Disney area villas

[Frankh19]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me the location of the disney area villas situated within Kissimmee.

I am from the UK and have booked through [name edited] and the promise is that they are very close to Disney theme parks and the 192 etc....

Thanks,

frank

[ellie]

There are literally thousands of villas in the Kissimmee area, so we would need more information than that to be able to give you a reasonable answer. Some are near to Disney, some are not. However, if you could find out the name of the community it would be easy to pin it down, and you could look on the community maps above.

Sorry not to be more helpful. [msnsad]

[dawn burley]

It sounds like you have allocation on arrival, so may not be able to find out which villa or community you are staying on beforehand. This is common with reservations made through third parties such as travel agents or management companies and not direct with the owner.

I hope that helps[msnsmile]

Dawn

[mfairhurst]

You will be allocated when you get there can you not find the estates that they do in KISSIMME area and then you can narrow it down to which estate .
MAUREEN
www.onlinefloridavillas.com/villas/1683.aspx

[ShirleyD]

Don't worry though Frank, most communities are within a 20 minute drive of Disney main gate

[Snapper]

Frank, 'Disney Area Villas' is a bit of a misused term; especially when used by tour companies.

While the forum will likely stop you telling us the exact name of who you booked through there are a couple of questions we can ask that we enable us to give you more of an idea of what to expect.

The good news to take away from all this is that having found this forum you now have the opportunity to book direct with an owner for any future trips and doing so will mean that you know exactly which villa you are staying in. [msnsmile2][msnsmile2]

First question: Did you book through a travel agent / tour company or did you book direct with an owner? If you aren't sure, the easiest way to answer this is to ask yourself the question do you know the name of the person who owns the villa?

Next question: Whoever you have booked with should be able to tell you the community where the villa is located. If you can find this out we can give you a location and you can take a look on Google maps or equivalent to see the distance for yourself. If you have booked through a tour company this will get more difficult. Sadly most tour companies run what's called an allocate-on-arrival system which means that you won't know what villa you are staying at (and in most cases even the community) until you arrive in Orlando. It's not a good system at all as the villa you get may not match the villa you've seen in the brochure.

[steph_goodrum]

One good way to try to find out is to ask whoever you booked with for the address you will need to complete your Visa waiver form, for where you are staying. If they give you an office address that will be fairly conclusive that they are allocating on arrival. They may be able to narrow it down a bit if you ask them for the Community detail so that you can do some research, get maps, programme Sat Nav etc which many people like to do before arrival rather than after their long flight.

[ellie]

Steve, you are so right, as even the Tour Company may not know which villa they are going to allocate until very close to the departure date. The Tour Company has to source villas, they do not own them, and they have to find enough willing victims (ie villa owners) to give them their villas for peanuts, so the tour operator can rent them out at a massive profit.

As Steve so rightly says, they normally will not tell you which villa you are going to as they will not guarantee anything more than the most basic facts about their villas - they do not guarantee to give you a villa which matches the photos in their brochures. You could stike lucky and be put into a brand new villa highly equipped and a stone's throw from Disney, but you could also be allocated a much older one miles from anywhere, which may not be so well equipped.

Your best bet, always, is to book direct with an owner, as then you know exactly what you have booked and where you are going to be located.

Good luck and hope you are able to find out some more information.

[SunLover]

Excellent advice as always Ellie and Steve [clap]

[Frankh19]

Thanks for all the advice, it looks like I have booked an allocation on arrival, which is controlled through Welcome USA ( if that needs to be edited then apologies).

I will however, remember to book through an onwer next time, but £3,900 for 5 people in a 4-bedroomed villa with 7-seater minivan and 16 nights stay, I thought was too good to miss.

Can it be done cheaper than this?

Frank