Quote: "I'm curious, did you have to pay the full fare for your first two children in the other cabin? That's how it was explained to me. They also told me no one under 18 could stay in a cabin with out least one person over 21 in the same cabin. Do you mean there's a way around this that I didn't think of ? LOL. Of course, we only had a total of 4, maybe that's the difference."
When pricing our cruise, our TA made the suggestion of doing ours this way, which was completely endorsed by many that I checked with on these boards.
Yes, we did have to pay adult prices for 1st two people in each room (ended up adult price for 4, child prices for 1 person). This ended up still costing a less than the family room that sleeps 5 would have been and we had the extra bathroom, extra square feet that we would have missed in 1 family room (however we had no veranda, which you get with that room).
Our TA stated they book 1 adult in each room, then split up the kids between the rooms and her exact words were "Disney doesn't care at all who sleeps where, they just need to put it down this way on paper". Our stateroom host indicated to us (when we asked him to fix the connecting doors so as to keep them open at all times) that MANY families travel this way on the ship.
Then when you get your KTTW cards, each adult has a card to the room he/she was booked under, kids also have cards to the rooms they were booked under. The adult cards cannot be set to open BOTH rooms, which is also why we wanted our doors between the 2 rooms left open at all times, even when we were out of the room, plus we did not want our children to be out of our line of site. We are pretty cautious & involved parents & felt very secure handling our arrangements this way (our oldest has a physical & visual disability which limits the amount of independence she can handle). It was really no different than having different bedrooms at home.