http://blog.mousekingdom.com/2009/11/20/trip-report-location-location-location/ The Magic - seen from different points of view... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:56:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.mousekingdom.com/2009/11/20/trip-report-location-location-location/comment-page-1/#comment-147780 Kate Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:32:11 +0000 http://blog.mousekingdom.com/?p=3904#comment-147780 Thanks for the report! We stayed at both Kidani and OKW on our last trip in September as well. Funny, we liked Kidani better! We also had a 2br, so I could see how a small studio could be a bit less fun. We only had a standard view room, and we looked out of the main entrance and pool. It was actually quite nice, though I am looking forward to savanna view this August. A parking lot would be less appealing if we had been on the other side of the resort. OKW was a little less convenient b/c we had small kids. I didn't want to walk all the way to the back of the hospitality house to fill my mug at the end of the night, dragging a stroller w/me. And b/c we had a Grand Villa with friends (also with small kids) the lack of an elevator was SO difficult! Trying to carry a sleeping kid on one arm and haul the stroller up two flights of stairs with the other got old quick! At Kidani we just wheeled from the bus, past the mug refill, up to our room and wheeled the kids up to the bed and threw them in it! This was our first DVC trip, so I can't compare too much. We will be staying at Jambo House in August 10'. BLT dosen't appeal to us much either, but we'd like to try Boardwalk and Beach Club, oh and Wilderness Lodge. We fell in love with Kidani though, so it might be tough for me to change my mind! Also, the bus ride from OKW to MK, and from Kidani to MK was the same!!!! for us based on the fact we had to ride all through OKW before we even left the property. Not a bad thing about OKW, but some are so concerned about AKV being so geographically far away, I don't know that it matters as much. Thanks again for the report. Please keep posting your photos! Love them! Thanks for the report! We stayed at both Kidani and OKW on our last trip in September as well. Funny, we liked Kidani better! We also had a 2br, so I could see how a small studio could be a bit less fun. We only had a standard view room, and we looked out of the main entrance and pool. It was actually quite nice, though I am looking forward to savanna view this August. A parking lot would be less appealing if we had been on the other side of the resort. OKW was a little less convenient b/c we had small kids. I didn’t want to walk all the way to the back of the hospitality house to fill my mug at the end of the night, dragging a stroller w/me. And b/c we had a Grand Villa with friends (also with small kids) the lack of an elevator was SO difficult! Trying to carry a sleeping kid on one arm and haul the stroller up two flights of stairs with the other got old quick! At Kidani we just wheeled from the bus, past the mug refill, up to our room and wheeled the kids up to the bed and threw them in it! This was our first DVC trip, so I can’t compare too much. We will be staying at Jambo House in August 10′. BLT dosen’t appeal to us much either, but we’d like to try Boardwalk and Beach Club, oh and Wilderness Lodge. We fell in love with Kidani though, so it might be tough for me to change my mind! Also, the bus ride from OKW to MK, and from Kidani to MK was the same!!!! for us based on the fact we had to ride all through OKW before we even left the property. Not a bad thing about OKW, but some are so concerned about AKV being so geographically far away, I don’t know that it matters as much. Thanks again for the report. Please keep posting your photos! Love them!

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