3:19 I’ve never been to Universal. The ambience noise @ IOA sounds so relaxing! I also enjoyed seeing the large splashes in the reflective glass. What ride are you sitting across from here?

Laundry is huge! What is this? A college dorm?

We just got back from Saratoga Springs. We stayed in a one-bedroom villa for 10 days, and housekeeping was provided every day. I didn't request it, nor did I pay extra for it. Our beds were made, used towels were replaced, and trash was emptied daily. When we stayed at Bay Lake Tower, housekeeping was done every other day. I stay in the one-bedroom villas because of the laundry. So, I do understand where you're coming from.

I travel with 3 kids under 6 and do laundry in our villa every day. Someone in the group will need laundry or need to wash their bath towels. That is a huge perk that also lessens the pain of limited housekeeping regarding vacuuming

Yes! It's not the resort I'd choose if doing the parks for sure-especially with no car! We stayed in the tower once when my daughter had a competition in Orlando just because I wanted to be on property-and it was gorgeous for sure. But it's definitely not "magical". I also saw one KZfaqr find that he did miss the bus because his Cabanas were the last to be picked up and it was full already. So he just walked to the first stop the next day to ensure his spot!

The thing for me is that it’s so hot when I visit, I sweat most of the trip. I sometimes shower twice a day when I’m at Disney World. I like to come back from the park, shower, change my clothes, then go back out for the evening. I don’t want to spend a single minute of my vacation waiting in a laundromat even if it is free. I did that once at Art of Animation and it was difficult to occupy my kids, or I missed time with my family to do the wash. At the Boardwalk, I can come back from the park, take a shower, and put my clothes wash while I’m back out in the parks. I can move it to the dryer when I go to bed. That’s the value for me. Time is money.

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Omg! Karen, do you do anything except complain? This is the 2d video I’ve seen and all you do is whine. I have to figure how to keep your vids out of my feed so I don’t accidentally watch another.

I was ecstatic when I bought points off of my friend to stay at Bay Lake Tower in a deluxe studio but we got to go downstairs and do the laundry for free. It seemed to be dedicated to DVC members there. Then when I stayed at the new Disneyland hotel with points they gave you a card at check-in to swipe for free laundry as well (And you would need that because that laundry room is shared with cash customers). We usually stay a minimum of five nights so going home with clean laundry is huge- And what about it rescuing your clothes after getting caught in a FL thunderstorm?!?!

No more transitioning moderate to DVC. More moderate resorts and more Value

I am not defending Disney here but there totally should have been washer and dryers in those cabins. I almost feel like they planned to have washer and dryers in the rooms where the second sink/extra closet is in the cabins. Especially since they call it a 1 bedroom. My guess is the underground plumbing in the area wasn’t designed for that extra water volume. Probably more a hope of limitations rather than being missed. I will say this reason is why I will never stay there.

I completely agree with you. We're not DVC members, but I would expect a washer and dryer in the unit for DVC. When we go in October we are staying 3 nights at Yacht Club and then 3 nights at Saratoga Springs. By that 4th day I will want to wash at least a load of clothes.

even though riviera is the deluxe property, you get the leftovers on the skyliner going to epcot speaking of skyliner, you also have to wait + commute to CB to get on the skyliner to get to HS. definitely not deluxe, even though it's priced like it.

We usually stay for 14 days at our DVC we only pack 4 days worth of clothes since we have the laundry. We throw our clothes in the washer every night. Wouldn’t want it any other way 🧺😊

Laundry access also helps with keeping the room kept up. Kids and adults put dirty clothes into washer not on the floor when in a 1 or 2 beedroom.

Have you ever talked about your home resort(s) with DVC?

Thanks!! It also looks like Google Maps provides approximate ETAs of the Disney busses as well and this info seems to be integrated directly from Disney. So this may help some as well if you want to get access to the wait times without a reservation.

I own at Riviera and simply love everything about the resort. We've already moved up from Tower Studios to Deluxe Studios since buying. We are holding off on moving up to 1 bedroom villas as long as possible as it would mean adding on and that is just not in the cards any time soon.

