How do 5 people fit in one room on the Disney Cruise ?

[coastermom]

I keep thinking of doing a land and sea kind of deal next summer which would be WDW & DCL . We are 4 adults and a teenager how on earth do you all fit in one room ? My kids would be 23 ,20 & 13 at time of travel ! I looked at the room many times and just cant figure it out ... Any info or anyone with experience with 5 in a room that can share would be wondeful !

 

[lanejudy]

While 5 in a room is possible -- I think it's probably most comfortable for families with young children. With children the ages of your family, I suggest you look at 2 staterooms. Either 2 connecting or maybe an interior (for the kids) across the hall/near an oceanview or verandah (for the parents). This is what most families of older kids do. Cost may not be as much more as you think, try pricing out different categories.

To answer the original question -- 5 in a room have 2 in the queen bed, one on the sofa bed, one on the bunk that drops down from the ceiling, and one on a murphy bed that pulls out from the wall near the far end of the room.

Enjoy your cruise!

 

[PrincessShmoo]

I keep thinking of doing a land and sea kind of deal next summer which would be WDW & DCL . We are 4 adults and a teenager how on earth do you all fit in one room ? My kids would be 23 ,20 & 13 at time of travel ! I looked at the room many times and just cant figure it out ... Any info or anyone with experience with 5 in a room that can share would be wondeful !

A room that sleeps 5 will have the queen bed (2), a sofa bed (1), a pull down bunk bed (1), and a murphy bed (1).

With 4 adult sized people it can be fairly cramped. When we took our cruise with 5 of us (DH & I, DS25, DD26 & her boyfriend28) we booked two rooms. That way you have 2 bathrooms, 2 TVs and much more storage space as well as general space in the room.

Unless, of course, you get a suite. Those are larger, but cost a lot.

Here's a picture of a verandah room with the sofa, bunk, and murphy beds open, you can see a bit of the queen bed in the lower right corner:

 

[ldo]

for us, it was tight with 3 teens--esp. the clothes, shoes, etc. I said the next time would need to be 2 rooms.

 

[xlxo]

I guess with a bit on imagination...

1. bed
2. bed
3. sofa bed
4. bunk bed
5. balcony? It will be cool sleeping under the stars of Alaska.

 

[footballmouse]

When we went with 5 people, 2 parents & 3 teenage boys. We got the connecting rooms and I'm glad we did. There would have been no way we would have survived with 5 people in that little bit of space. Just having 2 bathrooms was a godsend.

 

[bringmethathorizon]

thing that popped in my mind was
open up a can of sardines and see how they did it.
my vote would be get the room across the hall for the kids.

 

[MouseMomx2]

Personally, I would go with two cabins in a lower stateroom category than try to put five in one stateroom...especially when four of them are adults. With two staterooms you will have two bathrooms, two sofas, two TVs, and a lot more space.

 

[CEGrant]

Last year we sailed on the Dream with four adults and two kids (7&4). We got two adjoining verandah staterooms. If you can afford it, that works very well. They will even open the divider between the verandahs. I agree with the other posters, in that while 5 people in a room is theoretically possible, it would be very tight.

 

[undertheradar]

I keep thinking of doing a land and sea kind of deal next summer which would be WDW & DCL . We are 4 adults and a teenager how on earth do you all fit in one room ? My kids would be 23 ,20 & 13 at time of travel ! I looked at the room many times and just cant figure it out ... Any info or anyone with experience with 5 in a room that can share would be wondeful !

For us the solution is a Royal suite. Sorry, we're on vacation and want all of the stateroom space we can get.

 

[Club Disney Chandler]

Another vote here for two staterooms. All of our cruises have always been adjoining insides on the Dream and Fantasy. The magical portholes are great, I'm assuming you'll be on one of those ships because you said next summer.

 

[Holly Quinlan]

this is starting to make me nervous we sail next November and there will be 3 grown adults and a 5 year old I'm more worried about how comfortable the sofa bed will be for an adult to sleep on than the size of the room

 

[PrincessShmoo]

this is starting to make me nervous we sail next November and there will be 3 grown adults and a 5 year old I'm more worried about how comfortable the sofa bed will be for an adult to sleep on than the size of the room

The mattresses on the sofa/bunk/murphy beds are all standard twin size. We've done 2 cruises with our sons (19 & 24) and the both slept on the sofa bed. They said the beds were fine.

 

[SnowWhite2]

Another vote for 2 rooms. I can't imagine how 5 people could get dressed at the same time in one room. The bathrooms are too small to change in and there isn't enough floor space to have 5 people stand in the room at the same time!

Once my kids got to be 14/16, they had their own room. We were unable to cohabitat peacefully in that small space.

 

[bumbershoot]

My extended family did fine. Cousin and her husband on the main bed. One of their kids in the ceiling bunk, the other on the sofa bed pullout. My aunt (cousin's mom) on the Murphy bed next to the balcony door.

There's a curtain that comes down between the main bed and the rest of the room, so there were 3, no 4, separate changing areas once you include the toilet-room and the shower-room.

 

[Dug720]

Another vote here for two staterooms. All of our cruises have always been adjoining insides on the Dream and Fantasy. The magical portholes are great, I'm assuming you'll be on one of those ships because you said next summer.

Just a point of clarification...

If you want the door between the cabins, you want CONNECTING cabins.

If you are ok with them being just next to each other or even across the hall from each other, you want ADJOINING.

Not a huge deal when you're talking an all adult or almost all adult party, but when you're talking about small kids, you need to have the terminology right to get what you want/need. Trust me - I used to work in a hotel, and people would constantly get mad at the front desk because they "didn't get what they asked for" when in fact they did. They just didn't ask for what they wanted.

 

[AlmostAmber22]

My family [parents, sister (22), and me (24)] shared a family stateroom with a verandah on the Magic back in 2012 and it was...quite cramped. The beds were comfortable, however! Last September, we had two staterooms on the Dream that we booked as a VGT. Between the four of us we had two deluxe family staterooms with verandahs. It was so nice to have so much space! It was easier to have more space to get ready in.