In order to explain that, just consider a hotel for a while. You have booked yourself, your partner and the kids into a lovely hotel for a couple of weeks, and are looking forward to a great holiday in Orlando, visiting Disney and also many of the other attractions that this part of Florida has to offer.
After checking in comes the first problem. Who sleeps where? Unless you have booked a family room, with everybody spending the vacation in the same room, either the children have to be given their own room, or you and your partner have to split, each sharing the children between you. A lot depends upon how many you have.
However, in the final analysis it doesn’t matter if you have two children or four or even six. You either enjoy your vacation with just the two of you in your own room, and the children in theirs or you don’t. Even now, you can see where Orlando vacation villas are suddenly beginning to look attractive.
No matter how well behaved your kids are, you will always be wondering what they are getting up to, and that isn’t your only problem with a hotel. If your children have reached that age when they must have their own bedrooms, particularly if you have boys and girls, then the hotel costs are going to be pretty steep.
There are more problems, but let’s forget them all, because Disney vacation should not involve problems of any kind. Let’s stop for a minute and look at how a Disney vacation villa can solve all of these problems.
First the rooms: you can rent an Orlando vacation villa with up to six bedrooms, and you need to have an awful lot of kids to fill that. Likely a three bedroom villa would suit you, where two children can have their own rooms, or up to two boys and two girls can share, each of the four having their own bed. They share rooms, but no need to share beds.
Each has its own TV and DVD player and is also en suite. Some even have a games console in the rooms, so nobody is going to get bored. A family of six can live in one of these vacation villas in Orlando vary comfortably, with its own pool for just a little extra, spa, games room and even the kitchen where you can rustle up some breakfast or supper, and still eat out for lunch and dinner if your prefer – you can’t cook in a hotel!
But that must cost a fortune, mustn’t it! No way can you afford that. Well, yes, there is way you can do that. Consider the relative costs. First the hotel. What do you need? A room for you two, one for the boys and one for the girls. Three hotel rooms close to Disney World. Cheap? Absolutely – not!!
Now check the three-bedroom Orlando villa rental. Set in a great resort with a private pool and spa, you pay $160 a night. That’s for all of you! That equates to three double hotel rooms at $54 a night. It’s a no-brainer. It’s £27 a person! You won’t find a hotel anywhere for that price unless you take your own bedbug catcher. But that’s not all: you can get a four bedroom villa with more amenities for just under $200 a night – that’s $50 a room. There is nothing a hotel can offer that you won’t get either in your own villa or offered in one of the many restaurants and amenity centers that are everywhere in Orlando. And you are only 15 minutes from Disney! You have your own DVD player to play your own videos, or rent one for the night. That will be a lot less expensive that watching hotel movies!
Your kids can go to bed any time they like, and watch the movies they want to watch, or view their own TV programs. Perhaps play with the Playstation, but the main thing is that you know they are safe in the same house as you.
Compare that to a hotel: you are continually worried about your children in the rooms next door – are they slipping out without you knowing, are they breaking anything, are the movies suitable. In fact, how much are they running up on the bill by watching these late-night TV movies?
If it has a pool it is shared with the entire hotel, you can’t cook your own food if you feel like it and your drinks will be at hotel bar prices compared to drinking your own home-made cocktails by your own private pool while you cook up some steaks and mushrooms. That’s a vacation!
A vacation should be a fantastic time, yet so many people enclose themselves in such small spaces. What if there are a number of you? Perhaps a large family or a group of friends or buddies? You would each have to book your own hotel rooms, and considering the cost of hotel accommodation in Orlando, it is going to cost you a collective fortune.
Have you never thought of renting a villa for the period of your vacation? You can get a beautiful Orlando villa rental in Windsor Hills Resort, just two miles from Disney World, for $277 a night including Florida taxes in high summer. Less out of season. If that sounds a lot, just consider what you get for your cash:
Six bedrooms, with two king beds, two queens and four twins. Ideal for any group of people. Now does it sound so expensive? That’s 12 people, or $24 each per night. Wow! Where can you get a luxury villa for that price? But it doesn’t stop there because look at what else you can get with Orlando villa rentals such as this: Your private pool and spa. Pool and table hockey, plus the facilities of Windsor Hills Resort, offering tennis, basketball, volleyball and a fitness center, cinema and massive lagoon pool.
However, if you feel that the price is too much for you, or if your party is smaller, there are 3 bedroom condos available that sleep 6 for $142 including taxes. A bit more at $23.54 each a day, but where on earth can you get a hotel room for that price? It makes sense if you have a family of 6, for example, and there are other benefits of an Orlando vacation villa over a hotel.
Unless your kids are very small they will want their own hotel rooms. Mixed sexes likely mean two more rooms. Apart from the cost, how do you know what they are getting up to? What are they doing and are they staying in their rooms – you know how parents get when their kids are by themselves in a strange place. No such problems with a villa rental in Orlando: it’s just like being in your own home.
Not only that, but you get a fully fitted kitchen, so if you feel like cooking for yourself you can. No expensive room service just for a sandwich and you can also enjoy drinks by the pool at shop prices, not hotel bar prices. So you gain all round – you can’t just take the relative room costs into consideration, and even though an Orlando villa rental wins hands down there, there is the additional advantage of reduced living costs.
A holiday in Orlando can be hot at times, and you will want to freshen up your clothes frequently. This, again, is where a superb Orlando vacation villa wins, because you get a washing machine and dryer – in fact just about everything you have in your own kitchen! So what’s the catch, you must be thinking. Why is a villa so inexpensive compared to a hotel room? The answer, of course, is that there is no catch, and with a villa there is generally less maintenance and overheads than with a hotel room because there is no hotel staff to pay.
You have no reception, no bar staff, no waiters, bell hops and everybody else it takes to run a decent hotel. That’s where you benefit with a villa by getting a significantly cheaper vacation in Orlando. Don’t forget that you are only two miles from Disney, so you save a lot on transport – resorts such as Windsor Hills Resort offer shuttle buses to and from the theme park, and also to Sea World and Universal Studios.
Of course, the Orlando area has a lot more to offer than just Disney World, and if you are a keen golfer you will find a host of great courses and golf academies in the district. In fact, Orlando condos and vacation villas are ideal for golfing parties, particularly Windsor Hills resort, because you can leave the kids and your partner to enjoy the resort and Disney while you head for the golf course. A heavenly vacation for everybody, and all at less per head than a cheap motel.
I’m from England, and my mum isn’t keen on flying, so restricts on how long she would be willing to fly for. Also, does anyone know where to search on the internet for sort of guest houses and villas rather than package holidays in hotels etc, because my mum doesn’t fancy a hotel, package holiday.
Finally, please could you also state why you favourite summer holiday destiation is so good.
Thanks for all answers in advance, 10 points will be given for best / most detailed
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Felipe