AJollyHoliday
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Any recommendations for a 2 Bedroom Sunset Savannah view at Kidani? Specific room numbers appreciated!
Need a little help! Are the buses from Ak Jambo and Kidani to the parks just for the AK Resort? For some reason I thought I read they added a water park maybe to route? Ty!
Any recommendations for a 2 Bedroom Sunset Savannah view at Kidani? Specific room numbers appreciated!
Ty so much trying to make the choice of AK Kidani or OKW! Switch hopefully at 7 mos this Wed! Ive never stayed at either, home resort SSR! OKW renovations scare me a little but it’s all good! Big family trip 12/9 and I just have calm down! We’re going to Disney during Xmas and that’s great anywhere we stay!The Studios bus stops at Blizzard Beach when it is open. The Disney Springs bus stops at Typhoon Lagoon when it is open. That is not an addition. That is the way it has always been.
All the park and Disney Springs buses are for AKL only (Kidani and Jambo). Particularly for MK, they often have separate buses going to MK from Kidani and Jambo during busy times of the day.
Just booked two 1br Savannah view villas at Kidani for the week after Thanksgiving! So excited! I have wanted to stay at AKL for so long and this will be our first time. One question, we have two different confirmation numbers for the two rooms. I've heard people talking about linking their reservations. What is the benefit of doing this? Can one person make plans and reservations for the whole group then?
Thank you for all the info. That was very helpful.Linking is something that refers to bringing two successive reservations for the same type of room together, e.g., someone uses points from one member number to reserve a 1BR for Sun to Wed and a different member number to reseve the same type room for Wed to Sat and then has MS link the reservations so the member does not have to change rooms. It does not refer to joining two reservations like you have made for the same dates for two different rooms.
What you might do is have MS put a "traveling with" notation on each reservation and request rooms close to each other. The traveling with notation tells the room assigner that you are all part of the same family or group.
As to having one person making plans or reservations for the group, you do not need everyone to be in the same room to do that. All you need is a member with a My Disney Experience account which has as family members or friends all the parties in your group. You can then put both reservations and everyone's tickets in that member's MDE account and the member can make all the fastpass+ reservations and all the dining reservations.
So vacation update! I just booked a Kidani 1 bedroom savannah view for Dec 12th-17th!
It's been a rough 2018 so far, I rented my 2018 points out because I had to help family out with some stuff and didn't think I'd make it to Disney this year. I was debating paying out of pocket, but started looking and borrowed 2019 points to book this trip. I may work off borrowed points for the next few years as I work back to not having to borrower, but that's ok I really need this trip! Also didn't necessarily want a 1 bedroom, but it's all I could get, lots of room for a solo trip (unless I find someone to go).
Excitement begins! Though I do have one question. For room requests am I able to call member services to make those unlike calling the normal Disney number?
Don’t forget to bring or buy some bath bombs for that spa tub. My arrival night tradition includes a trip to the GF or DS Basin Store to splurge on bath bombs for the rest of my stay it takes me a long time to sniff my way through all of the choices!So vacation update! I just booked a Kidani 1 bedroom savannah view for Dec 12th-17th!
It's been a rough 2018 so far, I rented my 2018 points out because I had to help family out with some stuff and didn't think I'd make it to Disney this year. I was debating paying out of pocket, but started looking and borrowed 2019 points to book this trip. I may work off borrowed points for the next few years as I work back to not having to borrower, but that's ok I really need this trip! Also didn't necessarily want a 1 bedroom, but it's all I could get, lots of room for a solo trip (unless I find someone to go).
Excitement begins! Though I do have one question. For room requests am I able to call member services to make those unlike calling the normal Disney number?
The Studios bus stops at Blizzard Beach when it is open. The Disney Springs bus stops at Typhoon Lagoon when it is open. That is not an addition. That is the way it has always been.
All the park and Disney Springs buses are for AKL only (Kidani and Jambo). Particularly for MK, they often have separate buses going to MK from Kidani and Jambo during busy times of the day.
Recently returned from a trip to Kidani and need to correct my post from above. The waterpark buses have been changed, in my view for the worse. There is no longer any AKV bus directly to a waterpark. To get to Blizzard Beach, you must take the bus to AK and switch there to a bus to Blizzard Beach (reverse coming back). To get to Typhoon Lagoon, you have to take a bus to Disney Springs and switch there to a bus to TL. Thus, it now takes two buses to get to a waterpark, essentially more than doubling the time previously needed, and you get the ignominy of standing and waiting for a bus at AK or Disney Springs in whatever you wear to the water park. (I am guessing similar changes have been made at other resorts.)
Recently returned from a trip to Kidani and need to correct my post from above. The waterpark buses have been changed, in my view for the worse. There is no longer any AKV bus directly to a waterpark. To get to Blizzard Beach, you must take the bus to AK and switch there to a bus to Blizzard Beach (reverse coming back). To get to Typhoon Lagoon, you have to take a bus to Disney Springs and switch there to a bus to TL. Thus, it now takes two buses to get to a waterpark, essentially more than doubling the time previously needed, and you get the ignominy of standing and waiting for a bus at AK or Disney Springs in whatever you wear to the water park. (I am guessing similar changes have been made at other resorts.)
So figure I'll ask here and the Jambo thread...
I've never used touring plans room request feature... but I've always heard good things. This is my first DVC stay so no idea if I should make a request through them or just call Member Services for my request? Obviously no guarantee's but trying to find the best route to go. If I use touring plans should I not make any requests to MS and online and just let them handle it?
Any room suggestions in Kidani for 1 bedroom savannah view? Probably prefer 3rd floor or so.
Crazy.. definitely would take a $7-8 Uber ride door to door and avoid the headache of two buses.