I know a lot of people think the Riviera is a fake Rolex, but I think the rooms are the nicest, especially the preferred view rooms. We bought DVC at the Riviera and have recently stayed at several others to compare to the Riv (AKL Kidani, Old Key West, Saratoga Springs), and so far the Riviera tops the list for our preferences.

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Those are not benches they are the old 6 feet away line I saw them when I just went

Great video! It’s the only DVC resort we haven’t stayed at as members. This is most helpful in choosing room amenities vs location.

Thanks this is really useful

I am glad to hear you enjoyed this room and think they are gorgeous. I have seen some of your other videos where you discuss the different reasons why the Riviera is not your favorite. But as you have seen, the Riviera has some of the best rooms on property, along with some of the best food. My family and I love it for those reasons and more, but understand why not everyone does.

Love it! It's pretty unusual that it sleeps 5 too! I guess I wouldn't need the fan as long as I can make the thermostat cooler than 70°.

I have stayed in a one bedroom but opted for standard view as I could watch the fireworks from Epcot and save some points. The family really did have a blast at this resort. We tried all the food options both Topolinos and Bar Riva were excellent. Skyliner Access to get to both Epcot and HW was very convenient and the ability to walk to Caribbean Beach and enjoy that resort really stood out to us. We ran into the characters daily in the lobby or near the courtyard. I can’t say enough about this place the only downside for me is the lobby is underwhelming.

25:08 I would have to be super careful when checking out of a room like this if using the Murphy bed. I’m really good about doing complete walkthroughs of hotel rooms looking for items left behind when checking out, but I could easily see myself leaving items in the wall cubby spaces and forgetting them if the bed was put up when checking out.

How many points will you be getting?

A ceiling fan would be good

too bad you cannot live there. I would bring my cats

This is a really nice property! One thing I’ve noticed is that you rarely mention the nightly cost of resorts where you stay in terms of either dollar value or points. Do prices fluctuate so much throughout the year it would be too hard to make cost estimates based on your specific stays? You mentioned this villa had a preferred view so it would be expected to be more costly than a standard view.

Where are all the pillows for the extra beds?

Both!

35 lbs?! wow, great job. I was wondering if Russ was losing weight. I should probably put down this package of cookies :) My pain from the rides is usually in my back from the jarring motions. I wish there is something I could do about that. Maybe exercises to strengthen my back muscles. Another great video.

We're considering DVC but confused as to whether you can bank the points on alternate years? We're from the UK and more likely to do alternating years than each year so considering whether it could work for us? (btw we watch your videos all the time and love your channel, you're the creator we trust the most with info on WDW)

I can't imagine anyone giving OKW a terrible review. OKW is my favorite resort, so chill, staff is so incredibly nice, just a great place to stay.

Poor experience for us as well. Works intermittently! Waste of money. We have one that was my 22 YO sons when he was little that still works and is better than this one!

The tower studio is just way to small even for two people imo but I do think the resort looks very nice and I LOVE the skyliner so that a huge draw for my family but ya I totally don’t like what dvc is doing with making resorts on moderate/value property’s, they need to build one on new land near MK imo

Thank you very much for posting this video and answering my question. It is very kind of you to take the extra time to post things that your viewers ask about. So what I gather from the video is that there's one set of stairs on the way into the building. I didn't see any other stairs. And I also caught a number of times that the walkway inclined and declined. I have to watch out for those kinds of things, so I'm glad to have been able to see that it happens in the video. This is so helpful!

Wouldn’t have been more efficient to start at animal kingdom since they open earlier then do magic kingdom/TTC, then Epcot since it’s connected by the monorail and then take the sky train to Hollywood?

Thank you! Great video. Appreciate the measurements. I am of the “don’t love being shoved in a seat” camp cause it hurts me for other medical reasons. Congratulations on the self work. So hard to do. You look fabulous. Thank you for sharing so much with us.

You look great, I hope you are proud of yourself for all your hard work. You are inspiring me to do the same ❤

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Congratulations on progress with lifestyle changes you are making! Changing habits as an adult is harder since we often tend to be set in our ways. Overcoming slower metabolism is also difficult. Go you!

Seen Deadpool & Wolverine last night! So muchh fun

We have bedroom furniture from wilderness lodge in our home. Its from early 2000s. Much better quality back then

Great video

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