Party of 5

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Mamajbaker
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Party of 5

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We recently booked a pool view room at POR for our upcoming January trip with our 3 boys (13,10,4) for our first ever WDW trip and our sons 4th birthday! We are so excited about the atmosphere and location of the POR and know that our boys will love it.
However, one of the main reasons we booked is that the rooms can sleep 5. When we looked at our reservation page it says "Pool View (2 queens and child fold out OR 2 queens)". We wanted to be sure we had room for all the kids so we called to Disney to add the request for the room with the pull down child bed. The Disney rep told us she would request it but the only way to really guarantee it was to upgrade to a preferred room. We are willing to do this as all our kids need a bed to be comfortable for the 8 days but we'd rather spend the money elsewhere if it's unnecessary. From most of what we've read it seems to indicate that families of 5 will be given the AB rooms with the pull out anyway.
Has anyone had a family of 5 put in the room without a child bed? Should we pay for the preferred room to ensure it or will POR automatically place us in the bigger room.
Sorry if this seems obvious, we're just trying to make sure we've covered all our bases.
Thanks for your help
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Re: Party of 5

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If you are a party of five (all aged 3 or over) then you will definitely get an Alligator Bayou room. The rep got it wrong - the resort no longer has roll-away beds that they can add to other room types, so they have to assign you to a room with a fold-down Murphy bed. Don't worry about it.

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Re: Party of 5

Unread post by Mamajbaker »

Thank you SO much!! You saved me $400 (and a big headache)! It's what I was thinking originally but I'm glad to have it confirmed.
Thanks for the fast reply too. So glad to have found this great site!
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