Even though it is tempting to believe the most important part of your trip to Orlando is to get your hands on tickets to Disney World or Universal Studios, ensuring that you have booked the right sort of accommodation for you and your family is the main issue that must be solved. Orlando vacations have all the ingredients anyone could ask for to have an unforgettable experience. Yet poor planning ruins everything. Booking the wrong hotel or rental home will override everything else. Even the beautiful weather, awesome sights and the world's best theme parks will not be able to salvage a vacation where the accommodation is sub-standard.

While hotels in Orlando are of the highest possible standard, they are not suitable for Orlando vacations involving children, especially younger kids. The hotel choices for a family are as follows. They can book a single room together. This has a high possibility of being a disaster because although you will be able to keep an eye on the children, you will probably be forced to scold them on more than one occasion as their exuberance becomes irritating because it is the antithesis of your fatigue. The other option is to give them their own room. Again, this is not the best option because you will spend most of your night worrying about their welfare as well as wondering what they are getting up to.

Even without the above scenario, a hotel room is no fun for families. You are confined to a limited space no bigger than your bedroom and your plan to using the hotel facilities is thwarted by the fact that there are more than a hundred people who got there before you. Often, the only facilities in the room are tea and coffee making ones with a few channels on your television if you're lucky. Orlando vacations are supposed to be about enjoying yourself and being free from your hometown and work for a week or two. Confinement and stress are not supposed to be on the agenda.

This is why Orlando vacations featuring large families should opt for vacation homes. The one drawback with such accommodation could be that it reminds you too much of the home you left behind but most of these houses are luxurious in the extreme. Bigger spenders will even be able to avail of a maid service which will offer them all the luxury of a five star hotel room only better. Vacation homes usually come equipped with plasma televisions, blu-ray recorders and the latest video games console. The most exclusive homes have a swimming pool and Jacuzzi also.

The renting of a vacation home could be the very thing that transforms Orlando vacations from anti-climaxes to legendary status. If you are traveling with another family, it is possible to pool your resources and rent a seven room home for less than $500 a night. Between a large group of people, this works out at a very reasonable price indeed. Even a large group of single people would adore such accommodation as they can host well-mannered parties but must always remember to respect the owner of the house by keeping it in good shape.