I would avoid the following:Ideally we’d each have our own comfortable, non pull-out bed in a quiet room. While that may not be possible within our budget, I’d be interested in learning what accommodations come close!
This is a good summary.I would avoid the following:
- Resorts with non-carpeted flooring, as that magnifies sound (Animal Kingdom Lodge, Yacht Club, Fort Wilderness Cabins, Pop Century, Port Orleans French Quarter, Port Orleans Riverside, Coronado Springs)
- Resorts that allow guests to being their potentially barking pet dogs (Yacht Club, Fort Wilderness Cabins, Art of Animation, Port Orleans Riverside)
- Pool-view category rooms at any resort
- Other resort-specific categories with potentially noisy features, such as Tower rooms in the Contemporary (we could hear the automated monorail announcements in our room there late at night during Christmas week. It wasn't loud, but might annoy a light sleeper), or certain longhouses at the Polynesian Resort that are close to the boat docks or the luau show.
This is a good summary.
I would also add that rooms near the lobby, transportation, and elevators are louder than the rooms that are at the very end of the hall, as far away from lobby, transportation and elevators, because families arrive from their day out and they are talking or running or laughing when they walk by your room. If you are at the end of the hall, it's less likely they will be making noise by your door.
Thanks - we have stayed in the dedicated 2BR at BCV and they are really nice - but that was a long time ago when we owned there - do you know if all of the dedicated DVC 2BR have 2 queens now?Our favorite is the 2-bedroom, dedicated villa at BCV. You wouldn't have 4 beds, but you would get a king and two queens (plus some pull-outs). There is only one door in the unit that goes to the outer hallway (it's in the foyer) which means neither of the bedrooms have doors to the hallways and neither bedroom has a connecting door to another guest's room. We've stayed in almost every resort on property and found this particular villa to be the quietest. Our Riviera 1-bedroom was quiet as well, but to get more than 3 beds, you would need to do a 2-bedroom there as well.
Good tip about requesting top floor and yeah, that’s the problem, 2 rooms = 2 expensive!In addition to the other great suggestions from PP's, we've found the garden wing rooms at CR to be very quiet. In order to get 4 beds though, you would need two rooms which might break your budget.
I would also suggest, no matter what you choose, request highest floor and "quiet room". We like to be on the top floor no matter where we stay so no one is stomping on top of us.
Ideally we’d each have our own comfortable, non pull-out bed in a quiet room. While that may not be possible within our budget, I’d be interested in learning what accommodations come close!
thanks!