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Kissimmee townhomes for a small group, Nov 13–20

Aerial view of Storey Lake Resort in Kissimmee, with pools, water slides, and palm trees under a clear blue sky

A seven-night stay the week before Thanksgiving is one of the smarter weeks to pick in Kissimmee. The air is dry, the evenings want a sweatshirt, and you're ahead of the Christmas crush at Walt Disney World. The practical question underneath your search isn't which townhome looks nicest in photos. It's this: for a small group, how many bedrooms do you actually need, and which resort do you want to come home to at six o'clock when everyone is sunburnt and quiet?

Both answers change what you pay. So let's start there, then look at the actual homes.

Six, eight, or ten people? The number decides almost everything

"Small group" covers a lot of ground, and in our inventory it's the difference between a two-bedroom and a four-bedroom. Here's the honest sort:

Most groups of six book the three-bedroom and are glad they did, because the trip isn't really six people sharing a house. It's two adults who want a door that closes, kids who go to bed at nine, and somebody reading in the living room at eleven. The two-bedroom at Regal Oaks does sleep six, and it's genuinely comfortable for a couple travelling with four, or for two couples who don't need a third room. If your six includes three distinct bedtimes, pay for the third bedroom.

Regal Oaks or Storey Lake: pick the resort before you pick the floor plan

These two communities sit at opposite ends of a useful spectrum, and the choice matters more than the extra bedroom does.

Regal Oaks is on Golden Hawk Way, a couple of hundred feet from Old Town, which means you can walk to the strip of shops and rides rather than get back in the car. Disney is a five-mile drive; Disney Springs is about ten minutes, Epcot a little over that. The resort runs dueling water slides, pools, a gym, and gated security around the clock, and the clubhouse is a short walk from the door. The thing that sells it for families, though, is smaller than any of that: both of our Regal Oaks townhomes have a private hot tub on a screened lanai. Not a shared one across the resort. Yours, ten steps from the kitchen, which is exactly the distance a parent will walk at nine at night and no further.

Storey Lake sits off Osceola Parkway, roughly fifteen minutes from the Disney gates and a longer run up to Universal. The draw is water: the Hideaway Club has two slides, a lazy river, a kids' splash zone, a big jacuzzi and a tiki bar at the pool, all with no extra fee. Our four-bedroom there adds a private fenced pool of its own, plus a PS4 in one of the kids' rooms, which has rescued more than one rainy afternoon. There's a free shuttle over to the Hideaway Club, tip only.

If your week is parks-every-day and you want somewhere to walk in the evening, take Regal Oaks. If you're planning two or three park days out of seven and want the rest spent in water, Storey Lake earns its keep. Groups that split the difference usually regret it less at Storey Lake, because a resort day there feels like a day out rather than a day off.

What the $2,500 actually has to cover

Compare totals, not nightly rates. Seven nights over November 13 to 20 falls in holiday-season demand at Walt Disney World, and a tempting nightly number can land well past your ceiling once taxes and cleaning are added. When you book direct with us there are no platform markups or service fees on top, which removes one layer of the arithmetic, but the figure to hold against $2,500 is the full quoted total for your dates.

Two line items catch people out, and both are optional rather than hidden:

  • Pool heating. At the Storey Lake homes, heating the private pool is an add-on charge per day and has to be requested in advance. In November it's worth considering: the heater works by heat exchange, holds around 87°F, and on a genuinely cold snap it may not reach the set temperature. Mid-November is usually mild enough that it does.
  • Grill rental. A sanitized three or four-burner with propane, delivered, for an extra fee. Worth it if you're the kind of group that cooks; skip it if you're not.

The money that doesn't appear anywhere is the money you don't spend. Every one of these townhomes has a full kitchen with cookware, a dishwasher, coffee makers and a toaster, and we leave starter supplies at check-in so nobody's driving to a supermarket at ten at night on arrival day. Publix and Walmart are both within a few miles of Storey Lake. Breakfast at the house before a park day, seven mornings running, is the quiet reason a townhome beats two hotel rooms.

Travelling with a baby? Say so when you ask

All five of these townhomes come with a pack-n-play, a high chair and children's dinnerware as standard, and the Regal Oaks and Storey Lake homes include an umbrella-style stroller too. That's a stroller you don't check at the airport and a high chair you don't rent. Note that we don't supply linens for the pack-n-play, so bring a crib sheet.

Linens and towels are provided at one set per guest, pool towels included, and there's a washer and dryer in every one of these homes. Seven nights with children and a washing machine means you pack for three days.

If your group grew since you started planning

Townhome budgets and townhome headcounts both have a way of creeping. Two in the portfolio handle the creep without becoming a different kind of trip.

New Home at Storey Lake, Free Water Park & Pool! runs to five bedrooms and four baths across two floors, with a Spiderman-themed room downstairs, two king suites and a Minnie room up. It has a private pool with a safety fence, a kitchen stocked for fourteen, an ice maker, and it's wheelchair accessible, which is rare in a two-story townhome and worth knowing if anyone in your party would otherwise be ruling out stairs. The main clubhouse is about two minutes' walk.

At three bedrooms sleeping nine, Meet Mickey! Steps from Kids fun & Water Slides! is the awkward-number solution: a hot tub, a games console, a balcony and a dedicated workspace, for the group where nine people have to fit and nobody wants to book two units.

What to send us so we can answer in one message

Nothing on this page is a live availability check, and November 13 to 20 is a week that moves. Give us four things and we'll come back with real totals rather than a range:

  • Your exact headcount, and how many are children.
  • Whether you need bedrooms to separate, or beds in a room is fine.
  • How many park days you're planning, which tells us whether Regal Oaks or Storey Lake suits you.
  • Whether you want the private pool heated.

We're a local team based in Kissimmee, not a call centre somewhere else, and we answer by phone and text at any hour. Every home gets professionally cleaned and inspected before you walk in, and if something goes wrong mid-stay, someone is nearby to fix it that day rather than next week. Check-in is after 4 pm, check-out by 10 am. One more thing worth knowing before you arrive: this is Florida, and you will probably see a lizard on the lanai. The pest control is monthly and thorough, but keep the doors shut and the trash going out daily and you'll be fine.

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