If you'll have a car you might want to be near elevator to take it down to parking garage. If you're taking bus you might want to be near bus stop. (If ur looking at front of hotel, bus stop is to the right).
7:57pm on 11/15/25 by
evamarie320
How soon is your trip? Kidani is under a refurb now (started in Oct I think) I just read on disboards DVC resorts forum that they are working on sections of the resort at a time, like between 2 diff elevators.
9:41pm on 11/15/25 by
KLuck
Yep, we were just there and one side was blocked off on 2nd floor. For various reasons we were as far as possible from the lobby, about a 10 min walk. When I do a request, I request as close to lobby as possible.
9:47pm on 11/15/25 by
moondance07
February/Presidents Day week. Would love recommendations on room requests specifically for the view. Have seen that there are areas that are technically Savannah view but the animals are not frequently seen.
9:21am by
Kracinda
For Kidani the best views are looking into Sunset Savannah (the one that faces Jambo) from a low floor. We also prefer to be closer to the lobby. If you would like to be closer to the buses, you'd request something near the lobby on the south trail
10:08am by
KLuck
say in the first few building segments, like ending in xx12, xx18, xx20. For close to lobby north trail rooms looks at ending in xx04, xx10, and xx14. Check the TP room finder for views off the options. We have stayed in 7704 (third floor) and 7614.
10:14am by
KLuck
To be sure you get a Sunset Savannah view, request EVEN numbers. The odd numbered villas look onto the smaller Pembe Savannah on the north (top) end of Kidani. Pembe is quieter and has okapi and appeals to people for those reasons. We prefer Sunset.
10:21am by
KLuck
Why was it not helpful? I just looked and there are 102 two bedroom Savannah view rooms to check out.
10:50am by
PrincipalTinker
@principal, its the way it is set up. I would like to be able to see the view of each room by just clicking left and right. That changes rooms without filtering the type of room. So going from the view from 2bed to a studio or 1 bed.
11:30am by
Kracinda
It would be more helpful to filter by room type and see multiple photos at once and be able to select from a choice of photos rather than going in and out of the views to the filter and then back in or ending up on the wrong room type.
11:31am by
Kracinda
Also, there are no TP picks for 2 bedroom Savannah view rooms
11:32am by
Kracinda
Well, unfortunately, that's not the way the system is set up. It moves from the room to the one next to it, which logically makes sense. Use the back button instead to go from room to room within your category.
11:33am by
utang44
TP picks are trash. I want more of us to write reviews. That's what I find helpful.
11:35am by
popupcamper
Do you have a lock off? We were in 7806 which was a 1-bedroom half but the view and location were perfect.
11:51am by
melcort10
I also appreciate looking at the resort map and identifying what section of the resort (and what floor(s) I want before I look at each view. I have never requested a TP pick.
12:02pm by
PrincipalTinker
You make a great point @kracinda. David is seeking feedback right now on the Room Finder. @TP posted the link to it a few days ago. I'll try to bump it for you.
12:47pm by
evamarie320
Yikes, tried to find that chat by clicking on @PT's name and going into her chats. The most recent her chats that came up was July 2! I thought they'd fixed that by now! I'm on old version. Maybe I need to go over to updated version of chat.
12:49pm by
evamarie320
Nope, now I'm in updated chat and when I click on @PT's chats I get one empty page. Sigh.
12:52pm by
evamarie320
Found it the old fashioned way by scrolling thru five pages of chat.
12:55pm by
evamarie320
Ha! @eva, welcome to my nightmare. "My chats" will work if I repeatedly close/relaunch the new app 4 -6 times. That's the fix.
1:22pm by
PrincipalTinker