Having lived in the Orlando area in the past, our family usually stays off-site when we visit Disney. However, on our last trip we decided to take advantage of the free dining offer that Disney offers in the fall. Since we have 3 kids we cannot stay in the typical Disney room which seems to assume a family of 4.
If you use the Disney web site to look for rooms you won't turn up one option that is available to you as a larger family and that is the value resort suites. There are only about 200 of these suites so they book up fast and they actually cost more than getting two rooms in the value suites. So why would you bother? Well, you get a queen bed (which you don't get in the other rooms in a value resort or at Port Orleans, Riverside in the rooms that accommodate 5 for that matter). You also get a kitchenette of sorts. And you get a connected, but separate room so the kids can go to bed earlier than the adults.
So what does all that cost? About $169-$259 depending on the season.
In the end we decided to save the money and stay at the moderate Port Orleans, Riverside which has rooms which sleep 5. It only has full beds which would be a problem if you have 5 large people. Our kids are still small so, that's not a problem. I'm big (6' tall and 230 lbs) but didn't find the smallish bed uncomfortable. With the money we saved, we treated the kids to a night at the Sandcastle Kids Club while my wife and I had dinner without the kids at Chefs de France. We felt the upscale resort and the night out was worth the loss of space, given the limited amount of time we were actually in the room.
Of course, after all was said and done, we really felt like we will go back to staying off site. But that's another story...
For more on the value resort suites:
http://www.mousesavers.com/allstarmusicsuites.html
http://www.wdwinfo.com/wdwinfo/resorts/asm-suite-review.html
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