We have 9 people planning to go to Disney in December 2020. My wife and I have a 5 year old and a 2 year old. Her two parents are also going and (here's where our issue comes in) paying for my wife's sister, husband and 8 year old daughter to go also. Her parents are REALLY stretching their budget to pay for 4 adults and 1 child and we're trying to work out our least expensive options. Pop Century is our first choice, but they would need 2 rooms there as it will not allow 5 people per room. This puts them at a higher price than upgrading to a moderate resort with a pull down child bed. We even attempted to put their daughter in our room, since our 2 year old will be sleeping on a toddler cot and not using a bed, but we could not do that either. Caribbean Beach Resort would be our moderate choice as it is the least expensive moderate, as well as skyliner access but all the standard rooms were booked for the week we were planning to go and preferred rooms bump the cost up even further. I am now looking at standard rooms at Port Orleans Riverside, which is more expensive than a standard room at CBR, but still less than the preferred rooms there. Family suites won't hold 9 of us and it's more expensive than either of the two options if we can't all split one room.
I have also looked into renting DVC points, but that option does not save us enough money. We are planning around free dining (based on past dates with our fingers crossed for this year) and we would have to pay for dining if we rented points. Granted it would come out to roughly the same price and we'd be in a villa at a nicer resort, but it is slightly more money and we're trying to go for less. We considered staying off site as well, but after doing some math it does not save much money after figuring in the cost of paying for dining for 9 of us and we'd be giving up a LOT of perks to save a very small amount of money.
Are there any other options that I'm missing? Suggestions? We've thought about contacting Disney over the phone and seeing if it would be possible to explain that the 2 year old won't be sleeping in a bed and maybe getting them to work with us on allowing 2 adults and the 3 children to stay in one room, but I don't know if that's a possibility or not.
UPDATE: We WERE able to add our niece to our room at Pop Century after talking to Disney. 9 people in 2 value resort rooms is going to be a bit tight, but it'll work. We're all set, thank you to those who offered advice.
I have also looked into renting DVC points, but that option does not save us enough money. We are planning around free dining (based on past dates with our fingers crossed for this year) and we would have to pay for dining if we rented points. Granted it would come out to roughly the same price and we'd be in a villa at a nicer resort, but it is slightly more money and we're trying to go for less. We considered staying off site as well, but after doing some math it does not save much money after figuring in the cost of paying for dining for 9 of us and we'd be giving up a LOT of perks to save a very small amount of money.
Are there any other options that I'm missing? Suggestions? We've thought about contacting Disney over the phone and seeing if it would be possible to explain that the 2 year old won't be sleeping in a bed and maybe getting them to work with us on allowing 2 adults and the 3 children to stay in one room, but I don't know if that's a possibility or not.
UPDATE: We WERE able to add our niece to our room at Pop Century after talking to Disney. 9 people in 2 value resort rooms is going to be a bit tight, but it'll work. We're all set, thank you to those who offered advice.
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Also, Pop has the skyliner, super convenient. Dont forget to walk across the bridge over to Art/Animation. I love using their food court and just checking out the resort. So beautifully themed!
