV, but would not be upset with Kidani. Which would you recommend for our party like ours? What other considerations should we consider? Our group of 9 actually vacations together quite often, with no arguments, so being couped up together for a week has never been an issue.
Sorry if this is somewhere else, but can anyone tell me the number of standard view, dedicated 2 bdrm at Kidani? I'm curious as to my chances of booking.
A helpful AKV owner put up a helpful chart on easywdw. It says 27 dedicated standard 2 bedrooms and 60 lock-off. Here's a link to the complete chart in case you wanted other details: http://www.easywdw.com/forums/showthread.php?20457-DVC-Rooms-Charts-with-detailed-room-info
I'm not sure if this number includes some of the Savannah view rooms that have been reclassified at standard view, though. We stayed in a dedicated 2 bedroom in October that had a view of the narrow part of the Pembe savannah and we had booked a standard view.
Good luck!
Do dedicated 2 bedrooms have a sleeper chair as well as the sleep sofa? I see the description on the DVC website says it does, but the floor plan doesn't depict the chair as opening up. And the video I've seen doesn't look like it shows a sleeper chair, but I am not positive.
Yes they do.
There is one laundry room in Kidani, it is across from the community hall near the lobby. http://www.laundryview.com/disneyworld/ will show you the usage of the machines. (Choose AKL - Kidani Village, then in the drop down, choose Kidani Village again.) On a desktop browser it also shows the layout of the machines. Hovering over a unit in use will show the time remaining.Question on laundry room at Kidani. How many laundry rooms are located on each floor? Is there several washer & dryers in each? And cost?
It was a soft goods refurbishment and should be completed by now.I stayed with friends in a 2-bedroom savanna view at Kidani this past September. At the time it was a bit of a maze at times to get to the room because of construction/refreshing on floors below us. I just booked my family in a 1-bedroom standard view for May. I'm curious if the construction/refreshing was completed? And, now that I think about it, what exactly were they doing to the rooms? Just a soft goods refresh? I remember seeing a cart loaded with ironing boards being carted out one day.
Ah. I suspected that. Thanks for the lightning fast reply.It was a soft goods refurbishment and should be completed by now.
Hello we are Dvc members and always book a 1BR but need to book a 2BR. What is the lockoff rooms?? Confused and need to book customer service is closed. Thank you
My wife and I are staying at the Kidani Villas this September for a few nights and I wanted to ask AKL villa lovers what tips and/or activities we should make sure to follow when we visit! We will be there for four nights and we plan on mainly spending time at the resort, not the parks! Have always wanted to stay there and we decided to for our one year anniversary! Preceding our stay at the AKLV we are spending several nights at the BWV so I'm excited to juxtapose the two resorts, which to my understanding our wildly different (no pun intended...well maybe). Any advice and/or recommendations would be greatly appreciated!
My wife and I are staying at the Kidani Villas this September for a few nights and I wanted to ask AKL villa lovers what tips and/or activities we should make sure to follow when we visit! We will be there for four nights and we plan on mainly spending time at the resort, not the parks! Have always wanted to stay there and we decided to for our one year anniversary! Preceding our stay at the AKLV we are spending several nights at the BWV so I'm excited to juxtapose the two resorts, which to my understanding our wildly different (no pun intended...well maybe). Any advice and/or recommendations would be greatly appreciated!