Orlando hotels for a family of five: every room that sleeps 5, and the price per person

These are the rooms in our Orlando edit that sleep five, priced for two adults and three children (aged 12, 9 and 6) on the same night, with the price split five ways.

Cabana Bay's Family Suite is in a class of its own on price: $59 each, in a suite for up to six with a kitchenette and a bathroom split into three compartments. Two Pop Century rooms come second at $88 each, if you are happy to split the family. From there, one room for five costs $147 to $192 each at Helios Grand, the Yacht Club and the Grand Floridian, and the themed kids' suites run $263 to $278.

Same hotel, same night: the cheapest room for a family of four against the cheapest way to sleep five. This is the number that tells you whether a hotel suits a family of five at all.

The Disney Deluxe hotels win, because their standard rooms already sleep five and Disney charges only for adults beyond two. Universal's hotels add a little. Pop Century and the Four Seasons double, because five means a second room.

All three Universal hotels in our edit take five, in different ways. Cabana Bay's standard rooms stop at four, so five means a Family Suite, and that suite costs just $5 more for five than for four. Helios Grand's two-queen rooms take a fifth guest on a $35-a-night rollaway; at 325 sq ft (30 m²), that is a full room.

Portofino Bay is the surprise. Its two-queen room takes five with a rollaway, but the Despicable Me Kids' Suite cost $1,392, $3 less than the two-queen room plus a rollaway and tax, for 650 sq ft (60 m²) instead of 450, with a children's room that opens only into yours. Every room at Portofino Bay includes Universal Express Unlimited at Universal Studios Florida and Islands of Adventure for everyone registered in it: for a family of five, five shorter-queue passes on the room key.

In our edit, the Grand Floridian and the Yacht Club. The Grand Floridian's standard rooms have two queens or a king, each with a day bed, and sleep five plus a child under three, so the Resort View room at $961 with tax is the same price for four or five. The Yacht Club's rooms sleep up to five adults, but only some have a day bed: choose the two queens with a day bed when you book with Disney, so the fifth person has a bed rather than a request.

Pop Century and Animal Kingdom Lodge stop at four, plus a child under three. At Pop Century two rooms still cost $439 with tax, less than one Yacht Club room for five. At Animal Kingdom Lodge the cheapest one-room answer is a Club Level one-bedroom suite at $1,593, $1,000 more than the room for four.

A note on these prices: Disney's hotels show no rooms on Expedia, so we used Disney's own room rates for that night, plus Orange County's 12.5% tax.

No. Every Four Seasons room is about 500 sq ft (46 m²) and takes three adults, or two adults and two children, and the hotel has no rollaways. Under-18s sharing with parents stay free, which is generous for four and no help for five: you need two rooms.

The Ritz-Carlton offered one room for five on our night, the Executive Suite with a pool view at 960 sq ft (89 m²). It was $3,616, $1,441 more than the two-queen room for four. Both hotels were priced well above the rates we have seen on other dates, so treat the levels with care; the gap between the room for four and the room for five is the useful number.

What we learnt pricing every room, and the small print that decides whether five fit.