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the Grand Floridian (“VGF”) (and, later in 2015, the Beach Club and BoardWalk Villas)
sleep five—the third sleeping spot is a short fold-down murphy bed that's 72ish inches long
and sleeps shorter than that. Studios in Bay Lake Tower at Disney's Contemporary (“BLT”)
sleep four, but we think the room is too cramped when the fold-out couch is opened.
One Bedroom Villas sleep four or five, depending on the resort. They have a king bed
bedroom that sleeps two and also a combined full kitchen, dining, and living space that typ-
ically sleeps two on a fold-out couch. Old Key West, Bay Lake Tower, and the Villas at the
Animal Kingdom Lodge (at Jambo House and Kidani Village, “VAKL”) add a third sleep-
ing spot to this area with a fold-down chair; at the Villas at the Grand Floridian, this space
gets a third spot from a fold-down murphy bed. All One Bedroom Villas except those at
Kidani Village and Bay Lake Tower have a single large divided bath; at those two, there's
a small bath in the living/dining/kitchen area and another larger one in the king bedroom.
Two Bedroom Villas come in two flavors:
• One type simply combines a Studio and a One Bedroom through a connecting
door, and is known as a “lock-off”. These lock-off Two Bedroom Villas combine
the capacity and merits of the spaces that make them up. Most sleep eight, but
those that combine five-person spaces will sleep nine (OKW, BLT, VAKL, VWL)
or, at the Villas at the Grand Floridian, ten.
• A second type, designed as a Two Bedroom Villa from the start, is called in the jar-
gon a “dedicated” villa, sleeps eight or nine, and will have minor variations in the
second bedroom compared to a Studio, losing the kitchenette, swapping the fold-
out couch of the Studio for another queen, and getting another closet instead of an
exit to the corridor. At the Grand Floridian, such villas also lose the fold-down bed
in the second bedroom and sleep nine.
Two Bedroom Villas don't really have the living or dining space to support the eight or
nine people they will hold—a problem particularly acute at the Beach Club Villas, Saratoga
Springs, Villas at the Wilderness Lodge, and BoardWalk Villas. See the floor plan, be-
low—a Saratoga Springs example. In this space that sleeps eight, note the seats for four in
the living area and three at the dining table.
Chairs can be moved around to add seats in these smaller spaces, but larger groups will
find the Two Bedroom Villas at Old Key West, the Villas at Disney's Grand Floridian, Kid-
ani Village, and Bay Lake Tower much more livable. See the Grand Floridian floor plan,
below.
Bungalows at the Polynesian are unlike any other DVC two-bedroom spaces, but are too
expensive for you to even think about.
Grand Villas, available at all the DVC resorts except the Villas at the Wilderness Lodge,
the Beach Club Villas, and, we expect, the new DVC offerings at the Polynesian, sleep 12
in a king room, two rooms with two queens each, and some sofa beds. They have twice
the living/dining/kitchen space of Two Bedroom Villas, and sometimes—at Jambo House,
VGF, and most of the BoardWalk Grand Villas—even more.
There's more variation among the Grand Villas than in any other DVC accommodations,
so for more on these huge spaces that can go for more than $2,000 a night, see
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