Three-bedroom condos in Reunion for Christmas week

If you're after a three-bedroom place in Reunion over Christmas and New Year's, the shortlist is shorter than the search results suggest, and it's almost entirely condos. We manage two dozen properties inside the resort's gates, and the three-bedroom end of that list sleeps six, puts you on a golf course, and hands you a pool card. Five are worth your attention: Disney Area Luxury Condo w/ Golf & Sunset Views, Golf Course Views Condo Near Disney & Resort Pools, Lux Condo w/ Golf View, Golf-View Condo in Reunion and Stylish Condo + $50 Theme Park Credit. On the $150–$250 a night question: that range is realistic in Reunion across much of the year, but the last two weeks of December are the most expensive fortnight on the Central Florida calendar, and no honest manager will quote you a holiday-week rate from a web page. Send us your exact dates and we'll run the full stay total, taxes and fees included, before you commit to anything.

What a three-bedroom in Reunion actually looks like

It is a condo, and it's bigger than the word suggests. The layout repeats across the resort because the buildings were designed around the same idea: a king primary suite with a dual-sink bathroom and a soaking tub, a second bedroom with a king or a queen, and a third with two full beds, which is why the maximum is six guests and not eight. Two balconies or a double patio are standard rather than special. Most of these condos have three bathrooms, several of them en suite, so six adults aren't queueing at seven in the morning before a park day.

The golf views are not marketing varnish either. These units sit over the Palmer, Watson and Nicklaus courses, and the difference between a second-floor balcony over the 11th green and a corner unit looking at the 14th hole is a real difference in what you'll stare at with your coffee. In late December the mornings are cool enough that the balcony gets used before breakfast and again after dark.

One thing to get straight early: the pool card that comes with these condos opens eight resort pools and the fitness center, plus the restaurants and bars. The waterpark, golf courses and tennis courts are not included under the current guest rental policy. If a child in your group has been promised a waterslide on December 27th, that's a conversation to have now rather than at check-in.

The five to look at, and who each one suits

Golf Course Views Condo Near Disney & Resort Pools is a newly renovated second-floor unit in The Villas North, three bedrooms and three bathrooms, which is the configuration two couples plus a pair of kids should start with. Three full bathrooms across six people is the single most underrated feature in a holiday rental, and it's the thing people write to us about afterwards.

Disney Area Luxury Condo w/ Golf & Sunset Views is on the top floor with an updated interior, and it faces the sunset. In winter the sun drops early enough that you're home from the parks before it goes, which makes a west-facing balcony genuinely useful rather than theoretical. It carries the $50 theme park credit.

Golf-View Condo in Reunion looks out over the Watson course, three bedrooms and three bathrooms on the second floor. Lux Condo w/ Golf View sits a floor higher, upscale finishes, same golf outlook. Both include the park ticket credit. The choice between them comes down to how you feel about stairs and elevators with a stroller and a week of groceries, which is not a small question on an arrival day.

Stylish Condo + $50 Theme Park Credit is a corner unit, three bedrooms and three baths, modern throughout. Corner units get light on two sides and a wider balcony angle, and in Reunion that usually means you're looking down a fairway rather than across one.

When six beds aren't enough: the grandparents problem

Multi-generational groups are the ones who get caught out here. Six is a hard cap on the three-bedroom condos, children included, and at Christmas that arithmetic has a way of changing in November when a cousin decides to come. If your number might drift past six, look at Gathering paradise with golf view and game room, a three-bedroom house in Reunion's Homestead division that sleeps eight and has a pool, spa and game room of its own. It's a different kind of stay: your own back yard instead of a shared pool deck, and a place for the teenagers to go when the adults want the living room.

Above that, Reunion gets serious quickly. Reunion Resort Villa: Private Pool & Golf Views sleeps eight across four bedrooms with a private pool and spa. Reunion Resort Villa: Private Pool, FULL Amenity Access is a five-bedroom with full resort amenity access, which is the exception to the pool-card rule above and matters if the waterpark is non-negotiable for your group. Those sit above the budget you've set, but when a holiday week is split between two families, the per-household maths sometimes lands closer than people expect. Worth asking before you rule it out.

The budget question, honestly

Christmas and New Year's in Reunion prices like Christmas and New Year's anywhere within twenty-five minutes of the Magic Kingdom. Holiday weeks carry minimum-stay requirements, and the nightly figure is only part of what you'll pay: there's a daily resort fee at Reunion, charged per night and subject to tax, plus a separate parking charge, and those belong in your spreadsheet before you compare anything to a hotel.

Three things genuinely move the total in your favour:

• Book direct. We back a best-rate guarantee on our own site, so the price you see isn't being padded by a platform's cut.
• Use the $50 theme park credit where the listing includes it. It's a savings code sent after booking, redeemable through our partner ticketing site for Disney, Universal, SeaWorld, Gatorland, Aquatica and others, valid for tickets bought for your stay dates. Confirm eligibility and terms for the property and dates you choose.
• Cook. Every one of these condos has a full kitchen with proper appliances and granite, a dishwasher, and a washer and dryer in the unit. A family of six eating breakfast at home across a Christmas week saves more than any discount code will.

If $150–$250 is a firm ceiling, the honest route is flexibility on dates. Shifting the stay so it brackets the holidays rather than sitting squarely on the 24th through the 1st changes the number considerably. Tell us the ceiling and we'll tell you which dates get you under it.

Getting around at the busiest time of year

Reunion sits south-west of Disney off US-192, and the drive to the park gates runs roughly fifteen to twenty-five minutes depending which one you're aiming for. Animal Kingdom is the closest, Magic Kingdom the furthest. Christmas week adds to all of it, sometimes substantially, so the people who enjoy themselves most are the ones who leave the resort before the queues on 192 build. Universal is a longer run up I-4, half an hour or so without traffic. Orlando International is about twenty-five to thirty-five minutes.

A car is the sensible choice, though the gates are easy for Uber and Lyft and there's a resort shuttle on a first-come basis at a per-person charge. Celebration is fifteen minutes or so east, and through December the town center drops snow nightly in the early evening, which is a lovely twenty minutes for small children and costs nothing. Old Town over on 192 runs its holiday lights and music through the end of December and stays open on Christmas Day itself, which is useful intelligence when the parks are at capacity and nobody wants another day indoors. Sunset Walk does a tree lighting and street markets most nights through the 25th, and Gaylord Palms runs its ICE! exhibit well past New Year's.

What to settle before you pay a deposit

Holiday bookings in Reunion go early and the good three-bedroom weeks go earliest, so the sequence matters more than the browsing. Get a live quote for your exact arrival and departure dates, with taxes, fees and the resort charge shown as a full stay total, not a nightly average. Check the minimum-stay rule for the week you want. Confirm the occupancy count against your real headcount, children included. Check the pet policy if a dog is coming, because it varies by unit. And confirm what the pool card covers for the specific condo you're booking rather than assuming the resort's full amenity list applies.

We're locally owned and independently operated, which in practice means someone who knows the building answers when something goes wrong on December 26th. Every home gets inspected before arrival and cleaned to hotel standard between guests, check-in is by code so there's no office to find after a late flight, and guest support runs around the clock through the holidays. Send us your dates and group size and we'll come back with the three-bedroom options that actually fit, and the number.